I remwmber, it was a huge issue for programs. Developers were just not supporting other chipsets because Intel was faster than the competition and mostly cheaper. Then they got more expensive, did some shitty business to MINIX and stayed the same speed wise.
So now we see what actual competition does.
I do want them to stay alive and sort themselves out though. Otherwise in a few years it will be AMD who will start outputting overpriced crap and this time there will be no alternative on the market.
They’re already not interested in seriously putting competitive pressure on NVidia’s historically high GPU prices.
Not only that, but (as an American) I do want the US to have some fab capability. A strong Intel is in our national security interest.
Yeah, if Taiwan is ever invaded, having US-based fabs will be crucial for world supply. Absolutely want to see Intel survive and TSMC continue to build factories here.
Nothing would say ‘get fucked’ like Intel going belly up and Taiwan exploding. The supply of any new computer parts would be a dumpster fire for years.
Texas instruments computers lol
I’m personally hoping more 3rd parties start making affordable RISC V. But yeah I agree, having Intel stick aroundbwould be good for people as you said.
I have to lower my 12th Gen cpu multiplier to stop constant crashing when playing UE games, because everything is overlooked at the factory so they could keep up with AMD performance. Fuck Intel.
You can pry my Intel CPU from my cold dead hands…Because I’m never buying a new computer again. I have enough computers already to last until Armageddon.
So happy I chose to go with AM4 board years ago. Was able to go from Zen+ CPU to X3D CPU.
I remember people said back then people usually don’t upgrade their CPU, so its not that much a selling point. But, people didn’t upgrade because they couldn’t due to constant socket changes on the Intel side.
My fps numbers were very happy after the CPU upgrade, and I didn’t have to get a new board and new set of ram.
Intel and their last couple of processor generations were a failure. AMD, on the other hand, been consistent. Look at all these tiny AMD APUs that can run C2077 on a 35W computer that fits in the palm of a hand? Valve is about to drop a nuclear bomb on nvidia, intel and microslop with Gabecube.
One can only dream about people fleeing x86-64 and going ARM or, even better, RISC-V.
But no, it’s only changing the collar to the dog. But the dog stays the same.
Why though? X Elite lags x86 on battery life, performance and compatibility (and you can’t really run Linux on X Elite).
I am not a fan of Intel, AMD, Nvidia, but what’s the point of moving to ARM for the sake of moving?
Unlike most, I actually have been running ARM on home server for almost a decade. For that use case it makes sense because it’s cheap and well supported.
It would be better to switch to RISC-V because it has no problems with patents and everyone can build a RISC-V CPU, not only 2 companies.
I would be happy to, but it’s currently not an option for desktop/laptop.
Would be great for an SBC where the OS and apps are open source and performance is less of an issue.
ARM has all the same drawbacks as x86 and it’s not a Deus Ex machina that gives high performance at low power consumption because of magic.
Imagine Europe pushing RISC-V and sharing upgrades with China¹. The power of the flagship would soon reach ARM or even x86-64 in a few years.
¹ China is already using RISC-V as much as they can.
I would support that, but it would require European unity and a strategic decision to make a permanent break with the US.
Also lot of handheld options like Steam Deck use AMD as well. Not sure how big of a factor this is overall.
That second number…
:: needing to fertilize a tree intensifies::
So the editor asked AI to come up with an image for the title “Gamers desert Intel in droves” and so we get a half-baked pic of a CPU in the desert.
Am I close?
Could be worse.
Could have been “gamers dessert Intel in droves”
Now I want to see that one. But, I refuse to use online generative AI.
Looks like bad photoshop more than AI
Goodbye Intel, goodbye Microsoft, follow steamOS compatibility, to see what the in demand hardware will be.
One thing that may or may not have something to do with people leaving Intel might be related to their relationship with Israel. Not trying to make this political, but it’s something I’ve seen some folks mention before.
Imo: Loud minority
Could be, like I said, not making it political. My current setup is running a 12th gen i9 and runs fine. I’m just repeating what I’ve seen other across Lemmy, Reddit, etc. have said in other places
I’ve always thought it’s a super weird place for them to have a fab just in general. It’s never been the most politically stable part of the world and surely you don’t want your several billion dollar infrastructure getting blown up, so why would you put it somewhere where that’s more likely?
Last time I got a CPU, I didn’t even consider the Intel alternatives because of such. My old CPU was a i7-4790k.
I really wanted one of their new CPU’s with self cooling.
Idk what ever happened to that.
The last Intel I bought new was the Pentium 4 630. 3.0 Ghz, with hyperthreading. That’s thing was a fucking space heater. And I loved it. But everything new since then has been AMD.
I wish AMD has better pcie pass through for the iGPU than Intel. My jellyfin is on Intel because I have hardware encoding support.
My approach was simply to setup Jellyfin in an unprivileged container that way the GPU can be shared with other services setup similarly
Just upgraded from an i7-6600k to an RX 7800x3D. Obviously a big upgrade no matter if I went AMD or Intel but I’m loving this new CPU. I had an AMD Athlon XP in the early 2000’s that was excellent so I’ve always had a positive feeling towards AMD.
AMD has had a history of some pretty stellar chips, imo. The fx series just absolutelty sucked and tarnished their reputation for a long time. My Phenom II x6, though? Whew that thing kicked ass.
Oh yeah I had one of those before my 4790k
Intel Pentium D era sucked compared to the Athlon 64 II x2 from what I remember. I had an Athlon 64 3000+ just before the dual core era. Athlon 64 era was great
I played through mass effect 3 when it was new on a discount AMD laptop with an igpu. Granted it was definitely not on max setting, but it wasn’t with everything turned all the way down either.
