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Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
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This highlights really well the importance of competition. Lack of competition results in complacency and stagnation.
It's also why I'm incredibly worried about AMD giving up on enthusiast graphics. I have very few hopes in Intel ARC.
I don't see this happening with both consoles using AMD, honestly I could see Nvidia going less hard on graphics and pushing more towards AI and other related stuff, and with the leaked prices for the 5000s they are going to price themselves out of the market
Crypto and AI hype destroyed the prices for gamers.
I doubt we ate ever going back the
I am on 5-10 years upgrade cycle now anyway. Sure new shiti is faster but shot from 2 gen ago is still going everything I need. New features like ray tracing are hardly even worth. Lime sure it is cool but what is the actually value proposition.
If you bought hardware for raytecing, kinda Mehh.
With that being said. Local LLM is a fun use-case