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Why do you think Apple would develop an x86 chip over other architectures?
I read that as a competitor to x86.
It was stupid of him to do. The executive suite of large companies is very Game of Thrones. Why leave a knife around for someone to stab you in the back? Of course people knew. And then they were “shocked!!” to formally find out. This is a serious thing. What if you knew about the relationship, and the other person was promoted over you? I worked at a place where 2 colleagues had an open/secret relationship. One was…
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> Intel is in serious trouble right now. The whole semiconductor industry is in trouble right now, though few seem to feel the weight of the issue. We are looking at just a couple process nodes at best before we reach the end of the road for silicon lithography. Sure, there will be further tweaks on existing techniques which will squeeze out small improvements in power, performance and density. But long gone are the…
I don't disagree with the wider point but > I could replace my 6-year old Intel i7-3770 desktop with 32GB of RAM, but what's out there that's significantly better at a reasonable cost? AMD Ryzen 7 1700 for $200. ~10% faster single core and you get 8C/16T. DDR4 RAM is quite expensive, though. (closest available benchmarks, 1700 is about 3% slower than 2700) [0]: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2111 [1]: https:…
True, but it is a major upgrade.
The i7-3770 supports two channels of DDR3-1600 memory, or 25.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth. A Ryzen processor (or other recent generation) supports DDR4-3200, which literally doubles your memory bandwidth. Fortunately or unfortunately, we now have much faster PCIe SSDs so memory bandwidth isn't as crucial for normal use, but a 100% improvement is a much better reason to upgrade than a measly 10% bump.
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> Intel is in serious trouble right now. The whole semiconductor industry is in trouble right now, though few seem to feel the weight of the issue. We are looking at just a couple process nodes at best before we reach the end of the road for silicon lithography. Sure, there will be further tweaks on existing techniques which will squeeze out small improvements in power, performance and density. But long gone are the…
We may discover the stagnant generation-to-generation performance uplift over the past ~10 years was mostly due to lack of competition in the market.
The stuff I've read about the new process nodes from the last decade indicate that moving to those hasn't been easy. And the chip designers haven't had it easy either, with each new process comes a longer and longer list of restrictions and other difficulties.
Transitioning an existing CPU design (for example) to a new process node was never easy per se, but it has never been harder than it is these days. That's part of the slowdown.
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Why assume at all?
Because writing in English requires either gender specific singular pronouns or the awkward sounding use of a gender neutral _plural_ pronoun referring to a singular person.
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It's not just that. There's also the problems with 10nm. The prevaricating about the problems with 10nm. Meltdown. The 28 core 5 GHz demonstration where they misled people about overclocking. A whole bunch of stuff makes me feel like Intel just hasn't been a company I can trust while Krzanich has been at the helm.
Krzanich also presided during the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities for which Intel's messaging left much to be desired. Krzanich is also suspected by some to have engaged in insider trading. [0] https://news.alphastreet.com/chipmaker-giant-intels-ceo-bria...
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Given knowledge that the CEO is a male, assuming the relationship is with a female is simply based on statistics.
Why assume at all?
Doing the dishes or putting stuff away is a way bigger problem for me. I do not wanna offend anybody with this but some genderassumptions and gender topics are important but less relevant for me than the amount of discussions we have about it let us believe that it has more daily relevance.
My language is a language with genders (German).
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I don't disagree with the wider point but > I could replace my 6-year old Intel i7-3770 desktop with 32GB of RAM, but what's out there that's significantly better at a reasonable cost? AMD Ryzen 7 1700 for $200. ~10% faster single core and you get 8C/16T. DDR4 RAM is quite expensive, though. (closest available benchmarks, 1700 is about 3% slower than 2700) [0]: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2111 [1]: https:…
The Ryzen is better, as another commenter pointed out with the passmark scores. Is it better enough for me to actually go out and buy it? The system the i7-3770 replaced was a 4 year old dual-core, with (IIRC) just 1GB of RAM. The i7 was a dramatic improvement, but I don't feel that the Ryzen would be a dramatic improvement. And that's the issue. It is not just me being a little unimpressed with current offerings, or…
Bill Gates got away with it... but then maybe having a lot of ownership in the company protected him. Well that and he married Melinda.
Did he conceal his relationship with his future wife?
Unsure there is enough information to suggest Bill Gates "got away" with anything.
Bill Gates got away with it... but then maybe having a lot of ownership in the company protected him. Well that and he married Melinda.