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AMD engineer tells the tale of when the PlayStation 4 saved the chipmaker from bankruptcy
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Exactly. Because there were no compiler that would do that resource management, Cell CPU goes into "IF there was a compiler" -category...
Yesterday at 2:04 PM
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AMD engineer tells the tale of when the PlayStation 4 saved the chipmaker from bankruptcy
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Very low level coding is doing assembly. I doubt they were doing that. Instead they were most probably using C or C++. Compiler should...
Yesterday at 1:32 PM
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Some of AMD last gen laptops are already providing 14+ hours. I am not impressed by QCOM Elite CPUs so far.
Yesterday at 11:34 AM
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AMD's brand is now more valuable than Intel, Samsung, and Xbox, but Apple still reigns as king
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Well, since there are no shortage on DIY market, it's pretty hard to prove there's shortage on OEM market. Although AMD seem to...
Yesterday at 11:11 AM
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AMD's brand is now more valuable than Intel, Samsung, and Xbox, but Apple still reigns as king
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Exactly. I have been hearing this "AMD has no capacity" BS for a long time, but so far there have been basically zero proof of that...
Yesterday at 10:26 AM
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AMD's brand is now more valuable than Intel, Samsung, and Xbox, but Apple still reigns as king
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Yeah but that just proves it's NOT about capacity, it's something else. If OEMs have to wait for 6 months for Intel CPUs to arrive and...
Yesterday at 10:22 AM
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AMD engineer tells the tale of when the PlayStation 4 saved the chipmaker from bankruptcy
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We have seen many CPU architectures "fast if used correctly" that are basically vanished. Like Transmeta, Itanium, Cell, perhaps some...
Yesterday at 6:25 AM
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AMD's brand is now more valuable than Intel, Samsung, and Xbox, but Apple still reigns as king
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This "AMD capacity problem" -meme is mostly BS as said before. Intel had serious capacity problems for around Q1/2018 to Q2/2020, and...
Yesterday at 6:19 AM
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OK, there is definite error on news item. Where to report that error so that it gets fixed? Generally. I commented two times about an...
Tuesday at 4:05 AM
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Not still paying, but still paying up back from those days: It's not completely unfeasible that several mayor companies signed up with...
Sunday at 1:10 AM
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Early AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 listings suggest lower prices than Zen 4
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OEMs generally favour Intel, no matter how bad Intel was or how much shortage Intel had. However now many OEMs sell ARM based...
Friday at 11:33 AM
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New Intel CPU vulnerability discovered, no new mitigations planned for "Indirector"
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Sounds like server stuff. Anyway quickly looking that IPBP seems to limit branch prediction quite heavily so performance impact is quite...
Jul 4, 2024
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New Intel CPU vulnerability discovered, no new mitigations planned for "Indirector"
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@Daniel Sims AMD is immune to Meltdown.
Jul 4, 2024
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Early AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 listings suggest lower prices than Zen 4
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AthlonXP launched 2001, I doubt after that there were bad Athlon supply problems. For obvious reasons. FYI, there are always complaints...
Jul 3, 2024
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Early AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 listings suggest lower prices than Zen 4
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Source is some crowdfunding page. Possibly they just needed someone else to blame. Overall, AMD had some temporary problems with some...
Jul 3, 2024
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