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I'm extremely excited for a competitive AMD again. Hats off to Lisa Su for turning around a fallen company. Just to make my wants clearer, I would love to have

I'm extremely excited for a competitive AMD again. Hats off to Lisa Su for turning around a fallen company. Just to make my wants clearer, I would love to have a Ryzen-based APU in a NUC like form factor. I have a 6th gen Intel i5 NUC, but would happily scrap it for a graphics system that plays nicer with linux.

scopecreep 10y ago
Agreed. Would be super nice to get full ECC support for 64gb of ram in a NUC form factor. The ram capacity is the only reason I don't have 2 or 3 NUC's right now for playing with.
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kirse 10y ago
turning around a fallen company AMD has been going through this cycle of down-and-turnaround for decades now. They tend to be like Microsoft OSes in that every other CPU architecture is the one that does really well, giving Intel some trouble... until Intel decides to crush AMD with lower prices and existing OEM/supplier relationships. Give it a couple years, AMD stock will be back down pushing new lows, at which point you can scoop up some shares and ride it out a few years for the next big win. AMD sticks around moreso because Intel needs them to exist, otherwise Intel would be a straight monopoly.
- tjoff 10y ago
  It hasn't been a cycle in forever, only down down down. AMD has not been relevant in high performance consumer computers for about a decade! (for CPUs, GPUs is another matter entirely)
- rhizome 10y ago
  Every generation gets it's "AMD kicks ass!" moment.
ori_b 10y ago
> but would happily scrap it for a graphics system that plays nicer with linux. Interesting -- Intel integrated graphics have always been the gold standard for graphics systems that play nicely with Linux (and other open source systems). As far as I know, they're still the only vendor with complete documentation.
- saosebastiao 10y ago
  That's true, although I have had a bunch of problems (mostly related to not being on kernel 4.9 yet, so kinda my fault?). I guess what I really should have said is that I want is the combination of good graphics performance with good Linux support. Iris is definitely a step up from Intel's past performance, but it's still not good.

scopecreep 10y ago

Agreed. Would be super nice to get full ECC support for 64gb of ram in a NUC form factor. The ram capacity is the only reason I don't have 2 or 3 NUC's right now for playing with.

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kirse 10y ago

turning around a fallen company AMD has been going through this cycle of down-and-turnaround for decades now. They tend to be like Microsoft OSes in that every other CPU architecture is the one that does really well, giving Intel some trouble... until Intel decides to crush AMD with lower prices and existing OEM/supplier relationships. Give it a couple years, AMD stock will be back down pushing new lows, at which point you can scoop up some shares and ride it out a few years for the next big win. AMD sticks around moreso because Intel needs them to exist, otherwise Intel would be a straight monopoly.

tjoff 10y ago
It hasn't been a cycle in forever, only down down down. AMD has not been relevant in high performance consumer computers for about a decade! (for CPUs, GPUs is another matter entirely)
rhizome 10y ago
Every generation gets it's "AMD kicks ass!" moment.

ori_b 10y ago

> but would happily scrap it for a graphics system that plays nicer with linux. Interesting -- Intel integrated graphics have always been the gold standard for graphics systems that play nicely with Linux (and other open source systems). As far as I know, they're still the only vendor with complete documentation.

saosebastiao 10y ago
That's true, although I have had a bunch of problems (mostly related to not being on kernel 4.9 yet, so kinda my fault?). I guess what I really should have said is that I want is the combination of good graphics performance with good Linux support. Iris is definitely a step up from Intel's past performance, but it's still not good.