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WhyteRyce posted:One of my previous jobs involved getting very mad at our internal validation tools teams because those teams would want to rewrite our working tool suites with new ones and prioritizing new software design paradigms, concepts, and whiz bang features over requirements or actually being able to do its job Lol. We have always been our own tools teams which usually means the tools work but are horrifically ugly and near unmaintainable. Last company we had almost 20 years of technical debt meaning we would be tied to a specific version of TCL forever because the effort of moving everything to another language would be too great. And then one day we got pinged by activestate about the number of activetcl installs we had which prompted a frenzy of trying to figure out what was calling home. We originally had a site license but they wanted to reneg on it and we had to move everything over to a free tcl interpreter. That was ugly enough, moving everything to python or something would be just a disaster. Thankfully I moved to a new company whose validation was a blank slate so can make choices for which I’ll be cursed for in a decade+ 
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shrike82 posted:https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1655163273258364929?s=20 There's two Chinese chipmaking efforts that might actually get somewhere: Centaur's x86 license ended up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoxin, who are making expensive x86 chips that perform somewhere around a 2500K or 3570, which is honestly not bad in a vacuum and perfectly usable for client computing, the problem is that obviously Intel and AMD wipe the floor with them and Zhaoxin will never be able to sell at high volumes in a country where Intel or AMD processors are available. The much more promising Chinese chip design effort that I'm aware of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson, who also are producing real, usable processors that perform somewhere broadly around Sandy Bridge. For better / worse, they don't have an x86 license and had made MIPS chips for a long time. MIPS died, and also didn't have wide enough vector extensions for what Loongson wanted to do, so Loongsoon filed the trademark off of MIPS and made up their own copy of MIPS called Loongarch. If you get close to any native toolchains on Github, you'll see Loongson developers arguing with the maintainers to get Loongarch support into projects, even relatively little used scientific stuff. I keep running across it and getting a chuckle. Turns out that "adding Loongarch support" involves copy pasting the entire MIPS section of something and sticking a "Loongarch" tag on it. There's been some pushback. https://www.phoronix.com/news/LoongArch-MIPS-Copy-Kernel posted:This is also causing frustrations by upstream maintainers reviewing LoongArch patches and questioning the LoongArch vs. MIPS. In one of the patches, "You keep saying "not MIPS", and yet all I see is a blind copy of the MIPS code...This is still the same antiquated, broken MIPS code, only with a different name."
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Phobeste posted:it's true that this isn't how people operate and people are lazy but it's also true that you need to consider the constraints and goals of those people, which is: ship stuff so people can use it. you can consider this in capitalism terms (this is how you make money) but you don't have to, in general you'd want to deliver something when it improves life, right, which is maybe before it's perfect.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I don't know why this is a surprise. Blindly copying without understanding the reason why things are done the way they are done, with all the little nuances and details is peak Chinese. It's peak china, but in a very different way. I guarantee you these are Intel chips, but with the IHS sanded down and their own label re-printed. Probably they muck with the bios / OS to report the CPU name as "Powerstar P3" as well. That way they can pretend it's their own domestic chip, and sell PCs to the government -- who are mandated to only buy 'chinese' chips. Everyone in the government pretends not to notice that this chip, that performs way better than other domestic chips, is an Intel i3 with a new label. Hooray, Made in China 2025 is very success, all hail great leader! (All of this is more about the constant face-saving idiocy of authoritarian regimes than anything uniquely Chinese.) There was also a deal AMD was doing with a chinese company, where the chinese fab made first-gen Zen chips for the domestic market. I dunno if those are still being made. lmao: "AVX/AVX2 was also disabled, but the research has suspected that it happened due to a bug rather than was done intentionally."
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As a Canadian who worked for Nortel Networks as a coop I am ~extremely~ salty about Chinese IP theft and state companies like Huawei being allowed to profit in the very places they stole from. Also it was interesting they were supposedly going hard into RISC-V but I have seen very little movement on that, or perhaps I missed it.
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Even if Intel stick to releasing 5 nodes in 4 years, all these layoffs are going to reduce their ability to capitalise on them.
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Coasting on sandybridge for like a decade and not innovating properly will do that to you. My condolences to the people who have lost their jobs for sure. But stagnant things stagnate. Intel could have made a lot of obvious decisions much better. They didn't make any attempt at all regarding better power efficiency for example, now they're getting reamed in the server/database space.
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:Even if Intel stick to releasing 5 nodes in 4 years, all these layoffs are going to reduce their ability to capitalise on them. They're going to slip the nodes, slip the new architectures, and then AMD, Ampere, and AWS will take Intel's lunch money.
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Pat made people eat a paycut so they wouldn’t have to fire people
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WhyteRyce posted:Pat made people eat a paycut so they wouldn’t have to fire people Remember when he said “this is the bottom” like three quarters ago
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wet_goods posted:Remember when he said “this is the bottom” like three quarters ago Is Ghostty a fniancial analyst for Intel?
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So I completely missed this last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YBeriMsDS0 So, apparently I completely missed that all the old Intel NAND and RST people wound up at a place called Solidigm. Or maybe I did know that, but just assumed that all of their products were being sold under the greater SK Hynix brand, and not their own marque. I guess this is welcome news. Samsung drives make me skittsh these days, and knowing that these are the old Intel folks is strangely reassuring. edit: Holy poo poo, their drives are dirt cheap. 2TB PCie 4.0 for $99? https://www.amazon.com/SolidigmTM-Internal-Solid-State-SSDPFKNU010TZX1/dp/B0B9855VGS?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1 edit edit: They support Intel 660p and 670p SSDs with their driver, and if Allyn Malvantano is to be believed, you should go and get their driver. edit edit edit: alright, gently caress it, in for one. I can afford $100 to gently caress around with 2 TB SSD for shits and giggles. Worst comes to worst, I have a new NVME game drive. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 10:28 on May 9, 2023 |
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A local Intel office got split off with a chunk of people going to Solidigm, and they're sharing lab space for a couple years until they get their own dedicated office space. Pretty smooth transition from what I've heard!
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priznat posted:Pretty smooth transition from what I've heard! Solidigm completely underestimated the transition and what needed to be done. They had people using two laptops for a long time after the split because they couldn’t get all their poo poo off of Intels network or environment. They were still using Intel branded JIRA for the longest drat time Solidigm announced layoffs like two months ago and haven’t given out any details to anyone so employees are demoralized or pissed Also Solidigm is dropping all floating gate stuff which makes the value proposition for Hynix really iffy WhyteRyce fucked around with this message at 05:31 on May 9, 2023 |
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Klyith posted:lmao: "AVX/AVX2 was also disabled, but the research has suspected that it happened due to a bug rather than was done intentionally." It would be funny if AVX got disabled as part of a check for "GenuineIntel".
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Oh drat haha I haven't talked to the folks who moved over in ages but they were really excited by it, but they were probably blinded by the newness. Come to think of it there was some pretty major HR screwups right off the start but people shrugged it off as just HR being HR.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:edit: Holy poo poo, their drives are dirt cheap. 2TB PCie 4.0 for $99? https://www.amazon.com/SolidigmTM-Internal-Solid-State-SSDPFKNU010TZX1/dp/B0B9855VGS?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1 drat, there's like, a 40% markup on them in Canada... but that's still like $165 CAD + tax for a 2 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive that doesn't have a fly-by-night name attached to it.
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Also when the CEO of solidigm got suddenly surprised fired there was no external announcement for some something stupid like over a week. The only official confirmation external people had was looking at Rob Crookes LinkedIn which had his current occupation as assistant vineyard manager
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SwissArmyDruid posted:So I completely missed this last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YBeriMsDS0 https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p5-plus/CT2000P5PSSD8 20 dollars more dollars will buy you 50% better read and write performance and be from a name you actually recognize. Kazinsal posted:drat, there's like, a 40% markup on them in Canada That's just part of living in Canada.
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Methanar posted:https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p5-plus/CT2000P5PSSD8 don't know canada prices but team MP34, team cardea zero z440, HP EX950, HP FX900, or HP FX900 Pro are the ones I'd mostly recommend now, all DRAM+TLC of various pcie speeds/costs. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 07:53 on May 9, 2023 |
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Wild EEPROM posted:Its cheap because its qlc Ugh, not even once
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Methanar posted:https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p5-plus/CT2000P5PSSD8 What is the potentially best PCIe 4 drive at the moment is the Solidigm P44 Pro though, at $149 for 2 TB. Also i wouldnt paint Solidigm as like a fly by night "no-name" brand...
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Cygni posted:What is the potentially best PCIe 4 drive at the moment is the Solidigm P44 Pro though, at $149 for 2 TB. I've never heard of them before this page of the thread.  Okay, if those speeds are true, that's actually kind of nuts.
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Cygni posted:What is the potentially best PCIe 4 drive at the moment is the Solidigm P44 Pro though, at $149 for 2 TB.
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Josh Lyman posted:Why not do the WD SN850X for $149? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7CMZ3QH That's what I'd do, but I do already have two of these. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 09:06 on May 9, 2023 |
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Methanar posted:I've never heard of them before this page of the thread. It’s a new name for the merged SSD units of Intel and SK Hynix. So yeah, not exactly a small operation here. Josh Lyman posted:Why not do the WD SN850X for $149? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7CMZ3QH P44 Pro and 990 Pro are both a bit faster (obvi testing difference in play here), and the 990 Pro has uh… other issues. SN850X is a great drive tho, it’s just prolly not the absolute best performer at the moment. Those are the top 3 though imo.
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Methanar posted:I've never heard of them before this page of the thread. Solidigm = SK Hynix.
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Solidigm is an standalone subsidiary under Hynix. Originally they were shipping their own products with their own controllers with their own NAND with their own firmware sold by their own teams. But SK fired their CEO and canned their entire floating gate NAND efforts so they may not be so independent long term. A lot of old guard Intel employees went there. In Folsom there was a question whether it was better for career prospects to go back to Intel or stay with Solidigm. That’s still probably an open question WhyteRyce fucked around with this message at 15:53 on May 9, 2023 |
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WhyteRyce posted:Solidigm completely underestimated the transition and what needed to be done. They had people using two laptops for a long time after the split because they couldn’t get all their poo poo off of Intels network or environment. They were still using Intel branded JIRA for the longest drat time gently caress JIRA
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:gently caress JIRA
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I have an old enterprise SSD and optane nvme sitting in my computer. The optane drive is managed by the Intel Memory& Storage Tool, which refuses to support the enterprise SSD. Solidigm has a storage management tool that is literally the same program with a different logo, which refuses to support the optane drive.
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Anyone notice this clusterfuck? https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-investigating-bootguard-security-key-leak-following-msi-hack
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redeyes posted:Anyone notice this clusterfuck? Yeah, saw it on the Register. We need something better than unrevocable keys we're just hoping won't leak. Painful.
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HalloKitty posted:Yeah, saw it on the Register. I can't wait for custom rootkit style hacks for games to come out that require MSI motherboards to load, because cheating in videogames is worth loading Ring -1 code into your machine from hax4u.ru/fortnite
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