Recent content by lmcnabney

Tariffs yes, but both Sony and MS have set contracts and prices with AMD.

Tariffs + GPU pricing = DOA PC gaming This will push the cost of exceeding console performance at almost $2k.

The best option is to buy a console. Being part of the PC Master Race is going to be expensive going forward.

This is an outright LIE and it is very easy to prove. Just look at their financials. Their total costs of revenue for the last four quarters is about $32B. That cost is what they pay TSMC for the chips, their cost for RAM and other board components for their own branded gaming and AI GPUs. Oh...

The same will not happen with graphics cards. In fact the resurgent supply of these CPUs is no doubt a decision by AMD to utilize their 4nm capacity with TSMC to prioritize Ryzen CPUs over Radeon GPUs. AMD probably makes a little bit more per unit manufacturing 9800X3D vs 9070XT, but they can...

His bonuses are earned by just keeping Intel's share price from dropping. Not to recover or grow, just to keep the company solvent. Talk about low standards.

MSI ended their relationship with AMD over poor sales a year ago. That is why there is no Gen 4 cards from them. It is as simple as that. This is actually hurting MSI and doing nothing to AMD. AMD can sell every chip they cut off of the wafer so any chips that they could have sent to MSI is...

The cheapest storage you can buy (new) now is over 1.6 cents per GB. It has gotten as low as 1.2, but that was a while ago. The HDD market is just a cash cow. No competition to drive down prices so the industry is just milking it for as long as they can before they join floppy disks in the...

The data is pretty clear that NAND lasts longer than spinning rust. NAND is also a couple orders of magnitude faster. I'm not sure where you get the idea that NAND has to be plugged in regularly. My daughter took an old 500GB external SSD off to college. It has been in a drawer for over five...

Well over 2 cents per GB. At this rate NAND will be cheaper in a couple years.

That's exactly how it works. Currently each chip on the NVME stick can hold up to 1TB. A double sided full size stick can have four on each side to hold 8TB. A 2 TB stick will now have two chips on one side.

I hope everything in the article is true and they totally eat Nvidia's compute lunch. That means the Jen's will have to actually focus on selling GPUs to people playing games.

What makes you think those will be available at all? The OC cards are as bad a deal as the basic 9070. If stock-priced 9070XTs make up less than 5% of production you will never see them. That will raise the 'default' 9070XT price to $700 which is too much to woo any Nvidia owners. They will just...

They are made in Asia because of three reasons - cheap labor, negligible environmental regulations (electronics are by far the most toxic industry), and a pipeline of skilled labor ready to operate the equipment.

Manufacturing the chips here isn't going to avoid the tariffs because the chip packaging, GPU construction, RAM, and motherboards are all being made in Asia. The world is going to go on their merry way and US consumers won't even realize they are paying a 20%+ Federal sales tax. Fabs are only...