{"id":29356,"date":"2020-06-25T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29356"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:22:54","slug":"skylake-qa-drove-apple-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/25\/skylake-qa-drove-apple-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylake QA Drove Apple Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/amp\/intel-skylake-why-apple-left\/\">Dave James<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/20\/06\/25\/017246\/former-intel-engineer-claims-skylake-qa-drove-apple-away\">Slashdot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/06\/25\/buggy-skylake-chips-hastened-apple-silicon\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/amp\/intel-skylake-why-apple-left\/\"><p>The &ldquo;bad quality assurance of Skylake&rdquo; was responsible for Apple finally making the decision to ditch Intel and focus on its own ARM-based processors for high-performance machines. That&rsquo;s the claim made by outspoken former Intel principal engineer, Fran&ccedil;ois Piedno&euml;l.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>&ldquo;The quality assurance of Skylake was more than a problem,&rdquo; says Piedno&euml;l during a casual Xplane chat and stream session. &ldquo;It was abnormally bad. We were getting way too much citing for little things inside Skylake. Basically our buddies at Apple became the number one filer of problems in the architecture. And that went really, really bad.<\/p><p>&ldquo;When your customer starts finding almost as much bugs as you found yourself, you&rsquo;re not leading into the right place.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/apple-silicon\/\">Apple Silicon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/bug-in-skylake-and-kaby-lake-hyper-threading\/\">Bug in Skylake and Kaby Lake Hyper-threading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/skylake\/\">Skylake<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave James (via Slashdot, MacRumors): The &ldquo;bad quality assurance of Skylake&rdquo; was responsible for Apple finally making the decision to ditch Intel and focus on its own ARM-based processors for high-performance machines. That&rsquo;s the claim made by outspoken former Intel principal engineer, Fran&ccedil;ois Piedno&euml;l.[&#8230;]&ldquo;The quality assurance of Skylake was more than a problem,&rdquo; says Piedno&euml;l [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-06-25T20:22:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"30e5733d-e2e8-4fc1-aa9e-a93229d3ff13","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-06-25T20:22:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMOVzPeLoT8GqnqkyKdP_Ew","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1941,261,30,260],"class_list":["post-29356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-arm-macs","tag-intel","tag-mac","tag-processors"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29357,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions\/29357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}