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    8 hours ago

    This rumor sounds like a crypto pump and dump.

    Please buy Intel stock so we can sell ours!!

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            Computers is a fucking hot song, the drums are on point, the buildup and energy screeching about vr porn, the singularity and black holes until it all halts for a sax solo. Don’t forget 3G.

            You lot in the states need more of this and less of diddly tromp.

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      If Intel didn’t have yield issues for over a decade, wouldn’t they be much further ahead than AMD by now?

      Kinda weird how their production problems conveniently coincide with what will keep them “neck n’ neck” with the competition for as long as possible.

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        Intel made some massive mistakes with their post 14nm nodes, they overextended and fell on their own sword.

        Admittedly what Intel were aiming for with their “10nm” node had higher density than tsmc’s “7nm” (from memory), considering the timeframe that would have been another massive leap for Intel; and if they had pulled it off AMD would be struggling like the bulldozer days.

        22nm to 14nm Intel were on fire, almost seemed untouchable for quite some time. X99 was (in my eyes) the biggest leap in the right direction and probably their best consumer platform ever released. Huge cache, moar cores, pcie lanes for days and a refresh on their latest node (6950x).

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    I just decided to go team blue, because of how much they’ve done for the FOSS community and their great Linux support. Plus I always have to support the underdog.

    I feel quite worried about this.

    RISC-V is of course the future, and my next laptop will be running RISC-V for sure. But I “had” to get a new gaming rig, so went all in on team blue. Maybe just brainwashed by all marketing.

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    Where did I see the “rule” of comic books where the main villain starts as a good guy and after a friend of the hero…

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    Mixed feelings about this as someone with a relatively (per my portfolio) huge investment in Intel. It would result, eventually, in the end of Intel. But so many dumb people with so much money keep throwing money at his crap companies so it might work out in the short term to get out with a profit.

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        I think the point is the stock would actually go up if Musk buys it because people think he’s a great businessman, despite all the evidence to the country. So no need to short it, just sell at the peak and duck out before he manages to crash and burn. Again.

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        Reads more like the investment tanked and he’s hoping for a recovery.

        Shorting sounds nice though, long term.

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    I was about to get extremely upset, and then I remembered I haven’t used intel since 2012.

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        Yep. Citizens’ United guaranteed that by allowing corporations to funnel an unlimited amount of money into campaigns.

        Just a heads up, if spending wasting egregious amounts of money didn’t influence the outcome of elections, why would people do it?

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    Who wants to get in bed with Elon so he drives the brand into the ground? How much has Fidelity written down their investment in Twitter, 80%?

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    I appreciate him doing this after intel lost their magic, otherwise, it would have been much harder emotionally.

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      They lost it in CPUs, but I think they’re actually nailing it in GPUs though (for once(at least for the budget/entry level))

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        They have what, 2 models? And in the GPU market, they aren’t even a pimple on the fly on the ass of nVidia or AMD

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          I’ve personally seen on at least 5 different Intel models on store shelves. The A380, A580 and the A750. Now the B580 and B570. The A380 stuck around but the others sold out fast from what I saw.

          And though they aren’t nearly as large as the two giants, they seem to be aiming for and pleasing the under-served sub-$250 market. Though I wish they’d publish more official numbers. A 6 day slice from a retailer isn’t a great view on trends.

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            aiming for and pleasing the under-served sub-$250 market.

            It’s already served by iGPUs and used dGPUs.

            I shudder to think of the poor soul that is so clueless and not-actually-frugal that they look at their needs and say an intel dGPU is the best choice.

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        Eh unless they have the most efficient overall, they won’t make inroads into the server market. The entry level laptop and desktop markets are getting smaller and has less margins.

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            Do you mean the efficiency question? I’m just deducing if they were competitive in servers Intel would jump at that opportunity.

            As for the PC market, just looking at unit sales: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors

            And as for margins, well the exact information is a bit hard to find but in general lower end products have tighter margins and the buyers for them are more price sensitive.

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              Oh sorry, yeah that was directed towards the comment that the desktop market is getting smaller. I’ve heard that “the desktop computer is dead” for over two decades now, so that wiki page is quite interesting.

              I’d love to see the 2024 number once it gets published, because the 2020/1 numbers are such an anomalies from COVID that it’s hard to tell if the market’s actually shrinking or just stabilizing.

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                It likely will stabilize, but it might become more of an enthusiast market. People don’t necessarily need a PC anymore.

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        budget/entry level

        Shit nobody cares about because we have iGPUs for that purpose.

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          iGPUs suck ass, better than they’ve been in the past, but for gaming they’re still just what you use while you wait to get a dGPU

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            With handheld PCs’ resurgence, iGPUs are getting recognition. With my handheld PC, I can easily play most PC games, barring the latest AAA games, on it. It has basically transformed the way I play video games, and it is powered by a 12 CU RDNA 3 iGPU. I was blown away when it could play 2010s games at ultra settings, 1080p, 60 fps with just a 10-watt configured TDP.

            Especially the latest Ryzen HX395. It’s an APU with a 40 CU RDNA iGPU. I think the current development is going on that direction.

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            iGPUs do not “suck ass.” They’re built for purpose and fulfill that purpose quite well.

            If you’re gaming, you’re better off buying a used dGPU made by AMD or Nvidia than a new GPU made by intel. I legitimately pity the fool who is buying an intel dGPU for gaming over used or new options from the other two.

            But hey, I guess people like you need to feel different somehow so that’s what the market is there for.

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    He’s going to rename the i series to something ridiculous like i69, i420, i1337, and iX isn’t he?

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    No responsible board should sell as much as a paper clip to this sociopathic weenis piss baby.

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      Now give me an example of a corporate board at Intel’s scale being responsible when given the choice between being responsible or buttloads of short-term profits.

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      What? It worked out for Twitter shareholders though.

      What bothers me about all these political posts is when people act surprised when profit seeking people act purely in their self interest.

      I agree it’s bad, but it’s weird to be constantly mad about things so obvious like parasites acting parasitically.

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      Responsible to who?
      Of course they will sell if there’s a profit to be made. Companies exist to make profits, if they can make a profit from it, it’s actually their responsibility to the shareholders to do it.

      Maybe you mean responsible in some way that has to do with morals, but if you think morals apart from staying within the law, have any say in this whatsoever, you are being very naive. That’s not at all how the system works.

      That said I don’t see any other way than corruption for Musk to be interested. Musk buys Intel, and Trump doubles the subsidies to Intel and give them extra sweet government contracts. And everybody profit, except the stupid taxpayers including those that voted Trump.

      Only the law helps super capitalist narcissists to stay at least somewhat within moral norms.
      And in USA the law doesn’t even count anymore. So there you go, everything is fucked up, until Americans figure it out. Which means it will be fucked up for a loooong time.

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      x86 is already dead yo

      edit: downvoters don’t understand they are using amd64 and not x86 lol wtf

      edit 2: downvoters of this comment are computer-illiterate

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        x86 is the architecture, amd64 is an extention on that architecture so it’s still x86 just with an instruction set extension that allows for native 64 bit computing.

        x86 was designed to be nearly fully backwards compatible back to the i386 or even the 8086 so whatever code that could run on those CPUs would work on modern “amd64” CPUs.

        Pretty much x86 is a snowball rolling down a hill. It keeps picking up new things and growing as time goes on but the core of it will always be the same.

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          To me x86 is currently in similar position to internal combustion engine cars. We are already almost certain some of the alternatives available right now are better.

          The reason ICE/x86 seem better is that they have the benefit of being greatly optimised due to years of market dominance pulling billions if not trillions of dollars into research. Some company has to sacrifice a lot of money to get the ball rolling on new tech as it is very difficult for an emerging technology to break old tech dominance. However considering Apple seems to be pulling similar numbers on a way less developed architecture I d say we might be close.

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            I don’t know enough about the subjects to go into details, but I know enough to say that that is reductive. ARM/alternatives are not inherently better, at least not universally. And, especially because of the inertia, I do not expect x86 to be fully replaced on the desktop any time soon. The motivations behind companies such as Apple using ARM likely have more to do with licensing than anything else

            It’s probably more useful to think of x86 and ARM as slightly different tools that are slightly better suited to different tasks. Desktop, server (and possibly high-performance) computing are x86’s specialty, and I do not expect it to be replaced

            All-in-all, from what I know, the practical differences between ARM and x86 are nowhere near large enough to be compared to something like the electric vs internal combustion engine. It’s probably closer to a difference of, say, a typical train and a subway

            But, please read up on this yourself. I am not an expert in hardware, this is just what i casually picked up as a layperson

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            This is how capitalism shoots itself in the foot. It’s not actually the best system for progressing as quickly as possible.

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          x86 has been dead for years. y’all are using amd64. Or do y’all not know the difference?

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        good point. It still makes me smile how that one went down. imagine if we were all on f’ing itanium instead.

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        Yeah.

        And there’s a very good chance that Elon spends his waning years in and out of every court, trying to stay out of jail.

        Source: Rockefeller’s biography.

        And that’s actually the optimistic version, from Elon’s perspective. There’s been plenty of rich assholes in history that didn’t have to worry about the courts.

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          I mean really depends whether or not he manages to continue to succesfully own the US government. He made basically statements along the lines of if trump loses the election he could go to jail. I assume he’s betting on either the trump administration killing democracy… or being able to buy the next election too. Or perhaps just often enough that the supreme court never gets fixed.

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            Yeah. Rockefeller pretty much owned the government in his heyday, too.

            And then at some point he didn’t anymore. Money can buy power, but it does run out eventually.

            Rockefeller was a lot smarter than Musk, and got a bit ahead of it with publicity stunt donations, before his influence ran out.

            Musk thinks he can achieve a better outcome by controlling the media or the courts.

            I think it’s objectively true that controlling the media does work, but I also think Musk wildly overestimates his own competence, and is in for a worse time than Rockefeller had.

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          Not doing to happen in this political climate. The robber barons has nothing in the tech companies.

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      He hasn’t bought it yet, maybe everyone else will stay buying Intel stocks after this news and it’ll get too expensive for him.