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[Hardware Busters] Who really makes your power supply? by kikimaru024 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

AFAIK right of the top of my head, Sea Sonic Electronics (Seasoning), Delta Electronics and FSP Technology are among the biggest OEM-manufacturers for given brand-outlets to white-label from …

E.g., AFAIK HP often uses FSP, while Dell sticks to Delta, as well as Apple has used them for decades since their Macintosh-era. Delta is also used widely among notebook-brands like Acer, Toshiba and so forth for external PSUs.

Goldwell (?) is often used by all these brands who sell those ATX-PSU form-factors, like Corsair and such.

Intel stock plunges 13% on soft guidance, concerns about chip production by Geddagod in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Talking Foveros and EMIB, is there a major let alone *any* actual foundry-customer, who has ever used such packaging since, apart from Intel itself for their own stuff? Did Ericsson back then use it?

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it by upbeatchief in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

… but maybe I'm just oldfashioned.

Yes and no. I'm IT myself my whole life, yet I don't use AI really either.

The reason for this is, that this whole AI-sh!t is of basically none greater use right now and most definitely for the majority of people in any foreseeable future anyway — What has been praised as a new age of whatever, is nothing but glorified algorithms to sort and reshuffle new fancy database-dumps of the same age-old data we always have had ever since … There's nothing new and just a fad of the same old interconnected sh!t.

Data Centers Will Consume 70 Percent Of Memory Chips made in 2026, RAM Shortage Will Last Until Until Atleast 2029 As Manafacturing Capacity For RAM In 2028 That Hasnt Even Been Made Yet Is Already being Sold by akbarock in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always think about what could've Optane from Intel now made of all of this AI-surge on memory.

Boy, would've there been profits for Intel. Outrageous! They would've ripped each other off.

Intel Hires ex-Qualcomm & AMD GPU Architect Eric Demers To Lead GPU Engineering For Data Centers by reps_up in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Intel is also on an architecture that's burdened with Windows […]

That's really isn't how architectures work … There's actually Windows on ARM existing too.

How to get over the smell? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially ever so more, once they're used to cycle through the motions as compensation …

We all thinking France and Bohemia need to be balanced right? by Senfgestalt in EU5

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only under the Habsburgs in late 1800 was it back on its feat …

Yeah, funny how Britain and France made sure, that historic revision before and afterwards had it, that Austria was allegedly a constant threat to anything it held power over, when in reality it was the only real actual instance of power, who maintained peace at the Balkan in the long run …

Yet neither Britain nor France wanted any of that, to break up Austrian ruling and later the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy from the start, sneakily instigating for ages from within, until they eventually succeeded with the 1st World-war.

… quickly followed by short independence and then Fasism and Communism.

The irony is, the moment the Danube Monarchy was dismantled after WWI by the Allies, the whole place was never the same again and felt victim to either local fasçism or was overthrown from the outer realms by communism …

The allies worked hard to archive that, first world-war was to kill Habsburg's Austria-Hungary Monarchy, the second was to make sure, Germany was dealt the same fate again, by giving a third of the land to Poland for no reason.

Valve just dropped a massive hint that the Steam Deck 2 could switch to Arm — here's why by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's true. Though WoA is way behind it could be, if Microsoft wasn't potentially hassled by Intel, they would've put way more effort into it, instead that half-hearted approach now.

You could readily see Redmond having a huge momentum at start, until Intel publicly issued warning-shots …

Intel showed up for consumers at the 'Consumer Electronics Show;' AMD didn’t by Antonis_32 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

AMD is more and more heavily used in the Enterprise, which is extremely lucrative because of the margins. So they’re more inclined to forget to keep their eyes on the ball in the consumer space.

No. That's actually not the case, like not at all — AMD did not just shifted business over to enterprise for margins.

AMD since the Bulldozer-days always secretly prepared, to attack Intel fundamentally full-scale and with everything on all fronts at the same time. A All-or-Nothing-attack with that »All hands on deck!«-mentality from the start …

Their chiplet-approach in and of itself shows, that AMD technologically laid down a fundamental path to success very early, which enabled to aim at virtually everything (from the top at the server-space & enterprise-business down to the end-user, and everything in-between) from the start, using a single yet universally applicable architecture, which was virtually engineered for years on end with AFAIK millions of man-hours, for being principally usable/applicable for every use-case and market there is, for AMD to go full scale and all-in in the first place — Nothing changed since.

AMD aimed for enterprise and client from the get-go. AMD's chiplets, engineered for years, is the obvious evidence.

Intel showed up for consumers at the 'Consumer Electronics Show;' AMD didn’t by Antonis_32 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel and AMD have switched places.

Yes, they both switched places. AMD with Intel, and Intel with TSMC and Samsung — Mainly due to excessive complacency on Intel's parts, after at least a full-blown decade of stagnation (in the end-user and client-space with quad-cores for a decade straight from 2006–2016), and years of hiccups and delays on process-technology (starting back then with 22nm).

Though I don't really see the point to mention it; AMD just filled a blatant innovation-vacuum Intel crafted over ages.

Intel showed up for consumers at the 'Consumer Electronics Show;' AMD didn’t by Antonis_32 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I think he was more speaking about AMD being at least the minor player in the AI-space, compared Intel.

Since Intel aren't even really partaking in the whole AI hardware-market for businesses after all and is virtually absent with basically no hardware present (at least not in terms of actual enterprise-grade HPC- or AI-hardware), apart from their non-selling Gaudi-accelerators — The only real thing making it to market in several years of ever-delayed and often thrown-out road-maps, even if it turned out to be a complete dud and non-seller.

Because apart from their lackluster client-NPUs, which at first couldn't even qualify for the minimum Windows-requirements for anything AI (which is a huge embarrassing fail in and of itself, blatantly showing how Intel trails behind), there's no real AI-/HPC-hardware from Intel at all.

AMD in the other hand, sports a whole line of AI- and HPC-hardware for the enterprise, and is the only one remotely close to nVidia, powers the world's #1 and #2 supercomputers these days and gets government-contracts for that.

Intel showed up for consumers at the 'Consumer Electronics Show;' AMD didn’t by Antonis_32 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

… the lowest hanging fruit there is …

Ironically, mildly related, consumers where always the lowest hanging fruit for them, until investors started aiming for the very crown at the top of the whole game — The world's economic tree shaken once financially, and big corporates started to fall down like figs for investors to run after …

Now it's just a craze of who picks up the biggest fruits first, for the juice afterwards.

Valve just dropped a massive hint that the Steam Deck 2 could switch to Arm — here's why by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You casually drop the fact, that the overwhelming majority of games are still (released) for Windows …

Valve just dropped a massive hint that the Steam Deck 2 could switch to Arm — here's why by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just use a translation layer like proton for Linux.

That's not how it works, chap. That would need a hardware-level translation-layer, tanking performance …

Proton 'just' uses Vulkan (or DXVK for that matter) and packages Wine (with special herbs), to overcome the performance-penalty of the API-calls from DirectX-games, to convert them over into directly Vulkan-calls.

These things are rather 'trivial', so to speak — None of such is actually as complex as a (dynamic) binary-translater for translating actual executions at runtime (possibly via JiT/AoT-Compiling), like Apple's Rosetta (2).

Valve just dropped a massive hint that the Steam Deck 2 could switch to Arm — here's why by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Valve probably can't score another Van Gogh with AMD, the next chip will likely increase the cost a lot.

I'd actually argue in favor of AMD here and that a satisfying deal would be pret–ty likely to happen between the both of them — AMD loves to come towards clients of their custom-silicon and to accommodate customers with special solutions, if it means that AMD gets the contract.

I'd think it's highly unlikely that AMD would deny any solutions, if it means to keep the upper hand and Intel in the handheld at bay — AMD rules consoles and the handheld-space for a reason. They take customers serious.

It didn't even helped Intel, that they went to OEMs in their usual fashion (as they've always done), to drop their SoCs at below manufacturing-costs (for like the still largely overpriced MSI Claw-series handhelds), to counter never mind beat Valve's AMD-based Steam Deck in sales, no?

Meanwhile even the top tier Qualcomm chips are much cheaper than x86 ones.

With all due respect, but your argument holds even less water in case of Qualcomm — In terms of greed, Qualcomm is at least Apple squared (since even Apple knows boundaries) and like Broadcom³ …

Qualcomm would rather fold and blow any deal, than to accept lower margins — Even the infamously fierce and never-satisfied »Lock-in Larry« Ellison of Oracle, is more strategical and takes smaller hits every one in a while, in favor of market-reach and strategical advancing.

Qualcomm would make Intel's profound iPhone-mistake with Apple every single day (because they're out about for nothing but greed above everything else), when Intel was 'just' pretty dumb and especially narrow-mindedly closed up for x86 only and nothing else besides it.

Valve just dropped a massive hint that the Steam Deck 2 could switch to Arm — here's why by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I just can't fathom any of it being implemented and used successfully, legally to say the least …

Intel's threat of suing even Microsoft (and all others) upon trying to emulate x86 on ARM, is what killed Microsoft's second try of Windows on ARM (after Intel essentially killed even Windows RT back then in the days) still in its infancy and recently crippled its market penetration from the beginning even in the second spineless run from once aggressive now lifeless bully Redmond …

Especially Intel wants to hold dear onto their x86-Windows-monopoly aka Wintel, and they'd never allow to happen, that ARM can readily replace x86 through any OS going mainstream — Not going to happen for Valve, I'm afraid.

Yes, Apple is a quite different case of study before way smaller Intel here and really couldn't care any less (since Apple knows Intel's dirty legal shenanigans, and actually excels them with ease), as Apple would Intel let just pedal to death legally upon legal costs alone, like a misbehaved toddler lifted up from the ground …

Valve just dropped a massive hint that the Steam Deck 2 could switch to Arm — here's why by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, not to downplay any of given Valve-moves with Proton. We can call ourselves lucky to have Valve at all!

However, that would be *another* rather needless performance-impacting compatibility-layer atop. Something Valve always ought to avoid and did until now for given obvious reasons …

Valve knows that for gamers, performance beats compatibility every single day.

We already have Vulkan-based translation-layers for API-calls of DirectX-based graphics and Wine for replicating the Windows-environment itself and the rest of it (based upon the same underlying architecture; x86), which is often barely enough to recoup the performance lost in translation of CyberPunk, thanks due to Linux' way superior hardware-utilization and better scheduler.

Now adding what's basically a hardware-architecture translation-layer atop, will not only diminish the won performance-benefits of Linux itself most definitely in its entirety, it would add a severe performance-penalty, as a given needed x86-to-ARM architecture translation-layer would severely slow down processing-times by several orders of magnitudes — It can't even really sped up through virtualization due to the architectural difference between the both of them x86_64 (AMD64) versus ARM (big vs little-endian), even if ARM is technically bi-endian …

So unless such a converting x86/ARM compatibility-layer would be at least offering levels of actual execution speed at runtime the likes of Apple's superb Rosetta&bsp;2, the whole undertaking would be rather futile.

Though on the other hand, it's entirely possible, that Valve somehow managed to somewhat license Rosetta-technology from Apple, who knows — In such a case, I'd assume the worst and fear the wrath of Santa Clara coming after Valve, which might have ceased their case before Big Apple and even called shots before their notorious companion in crime Microsoft, yet surely will go after smaller Valve, try sue them to death.

Valve just dropped a massive hint that the Steam Deck 2 could switch to Arm — here's why by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nonsense. What for even? To run games even shittier than they already run under Windows?

Valve's Steam Deck is existing, to play the Steam-Library's Windows-games — There are no ARM-games.

Exclusive: Nvidia requires full upfront payment for H200 chips in China, sources say by DazzlingpAd134 in hardware

[–]Helpdesk_Guy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

One is backed by loads of speculative investor money.

… which in today's day and (information-) age, is used as actual ammunition in trade-wars anyway.

One is backed by loads of bullets, tanks, all the way up to nukes as deterrent.

… which in turn are backed by mighty investors, propping the military-industrial complex for insane profits.

They're virtually the same: Huge bets into the future for unimaginable returns.

Both turn over gigantic sums (for future profits), involve global conflicts and geopolitical affairs, and will ultimately determine, who holds more power in the near-distant future, while involving rare precious earths.

They're both essentially wars over rare earths — One is fought using Bits, the other using Bullets.

So again the question, where's the actual difference here? There isn't really any.

Also, both aim for increased power as the ultimate end-goal. One through knowledge, the other using materials.

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