Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed

Post by CarbyAu » Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 3:44 AM UTC

perryizgr8 wrote: post #87

CarbyAu wrote: post #60

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I agree with you. My frustrations centre around wait times after starting an app. Am I waiting for CPU? No. Storage? No. I am waiting for some friggin call-home/update-check/irrelevant network request. Edit:brevity, removal of profane words.

> I am waiting for some friggin call-home/update-check/irrelevant network request. Is that right? Any examples? I feel most of the times I'm waiting is for the network because everything is online now. Even my work is all done on a remote VM in a data center. I connect using vscode over ssh. And the app is snappy af except when it needs to do a network opeation.

For some basic apps: Notepad++ annoys me most. Modern, updated regularly. But wants to update plugins before even appearing it seems?!?

iTunes(thanks to iWife) annoys me with it's updates. It checks for updates after you've started the program, pops up to get in your way and doesn't give you an "Install on exit" option.

Paint.Net does it right. Opens up, lets you get things done, checks for an update, gives you the option to install on exit. More should be done this way.

Playing games, Steam and all the many games with their own servers etc. Example of bad, It takes me roughly 2 mins to get into GhostRecon:Breakpoint.(not that good a game really but that's another day).

Example of good, Rocket League. Starts up, gets you going. (Disappointingly not a League of actual Rockets but good fun anyway. :-))

Post by fomine3 » Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 6:17 AM UTC

lend000 wrote: post #44

billyhoffman wrote: post #39

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This is a 2000s view of Intel that is not accurate in 2020. Look at the numbers. - 7% growth for consumer (the “Intel PCs” you mention) - 43% growth for data centers - 70%+ growth in nonvolatile storage (SSDs)... much of which goes into high end servers in data centers Will there be more data centers And cloud offerings in 3 years, or less? Many More! Will there be more or less PC sales in 3 years. For Intel it’s les…

A single socket AMD threadripper 3995WX (the "ECC" version just released) is likely going to destroy a dual socket Xeon 8275+ (the ones used for the Amazon C5 metal instance) in most benchmarks like the 3990X did, while running at roughly the same power and a fraction of the price. Once AMD convinces cloud providers that its ECC works just as well as Intel's, there's really nothing holding AMD back from taking a huge…

Threadripper is priced for workstation like Core XE that priced usually way cheaper than for server even though actual chip is same.

Anyway EPYC is performs far better than Xeon in same price.

Re: Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed

Re: Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed