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The front-end for an x86 CPU is going to be a lot more complex just because of the ISA itself. An ARM CPU (in general as there are some exceptions) just needs to deal with a smaller number of 32-bit instructions. With x86 you've got hundreds of instructions ranging in length from 8 bits all the...

I think these days if you want a company to do something you just need an Instagram or Twitter account with enough followers. No one but you gets to see their awful customer support hidden behind their phone system, but the whole world can watch them failing and flailing on social media.

Isn't it more of a Bbaba Yatcga in this case?

Some of it could be tweaks to the process over the past year. I don't think that would explain the entire difference, but it has been a little over 12 months since Zen 5 launched and nodes do mature over time.

I think his post is fine as was contrasting different approaches. Especially given the context of what he was replying to.

Apple launched M4 ~6 months after they launched M3. An 8% IPC uplift in that short time span is actually impressive.

There used to be disagreement reactions but too many people were complete dipsticks with them and it was decided to remove them. I do think it's better this way as if someone is being an idiot or has posted something utterly foolish, it's probably better for you to reply and explain why that's...

If MLID is saying anything there's better than 90% chance it will turn out to be false.

Are you telling us that Intel is in for a world of hertz?

They've been a big sponsor of RiSC-V for years and years. It's not surprising that they'd offer official support for it like this.

Nvidia is too busy making truckloads of money and being the most valuable company of all time to care about consumer GPUs. The AI market doesn't seem to be dying down any so I don't see why Nvidia would devote time and effort to such a tiny part of their bottom line. If the AI market dies they...

Why not get a laptop with an even bigger screen, a more powerful GPU, and better battery life and use a wireless controller that's more comfortable and easy to hold? If you like it, more power to you, but I fail to see the appeal.

At a certain point is ceases to be a handheld and turns into a laptop.

Wide design with a large cache. Backend is probably good at keeping all the execution ports fed as well. Only having soldered RAM means it can more easily operate at higher bus speeds as well which shaves a few cycles off memory requests when the cache misses. Not chasing higher clock speeds at...

Kind of, but it's not meaningfully different than a Mac Studio in a way that matters. I can get an Ultra in both and the same (technically the Pro has less total available due to only having the M2 Ultra whereas the Studio can use an M3 Ultra) RAM and built-in storage. Right now the only thing...