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What's interesting is that Apple apparently plotted that graph too. They knew exactly when that crossover was going to occur, for years now.
by mark-r 6y ago
What's interesting is that Apple apparently plotted that graph too. They knew exactly when that crossover was going to occur, for years now.
- rurban 6y agoThey certainly didn't expect the massive Intel fuckups from the last years. With the normal performance growth curve they would still be ahead. * Broken 10nm and 7nm fab process. No end in sight. Even IBM could surpass them. * Even with much stricter memory guarantee orderings they managed to break caching and C3 kernel/ user seperation security (Spectre, Meltdown, ...). * Temperature management. Eg AVX512! * The government "mandated" backdoors. Who would have expected such massive Boeing-like fuckups from the industry leader?
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoWell, "expect" might be a strong word, but not only have Intel's CPU timelines been routinely slipping for years, the generational improvements have been kind of pedestrian for years (relative to Intel itself when you go back to the early 2000s). Intel has been behaving like they have no real competition for over a decade, and what they were shipping became their "normal performance growth curve" -- I don't think they took either Apple or AMD seriously.
- ENOTTY 6y agoI don't understand this ridiculous conspiracy. What competent government would force one company to backdoor their products but forget about their other competitors, all of which are domestic?
- jldugger 6y ago> What competent government Let me know when you find one.
- Denvercoder9 6y agoJust because you think the federal USA doesn't have one, doesn't mean they don't (or cannot) exist. Lots of goverments in northwest-Europe are generally competent. Of course a generally competent government probably wouldn't decide it'd be a good idea to backdoor CPUs, but that's another issue.
- alternatetwo 6y agoThe EU is trying to get rid of encryption right now ... So they're just as incompetent.
- jldugger 6y agoWe don't need an existence proof, we need a proof of impossibility.
- rurban 6y agoYou believe AMD and Qualcomm don't have similar backdoors? Naive