Intel appears to have an answer to AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology, but it won’t be coming to client products, such as Intel Core processors for laptops and desktops, anytime soon, according to new statements shared by Florian Maislinger, Tech Communications Manager at Intel. Maislinger, who spoke to der8auer and Bens Hardware in a live Q&A over the weekend, suggested that Intel has the resources to create a Core CPU with 3D V-Cache right now, but that it won’t because gaming is too small of a market for the company. The “technology can bring a lot to gamers, but that always comes with certain drawbacks and certain disadvantages and compromises,” he explained before going on to say that Intel’s answer to 3D V-Cache will emerge in a new Xeon CPU, one that’s scheduled to arrive next year.
The AMD CPUs are tailored to a very specific target group and that is gamers. We are aware that this technology can bring a lot to gamers, but that always comes with certain drawbacks and certain disadvantages and compromises that you have to make. In this case, it is good if I have an X3D CPU, which may not be as strong in applications. Uss is aware of this and we still have it technologically. That means that next year there will be a CPU for the first time that has a cache tile, but not in the desktop.
In the server, it is simply a different market and a different market breadth that can potentially be addressed than is the case with desktop CPUs. But that’s not an extremely large mass market for us. You still have to see that we sell a lot of CPUs that aren’t necessarily used for gaming.