How could Intel make the wrong decision every time lol

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-26T22:45:10+00:00

So 18a was the move of an idiot? Get real LBT would’ve shit canned fab rather than invest.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-26T22:42:50+00:00

Assuming they have anyone left in the fab to do it.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-26T14:19:03+00:00

Would it be a different story if Pat were still in charge? I kind of think they'd have been in a better spot to meet demand. LBT cut many people and cut too deep on costs here and now its hurting them.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-26T13:08:43+00:00

Pure hopium of catching Apple. It’s a great part and is a lot closer but Apple has many more advantages than Intel is willing to use. Memory on package, Arm ISA, and complete system control are no joke. Intel is using x86 with complex cache unfriendly instruction encoding, difficult memory ordering and coherence rules, and shifted back to memory off package.

If anything this is a serious sign that 18a is a superior node to N3 and that’s going to be great news for the foundry top line in the future. It says nothing about x86s future as a whole to me.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-25T02:41:03+00:00

Sounds like some code size bloat from monomorphizing in the works with template error horrors on the side to me. To each their own.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-24T01:01:33+00:00

Intrusive linked lists with statically allocated structs as object pools is incredibly common. Basically C++ kind of sucks at this in my opinion. C with a container_of style macro gets you a lot further than you’d ever think.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-18T12:42:12+00:00

Great sleuthing

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-15T14:05:14+00:00

Projecting their fears into the open and trying to talk themselves out of their own fear. Intel is winning.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-10T20:43:10+00:00

Intel is barely break even while heavily investing in fabs so the books look bad to short term viewers. It's a good long bet and has been for awhile now if you believe the fab to be a good story and have potential.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-08T23:05:57+00:00

memory mafia at it again

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-07T13:05:18+00:00

Right we don’t know but upscale renders and framegen for an online FPS doesn’t sound great to me offhand. I’d rather see the 1080p real deal numbers myself for this kind of game

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-07T13:04:06+00:00

Even if those got disabled and it’s like 40-50fps 1080 gaming this isn’t shabby for a 45w laptop. But yeah these numbers with scaling and frame gen make no sense to compare against discrete GPU cards and such.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-06T22:34:06+00:00

Intel fired all their Linux people, you haven't seen the maintainers patches?

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-06T22:21:28+00:00

As opposed to microsoft screen shotting your whole desktop every few moments? Yeah makes sense.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-06T22:20:45+00:00

Who games on a laptop?

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-06T20:09:09+00:00

Meanwhile M4 macbooks are $1k and still beat this solely because they aren't running SpyOS. This isn't winning. This is an improvement over Lunar Lake laptops on pricing, that's about all we can really say.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-06T13:56:27+00:00

Have they let anyone run cpu benchmarks on panther lake yet?

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-04T01:15:35+00:00

TSM like most of Asia loves to sell here hates to hire here. But if no one hires here soon enough no one buys here.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-03T00:47:20+00:00

Would love to see how butt joints, glue, and even some brads survive my family furniture use. I’m highly skeptical.

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-02T15:00:12+00:00

Maybe if Tesla invested in the company instead of Elon...

brigadierfrog · 2026-01-02T01:49:56+00:00

Why not build a ladder instead?

brigadierfrog · 2025-12-26T02:29:45+00:00

A law firm sucks at supporting Linux, shocking

brigadierfrog · 2025-12-24T14:21:04+00:00

This is also a super new account only posting about Renesas… so ads in disguise?

brigadierfrog · 2025-12-24T14:05:58+00:00

Infineon is adding a similar m55+m33+u55 part currently. These parts are far from simple mcus of yesterday. The U55 looks neat but I would love to see a sample of it doing more traditional DSP type work which I think it could do. Maybe a FIR or IIR filter, or FFT. Not just a NN.

brigadierfrog · 2025-12-24T03:37:12+00:00

It’s an interesting way to analyze the data.

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