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It may be easy to dismiss Intel's move to SDSi by saying "just buy AMD instead," but if this model turns out to be lucrative enough, there's no guarantee that A
by coobird 5y ago
It may be easy to dismiss Intel's move to SDSi by saying "just buy AMD instead," but if this model turns out to be lucrative enough, there's no guarantee that AMD wouldn't follow suit. We'll have to see how this plays out and how it will affect the x86 landscape.
- voakbasda 5y agoI cannot imagine this bet paying off for Intel, because I will be choosing AMD in all of the workstations for my engineering group. Beyond my own group, I will use my influence to be sure my entire organization avoids them as much as possible. If anything, I expect this will hurt them where it counts. IT folk will not be amused and find other places to spend their money. The decision to lock up working silicon is radioactive and will have long lasting consequences on buying. I like to imagine this sort of decision being made across the world, as other engineers learn of these anti-consumer shenanigans and make waves in their own organizations.
- ac29 5y ago> I will be choosing AMD in all of the workstations for my engineering group Too bad AMD has largely ignored the workstation market. The last threadripper release was mid 2020 and is a Zen 2 product. Newer Zen3 based chips have been credibly rumoured, but AMD themselves havent said anything about it.
- IYasha 5y agoStill using DRM-less FX and Opteron machines today. Hot but no surprises ;)
- theevilsharpie 5y ago> Too bad AMD has largely ignored the workstation market. The last threadripper release was mid 2020 and is a Zen 2 product. Intel has also been ignoring the workstation market (although perhaps not by choice). Despite the current-model Threadripper being nearly two-years old and last generation technology, it is still far and away the performance leader in that segment in terms of perf/watt, perf/dollar, and oftentimes outright performance.
- pabs3 5y agoCan't you use regular desktop chips in workstations?
- p12tic 5y agoThat would be a significant downgrade. Threadripper CPUs top out at 64 cores / 128 threads.
- anticensor 5y agoDue to thermal constraints, a 64-core Threadripper 3990X has a lower peak load than 4 separate 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X units combined.