Probably not representative of the wider userbase, but it might be a halfway-accurate proxy for the “PC enthusiast” crowd

a sharp increase from its 21% share in 2024

I didn’t realize it would be this high tbh. Is a lot of that being driven by domestic usage that I just don’t hear about over here?

The return of the 5775C!?

That being said I don’t trust Lip-Bu Tan to deliver.

The thing I struggle with about this is understanding how much impact a single person actually has on this stuff, especially since all the fab stuff has been in motion for so long already (2021 called). He’s fired / is firing a bunch more people than his predecessor, but beyond that I basically don’t even really know what medium-term effect he has on a 130,000- 120,000- 110,000- 100,000- 90,000-strong company vs Gelsinger.

It’s clearly a smokescreen to please the investors. The real plan is their soon-to-be-unveiled cloning technology which will be used to form an entire marketing department made up of Tom Petersons.

If you allow stretching budget slightly (as the article does), B570 reduces the number of compromises that an A750 makes (though of course there’s still some).

Second-hand market is pretty serviceable at the price point too. I don’t know how the demographics for these preferences slice up, but I basically don’t play any new AAA games at release - so honestly 8GB is almost always enough for me, which makes a lot more second-hand cards viable (though I would still be hesitant to buy a new card with 8GB unless it was on a killer sale). There are surely a non-trivial number of people who also mostly buy several-year-old games on sales instead of new releases who don’t need the extra VRAM to still have a perfectly playable experience.

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Between this and the sustained Zen 6 rumors, looks like core wars will be back on the menu soon!!

Yeah, I’m not sure lol - I tried to find more info about what benefits there might be but couldn’t find anything

Apparently the manufacturers have been playing with the idea for a while; Seagate in 2021: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-demonstrates-hdd-with-pcie-nvme-interface

I know a lot of people won’t read the content, so to quote an important bit:

While admittedly we have to cherry-pick examples where the B580 can beat the 8GB 5060 Ti, it is insane that such examples even exist. Under no circumstances should a new RTX 5060-class GPU priced around $400 end up slower than the B580.

It makes the title feel a bit sensationalist, as bad as a US$400 8GB GPU is

I saw an unconfirmed rumor floating around (which I didn’t look into but which I imagine could maybe be done semi-done using like LinkedIn and that sort of thing?) that a significant amount of the GPU driver team was laid off in one of the prior culls, with the rumor implicitly saying that was why the driver overhead thing didn’t really get addressed.

Kinda worried about long-term support on the driver front if the company as a whole is still generally struggling, especially with that unconfirmed rumor which may or may not be substantially true in mind X_X

It’s a hot-clocked 9070 with less CUs, so maybe it’s mostly for salvaging slightly-bad dies? I naively assume that the average buyer/user in China trends slightly towards the “esports”-like titles and/or is more price-sensitive than western buyers/users so the lower VRAM also kinda fits the market.

Yeah a funnel would do the trick too (I assume). I’m personally less focused on materials cost and more focused about the extra effort of needing to clean up the area after a certain threshold of spillage has been reached.

[This is cool, but] I’m surprised by how messy some parts of this are. For example at ~9 minutes it seems like the pan could just be narrower to avoid a lot of the mess?

A couple of interesting (but opinionated and subjective) takes on Intel in general from a 7 month old Intel retiree’s post:

Person 1:

Another Intel retiree here! 28 years and like many, I was fortunate to qualify for enhanced retirement and took some time to reflect. My years at Intel revealed how its environment often hindered my growth and happiness. Frequent reorgs, toxic engineering managers, office politics, and long, draining night meetings took a toll. I’m excited to now focus on goals that truly align with my passions. Intel, for me, was always more of a means to an end—a stable place to raise a family. I met my husband, got married, and raised our daughter during my time here, and for that, I’m grateful. But it was always just a job, never a source of inspiration or purpose. While I’ve had the privilege of working with remarkable people, the workplace has dramatically shifted. I witnessed many changes, starting under Andy Grove the company was entirely different, but the culture has rotted drastically under Pat. There’s been a loss of transparency, motivation, and respect, largely due to executive leadership. Too many layers of toxic managers are building fiefdoms, stifling innovation and progress. I remember a 2022 meeting with Gordon Moore where he told Pat, “Don’t screw it up.” Sadly, his advice seems to have been ignored. Program managers like me have often been overlooked, and undermined. Pat’s comment calling us “checkers” was unfortunate and misinformed. PMs are the glue that holds projects together, but we’ve been undervalued for many years. I’ve seen firsthand how this lack of support has slowed progress and caused missed opportunities across Intel.

Person 2:

As a long term Intel engineer, I disagree that “program managers are the glue that holds projects together”. I’ve seen one or two that actually helped, but most were just pushing powerpoint slides and excel spreadsheets and hammering developers without ever offering to help or find resources to help.

I was a victim of the 2016 purge (Columbia, SC site closure was one result) thanks to BK (forced to choose between family and Intel–I chose family and glad I did), returning two years ago. I think Pat’s doing a pretty good job despite being handed a mess due to decades of mismanagement.

Re program managers, during my exile from Intel I saw very effective program managers at other companies. Not so much at Intel.

How it appears depends on what frontend (web interface / app) you’re using to view with, but the full-sized image was uploaded and can be viewed in a new tab or whatever if your frontend doesn’t only shows a smaller size in the comment itself.

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Is this a variation on the Ship of Theseus? How much of something can you remove before its lost its essential essence and is no longer the same thing?

Presumably you need to boost voltage on the D2D and NGU fabric to hit the higher clocks? In which case it makes the efficiency (presumably) even worse than it already was X_X

Yeah this is not a surprising result given their testing on flagship GPUs showed trivial differences too, but it’s not bad to verify that reality matches expectations

New CEO has already committed to selling off their foundries

He’s made statements in the past month or two to the contrary - has something changed that I didn’t hear about?