I don't think they are meaningfully ahead, it's more to do with what's available at the time. 200/224G is only just coming available this year. The others will have the same in their next product announcements.

https://wccftech.com/google-splits-tpuv8-strategy-two-chips-...

  [1] Achieving Multi-Port Memory Performance on Single-Port Memory with Coding Techniques - https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09599
  [2] https://people.csail.mit.edu/ml/pubs/fpga12_xor.pdf

I entirely disagree. Due to a combination of ISPs sticking with what they know and refusing to update (because of the huge time/cost in validating it), and vendors minimising their workloads/risk exposure and only updating what they "have to". The vendors have a lot of power here and these big new protocols are just more work.

In addition, smaller ISPs have virtually no say in what software/features they get. They can ask all they want, they have little power. It takes a big customer to move the needle and get new features into these expensive boxes. It really only happens when there's another vendor offering something new, and therefore a business requirement to maintain feature parity else lose big-customer revenue. So yeh, if a new protocol magically becomes standard, only then would anyone bother implementing and supporting it.

I think it's much easier to update consumer edge equipment. The ISP dictates all aspects of this relationship, the boxes are cheap, and just plug and play. They're relatively simple and easy to validate for 99% of usecases. If your internet stops working (because you didn't get the new hw/sw), they ship you a replacement, 2 days later it's fixed.

But I will just say, and slightly off topic of this thread, the lack of multiple extension headers in this proposed protocol instantly makes it more attractive to implement compared to v6.

At least we were able to modify the training algorithms and find the improvements, rather than being stuck with the usual vendor "works for us" response. Especially with something like commodity DDR, where our quantities don't command much clout. But it was a bit of an ordeal and may have contributed to us buying in a controller for our next gen (not DDRx). But I think we're going the other way again after that experience..!

Is that really the easy bit to change? ISPs spend years trialling new hardware and software in their core. You go through numerous cheapo home routers over the lifetime of one of their chassis. You'll use whatever non-name box they send you, and you'll accept their regular OTA updates too, else you're on your own.

M1 Air single core is 2347 and multicore is 8342. Plus, the A18 pro chip in the Neo will likely perform better with the improved thermal environment.

But I am at a loss to how Intel are really going to get any traction with IFS. How can anyone trust Intel as a long-term foundry partner. Even if they priced it more aggressively, the opportunity cost in picking a supplier who decides to quit next year would be catastrophic for many. The only way this works is if they practically give their services away to someone big, who can afford to take that risk and can also make it worth Intel's continued investment. Any ideas who that would be, I've got nothing.