Attended the CMG India conference at Pune and came across Intel's tick tock
Intel's strategy goes beyond finding ways to shrink components to tinier scales in order to boost power. The company has what it calls a tick-tock strategy. It develops chip technologies in two phases.
The tick phase involves finding a way to shrink elements down to a smaller size.
The tock phase is all about arranging the shrunken elements in the most efficient configuration to increase efficiency.
Example -
Intel's Sandy Bridge chip is an example of a tock technology. The previous tock chip, codenamed Nehalem. After Nehalem (code name) came the next tick: the Westmere family of microprocessors. While they have the same configuration as the Nehalem family of chips, Intel engineered Westmere's components down to 32 nanometers. Following Westmere is the tock of Sandy Bridge.
Intel's strategy goes beyond finding ways to shrink components to tinier scales in order to boost power. The company has what it calls a tick-tock strategy. It develops chip technologies in two phases.
The tick phase involves finding a way to shrink elements down to a smaller size.
The tock phase is all about arranging the shrunken elements in the most efficient configuration to increase efficiency.
Example -
Intel's Sandy Bridge chip is an example of a tock technology. The previous tock chip, codenamed Nehalem. After Nehalem (code name) came the next tick: the Westmere family of microprocessors. While they have the same configuration as the Nehalem family of chips, Intel engineered Westmere's components down to 32 nanometers. Following Westmere is the tock of Sandy Bridge.
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