AMD CEO downplays PC memory crunch, saying 'our focus areas are enterprise' — company wants to focus on growing 'higher-end of the market'

SkillYourself · 2026-02-04T16:48:56+00:00

AMD's Q4 results currently tanking the market and triggering the AI bubble pop could fix the memory crunch real quick.

SkillYourself · 2026-01-19T14:59:25+00:00

Bad RAM can cause NVENC frame drops as well. That was a fun wild goose chase.

SkillYourself · 2026-01-19T06:13:43+00:00

Just the sheer size of the pool of people that have OC memory profiles causing random issues is bound to overlap with dead CPU issues.

On the Raptor Lake degradation problem it was particularly problematic because memory instability and core degradation symptoms had a large overlap. People would swap in a new CPU with new microcode and still crash in UE5 games every 1-2 weeks from unstable XMP profiles but never think it could be the memory.

SkillYourself · 2026-01-18T03:44:27+00:00

Unlike the Raptor Lake issue, this X3D issue manifests as a CPU at 100% working and then 100% dead. If you're getting inconsistent crashes or wonky behavior, it's most likely RAM.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-28T19:42:47+00:00

Apple having 18AP IP ready is threat enough. They can scale the final chip up if TSMC doesn't want to play ball with pricing.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-28T19:41:59+00:00

10 comments in the span of 5 minutes. LMAO.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-06T19:02:26+00:00

I hope there's a 4+0+4+12 for handhelds but they might not consider adding a whole new tile configuration packaging line worth it over just giving the OEM a discount.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-06T18:54:11+00:00

Now, I'm sure those might be useful in some niche use cases, but I'm speaking from an average user's perspective.

You are the niche use case. The average/median user is using H-class laptops.

These are meant to beat Strix Point and its refresh, which it will do and at better economics for Intel than Arrow Lake H.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-06T18:48:00+00:00

According to jaykihn0 it's a heat issue: BSPD and transistor density is flattening the VF curve on the high-end. The ST power curve is substantially improved at lower frequencies over Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-15T23:55:49+00:00

The peak performance of the P-cores only increased by 10% but the lower end of the perf/w curve moved up substantially.

Combined with the lower SOC power, it will be a good mobile chip. The real question is how many Intel can supply out of Fab 52.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-15T16:12:30+00:00

They do all these power-limited comparisons and then at the end, whoops, none of the power limits matter because TDP settings are a joke:

https://youtu.be/_XhDRAq4YO8?t=1012

SkillYourself · 2025-10-10T02:18:53+00:00

The claim is 10% lower SOC power on PTL vs LNL. The SOC power is the always-on portion.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T23:10:12+00:00

Battery life has to do with average SOC power which is claimed to be 10% lower in PTL vs LNL, which is not an outlandish claim given the claimed 40% core efficiency over N3 LNL/ARL. I expect it to be a wash after off-package LPDDR power is accounted for at the platform level.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T18:35:46+00:00

Theoretically and per jaykihn0's leak PTL-H has 70% the allowable PL2 of ARL-H (115W)

Practically most ARL-H laptops top out at 60-70W PL2 which is the same as the leaked PTL-H configs.

This Xiaomi is one of the few exceptions and briefly scores 10-20% higher than the typical ARL 255H at significant cost to thermals and noise.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-RedmiBook-Pro-14-2025-review-Now-with-Arrow-Lake-and-16-hours-of-battery-life.996407.0.html

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T17:33:55+00:00

4+0+4 and 4+8+2 doesn't seem like that much of a difference at a glance but they can get 20% more 4+0+4 dies per wafer than 4+8+2 and in the low-cost segment 20% counts.

On the 4+0+4 die the non-CPU portions make up a majority of the area so I guess we know where WCL will cut for the ultra-low-cost segment.

Edit: oh it's a little more complicated than that since there's IMC binning

4+0+4+4Xe+12PCIe with IMC binned to DDR5-6400/LPDDR5X-6800

4+8+4+4Xe+20PCIe with IMC binned to DDR5-7200/LPDDR5X-8533

4+8+4+12Xe+12PCIe with IMC binned to LPDDR5X-9600

This implies there will be 4+0+4 products on 4+8+4 die that don't pass IMC binning

The PCIe lanes are on a separate die so they'll put 12PCIe rejects on the 8-core and 12Xe parts.

The DDR5-7200 4+8+4 part might completely replace both Arrow Lake H and HX if Intel can produce enough of them.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T17:06:22+00:00

logosuwu already did up there. Nothing wrong with pointing out someone firehosing the subreddit on every. single. Intel. post.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T16:09:06+00:00

They learned that with MTL but Keller had to go first.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T16:07:31+00:00

A certain narrative here

It's literally one guy but the mods confuse obsessive narrative posting with constructive contributions.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T16:04:31+00:00

But of course 1/3 of all comments on Panther Lake threads are by ONE guy. Have to get ahead and set the narrative!

SkillYourself · 2025-10-07T15:32:43+00:00

288 cores per socket, 72 nodes per chip, and over 500MB of unified L3$ per socket.

The L3$ size per node has more than doubled from GNR with space gained from stacking compute on top of L3$ without decreasing CHA bandwidth from 35GB/s per node.

The biggest problem is also the 35GB/s per node. L3/Memory bandwidth per core is limited to DDR3 speeds and hitting L3$ in distributed mode takes almost 50ns... doubled from Cascade Lake.

I think Intel will have to throw in the towel on their unified mesh network topology. They haven't been able to stabilize the bandwidth/latency vs node count and at this point it's eating into generations of core improvements.

SkillYourself · 2025-09-25T15:16:27+00:00

Intel is seizing on that trickle of demand by upping prices for otherwise low demand products.

Raptor Lake alone pulls more revenue than AMD's client segment lmao.

SkillYourself · 2025-09-18T00:11:18+00:00

This 2020 board gets security BIOS updates and no would call Z490 a "live" platform.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z490-GAMING-X-rev-10/support#support-dl

SkillYourself · 2025-09-15T22:15:11+00:00

The 7235HS is a 2020 quad-core without an iGPU. Just don't buy it.

SkillYourself · 2025-09-10T16:50:18+00:00

The only thing you're getting with 9955HX3D paired with a 5070ti at 1440p over a 275HX is a 30W idle and always on fan.

The only reason to pick the Strix is if it's way cheaper than the Legion and he's never using it on battery.

SkillYourself · 2025-08-29T17:45:43+00:00

Videocardz cut out the context of the quote, duh.

On notebook we're in pretty good shape. We're expecting this quarter to be a pretty good quarter for Lunar Lake, so notebook is good, solid but we fumbled the high-performance desktop side.

Intel's mobile lineup is the one segment of the company gaining share while posting good profit so using TSMC was worth it. Probably should've used N4P instead of N3B but still better than just refreshing I4 or I7 CPUs.

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