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Does it really matter? If manufacturer X wants to make a product, but has to pay more for the wafers, the product is going to cost more.

Looks like we're going to have to bend over a little more.... Nvidia GPU, Intel CPU, and AMD tech prices will skyrocket as silicon costs continue to soar

Considering AMD's position in the GPU market, all deals are wins, no matter how bad.

And, FYI, it turns out that AMD is not getting access to any IP. They're just supplying a custom GPU chip that Intel will integrate. So, unless AMD is hiring Intel, this isn't going to fix their interposer problems with Vega.

Maybe this was Intel's pound of flesh for this deal....

I'm guessing that you'd need hundreds, if not thousands, of GPU cores.

Xeon Phi is a day late and a dollar short. While it must be good for something, nVidia is eating their lunch. My feeling is that they switched it from being an add-in board to a central processor in order to get some kind of leg-up on Volta, but I can't figure out what it is. Intel has taken...

Intel has tried and failed at GPUs. Their iGPUs are terrible and Larrabee never even made it to the discrete market. If the enemy in this space is nVidia, AMD really is their only hope. One thing that I have seen in talk about this project is that Intel doesn't seem to be using its multi-chip...

I think that this is just a continuation of the tango that Intel and AMD have been in for decades. As long as CPUs and GPUs are there to prop each other up, AMD will always have a place because neither Intel nor nVidia can buy them for the part that they don't have. Intel also realised that...

Intel and AMD announced that Intel will be releasing CPUs with Intel cores, AMD graphics, and HBM2 on a single package http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2314568...

Nobody reads those!

This is the only direct reference that I've seen, but people keep talking like it's a big thing. Bad sockets will happen... forcing it is not the solution.

I don't think that the future is near enough. Peripherals at the faster standards will be hard to find until it's pushed out to motherboards. Since Intel has rehashed Kaby Lake for Coffee Lake, that means at least one more chip generation. And then, for backwards compatibility, the...

Do you have any info on this? I know that people are having trouble, but it doesn't seem to be a design issue. (Unless you count being a little more complicated than seems necessary a design issue.) TR4 is practically identical to SP3, so I can't imagine that this was a rush job.

Sounds like a great reason to avoid hardware RAID in anything but big-iron enterprise settings.

Why not?

I just wish that they'd post on topic....

I had my first Seasonic failure this year... a five year old Corsair AX850 that didn't make it through its sixth move.

And I thought that everybody had finally moved to network storage. 8)

I switched to Chrome as well. I've been using some version of Netscape since the betas with the pulsing N, so it wasn't a move that I took lightly. Unfortunately, it seems like Firefox has been lost in the woods for far too long. I don't know how much longer I hold on to Thunderbird, since...

There should be more chips as the quarter wears on, but don't expect volume until next year, when lower-end motherboards come out. Someone was complaining (Linus?) that they didn't even make the socket different. You can literally place a chip into the wrong kind of motherboard. If...

None of my network infrastructure devices needed an update (they're apparently not susceptible to the hack). Since only one side needs to be safe, I only have to worry when attached to other networks. Also, since the hack works on HTTP injection, using encrypted connections totally defeats it.

This is a little tin hat, but folks are interpreting responses in this interview concerning Coffee Lake to mean that Intel *could* have allowed Z270 motherboards be compatible with the chips, but purposely did not, so as to push new motherboard sales...

Which flashlights have battlements?

I agree. You could try to find a new processor, but, still, most improvements will be major mucking around.

As I understand it, this is a difficult hack that requires access to the signal. I doubt that most of us yucks will be targets when there are sweet business networks to hack.

I avoid YouTube ads with my Red subscription. It works flawlessly, everywhere, and the content providers still get paid!

As I understand it, MAMR is a slightly better alternative to HAMR. It's not clear to me that MAMR is mature enough to replace HAMR before it gets started.

Back in the day, they barely had chipsets. Even when I had an Opteron-based workstation, nVidia had the chipset of choice.

They've been after my hard-earned money for years, but I won't let them have it without giving me good value. :cooler:

You need to get your head out of your Intel. AMD has had relatively inexpensive six-cores for years. I'm pretty sure that AMD has released the first dual, triple, quad, hex, and octo core x86 chips for the desktop. While they continue to have the edge in IPC, Intel is playing catch-up in the...

I think that the Anandtech article best explains it. This is going to be for enterprise servers, where huge and cheap make sense.

https://youtu.be/zYbx16VxoAQ tl;dr: Intel Coffee Lake line-up doesn't make any sense. If you're a gamer, there's no reason to get the i7s, because the additional performance is not worth the cost. i5s make more sense; Ryzen makes even more sense. Sink the savings into a better graphics card...

I seems hard to believe that they wouldn't fix some of that stuff in the respin, but here we are....

Huh?

You mean marketing genius. People were complaining that reviewers were blowing time on X299 motherboards when X399 was already in the wings. X299 was old news. People wanted to know about AMD and not Intel just based on the names. The problem is that Intel didn't come up with a...

If you look at this launch, it is a rush job. There's really low availability, the motherboards aren't all there, and there's no middle- and low-end chipsets/boards for those chips. Intel isn't showing off the superiority of their execution here, because this is the second half-assed launch in...

I'm eventually going to have to move into the size territory where the He drives live for my NAS, and cool and quiet is the order of the day.

https://youtu.be/JFbUeFU-oOY tl;dr: Coffee Lake is basically Kaby Lake with two more cores. Z370 is just Z270 with updates for more cores. Non-K SKUs currently pointless. No released retail pricing. Availability is very low. Intel is still the performance king, but the Ryzen 1700 probably...

I know that the He drives are generally cooler and use less power, but are they quieter than comparable air-filled drives?

If anyone is filing complaints against Code42, make sure to file with the Minnesota AG (which is a pain, because they only take paper). I got a letter back, and they've gotten enough complaints to open a file and assign someone to deal with the situation. My state AG referred me to the Federal...

I'm surprised to see how low a market cap most coins have compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Zcash had a major pop recently due to being added to a large exchange. Yet, its value is still a fraction of those coins. In bad news, Zcash is best mined on nVidia cards. Unless the 1070Ti comes in...

Of course they are... but i cannot imagine that it's cheap.

HGST is just a name brand for WD, so I doubt that they bought it from themselves. Since they're importing the drive, they have to declare a value and pay the fees. If WD has a manufacturing plant in Malaysia, you were probably waiting for them to make the drive. If they have refurbs, they...

Lunar has atypical wants....

Cat6 is only good for 10Gb at relatively short distances. Otherwise, one would need to go with Cat7 In a single story house, even wiring up from the basement, Cat6 is "good enough."

I'd argue that rack-mount systems aren't desktops. 8)

If you're willing to pay through the nose, everything can be manufactured. U.2 on the desktop just doesn't make a lot of sense. One can get quite large M.2 SSDs or just go straight to storage on a PCIe card.

Because putting your chips in a box and putting a fan on the box makes more sense than just putting a fan on your chips?

This is what we're up against. According to the posting on Reddit, the owner of this rig left it on after evacuating for hurricane Irma. As the house flooded, the PSU shorted out and started a fire.