PowerPC (OpenPOWER) is back baybee!

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-intel-cant-come-up-with-a-qualcomm-killer-soon-its-game-over-for-x86-pcs/

The retrospectives in a few years will probably point at the stagnation around x86 as a major reason for Intel's failure.

Ironically that was my rationale for buying AMD shares back when they were like $3.

I'm absolutely not an expert on the subject but basically just like CPUs can be better at handling lots of smaller processes or fewer larger ones, or how a GPU has different part for shading, geometry and textures, you can make a chip's architecture better at AI tasks.

The problem is Nvidia's been in the game for nearly ten years now, Intel's not gonna catch up anytime soon and AMD would be fools to even try.

It's just stuffing GPU and "NPU" (a GPU that does algorithmslop?) cores into a chip. Similar idea to how Qualcomm started doing 4+4 core ARM-based SOC chips 15 years ago to have separate cores optimized for low and high-energy use performance, but this optimizes for people telling Copilot to write their quarterly review for them and give them JOI in the voice of Saddam Hussein

A focus on highly parallel architecture is a common trait.

A chip with architecture optimised for matrix multiplications. It's more efficient than a CPU.

it's somewhere between a GPU and a CPU.

Cpus go really fast but can only truly do like 32 things in parallel. AI number crunching involves solving a huge pile of math problems with no dependencies on each other, so it can make use of much higher concurrency, and in fact requires it.

GPUs are ideal for this because they've always been purpose built for calculating the area of some bullshit triangles, which is easy as piss so you can fill the card with a thousand shitty processors and fat pipes to move the data in and out.

In US corporations 60% of the workforce are incompetent -- 20% nepobabies, 40% DEI hires -- and they're over-represented in leadership roles. And even the 40% competent ones work less, make more mistakes, and get paid much more than their east asian counterparts.

is that a gibby haynes marsey in your signature?

A lot of the foundry workers are r-slurs with a certification or associates

Yes please I'm just regurgitating what I've seen journos and chip nerds talk about.

Based, whats your job title?

Yes this would be cool

The TSMC managers said their fabs advance 3x to 4x faster than American fabs because they never stop working. They sleep when processes are working and don't need immediate human intervention. They don't talk about the state of their workers.

Treating employees like serfs and prisoners can't be good for morale, retention, and efficiency, can it?

It can if the only option is working at the one company that treats you like this fr

Metacels were seething and coping everytime Zuck opened his mouth about the Chinese 9-9-6 (9am to 9pm, 6 days a week) work schedule when they were trying to get Zuck to agree to perpetual 4 day workweeks instead of their weird every other Friday being "Meta Day" aka frick you I'm not working for my mental health.

Intel used to be prestigious, but now because it's enormous and they have such ridiculous churn it's become the semiconductor industry equivalent of a safety school. If you get laid off from your current job and you need money right away, you can always find a process engineering position open at intel.

Tbf they basically are

Chuds think go woke go broke is a truth. Shitlibs think it's a lie. It's both and neither.

Financial penalties from going woke only occur when a company's existing clientele is driven away by the change, moreso than a new audience being attracted by it.

Disney and Bud Light are good examples. But companies like Nike and Uber always were the domain of progressive wankers, so there is no penalty when they do stuff like this:

I hope Ivan hasn't got tired of his trans emo phase yet! !cuteandinvalid

that trans young man is clownpilled

He's talking about the processor.

Mentions Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla.

Like an neurodivergent r-slur only hyperfixates on Microsoft.

Bros why are neurodivergents like this.