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[–] BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

When I got a new desktop PC this year I specifically avoided anything with Intel in it because of how bad they dropped the ball with their GPUs basically disintegrating.

This is just a small glimpse into how Intel is breaking down from the inside. It may take a few years but if the US government doesn't intervene somehow on their behalf I truly think Intel might be done for in the next 5 years.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

Same. Intel and Nvidia are both on the boycott list.

As great as AMD is right now, I still don’t want them to become a monopoly. The fact that we have a duopoly is already a major problem.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine if x86-64 got blown open because of it? Might literally be the best thing to happen to computing in like 40 years.

Really fuckin' doubt it'll happen, but a girl can dream XP

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Or, what if it just became irrelevant. It's had a great run. But honestly ARM has shown plenty of versatility and power. While being licensable unlike x86. And things like riscv have similar of not better potential.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Its always going to be relevant, even if only emulated, simply because of how many code bases are stuck on x86/x86-64.

Open sourcing it and all of its extensions solves the licensing problems of not only itself, but Arm, while providing a battle tested architecture with decades of maturity.

Also imagine the fun FPGA consoles could have with that?

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Oh I have no issues with it being relevant in the same sense the Z80 68k or 6502 still being relevant. Just not part of a controlling duopoly.

[–] BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 15 hours ago

Thank you. Thank you for giving me hope lol