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• • LightningDust replied to the thread Question Xiaomi successfully “tapes out” China’s first 3nm smartphone chip.

    ROC and PRC have had economic ties since the Chen administration, and even moreso since Ma established the full Three Links and signed...

    May 20, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Discussion AMD's Soundwave ARM APU: The Beginning of Transformation !!!.

    Believe what you wish.

    May 11, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Discussion AMD's Soundwave ARM APU: The Beginning of Transformation !!!.

    Your Vera specs massively underestimate TDP. (Also, Vera doesn't have LPDDR6, AFAIK. It has LPDDR5X and, bizarrely, DDR5, though I have...

    May 11, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Question AMD had processors in a "PC" before IBM !.

    "Microprocessor slice" is correct. "Microprocessor" is not. If a 4-bit adder is a microprocessor, so are the full adders that every...

    May 5, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Question AMD had processors in a "PC" before IBM !.

    Sure am. Calling a 4-bit adder with no fetch or decode logic a "microprocessor" is psychotic.

    May 5, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Question AMD had processors in a "PC" before IBM !.

    The clear "lol intel sucks" tone combined with a total lack of apparent curiosity or knowledge of 70s micros. For the gods' sake, the...

    May 5, 2025
  • LightningDust reacted to Kosusko's post in the thread Zhaoxin's ZX-F/KX-7000/KH-40000 and beyond with Like.

    The IPC Bulldozer is absolute nonsense. But for Zhaoxin, in the MAGA world, even negative publicity is just publicity. CPU-Z AMD...

    May 4, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Question AMD had processors in a "PC" before IBM !.

    There were many, many microcomputers from the mid to late 1970s and in no universe was AMD 29-series bitslice logic in the first one...

    Apr 29, 2025
  • LightningDust reacted to dullard's post in the thread Question AMD had processors in a "PC" before IBM ! with Like.

    Here is another big player prior to IBM, with a display, the Tandy TRS-80, launched in 1977: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 This...

    Apr 29, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Zhaoxin's ZX-F/KX-7000/KH-40000 and beyond.

    KX-7000 is not the highest performance microarchitecture "the Chinese" have produced.

    Apr 14, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Question Rename E-cores to B-cores.

    You seem to be under the impression that Intel's problems are as simple as "hire the right engineers, fire the wrong ones." They aren't...

    Apr 6, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Question Rename E-cores to B-cores.

    Work in a large semiconductor company for a while. Please.

    Apr 5, 2025
  • LightningDust reacted to LightningZ71's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.

    Yes, they are real world benefits. The question is, did the cell networks do the proper background work to make sure that all of those...

    Apr 4, 2025
  • LightningDust replied to the thread Discussion Qualcomm Snapdragon Thread.

    Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Cortex-A9 to the ranks of big cores.

    Apr 2, 2025
  • LightningDust reacted to Nothingness's post in the thread Discussion Qualcomm Snapdragon Thread with Like.

    IIRC (and no I don't want to waste my time looking at anything related to this stupid benchmark), the global score aggregates CPU, GPU...

    Mar 30, 2025

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