The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business
Though time will tell if $20 a share is good.
Well, looks like PC I build in the future will feature AMD chips.
I've been looking at building a new pc for my wife, and unless I've completely misunderstood everything, Intel's newest CPUs don't really seem that good anyway.
You understand it fine.
Intel thought they could get away with their usual MO of "make a leap forward in technology and slowly meter it out over time" forever. Now that we're running into physics limitations, AMD has fully caught up and even sprinted past Intel for certain workloads.
I used to prefer Intel+nvidia for pc builds, but when the last generation of the Core lineup fell a bit flat I built a Ryzen+Radeon setup that's been kicking ass for years.
I'm content to just let Intel hang themselves with their own rope.
They're not really that great compared to AMD for the most part. Plus rumor is that AMDs next gen is a lot further ahead of Intel. Then again, it depends on how good of a deal you get on them and if power efficiency is a priority (I've heard that Intel still is pretty decent in that regard). That being said don't get any of their 13th or 14th gen CPUs, that's part of what has led to their current state of affairs.
Intel has been clearly less reliable than AMD the past few generations, and from what I've seen on current gen, for similar performance in gaming Intel uses twice the power.
If you can get Intel dirt cheap, it may be an OK option, if you are on a tight budget. If it's for gaming, the focus should be mostly on the GPU.
Anandtech had a great saying:
There are no bad products, just bad prices.
Performance wise, Intel CPUs were just fine at the right price, no matter what manufacturing drama is going on. Don’t get me wrong, all my recent CPU purchases have been AMD, but not because of brand loyalty or anything; it’s because they were on sale and great for the price.
I've been on AMD CPUs for all my recent PCs, generally cheaper and just as good.
I left intel once Ryzen came out and reviewed well, since their motherboards were going to be supported for multiple generations. It paid off since after a CPU upgrade I don't see myself upgrading until the next gen consoles come out and drive up system requirements. Which won't be for a few years.
I'm looking at thread ripper now for my rebuild.
My next build will probably be ARM but I’m hoping for risc-v.
I'm happy to see ARM gaining enough traction these days to be a solid alternative to x64. I'm happy to run it for server workloads but I'm skeptical it's ready to replace my AMD PC desktop.
Granted, I haven't been paying super close attention to the state of the art for the past few years, but from what I gather Apple was a major catalyst in the uptake of ARM for the desktop. Ironically, we have Intel's abysmal Skylake QC to thank for that 😅
How is Linux ARM support these days? Any particularly outstanding distro that shines on ARM?
Nationalizing any big company is kinda funny from the administration pushing to privatize everything else for their rich buddies to run
That's because this is just a way to get something for their rich buddies to run but with the government paying for it.
The problem with conservatism is you eventually run out of others peoples stuff to sell.
Anyone remember when republicans were screeching murder over Obama bailing industries out?
MAGA is going Socialist! Maybe there is a silver lining here.
They should go after Starlink and Space X next. After all, we paid for ALL of it, it really belongs to us.
He can keep Tesla. It will be bankrupt in 2 years anyway.
In the commonwealth, that would make it a Crown Corporation.