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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion the Death of the Desktop CPU.

    It wasn't a challenge, it was an expression, as in you will get either laptop scaled up or (perhaps) server scaled down, but you won't...

    Sunday at 3:35 AM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Question Rename E-cores to B-cores.

    This is why Apple broke from the CPUs makers. Intel isn't doing stupid things, they are doing the only thing they can do which is to...

    Saturday at 8:14 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Question Rename E-cores to B-cores.

    The purpose of E-cores is to relieve the CPU from having to do weak compute/high latency tasks, usually system tasks, so that the...

    Saturday at 8:04 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion the Death of the Desktop CPU.

    Why do you guys keep throwing that out as counter-evidence for what I said, when it is evidence for what I said? Is it a chip designed...

    Saturday at 8:00 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Buddy, you're the one who brought up stadiums as a use case. That's a corporate owned deployment designed to be used by the general...

    Saturday at 5:50 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion the Death of the Desktop CPU.

    This is all kind of delusional, IMO. Desktop CPUs are dying because it has been definitively proven you cannot scale desktop down to...

    Saturday at 3:23 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    No, I mean, if you have someone sharing kiddie porn over WiFi, that's a you problem. If you have someone sharing it over 5G, that's a...

    Friday at 8:36 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Why would anyone expect much difference in browser when streaming Youtube? Apart from support of various codecs and maybe utilizing...

    Friday at 8:30 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Question Intel's future after Pat Gelsinger.

    The reason why TSMC might invest in Intel is to get a piece of the US domestic market that it's now somewhat unable to reach. That could...

    Friday at 4:17 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Question Intel's future after Pat Gelsinger.

    Frankly, it's the only conceivable plan. That's why TSMC is also pushing it. There are no realistic alternatives so long as the US is...

    Friday at 3:30 AM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Securing wifi is hard because there's no SIM equivalent, so you have this per-user IT overhead that is unsustainable. In the case of...

    Thursday at 5:41 PM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    mmWave was designed for enterprise installations where they could throw down a ton of backhaul and deal with the range/interference...

    Thursday at 2:45 AM
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    No, I think it's a compiler/scheduler optimization by identifying dependent mmults and locally caching the result of the first to speed...

    Apr 1, 2025
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Apple generally releases their highest revenue products first. The Mac Pro is always going to be the end of the line. It's such an...

    Apr 1, 2025
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    johnsonwax replied to the thread Discussion Leading Edge Foundry Node advances (TSMC, Samsung Foundry, Intel) - [2020 - 2025].

    Reporting is still that Apple bought up most of the 2nm production capacity. They wouldn't do that if they didn't have a product to...

    Mar 28, 2025

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