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Hard to innovate properly when your income stream is artificially restricted.
by gwd 5y ago
Hard to innovate properly when your income stream is artificially restricted.
- netr0ute 5y agoThen how did Ryzen work?
- mhh__ 5y agoRyzen worked in part because it didn't try to be super-clever. Bulldozer was very opinionated about how computing would look (cheap cpu + big coprocessor) whereas Zen is much more practical
- neogodless 5y agoSemi-custom (aka console) chips kept them afloat, and they executed well on Ryzen while Intel made modest year-over-year improvements. Doesn't mean they weren't working on a relatively tight R&D budget, though.
- pengaru 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_venture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_vent... https://www.anandtech.com/show/15493/hygon-dhyana-reviewed-chinese-x86-cpus-amd https://www.anandtech.com/show/15493/hygon-dhyana-reviewed-c...