* Posts by samoanbiscuit

3 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2021

Former AMD chip architect says it was wrong to can Arm project

samoanbiscuit

Re: Low bus factor

I think if AMD’s x86 offering weren’t well received, AMD would have continued down the ARM path. But with Zen selling like hotcakes, especially Zen 3 and onwards, AMD must have decided to stay in their x86 lane, where competiton is basically Intel and VIA, rather than enter the ARM fray, where competition is everyone in the tech space that can afford a CPU design team.

I think AMD will pivot to ARM or some other architecture if ARM or RISC-V manage to do to x86 what x86 did to MIPS, POWER, Alpha, SPARC, etc. But right now? They’re making maximum revenue off of x86 while it still retains advantages in the datacentre.

UK Home Office signs order to extradite Julian Assange to US

samoanbiscuit

Re: While ya'll

This narrative fell apart in 2016 when he held back leaked data from the Republican National Committee while gleefully leaking the DNC emails and whatever he thought would get Donal Trump into the White House.

That's when it became obvious that he had an agenda, and it wasn't truth or justice.

Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly

samoanbiscuit

Re: of all people

Well, they should've started work on Edge when IE6 was still relevant. No years after the horse had bolted and Chrome became the dominant browser almost everywhere.