It's hard to watch, but I can't look away - Threadripper 3990X | Linus Tech Tips | February 7, 2020
He also has "Why I still love Intel" and "Intel's coming back" vids.
Posted on 04/13/2021 11:07:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
I was intrigued with RISC back then. Made sense; let the software do the heavy lifting. Then again, at the time software sucked and hardware was slow. Better to let the silicone do the heavy lifting with the clock speed available.
CISC can’t keep up. And RISC is more flexible.
Apple wont have to pay license fees as they were involved in the creation of the original chip spec.
No antitrust issues there.
In a fit of pique after buying Nvidia, APPL splurges and buys Epic Games ...
I admire good efficient engineering.
But doubt that what the video presented is really an honest comparison.
I hate unnecessary complexity, but cell phone apps are no substitute for desktop computing.
My wife uses a chrome book for work from home projects. Short story, it is hard to use spreadsheets and are not really as reliable as a normal X86 laptop or desktop computer.
I would like to take the simple approach, but I like Linux.
Normally I use AMD CPU’s and boards.
FR loads tolerably fast.
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FR loads in less than a second on my iMac 19,1
Arch and Debian have ARM versions.
I’m not sold on ARM yet.
Apple wont have to pay license fees as they were involved in the creation of the original chip spec.
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See Civ’s comment above - AAPL bought long term licenses already.
No antitrust issues there.
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No more than Nvidai buying the ARM corporation. Issues = exactly (0) Zero.
It's hard to watch, but I can't look away - Threadripper 3990X | Linus Tech Tips | February 7, 2020
He also has "Why I still love Intel" and "Intel's coming back" vids.
AMD was on the ropes and sold the fabs to Global Foundries, which was financially backed by Saudi Arabia, I believe.
What Lisa Su has done with her company has been incredible. She thinks outside the box and for financials, they are always conservative (underpromise then overdeliver). Of course, she’s an engineer, too.
I bought AMD at $2.15 and rode it up most of the way.
It is beautiful we have another strong US chip company.
And they sip the battery while doing it. M1 is also an ARM-based design. Some of the software packages still run faster on the M1 units even though they're being run under Rosetta 2, and aren't native code for the M1. It's a great time to be alive. :^)
“Then again, who thought the “Honda car” was anything special? But look at the company now. Intel may become Oldsmobile.”
IBM certainly is.
45 years at the front of the pack is a damn good run. Remember Motorola (6800, 68000)? MOS Technology (6502)? Zilog (Z80, Z8000)? TI? Signetics? IBM? Most of them aren't in business or at least not in the CPU business any more.
The ARM RISC approach was a winner from the get-go but it took a long time to break out of the embedded-CPU market. Now it's gonna fly.
Big servers will be running Intel Xeons for a good long time, but the rest of the market has already made the decision to migrate.
Heh heh... Epic Games has a death wish, but I think they're probably thinking more along your lines, sell to Apple for a big pile of coin (real coin, not bitcoin). BTW, TSLA is going hog-wild today, it had been up most days for the past week or so, roller-coaster style, but ho lee crap. Demand for their cars is soooo off because of the many bigtime competitors [joke] that they just raised their car prices. Actually they did that because of the chip shortage and can get it because people want their vehicles. Also they need money to ramp battery production as well as new plants -- Berlin's lagging behind the Austin plant, and the UK plant is back on apparently. I suspect groundbreak on the UK plant will be before autumn, and before the end of the year a plant in India will be announced.
Thanks for the Tech ping and see my comment #34 above.
WED MAR 24, 2021 / 4:42 PM EDT
Intel to spend $20 billion on U.S. chip plants as CEO challenges Asia dominance
Stephen Nellis
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-manufacturing-idUSKBN2BF2WU
My main worry about Intel is, they are the largest US bastion against complete CCP takeover of the chip biz. The other Asian nations could never accomplish that, but they're probably goners, ultimately.
Fairchild, don't forget them, part of a Korean company now I think.
Stock is getting a nice bump today, up 14 and change.
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