Intel will revive the Tick-Tock strategic route as soon as 2024/2025
After Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel, the company is currently preparing for various strategic adjustments. According to Pat Gelsinger, that is to completely revive Intel.
If you want Intel to regain its glory in the past, it is definitely not enough to just talk about it, so Pat Gelsinger has prepared a variety of plans to let Intel go into the future.
The prepared strategic plan includes, but is not limited to, establishing a chip foundry to help other manufacturers make foundry chips, and Intel will also outsource some chips to other foundries.
The most important thing is to embrace Intel’s previous Tick-Tock development route, allowing Intel processors to lead the industry again.
In the past, Intel’s development strategies in processor technology were named Tick (process node enhancement) and Tock (microarchitecture enhancement), with node and architecture enhancements taking turns.
Through this strategy, Intel can adopt mature designs on new nodes or processes, or use mature nodes to achieve more performance-focused technical designs.
That is to say, according to this strategy, Intel can alternately quickly enter new nodes or improve the performance of the micro-architecture, which will help Intel quickly advance into the advanced manufacturing process.
With the various difficulties encountered after entering the 10-nanometer node, Intel forced it into more of a Tick-Tock-Optimization-Optimization-Optimization model.
Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel is of great significance. Pat Gelsinger is not only familiar with Intel but also familiar with the entire chip engineering design.
Pat Gelsinger made it clear on the conference call that Intel will return to the Tick-Tock strategy to provide persistent updates for micro-architecture technologies and nodes.
He emphasized that Intel will seek exact process node improvements and has planned Intel processor product development roadmaps in 2021, 2022, and 2023. If it goes well, we may see Intel return to the Tick-Tock strategy in 2024 and 2025 at the earliest.
Via: AnandTech
