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We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity

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Re: We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity

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That's not a reasonable answer. Many people want to buy assembled systems, and lack the skills/inclination to do it themselves. Pre-built systems is a huge $1B+ market, and "kill the market entirely" is not an acceptable answer.

Your business model is not required to be viable. I said don't ship them. I did not say don't build prebuilt systems.

This reply doesn't make any sense. It is a viable business model. It has total revenues across all the major players of billions of dollars per year.

And how the hell do you not ship them? You're not making any sense here. There's no alternative to not shipping them, not unless you're planning on having system builders show up individually to clients' houses and assemble PCs on the spot. That business model is way less economically efficient than simply assembling PCs centrally and accepting some breakage in shipment.

Re: We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity

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I had the misfortune of bringing up firmware for an overengineered piece of crap with DDR5 and even though we had the proper measuring equipment instrumenting properly is barely possible. It's designed with reflections in mind and there's a loopback channel at a slower word rate that I think the controller uses to characterize the analog signal because it's like, barely digital.

Did Synopsys design the DDR5 controller by any chance?

I don't remember but I think no, it was a Renenas chip? I think?
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