| fatslob-:O said: Intel's investment is over a 2 year period whereas Samsung's investment is over a 1 year period so not only is Samsung spending twice as much as Intel in the same period but this does not factor in IBM and GF R&D so Samsung has even more capital to draw from ... It's great that Intel has started to produce ICs for other chip designers but it's too little and too late so their days at being leaders in transistor technology are over ... |
Intel has already invested billions in that plant already. That's just Fab 42.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants
Intel clearly still ahead.
| fatslob-:O said: It wasn't AMD who solely topped Intel with the K8, they had help from Microsoft standardizing AMD64 in their Windows ABI ... |
By the time 64bit OS's, Software and Games started to gain traction, allot of users had transitioned away AMD's K8. Thus it's 64bit extensions often went unused.
| fatslob-:O said: They need to keep looking to Microsoft again so that they change the spec once more in DirectX to begin to be even remotely competitive with Nvidia. AMD needs to seriously streamline some more of their graphics hardware extensions into official optional features for DirectX ... |
I agree.
| fatslob-:O said: The only way I can see Vega competing against Pascal is with shader model 6 games and there's none of them so far. It's just another lost generation for AMD at this point ... |
Vega was AMD "Catch up" part. It wasn't meant to beat nVidia. If AMD wanted to be competitive with Vega, it needed to launch 12 months ago, not in a month or two from now.
| fatslob-:O said: The biggest leverage AMD has so far against Nvidia is that Microsoft is on their side so they should use that partnership that they have with Xbox to extend into changing the DirectX spec ... |
nVidia is locking in gamers with it's Propriety technology. That's an uphill battle to beat.
You buy a G-Sync monitor, chances are you are only buying nVidia GPU's for the life of that monitor.
| vivster said: My PC woes continue as it just shut off yesterday during watching a stream. Yet again it didn't boot up again and was just stuck before Windows could load. At least this time I could after some time conclude that the reason it wasn't booting up was because of USB. Whenever it was stuck I just removed all USB cables and it booted instantly. Some months ago one of the USB ports even caused a bluescreen just by plugging something into it. I heard of X99 chipsets and their garbage USB but now I can live it. As for the sudden crash yesterday I don't know what could have caused it. I looked at the event viewer and there was nothing. It just shut off. I don't want to think it's the PSU or CPU again but what else could cause this? |
My x79 has been rock solid. (Wish it would actually die so I could have an excuse to upgrade!)
The USB issue seems to be more common than you would think. I have an AMD AM3+ rig and a Socket 775 rig, both hate one of my external drives. They instantly hang when I plug it in. On my x79 board though, it's problem free.
| fatslob-:O said: EUV will have low yields ? LOL wut is this ? EUV is just a change to the scanner, if anything EUV should have better yields because of it's higher resolution imaging ... |
EUV should mean less patterning. So it should reduce costs.
Intel is going to forgo EUV and retain higher patterning and then transition to EUV later. Basically they don't wish to spend big on that technology now, but later and just put up with higher chip fabrication costs in the shorter term.
| Captain_Yuri said: Ram almost 99% of the time comes with free lifetime warranty |
The Lifetime warranty is often a farce anyway. :P
It's for the "Lifetime" of the product. I.E. For as long as it's a product that is sold on the market.
So your DDR3/DDR2 kits with Lifetime warranty? Yeah. That's probably over and done with now. :P
Thankfully here in Australia, if we were to buy a kit and the "lifetime" warranty ended up only being a month... Australian law will back the consumer. Most goods you can expect 12+ months out of them. Minimum.
| Captain_Yuri said: So all the recent vega news continues to be disappointing considering their current Vega gpu is between a 1070 and a 1080. Although granted that this is a workstation series card but man... |
I expected Vega to drop between the 1080 and 1080Ti. Between the 1070 makes JEMC right I think? (Please don't tell him!) Haha. (I can't win 'em all! :P)
| JEMC said: Taking back 10.4% of the market in just one quarter is... too good to be good? I mean, Ryzen CPUs are proving to be worth purchasing, but gaining so much ground is very, very surprising. |
The Enthusiast circles have gone nuts over them. I am not surprised at all.
Steam's statistics are a little bit skewed towards DIY users though.
| Ka-pi96 said: How hard is it to change a graphics card? Before when my computer has needed an upgrade I've just bought a brand new one, no idea how to do any upgrade stuff so... is it hard? |
A monkey can do it.
| Killy_Vorkosigan said: My Steam games are installed on a 500GB SSD since 2012, worth every penny of it. I won't ever put my games on a HDD . |
I have *all* my games on a 4 Terabyte drive. With only a few that I play most often on the SSD. Works great.
| JEMC said: I think it's interesting, and it could be the same thing AMD will do with Navi, when they revealed that roadmap last year with the tag "scalability" |
AMD was going down this path years ago with their "small die" strategy, where they would use two smaller highly-efficient chips on a card, to beat a bigger one. And it actually started to work out for them.
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