How Nvidia JUST came in to FINISH the Job (R.I.P. Intel)
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Xeon processors are likely to continue to hold a major part of the server market for at least the next five years, regardless of other competing CPUs.
Man. In the 90’s I saw Intel as “Toyota” and AMD as “Hyundai”.
Then again, who thought the “Honda car” was anything special? But look at the company now. Intel may become Oldsmobile.
Nvidia buy ARM, Nvidia says AAPL must pay licence fees, AAPL says too much $$, buys Nvidia.
There is no RIP Intel.
I heard that so many times over the last 20 years and Intel is still alive and as strong as ever today.
“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” - Intel
Apple’s new M series chips seemingly have them all beat. Their M series equipped in their lowest-end macs is beating out all but the absolutely highest-end chips used in the PC market while still being ultra cool. It’s been said that they’re due to release a processor for their mid-range and possibly high-end within the next couple months.
NVIDIA’s arm chips will likely come closest
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.
Stock is getting a nice bump today, up 14 and change.
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For those who don’t know, the end of Intel began back before 2000 when they started firing Americans and hiring Indians.
Back in 2005, they started doing the same thing with Managers.
In 2015 they started their Diversity Plan and many of the Heavy Lifters in the company retired rather than being forced to hire sub-standard workers.
Then to top it off, they began firing people for totally random reasons and then hiring more Indians.
People who tried to tell upper management about problems which were being covered up were fired.
The hiring of Pat Gelsinger (the chief designer of the 486) was the best decision the company has made since they made Paul Ordelini CEO.
It might be too late to fix the company as it is now a very political and dangerous company to work for.
Small form factor computers are low cost, nice and lightning fast with Linux or *BSD. They’re tiny. Some of them have Intel chips. Some of them have extremely fast video chips for high resolution video. Faster with an SSD. Cool running enough to lock up for a separate motion, alarm and video security system. Can’t see how fast FR loads with one with a moderately fast Internet signal. Looks instantaneous.
I was looking at the high-end machines from MSI and Razer, but they are mostly out of stock, likely due to the chip shortage and the move to 2021 designs.
Anyway, my current laptop is limping along (just as long as the screen doesn't finally pop out of the lid from a bulging battery).
So I guess I should wait a little longer?
-PJ
ARM’s okay, too.
A not so black swan event to consider - China invades Taiwan and domestic fab capacity all of a sudden becomes key.
The machine I'm posting this from is my Ryzen 2700x with 8 CPU cores, 32Gb of memory and an SSD Raid Array on an ASUS ROG RX-570 STRIX mobo. It's a damn' impressive machine.
I have been following Apple's M1 chip developments and am really impressed by their performance. Seeing that Linux has been ported to it, I'm seriously considering purchasing one. I'm a Linux fan, have been for many years. Kicked Microsoft fully to the curb a few years ago now with the sole exception being my work laptop which was provided to me by the bank I work for.
As for nVidia/ARM, the more competition in this space the better. Intel got "fat & happy" for far too long and innovation suffered greatly as a result. AMD finally coming up with the Ryzen CPU's shook Intel awake a little bit, Apple's M1 chip's performance rocked Intel, let's see if nVidia/ARM can push Intel closer to the cliff or if Intel finally, fully wakes up and starts innovating again instead of simply adding more cores/boosting speed of existing CPU's.
-PJ
