Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small
I found the news of Intel releasing this chip quite encouraging. If they have enough capacity on their 10nm node to put it into production then they have tamed many of the problems that were holding them back. My hope is that Gelsinger&#x27;s renewed attention to engineering excellence will allow the folks who know how to iron out a process to work more freely than they did under the previous leadership.<p>That said, fixing Intel is a three step process right? First they have to get their process issues under control (seems like they are making progress there). Second, they need to figure out the third party use of that process so that they can bank some some of revenue that is out there from the chip shortage. And finally, they need to answer the &quot;jelly bean&quot; market, and by that we know that &quot;jelly bean&quot; type processors have become powerful enough to be the only processor in a system so Intel needs to play there or it will lose that whole segment to Nvidia&#x2F;ARM.