• Nighed@feddit.uk
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      I thought the cross licensing deal between AMD and Intel basically collapses if one gets bought out?

      So intel wouldn’t be able to make 64 bit processors any more?

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        Yep. Citizens’ United guaranteed that by allowing corporations to funnel an unlimited amount of money into campaigns.

        Just a heads up, if spending wasting egregious amounts of money didn’t influence the outcome of elections, why would people do it?

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    No responsible board should sell as much as a paper clip to this sociopathic weenis piss baby.

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      Responsible to who?
      Of course they will sell if there’s a profit to be made. Companies exist to make profits, if they can make a profit from it, it’s actually their responsibility to the shareholders to do it.

      Maybe you mean responsible in some way that has to do with morals, but if you think morals apart from staying within the law, have any say in this whatsoever, you are being very naive. That’s not at all how the system works.

      That said I don’t see any other way than corruption for Musk to be interested. Musk buys Intel, and Trump doubles the subsidies to Intel and give them extra sweet government contracts. And everybody profit, except the stupid taxpayers including those that voted Trump.

      Only the law helps super capitalist narcissists to stay at least somewhat within moral norms.
      And in USA the law doesn’t even count anymore. So there you go, everything is fucked up, until Americans figure it out. Which means it will be fucked up for a loooong time.

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      What? It worked out for Twitter shareholders though.

      What bothers me about all these political posts is when people act surprised when profit seeking people act purely in their self interest.

      I agree it’s bad, but it’s weird to be constantly mad about things so obvious like parasites acting parasitically.

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      Now give me an example of a corporate board at Intel’s scale being responsible when given the choice between being responsible or buttloads of short-term profits.

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    If Leon buys Intel, then I will switch permanently to AMD or the loser is playing with the market.

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      switch permanently to AMD

      So glad I switched to AM5 on my last main gaming rig rebuild last year lol

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      That’s a ally reason to pick a piece of tech IMO. I buy exclusively AMD because they offer great value, especially since they support their sockets for a long time. For their GPUs, they have fantastic drivers on Linux.

      I honestly don’t care who owns them, I care that the quality is good for the price. I don’t find that to be true for Tesla, so I don’t own one. If he buys Intel, that won’t change my opinion of their products, I’ll still avoid them because he value isn’t there.

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    So he’ll pay again twice the amount of money, then run the company off a bigger cliff than it’s currently falling off already?

    I’ll heat up the popcorn

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    I just decided to go team blue, because of how much they’ve done for the FOSS community and their great Linux support. Plus I always have to support the underdog.

    I feel quite worried about this.

    RISC-V is of course the future, and my next laptop will be running RISC-V for sure. But I “had” to get a new gaming rig, so went all in on team blue. Maybe just brainwashed by all marketing.

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    Please buy intel, its trash anyway. Musk is perfect fit since intel has been constantly fixing and bribing things to appear better than it is.

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    Everyone is focusing on Musk but uh, Global Foundries wants to be involved in buying Intel?

    The same Global Foundries that’s utterly incapable of progressing their tech stack?

    The one AMD created when they got rid of their foundries and was happy to do so?

    That amuses the shit out of me.

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      AMD wasn’t quite “happy” to sell their fabs, it was necessitated because they were facing bankruptcy. People forget but the prevailing opinion was that AMD was going to bankrupt.

      I doubt Global Foundries is even in the position to buy Intel, they’d most likely want to give them a cash infusion in exchange for tech or for selling fabs (which intel would probably accept, since their fabs are currently under-utilised… they have too much capacity). That would be good for GF.

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    Let’s hope it’s just another wccftech article pulled out of author’s anus…

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    Where did I see the “rule” of comic books where the main villain starts as a good guy and after a friend of the hero…

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      They lost it in CPUs, but I think they’re actually nailing it in GPUs though (for once(at least for the budget/entry level))

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        Eh unless they have the most efficient overall, they won’t make inroads into the server market. The entry level laptop and desktop markets are getting smaller and has less margins.

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            Do you mean the efficiency question? I’m just deducing if they were competitive in servers Intel would jump at that opportunity.

            As for the PC market, just looking at unit sales: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors

            And as for margins, well the exact information is a bit hard to find but in general lower end products have tighter margins and the buyers for them are more price sensitive.

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              Oh sorry, yeah that was directed towards the comment that the desktop market is getting smaller. I’ve heard that “the desktop computer is dead” for over two decades now, so that wiki page is quite interesting.

              I’d love to see the 2024 number once it gets published, because the 2020/1 numbers are such an anomalies from COVID that it’s hard to tell if the market’s actually shrinking or just stabilizing.

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        They have what, 2 models? And in the GPU market, they aren’t even a pimple on the fly on the ass of nVidia or AMD

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          I’ve personally seen on at least 5 different Intel models on store shelves. The A380, A580 and the A750. Now the B580 and B570. The A380 stuck around but the others sold out fast from what I saw.

          And though they aren’t nearly as large as the two giants, they seem to be aiming for and pleasing the under-served sub-$250 market. Though I wish they’d publish more official numbers. A 6 day slice from a retailer isn’t a great view on trends.

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            aiming for and pleasing the under-served sub-$250 market.

            It’s already served by iGPUs and used dGPUs.

            I shudder to think of the poor soul that is so clueless and not-actually-frugal that they look at their needs and say an intel dGPU is the best choice.

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        budget/entry level

        Shit nobody cares about because we have iGPUs for that purpose.

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          iGPUs suck ass, better than they’ve been in the past, but for gaming they’re still just what you use while you wait to get a dGPU

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            With handheld PCs’ resurgence, iGPUs are getting recognition. With my handheld PC, I can easily play most PC games, barring the latest AAA games, on it. It has basically transformed the way I play video games, and it is powered by a 12 CU RDNA 3 iGPU. I was blown away when it could play 2010s games at ultra settings, 1080p, 60 fps with just a 10-watt configured TDP.

            Especially the latest Ryzen HX395. It’s an APU with a 40 CU RDNA iGPU. I think the current development is going on that direction.

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            iGPUs also do not “suck ass.” They’re built for purpose and fulfill that purpose quite well.

            If you’re gaming, you’re better off buying a used dGPU made by AMD or Nvidia than a new GPU made by intel. I legitimately pity the fool who is buying an intel dGPU for gaming over used or new options from the other two.

            But hey, I guess people like you need to feel different somehow so that’s what the market is there for.

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    This rumor sounds like a crypto pump and dump.

    Please buy Intel stock so we can sell ours!!

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    He’s going to rename the i series to something ridiculous like i69, i420, i1337, and iX isn’t he?