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EricHiggin on 26 March 2020
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EricHiggin said:

The book "The Eyes of Darkness" from 1981 is being tied to Coronavirus based on it's plot, which has some similarities, like an outbreak in Wuhan which has a lab called RDNA. That's not the real name of the lab though, which has changed names over time.

Just found it ironic that AMD's new Radeon GPU arch that launched late last year is called RDNA. I'm not buying into the conspiracy stuff or trying to say it's somehow tied to it btw, but when I read RDNA, my mind immediately went to AMD, PS5, XBSX.

Apparently Corona Extra has mentioned their sales have gone up a bit due to Corona being said more often. AMD probably wouldn't mind an indirect boost either, mind you, if it's based off a conspiracy theory, not sure if they would get the same boost, or quite the opposite.
JEMC said:
I'm sure many have seen the logo of that Wuhan lab that resembles the one from Umbrella, but I don't think many know/remember the name. Not only that, but I don't think I've seen any news report mentioning that lab either (tho I have to say that I'm saturated by the constant talk about it and I've started to spend less and less time paying attention).

I don't think AMD will see benefit from all of this, and I've seen other reports from Corona stating that they're selling less because there's a lot of stupid people that think the beer is related to the virus.

Can't remember if some of it was photo shopped or not but apparently that logo was debunked and was from another business/building that wasn't related. There is a lab just outside of Wuhan, and apparently it expanded fairly recently.

The one site showed a tweet that was from one of the Corona Extra execs I believe. Could be BS because the opposite is true maybe and they are damage controlling, even though in this case they did nothing wrong.

rDNA is actually a legit medical acronym, which is probably where the initial idea came from, but the book uses all caps by the looks of it like AMD did.

Even if sales picked up, could TSMC keep up with the demand right now with how bad things are over there? Maybe, maybe not.



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