- Aug 17, 2013
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Competition is very good for us.A friend of mine switch from Intel to Ryzen as well.
Competition is very good for us.A friend of mine switch from Intel to Ryzen as well.
Competition is very good for us.
Opcode- this uptick all started when AMD fired the Arch-Fool Hector Ruiz and hired Lisa Su as CEO (why do we women always have to clean up the messes from men?)
she makes us cry.feminism as its finest.
OK- Maybe the Post title as a bit too much, but just wanted to see if anyone was paying attention...
The insistence of Intel on trying to resolve the 10nm Node issue is really a major impediment for them. They've been promising a CPU based on this node for over a year and have failed to deliver. For any interested, see this from an Intel engineer:
Tiny is tough - Intel engineer comes clean about their 10nm tech lagging behind the competition
With AMD being fabless, they can utilize currently available 7nm technology from others for both GPU and CPU to clean Intel's clock.
So while currently Intel is still King of the Jungle, the lion may be loosing its teeth.
You don't just kick a lead architect of your successful product tho. Maybe Intel offer more money and better research facilities? We don't know for sure. But I refuse to believe that AMD didn't want him.Perhaps AMD didn't want him, perhaps he can't get in line with the new direction AMD are taking.
Time will tell indeed. However it really does look like AMD are taking the gloves off now. As I said though, all this competition can only benefit us.You don't just kick a lead architect of your successful product tho. Maybe Intel offer more money and better research facilities? We don't know for sure. But I refuse to believe that AMD didn't want him.
Zen was such a big breakthrough from AMD after years of mediocrity. It put Intel in a massive pressure in CPU market as they didn't expect it would provide such great price-performance ratio. On top of that, IT world was also shocked with Spectre and Meltdown. And unfortunately Intel is the one who get the most heat out of it. Talking about adding an insult to the injury.
Intel felt the need to provide an answer to AMD's Zen. It forced them to prematurely released Skylake X in mid 2017, then Coffee Lake later that year. Too bad, because from price point, their new platforms can't directly compete with AMD's. Spectre and Meltdown discovery just made things worse for them. 2017 truly was an afwul year for Intel.
Maybe these recruitments of former AMD's key people will switch things around at Intel? Only time will tell.
In my opinion, Intel is already dead and they are more alike Facebook than they may notice. I think that Facebook has been "dead" since at-least 2013 and while they are still here and making money, they die more and more with every passing day. I think that It isn't just about the income, but also about your reputation and people's opinions on the company that will determine whether it is alive or dead.Maybe these recruitments of former AMD's key people will switch things around at Intel? Only time will tell.
Add me to the list.. Pretty much everyone I know who've had systems built recently have gone with Ryzen.
For sure. I can speak for myself that I'm pretty much brand/company agnostic guy.Time will tell indeed. However it really does look like AMD are taking the gloves off now. As I said though, all this competition can only benefit us.
Agreed. When any company reaches at top with competition significantly behind them, they engage in anti competitive practices and screw the consumers to squeeze as much money as they can. I don't want Intel to die, I want strong competition between them all, push each other to improve their products more, that would be best for us.I honestly could care less if Intel falls to AMD because as soon as AMD takes Intel's spot at the top AMD will become just the same as Intel is now, regardless if a 'woman' is leading the pack. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Whether man or woman. All companies and corporations change once they get to the top.
I never implying that Intel stole AMD's people. In fact, I already mentioned in one of my comments that probably Intel offer more money and promised better research facilities. I was just trying to say that maybe it's just Intel's attempt to gain someRedsworm- In Technology, just like other fields, once one gets to a certain level of competence a person will get almost on a weekly basis offers to jump ship and move to another company. Although almost all can be blown off, an offer will come that just cannot be refused (trust me). Sometimes the company that makes the offer wants to utilize the knowledge of the person to whom the offer was made; sometimes they just want to set a competitor back by looting key personnel. Happens all the time.
But anyway, that article posted about Jim Keller is VERY misleading. One is led to infer that Intel stole Keller from AMD which is not the case at all. Keller actually resigned from AMD in 2015 to get a position with Tesla as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering- and this is the position that he left to join Intel. I'm sure he wanted to get out of Tesla while the getting was good...
Apparently security researchers did manage to get Meltdown working on AMD based systems however I cannot verify. As for Spectre, one/some of the variants were applicable and affecting AMD.Man I must have really missed the boat here. I made the mistake of reading fake news when I read ARM & AMD also had the meltdown and spectre exploits. And the whole time was wondering why nobody was calling them evil.