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Discussion [WSJ]AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

Maybe it should. Which doesn't change the fact that Markfw is a highly polarizing individual, who takes part in (or provokes) many of these situations. He's extremely active and with very strong opinions, despite not having that much knowledge on the matter (I think the recent ARM topic really...
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- Post #73
- Oct 12, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

I copied those figures from the 2019 yearly statement. Link is in the post. I don't know what you mean by "being off". You can check yourself. Yes, equipment depreciation is included. Building fabs is expensive and is also a cost of manufacturing something. I'm not sure what you mean here as...
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- Post #7,372
- Oct 12, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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rising cost of smartphones?

I'm talking about a product, which is quite a bit more than the device itself. I'm not saying $3 (guess) for a charger is a lot. I'm saying that there are many other ways they could spend that $3 on your phone, that an average consumer will appreciate more. Better screen, better battery, better...
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- Post #32
- Oct 11, 2020
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

I'm not sure why people keep saying 14nm is "dirt cheap at this point". It's not. You still have to provide all the production line devices, wafers, chemicals, energy. People who operate all of this earn as much as they used to (maybe more). It's the exact same cost... + inflation. The only...
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- Post #7,365
- Oct 11, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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rising cost of smartphones?

So they'll just charge slower (or faster). Voltage is part of the base USB standard and all chargers work with all phones - unlike with proprietary connectors in the past. There's no such thing as "negligible cost" in complex electronic devices. They contain hundreds of cheap elements. Things...
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- Post #30
- Oct 11, 2020
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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rising cost of smartphones?

But what's wrong with the previous charger? Or any charger you have at home? Or do you use just what comes with the phone? Tires are an fundamental part of a car. They have to match car requirements and so on. Phone chargers are mostly interchangeable. And less and less people use the one that...
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- Post #28
- Oct 11, 2020
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Discussion [WSJ]AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

Ekhm... I though you were thinking about a public offering and buying Xilinx with money. That made sense. Paying with stock is convenient when a listed company buys a private company. Xilinx is a large, listed company. They would have to take it off the stock exchange first. Whereas just normal...
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- Post #64
- Oct 11, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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rising cost of smartphones?

To be honest, in a world where we try to lower waste in so many ways, adding chargers to every single phone is kind of weird. Especially now when most phones use the same port (1 of 3 anyway) and people slowly move to inductive charging. Bundled headphones will slowly go away because people...
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- Post #25
- Oct 10, 2020
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Discussion [WSJ]AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

Large sales potential for datacenters, supercomputers and everything else. Since both companies outsource manufacturing to TSMC, they would likely save on fabrication.
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- Post #57
- Oct 10, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion [WSJ]AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

There's also one more decent reason why shareholders may want such a deal to happen. But I needed a coffee to notice it. :) Cashflow! AMD doesn't pay a dividend, which is a huge pain for the investment funds. This means the only way for institutional investors to get a positive cashflow from...
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- Post #54
- Oct 10, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion [WSJ]AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

If you look at the top 10 institutional investors of AMD and Xilinx, both lists are very much alike (to be honest: Intel's as well). In other words: it's not "AMD shareholders" vs "Xilinx shareholders". It's just "shareholders". If they think this deal makes sense for both companies, they'll...
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- Post #53
- Oct 10, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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News XBOX Series S trailer leaked

No. We represent file size in any unit we want. It's just important to keep this coherent and not get lost in comparisons and calculations. Converting everything to MiB and GiB is just pointless. It's like if you started correcting everyone for using imperial units. How weird would that be? *...
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- Post #83
- Oct 10, 2020
- Forum: Console Gaming
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News XBOX Series S trailer leaked

The default buffer should be 10/16 of that on X (if set to hold the same number of states). I don't know if we'll be able to modify that (I sure hope yes - I play 2 games, so I don't need a buffer for 5...). I don't get the point of converting to GiB. :) As I said earlier: an external SSD will...
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- Post #81
- Oct 10, 2020
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Discussion [WSJ]AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

When they had solid ~40% market share (15-20 years ago) among most (all?) segments. AMD's situation today isn't that great. But you have to look beyond CPU reviews to notice that... Also: what would "to make such a purchase" mean? It looks like you though taking over other companies is the...
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- Post #50
- Oct 10, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion [WSJ]AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

Not really. They're still a relatively small company compared to other IT giants. And with much lower margins than Intel and Nvidia. They will improve for sure, but saying that they're in a great position right now is pretty naive at best. The more obvious reasoning is that they start to hit a...
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- Post #29
- Oct 9, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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