Re: Intel

On 8/5/2024 12:30 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 05 Aug 24 16:10:54 UTC, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 8/5/2024 11:26 AM, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 05 Aug 24 04:42:24 UTC, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 8/3/2024 5:47 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:18:33 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 12:32:23 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
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https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/02/the-resurrection-of-intel-will-take-more-than-three-days/?td=rt-3a
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Looks like they wrecked Altera.

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And hung onto the Intel '86 architecture a tad too tightly, for far
too long.
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Joe Gwinn

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Yes, it's an ancient dog. It's immensely complex to push the X86
architecture for speed, hence the power consumption and all the bugs.
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This poor bugger:
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<https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1ehjuzj/i_bought_700k_worth_of_intel_stock_today/>
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Since its peak in 2024, Intel stock has lost 2/3 of its value.
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About 1/3rd of that in the past 3 days..

 Sorry, I meant 2022.
 Intel is like Kodak and Polaroid and Xerox, fixated on their own aging
technology. Intel missed the boat big-time on EUV, so it's hilarious
that they project big revenues in the foundry business.
 Intel has done $152 billion in stock buybacks, instead of investing in
their own business. Now they need government subsidies.
 https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buyback
 

Their GPU business is struggling also, which is too bad as their Arc GPUs are pretty good for the price, particularly for video editing and transcoding.
I bought an Arc 580 for my A/V editing machine and for $169 on sale it was a no brainer:
<https://www.amazon.com/ASRock-Challenger-256-bit-Design-Cooling/dp/B0CJGSP9R7?th=1>
It has some bug that makes it have high idle power consumption in some setups including mine, 35 watts, which is absurd by modern standards. None of the fixes seem to work. The price of early adoption but the PC is asleep most of the time, anyway.
It's hilarious what a "low-end" GPU looks like these days, with _14_ power pins, about a foot and a half long and would break your foot if you dropped it on it.