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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    AMD hasn't had an R3 product that wasn't a DEEP die recovery product for OEMs since Mendocino. Wouldn't be totally shocked by a 2+2 or...

    Yesterday at 5:47 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    Medusa still strikes me as needing a bit too much juice to be IDEAL for the handheld market. Even with a new process, it's going to...

    Yesterday at 3:31 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread News [Reuters] Intel hit with $400 mln EU antitrust fine in decades-old case.

    Think like a lawyer. Aboriginals often receive aid from the government and other programs. If the process of acquiring that aid is...

    Sunday at 7:19 AM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Leading Edge Foundry Node advances (TSMC, Samsung Foundry, Intel) - [2020 - 2025].

    Significant hardware errata this deep in the product cycle is kind of a big deal. The microcode changes to render those bugs benign...

    Sunday at 7:12 AM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread News [Reuters] Intel hit with $400 mln EU antitrust fine in decades-old case.

    Arguably, every company in the PC industry that wasn't directly pocketing intelbucks was harmed by the distorted market, and following...

    Saturday at 10:56 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    Yeah, this does strike me as a value part. I would ask if Kraken is going to be kept as a long cycle part, but a quick look at Amazon...

    Saturday at 7:40 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    So, 8CU of RDNA4 3.5+ on N3P as opposed to 16cu of RDNA4 3.5 on N4P. That's going to be a regression on the computer side, but due to...

    Saturday at 6:49 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread News [Reuters] Intel hit with $400 mln EU antitrust fine in decades-old case.

    The argument is that without Intel interfering in the market, more products with AMD products would have been produced, which would have...

    Saturday at 6:43 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread News [Reuters] Intel hit with $400 mln EU antitrust fine in decades-old case.

    Ahh, the classic "kick the can further down the road so that I can pad my current income and dip in a few years so that my replacement...

    Friday at 3:47 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    Dropping from 16cu to 8cu for the gfx part is either an acknowledgement that very few notebooks are being made with just an APU on that...

    Friday at 6:36 AM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion NV Re-Enter ARM PC market in 2025!.

    I was replying to @marees. WoA can't require popcnt because that is an x86 instruction in the SSE 4.2 group. ARM has a broadly similar...

    Thursday at 6:03 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion NV Re-Enter ARM PC market in 2025!.

    Well, popcnt is an x86 sse4.2 instruction, so, unless it is also requiring ARM CNT, that's not a thing...

    Thursday at 3:52 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes Discussion Threads.

    As said up thread, Factorio is not the greatest game to be testing this with in the first place. Factorio's performance is HIGHLY...

    Thursday at 12:17 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion NV Re-Enter ARM PC market in 2025!.

    Doesn't ARM have the "CNT" instruction that does essentially the same thing? I don't see ditching this instruction as related to ARM...

    Thursday at 12:05 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes Discussion Threads.

    Maybe, though it was explicitly mentioned for edge/embedded computing. It would do very little for many of the benches that Phoronix ran.

    Wednesday at 6:19 PM

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