Marketing CPUs in a Multi-Polar World
How do CPU companies market in a newly, highly-fragmented market? There are no easy answers in this very complex, rapidly moving environment, but there is some hope.
Tag Archives: Intel
AI Semis Market Landscape
There are really three markets for AI semis – training, cloud inference and edge inference. All of them are already fairly crowded. Choose your battles carefully.
Where are the Profits? Foundry Edition
We did some math to show market share and profit share in the foundry business. This data maps to intuition, but the scale of TSMC’s dominance and Intel’s declining fortunes stand out.
How many CPUs do we need?
Less than a decade ago, CPUs were the dominant form of compute and everyone ‘knew’ the market could only support two vendors. Today, there are over a dozen companies making CPUs.
Is there a semi shortage at the trailing edge?
China actually has as much trailing edge semis capacity as the US. With ~90% of the world’s chips still produced on these older nodes, we can understand why everyone wants to build these fabs, even if the commercial reasons for them are less compelling.
Everybody Wants to Software
Every chip company has ambitions to sell software too – but there are very few software models that will work for them.
Data Center Market Math
The data center silicon market is massive, but also challenging for incumbents let alone new entrants. We do some math to back this up.
A Battle in Wireless Networking Semis
There is a battle brewing for wireless network semis featuring Intel whose chip looks pricey, Marvel who is highly flexible and Qualcomm who has serious radio skills but also a history of losing interest in this market, and even a start-up, Picocom.
Open RAN – Same as it Ever Was
Open Ran – This is not your beautiful house. This is not your beautiful car.
Stick a Fork in Them
Intel is in a very bad place. It needs to admit that, especially internally. We are not forecasting Doomsday, but we do think it is time to recognize that Intel will never be the force it once was, and probably has not been for a long time.