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Decades ago intel put out a press about the amazing new tech their CPUs would have. 3 of 5 CPU manufactures gave up. By the time the tech actually arrived, AM

Decades ago intel put out a press about the amazing new tech their CPUs would have. 3 of 5 CPU manufactures gave up. By the time the tech actually arrived, AMD had it as well. The others would have been fine. Sometimes a press release can make all the difference. (Sorry can’t find story that old)

algorias 4y ago
Agreed. There's a lot of hype around LLMs right now, but they have not proven their value yet.
- immibis 4y ago
  I think they have proven their value for creating spam and propaganda. There's a lot of money in convincing people the system isn't broken and they just need to work harder. The people who receive the profits those workers make can pay a lot for the propaganda that keeps them working.
crote 4y ago
There was NexGen around 1990, which was bought by AMD and ended up providing the base for AMD's further products. Transmeta released two x86 CPUs a bit after 2000, which ended up being technological failures. Cyrix released some budget CPUs in the 1990s but had legal issues and ran into financial trouble, eventually ending up as part of VIA. Centaur Technology developed some CPUs in the 2000s, and eventually became VIA's x86 division. They released efficient low-cost processors, which were reasonably successful on the embedded market. VIA is still around, but doesn't bring out a lot of new products. I think most of them were killed mostly by the dotcom bubble, and CPUs getting increasingly complex. The market just shifted beneath them. It is rarely a matter of just giving up.
gmokki 4y ago
It was announcement Intels first 64 bit processor Itanium. It was going to destroy all the existing 64 bit processors: alpha, sparc etc that had the market cornered (and even MS Windows was ported to most them). In the end Itanium was late and bad project but competition had already folded. Except for amd that had no existing 64 bit cpu and created AMD64 extension to x86. Intel grudlingly got on board but called their clone of AMD64 "IA-32e" architecure in thei marketikg material. The name was later changed to x86-64, only after what I assume when Itanium was internally acknowledged as failure.

algorias 4y ago

Agreed. There's a lot of hype around LLMs right now, but they have not proven their value yet.

immibis 4y ago
I think they have proven their value for creating spam and propaganda. There's a lot of money in convincing people the system isn't broken and they just need to work harder. The people who receive the profits those workers make can pay a lot for the propaganda that keeps them working.

crote 4y ago

There was NexGen around 1990, which was bought by AMD and ended up providing the base for AMD's further products. Transmeta released two x86 CPUs a bit after 2000, which ended up being technological failures. Cyrix released some budget CPUs in the 1990s but had legal issues and ran into financial trouble, eventually ending up as part of VIA. Centaur Technology developed some CPUs in the 2000s, and eventually became VIA's x86 division. They released efficient low-cost processors, which were reasonably successful on the embedded market. VIA is still around, but doesn't bring out a lot of new products. I think most of them were killed mostly by the dotcom bubble, and CPUs getting increasingly complex. The market just shifted beneath them. It is rarely a matter of just giving up.

gmokki 4y ago

It was announcement Intels first 64 bit processor Itanium. It was going to destroy all the existing 64 bit processors: alpha, sparc etc that had the market cornered (and even MS Windows was ported to most them). In the end Itanium was late and bad project but competition had already folded. Except for amd that had no existing 64 bit cpu and created AMD64 extension to x86. Intel grudlingly got on board but called their clone of AMD64 "IA-32e" architecure in thei marketikg material. The name was later changed to x86-64, only after what I assume when Itanium was internally acknowledged as failure.