I’ll simply boycott Intel if they follow through with this. AMDs offerings have been far better value for some time now but Intel was always an option at a lower price point. Now it’s AMD or nothing, and so I think in fact this strategy gives AMD too much power.
That’s also a problem. I had high hopes for ‘free’ RISC-V alternatives while not really being a fan of the ISA, but Intel’s ‘foundary innovation’ chiplet program is totally unacceptable - because it keeps a company I simply don’t trust (ME) controlling the root of trust in silicon where the most desirable quality is the absence of exactly that.
I may end up using Ampere chips in spite of a distaste of ARM. I’m also seriously pursuing an OpenSPARC based SoC, with a test design through Skywater. At the latest process node SPARC V9 is plenty competitive and there’s a clear market for a high core count SoC absent of additional IP. I just need a modern memory controller. I’m going to document the process at silicon.engineering although that site is just a placeholder now.
What OS are you going to run on these chips? ARM has reasonable support, but SPARC is declining, for eg Debian only has an unofficial port, so no stable release, no security upgrades.
