• sunzu2
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    4911 months ago

    Let me guess that imbecicles in charge didn’t care to spend money on it?

    • The Doctor
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      1511 months ago

      They seem more concerned with their bonuses and stock buybacks. In August Intel announced that they’d be laying off 15k workers to “save” $10 billion US. They’re also cutting back on R&D for the same reason. I guess the MBAs decided that losing customers by hamstringing Linux users is an acceptable loss. Not like folks won’t forget about this six months from now, anyway…

      Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210656/intel-is-laying-off-over-10000-employees-and-will-cut-10-billion-in-costs

      • sunzu2
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        811 months ago

        Must be nice to know that no matter how bad you shit your bed… Daddy Sam will take money out of peasants pockets to make you right…

        • The Doctor
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          210 months ago

          Makes you wonder why so many people want to be rich and powerful, doesn’t it?

  • @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    Two things are happening: intel is trying to figure out how to deal with likely existential problems and their extremely mature product base doesn’t need those maintainers enough to offset supplying early retirement/buyout.

        • @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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          Yeah, I’m having a lot of trouble with my Nvidia card right now in Garuda Arch. It’s a 1060, so about time to update anyway.

      • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        Good, not great.

        Amd has better gfx performance, but they’re actually close in a lot of areas, if you don’t need graphics and want compute probably better.

        Id say it doesn’t compete with Nvidia at all because if you’re thinking green your concerns are so different nothing will sell you.

        But holy shit the av1 encode is like nothing else on the planet. Multiple streams at 12x and it just barely ticks over.

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    Another news, water is wet. People leave and join companies every day.

    The amount of Intel products impacted is limited to specific models. Also Intel is now committed to replacing damaged hardware. If you update the microcode it will fix the issue and if you aren’t experiencing crashes you are good.