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I think Qualcomm's investors will probably give them just one more shot at breaking into the mainstream PC market, before they pull the plug on the endeavor. It would be ironic if they pushed the door open just wide enough for Nvidia/Mediatek and AMD to walk through, just as they left the...

Fair, but there are classes of bugs (e.g. race conditions) which might indeed be in the drivers, but which don't manifest in a VM or via RDP, not least because these are realtime apps and you're changing the timing profile. That's not to say your experiment wouldn't be worth a shot, but I'd go...

I'm not sure how much they penetrated into the 3D Rendering market. In the 90's there were only a couple 3D packages on Mac. Most were either SGI or Windows NT. However, the market Apple penetrated well was film & TV. The famous Avid video editing suites were built on Macs, as were several...

100% agree. I'd love to see this thing tested, just to show how ridiculously far off they were in their claims.

To the extent this pricing behavior is defensible, I think the algorithms are trying to exploit the rapid appreciation in value that can happen when demand for something suddenly surges, or other situations where someone has some kind of need to build a machine to some exact spec. However...

Could also be algorithmic pricing, though. Try searching on amazon for some random, unremarkable video card, sometime. Then, switch the order of the results to "Price: highest first". I just did that with the RX 550, which launched in 2018 with a MSRP of $79. Here, I found one listed for...

When did CPU dies stop having readily visible structures? I have an old 486 I cracked open and it features beautiful, iridescent colors.

This is not news. It's simply a runaway pricing algorithm. Those kinds of prices seem a lot more rare, these days, but I will occasionally see some product that's gone out of production experience a substantial price spike. Algorithmic pricing first hit the scene more than a decade ago. It's...

That has large die area, compared with Ryzen chiplet-based CPUs. Also, I have to nit-pick that it's official TDP is 125 W, although you can definitely tweak its power limits to run it at 240W, sustained. The AM4/AM5 mounting mechanism better rotate it 90 degrees from what's shown in the pic...

Funny, but I'm not aware of any off-the-shelf solution that would dissipate 2 kW. That's "immersion cooling" territory. BTW, did anyone catch what TIM was used between the CPU IHS and waterblock?

What does HR have to do with anything? Every HR person at every company I've ever worked for has absolutely no clue about engineering. They deal with pay & benefits, personnel policies, the administrative aspects of hiring & firing, and maybe they buy some industry surveys to find out what the...

That has nothing to do with this. Companies are always run with an eye towards maximizing profit. The only question is whether you're a short-term or long-term investor. If you're a short-term investor, then semiconductor manufacturing is the wrong sort of investment for you, because it's a...

The board is who hired him.

I assume he put it right back in, after the test was concluded.

The point of the article wasn't that this guy was the first to try such a thing, just the first to try it on a ThreadRipper Pro 9995WX. What's interesting is how that CPU performed with such a setup, IMO. What kind of CPU and how much power was he able to dissipate from it?