Posted on 08/05/2022 4:31:47 PM PDT by FarCenter
Thanks,
I appreciate what you wrote because I’m not familiar with these industries.
Only 10? Luxury!
/channeling Yorkshire skit
You’re very welcomed,
And yes AMD has been on a tear, but they utilize the genius behind Micron among others. And I have always liked AMD.
But micron is the 4th largest in the industry with an impeccable balance sheet. They also have some of the worlds best innovations with FABS throughout the planet, they are originally a US company..
Intel is certainly a train wreck.
#12 I have a desktop pc using a Gigabyte board built in 2015.
I bought a Nvidia GeForce 1650 GPU card GPU-Z ATI with 4gb GDDR6 back this past July to replace a XFX AMD Radeon R9 270x 2gb GDDR5. The card came out in 2013.
The old graphics card worked great until an update for my Movavi Video Suite 22 (movie editing software) when it would not open anymore. It needed OpenGL 4.9 instead of the 4.6 I had.
The latest driver is from April 2022 and has version 4.9. AMD says this is the last update for the card.
The new driver has issues in that the web browser, email and explorer folder size is made much smaller when the monitor is turned off then back on. I had to resize each time and I had many programs and folders open.
I found many complaints in my search but no working solution. AMD says related to GPU Scaling Modes. I found posts going back to 2011 for AMD cards. The original that came on the cd has no issue.
So I bought a Nvidia based card. It needed no additional power plugs unlike the old card which needed two power plugs. It used the power from the slot I plugged it into. I installed the driver from their website and all is working great including my movie editing software.
I never had any luck with Radeon. Every card I bought (3 of them) all blew out in under a month (kind of like Canon printers).
Every time I make a new system, I also purchase/install an NVidia card (specifically ASUS), and have never had any problems with them. I have been using them since the early-mid 90s.
The only issues I have had, were a decade or 2 ago with Linux and NVidia/proprietary drivers, which have since been resolved.
The last 2 laptops were also AMD, but the first one had integrated NVidia, and this second one actually has 2 on it’s board (the main is AMD, while the 2nd is NVidea RTX2060). It also includes 2 fans built in to keep both GPUs cooled.
This trend ( problem ) is found in all industries and more so in the technology sector xcepting for Tesla- maybe.
It’s just a matter of managing “this” and are still able to excel and innovate.
Always go with the balance sheet. Numbers don’t lie. Though humans twist numbers in lying.
That was my concern about AMD but now I hear they (AMD) are hedging their bets with readiness for ARM.
Regardless whether AMD and/or Intel adopts ARM architecture though, Apple is moving to rolling their own and growing their share.
AMD is moving their mix to deemphasize consumer PC for server, embedded, supercomputer, test (Xilinx) etc.
HA. I was scheduled for a racial sensitivity meeting in late 1994 when I retired from Texas Instruments.
I was building chips at National Semi when Intel started up and doing the same at Signetics when AMD started up.
We’re now old farts.
:)
Did you know Bob Pease?
“mongrelization” of the workforce?
Is this a KKK site?
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