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[–] [Sticky] • 4 pts (edited )

Says the (((company))) responsible for numerious CPU bugs like

  • Spectre
  • Downfall
  • Atom C2000
  • Zombieload
  • RIDL
  • Fallout
  • SWAPGSAttack
  • Zombieload v2
  • Transactional Synchronization eXtensions (TSX) Bug
  • Extended Page Table (EPT) Bug
  • F00F Bug
  • FDIV bug
  • Buggy HLT
  • Core-microarchitecture Bugs
  • 'Meltdown' Page Table Bug

and many more.

Fuck Intel!

I hate intel, mostly because of how they treat their consumers by forcing them into NDAs and not disclosing fatal bugs.

Here's a joke that illustrates:

Why is an Intel Pentium like a rabbit? They both can multiply and can't divide.

If you don't understand the joke, lookup the intel FDIV bug.

There are tons of other bugs in Intel silicone. Some of them brick the devices they're in too. As a corporation, they suck! They hate their customers and here's another shining example of the hate they have: lying about performance.

The bug that really pissed me off was Intel Atom C2000 bug.

Yes, Intel is a jewish company and it shows.

[–] • 2 pts

I agree. They're fucking garbage. I wish more laptop OEMs would use AMD chips. Intel pays so much money to OEM partners for exclusivity on certain models. Looking at you Dell.

[–] • 1 pt

Dell is firmly entrenched in the WinTel camp. They aren't ever leaving.

[–] • 1 pt

Hey. Just because they had 3.99999999999999999999999999998 errors per million units doesn't mean it's bad.

[–] • 6 pts

I've never been more glad I switched to AMD last time.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I don't see any new info on GamersNexus or Level1Techs (who have done a lot of research in this area). Intel originally said 14th gen aren't affected. I can't remember if Wendel from L1T said if they were (he had data from actual data centers).

It's a manufacturing issue involving oxidation of some components.

I stick to AMD myself these days, but to everyone bitching, all of our general purpose processors (AMD, Intel, Qualcom ARM, Apple M*, IBM PPC, RISC-V, all the other ARM/aarch64) are absolutely insane in complexity and have billions of semiconductors spaces only nano-meters apart, etched into silicon (which, when you think about it, is highly refined sand/quartz).

They are true insane marvels. I've met developers who worked on PCI/PCI-E bus specifications of Intel and I would not want to touch any of the work they do. It's not easy shit.

[–] • 1 pt

Apologizing for complexity is one thing, but corporate responsibility to customers is another. I wouldn't be so annoyed if Intel simply admitted their silicone had bugs. Like you point out, it's brittle and complex. But to hide the problems in their silicone and force their customers not to disclose engineering defects, is quite another.

If a company isn't equipped to QA test throughly (and we've seen how that plays out in many industries where that matters) then perhaps they need to rethink their product strategy. They aren’t building 3 micro meter 8-bit chips anymore.

[–] • 3 pts

And to call CPUs with a near 50% failure rate a "regular support issue" is disgusting corporate behavior. They're banking on people not knowing about this story and correlating their computer problems with whatever OEM they bought it from. Or blaming other components.

They're just trying to deflect blame.

[–] • 1 pt

But to hide the problems in their silicone

Maybe that's the issue? Paying more attention to the silicone and not enough to the silicon?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

In more intel news: https://www.techpowerup.com/325080/intel-to-cut-10-000-jobs-across-the-globe-projected-to-save-usd-10-billion

Here's hoping to them crashing and burning some more, much like their last two generations of CPUs lul

I don't want them to completely fail though because that would turn AMD into a monopoly.

[–] • 1 pt

I'd actually like to see their fab get off the ground in the US simply for strategic reasons. They built it in the most retarded ass place they could, but it still should be a benefit to the US.

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They built it in the most retarded ass place they could

That's a pretty apt description of that piece of shit ground off Mink Street in New Albangmee. They've pushed it back a couple years already, and I don't think the water situation was ever solved.