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Me too. Most importantly, many employees have put blood (probably literally if they are in assembly) into this and they deserve a win. Since I'm not an investor, I don't give two hoots about their stock price, but this is about boots on the ground overcoming near-impossible goals with horrendous...

Good question! Multithreaded development fails because of two things: Ahmdal's Law and It's Hard. Ahmdal's law basically says you can't get multi-core improvements when you have jobs that can't run in parallel. In real life, it doesn't matter if you have 40 doctors that could do the surgery...

I wouldn't say never, but you are likely right. 3nm wires are just about useless for anything at modern speeds unless you use a superconductor wire or zero capacitance gates. The process name (e.g. 14nm) used to apply to the smallest things on a chip (features) but it's not that easy anymore...

Not necessarily. There is more than one way to compete with silicon. For example, Threadripper isn't doing well because of a sophisticated process but it is doing well by its architecture, excellent price/peformance tradeoffs and the packaging. Better MCM with more sophisticated interposers...

This is true in soooo many ways. :-)

You might even be able to skip the lawyer. It should be almost that easy. Read the appropriate law. Ask the court what forms to file. Present hard-copy evidence of them violating the statutes. Collect money. Wow. There's all kinds of stupid out there.

My guess is that it isn't as impressive as it should be. The x265 and x264 encoders have some serious bottlenecks for threading. What I've read says that certain portions of the encoding process depend upon prior results and have to wait for them to finish. This means you can't spin off the...

Well done, Kyle. I really hope this inspires more honest and open business practices. They've all crapped in their own beds at some point in the past, but currently, Nvidia is doing the best job of it right now and just needs to stop it. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is supported by a...

Won't this cause an issue with higher temperatures because the low profile won't allow ventilation from under the panels? This is how I feel Apple went wrong with stylistic choices that actively impaired performance (e.g. blind quest for thinness at the expense of battery life).

The technology itself has very interesting capabilities but isn't well suited to the chipset/driver ecosystem that Intel is pushing it into. It will get better with improved controller chips, different access patterns, higher parallelism, tighter integration with the CPU and so on. Cell...

Yup. Kyle has been pushing for honest truth as best as he knows it for quite some time.

I haven't been active in PC enthusiast news for about ten years now, but have followed Kyle's stuff among others. I used to post news on the now inactive ProCooling site and got to know Kyle through some rather spectacular kindness he showed me an my family. However, that was after I got to...