PC Perspective Podcast #512 – 09/06/18
Join us this week for discussion on Synology DS1618+, BitFenix 750W PSU, and more!
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, Allyn Malventano
Peanut Gallery: Ken Addison, Alex Lustenberg
Program length: 1:11:50
Podcast topics of discussion:
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Merch! http://joshtekk.com/
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Week in Review:
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News items of interest:
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0:33:55 What is a GPU Market?
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0:43:30 Battlefield beta benching
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Picks of the Week:
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0:58:45 Ryan: Buy a prism! You mean this?
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1:02:45 Jeremy: Can’t afford RTX?
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1:04:05 Josh: We love new SSDs!
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1:06:50 Allyn: DarkSky.net (especially the app)
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Closing/outro
What’s Bad for Intel(1) is
What’s Bad for Intel(1) is good for AMD in the server market! But WTF is with Intel’s Fab Capacity Issues. Where they so far in with 10nm that they did not set up enough 14nm lines. Intel appears kind of rudderless lately spending too much time trying to pivot to compete with Threadripper and the real cash cow is the server market.
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“Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE directly recommends AMD Epyc
Exclusive: Public web pages tell all without sugar coating
Sep 7, 2018 by Charlie Demerjian”
https://semiaccurate.com/2018/09/07/intel-cant-supply-14nm-xeons-hpe-directly-recommends-amd-epyc/
And a little stroll down Elop
And a little stroll down Elop Flop Lane(1) with loads of help from Satya(The Cloud) Nadella. 5 years after and only cold ash remains!
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Don’t let it bring you down
It’s only Platforms burning
Find one without flames swirling
One that will be around
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“It’s been 5 years already, let’s gawp at Microsoft and Nokia’s bloodbath
Rewind and replay in slowmo”
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/07/nokia_microsoft_revisited_at_5/
The Hot Chips deep dive on
The Hot Chips deep dive on Kaby Lake G(1)is here and the wikichip Fuse folks are doing a great job summarizing the Hot Chips Symposium’s relevent presesnations with Wikichip’s usual more thorough commentry included.
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“Hot Chips 30: Intel Kaby Lake G”
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/1634/hot-chips-30-intel-kaby-lake-g/