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It’s interesting that the hundreds of AMD fans that seem to appear and gloat in every similar Intel thread aren’t present.
by Google234 7y ago
It’s interesting that the hundreds of AMD fans that seem to appear and gloat in every similar Intel thread aren’t present.
- npunt 7y agoUnderdog spirit
- hinkley 7y agoIt's best not to gloat about things we are all vulnerable to. My team at work has been snickering for two years about serious memory problems on a system our code partially replaces. I did not participate (see above). Guess what I've spent the last few weeks working on? Go ahead, guess.
- BoorishBears 7y agoI’ve said it before, half those people bought AMD stock, but are amateur Robinhood investors and didn’t diversify. So AMD vs Intel is very personal for them.
- trgfs85 7y ago>If you laugh at what other's don't have, you forget what you do. In general, AMD processors have fewer issues. Is that bad? Why bring others down instead of bring yourself up.
- Legogris 7y agoI'm quite certain that this is similarly to how there is little malware targeting Linux end-users. It's simply because Intel/Windows are the bigger platforms and therefore get more people looking at and targeting them.
- robdachshund 7y agoYeah I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that intels architecture is absolutely ancient
- craftinator 7y agoLol, "fans". This is computer architecture design, not the NFL. We judge the quality of the product, not jump on bandwagons (or we SHOULD). Both Intel and AMD do amazing, extraordinarily complicated and difficult work, and we all benefit from it, at the price of making those companies wealthy. I'm very glad those two companies have different products, different approaches to computer design. It gives us room to maneuver and compare. For a time, Intel did better work. Now AMD is pushing the boundaries. Being a fanperson about them is just ridiculous. They make each other better by having differing approaches. Please don't encourage bandwagonism, or introduce it as a topic. It makes us all look just a little bit dumber, and it's an overused rhetorical tactic.
- hunta2097 7y agoI think confirmation bias has a lot to do with it. Some people stress that they have invested in the "right" product. They need to feel justified in their choice and it drives these crazy positions on CPU/GPU/Motherboard vendor. I'm just glad we still have multiple viable vendors to choose from.
- Marsymars 7y agoFYI that's choice-supportive bias, not confirmation bias.
- Godel_unicode 7y ago> This is computer architecture design, not the NFL. Why would this be the one topic about which people aren't tribal? There are people with Intel tattoos, same with AMD. They're frequently called "team blue" and "team red". People like to pick sides and belong to camps, and that's not changing.
- cosmiccatnap 7y agoI'm here, I just think that if you are comparing this to a real vulnerability like specter or meltdown you are making a mount Fuji out of an ant hill. It leaks some metadata, not exactly an afternoon romp through your memory like the last few Intel bugs they've found this year.