Why did Intel give up on further development of the i7-5775C CPU ?
Why did Intel give up on further development of the i7-5775C CPU ?
Was die i7-5775C als Broadwell C bezeichnet? Es ist seltsam, dass Intel eine CPU mit einem großen LLC (128MiB) veröffentlicht hat, das offensichtlich die Leistung verbesserte, aber sie produzierten sie nie in großen Mengen, obwohl sie problemlos verkaufen konnten. Ich erinnere mich, dass man sie von Händlern nicht zu den üblichen Preisen finden konnte.
Intel isn't in the optimal position and will require some time to adjust. In my opinion, they shifted resources to more urgent issues, which might seem promising from their perspective, but their data indicated otherwise, opting instead for other "valuable" projects.
As for your final comment, Intel could have approached things differently, but they didn't.
Too costly to produce and harms the sales of all other cpus. This makes it an unsuitable choice for a business, whose main priority is to remain profitable.
Broadwell wasn't a complete generation; it mainly focused on mobile, HEDT and integrated components between Haswell and Skylake. It could have represented a range of factors like costs or yields. At that time in 2014, Intel was strong with AMD not releasing anything competitive until Zen in 2017. They also didn't introduce anything that would challenge Intel's single-threaded performance until Zen 2 in 2019. Broadwell was just a smaller step in the cycle, not the main new architecture release.
The entire generation was a tick.
Issue is cost. Why make your CPUs exorbitantly more expensive to produce when you have no competition and you can offer a small bump in performance each year, minimise cost and keep the price the same? Makes no sense from a business point of view.
It would be like nvidia putting in hardware that raised the cost of the GPU by 20%. What’s the point when they can churn out anything and sell it at exorbitant prices because there is no competition.
The situation is that Intel might have raised their MSRP instead of allowing scalpers to do so, which was typical with the i7-5775c, to boost their profit margins. It was the sole Intel CPU consistently sold out and exclusively available through scalpers at that time.
And restricting output of other items.
Such choices are frequently part of strategic compromises and corporate judgments.
The particular chip wasn't exceptionally unique.