Re: Intel's having a bad year... but it looks like it's going to be worse for AMD

On the plus side, AMD has just announced an upcoming  patch that would
update  the branch prediction for its Ryzen Zen 5000/7000/9000 series
of CPUs, allowing up to a 10% performance gain (also, so far only for
Windows 11, but I assume that Torvalds and his cadre of 1337 hackers
will fix that ommission PDQ).

Given that Intel's recent malarkey cost me about 10% performance (and
they still haven't gotten back to me about an RMA), this is just AMD
rubbing salt in my wounds. I get it AMD; I chose poorly.

It still doesn't do anything about their Sinkclose bug, but I assume
that -were I to buy a new AMD CPU in a few months- I'd not have to
worry about that anyway.

Anyway, releasing a major performance-enhancing patch like that is
terrific optics after getting hammered for Sinkclose. Meanwhile, Intel
is still acting like a bunch of schlubs.