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^^ THIS ^^
Intel can fade away whenever. They haven't contributed anything meaningful to the semiconductor industry in 20 years. Even x86-64 is AMD's creation and Core was them going back into their 1990s bag of goodies for a new trick.I've been transcoding movies from x265 to 264 for a week on a 3930k.
Don't see AMD sitting on anything. They got caught by Intel big-little core counts on the consumer desktop but we will see 32c/64t zen5 early next year. Meanwhile Intel is still behind Epyc as it's core counts increase.
All of that Datacenter share loss has only two places to go. 1) Native CPU ie Apple M, AWS Graviton or 2) AMD
The Native custom cpu market is still very small compared to AMD's share. Not many companies can afford the resources for their own custom cpus. So yeah, AMD is literally eating intel's lunch on the Datacenter side. Performance, core counts, efficiency and total cost of ownership all go to Epyc.
Fuck the average consumer, they don't even know what a core is. They will buy whatever is in front of them in their favorite color.
Not with cash-cow products they're not.
This is one reason why it's amusing to see folks rail against Apple... and promptly argue we should chain ourselves to a PC market dominated by Intel and Microsoft. This isn't even to rag on Intel and Microsoft — it's just to point out that people frequently have willful blindness on corporate ethics when a company makes a product they like (and yes, that includes Apple).
I've been saying this for decades. I remember people predicting AMD's death during the Bulldozer fiasco. I always said: "Never underestimate AMD's ability to stay in business while losing money."
Nothing to be impressed about. You just described roughly 80% of companies on the stock market. The only reason they are able to keep operating is thanks to credit and being able to barely service that credit. The higher borrowing rate is finally starting to shake out the losers and the only way to survive is to cut back on the highest operating expense, labor.
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Debt and losing money are two different things.
Su runs a tight ship and AMDs balance sheet is actually much better than Intels. With Intel on it's third CEO in four years, Intel has existential issues. AMD is facing cyclical ones. Guess which is easier to fix when you're not burdened with fabs?
Yes.
The PC’s biggest competitor right now is the iPad. Because for the overwhelming population of the planet if it’s new enough to install the Disney+ app it can meet their needs for just about everything else they do.
Nope they still make those Bulldozer clones, and lots of them. There were articles from Mid last year about Russia wanting to start buying them too but Zhaoxin, the company that makes them stated they are for Chinas use only and they have no intention to sell to other countries.
My Apple rep has let me know any ETA he could give me on the new M2 MacMini’s would be a guess at best as it’s selling fast.
I'd be cautious on calling the Mac mini a runaway hit as it's still in stock at Apple's online store, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's much more popular than it has been. Suddenly it's either more affordable or actually viable for demanding tasks.
I'm not calling them a runaway hit yet, but I do know that with the recent changes to Google Educations tracking and data management policies they are dangerously close to running afoul of our child protection requirements and causing us to need a full privacy impact assessment. Take into account their price increases and licensing costs for the Google Admin console and now the base model MacMini costs only slightly more than the base model ChromeBox while having vastly more power behind it and the Apple Education platform more than complies with all our data privacy laws and requirements. Additionally, the Apple School Manager plays much nicer with Azure than Google does, and the Apple Classroom is cleaner and easier to manage than the Google Classroom setup is too. So I am now looking at a very real situation of having to phase out my ChromeOS devices for Apple ones as the Chrome devices die or age out, and the numbers aren't terribly different, when all is said and done we are looking at Apple being maybe $50-$75 more per device once we factor in unboxing, setup, and install. Sure over a thousand devices that adds up, but we can also expect the Apple devices to last longer as Google has a firm End of Life date on all its managed devices and they are of substantially cheaper build quality.
Trying to HW key prompt to factory reset/reformat Macs is always a PITA also
So no iCloud, no Apple ID, means no updates? So how did it update?
But also..
