Random Hardware topics

[Zed Clampet]

Spot on. Intel was failing to deliver when AMD started picking up steam in the CPU space. That's kind of what happened to Nvidia as well, AMD's graphics cards were lackluster and Nvidia saw an oppurtunity to surpass the competition and took it. AMD was mildly disruptive with their great pricing on current gen cards and held down prices a lot longer than Nvidia, so props to them for that. I do wish they'd accelerate the graphics team more, pushing them to at least *try* and surpass Nvidia. It seems like they're comfortable being in second place which is never a great mindset to have.

Nvidia has absolute truckloads, no, BOATloads of money, they could drop their single biggest investment into GPU R&D, but the returns aren't as great as if they put that money into AI R&D.

There was an article about Intel hiring a former AMD GPU architect, so maybe Intel can get seriously into this market. The person who wrote the article lamented that they were probably talking about AI, but as long as they weren't getting loose with the term "GPU" then they should be able to run games. Honestly, though, I find it difficult to blame companies for going after the AI goldrush.

 

[Colif]

most of my video cards were probably Nvidia. I just don't want them now.
Half of my CPU are intel, they just dropped the ball in recent years and even if they come back the next time, I still likely buy AMD CPU next only as I don't need all new motherboard and ram to get it.

wonder how much those will cost.