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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    x86 predates ARM by 8 years. ARM as designed by Acron was never really intended to be a big business compete with Intel in all things design. The 1980s arm chips were in no ways competition for x86. The other CPU companies your talking about were generally not x86 companies. I mean Cyrix was...
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    There are many companies using Libre. Nike, Hitachi, Lockhead Martin, BASF, Pfizer, AMD, IBM. All of those companies are known to have large Libre install bases. Do they also use MS office for some uses? Sure probably. They aren't open source warriors they are corporations. Do you really think...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    Intel has long ago shut the door on licensing the ISA. At this point as they have allowed the competition to grow, they would have to agree to terms they will simply NEVER agree to. Having 2 players in any license talk is a huge issue as well. Getting both Intel and AMD to agree on what markets...
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    Hardly true. The biggest reason to use Libre is that its open source. If you WANT a feature request it. If you find a bug report it. Having said that Libre is always evolving and adding new things. They are aware of most of the features they lack such as dynamic arrays. They are aware of the...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    I'm not suggesting ARM is perfect. Just that it is 100% a viable solution, and as capable as x86 today. Frankly more capable in the future. ARM doesn't have just two companies and a Chinese knockoff company working on it. ARM does require a license... but seeing as x86 isn't being licensed to...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    What I have been saying about ARM servers for years. Once a company makes the leap, they are now in a situation where they might consider a different ARM hardware vendor. Going back to a x86 platform is a huge hurdle. I know some people write off the market penetration of ARM in datacetners and...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    Its not like X86 is that general of a compute ISA either. There is a reason they have to keep extending it. You may well be right in that x86 might be treated as an accelerator for legacy things. I'm sure that prospect scares the hell out of Intel and AMD. I think that is the case though I don't...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    Traditionally. That paradigm is about to get smashed to pieces. That is my take away from benchmarks from the very latest ARM server parts. There is nothing keeping the ARM ISA from being just as performant PER core. It used to be you get 1.5x as many cores per $, and per watt. So for low...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-benchmarks You could read the full article. The numbers are not pulled out of backsides. Its a average of all the individual tests they ran. Like comparing Intel and AMD there are situations where one is faster then the other. There are situations in...
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    I don't think anyone has covered this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRnno9VIZx0
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    It would be hard to blame people for taking an opportunity to sell their 2 or 3 year old decks for at least what they paid for them.
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    I admit, that one may have been a three or four way for a bit.
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    IF we want to go there. Yes Valve has been fighting the good fight for all of us for a long time. Hardware, isn't their main thing. They are a software company. They have been pushing Linux forward as a viable platform for years. They have spent A LOT of money doing that. They have greased...
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    I broke down the math for you. IF this price stays where it is for 2 years.... and Valve sells 1 million more Decks in that time. Which is very realistic, probably on the low side. You are asking them to eat 400 million dollars in PROFIT. Not revenue. PROFIT. 400 million in profit is about...
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    Exactly. Valve has had to deal with this, cause they are in the grand scheme small. They had to reorder supply, and they got hit with the same increases anyone building a PC right now is looking at. EVERY other device that uses RAM and or Storage is also going to get bumped when resupply time...
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