A+ historical reference

I've got some south seas islands you can plant them on...

popcorn futures too.

I mean the Chinese already did step up their game

https://en.mthreads.com/product/S5000

...in making datacenter GPUs

Fingers crossed all our current hardware survives long enough to hold us over. It'll be very interesting to see where this will eventually take the GPU market, who will pick up the slack, and how.

True

korea's tech industry is owned by basically just families related to each other.

She's the winningest at buzzword bingo. That makes line go up.

She is hedging her bets using the Trump label “SI” and the Tech Bro brand “AI.”

Technically, these are both technical terms, but we are way, way past the point of their usage being tied to their meaning.

Gotta add SI to get gov contracts... for now at least...

Wut? Wait. The AMD CEO is the cousin of the nvidia CEO? Like, the CEO of the number two GPU chip company is cousin of the number one company y, and effectively there isn't really a number three so this GPU market really is really a family monopoly?

Only one way to find out

As if ATI would have been any better if they still existed

Companies are companies are companies. They don't exist to serve you, they serve capital

NOT ENOUGH ENERGY

that manufacturer would have a fraction of the sales. They’re all doing this because data centers buy way contracts are simply more lucrative; the planned rollout of data centers means they’ll sell so much more that they simply can’t accommodate enthusiasts and home builds

This is of course the goal of people like Altman and bezos, they want to hoard compute after hoarding 99+% of all the wealth amongst like 50 people. This is why resistance to data center rollouts is so important and to a further step fair distribution of resources as a political platform. This mess wouldn’t exist if oligarchs were reigned in

Not gonna happen any time soon. The barrier of entry is massive.

Making decent drivers alone is a humongous undertaking: You have to catch up to the work of several decades - and it's a moving target. That's on top of just how difficult it is to design good silicon. Just look at how Chinese GPU manufacturers are struggling to match low-end cards from 10 years ago (even though they are lying and claiming they are matching high-end cards from one generation ago) with cards that have many times the power draw and cost - and all of that with far worse games compatibility.

Hell, even the giant that is (soon to be probably: was) Intel failed to leave a mark in the dedicated GPU business and they actually have decades of experience making (pretty shitty) integrated GPUs and (even shittier) drivers for them.

Brooo I was planning to buy some more. Fucking hell, nothing is safe

Statements like this are good for the stock price & have little impact on how the company is actually operating. (not claiming AMD is doing so great serving its consumer user base though)

Once I tried to design my own open-source GPU architecture.

BTW if anyone wants to reuse the name "VideoDSP" for the shader cores, then feel free to do it.

Monopolies got us to this point. Another monopoly isn't going to save us.

The solution is politics, regulations, and enforcement. These companies are breaking laws, and have even been found to do so in court (see how many times Google has been found to be a monopoly, for example). The problem is spineless and/or corrupt judges and politicians not doing anything about it.

But just a few weeks ago, MAGA seemed unstoppable, and today it's completely dead. There are still corrupt dems in power though, and they're going to try to steer us towards the same do-nothing equilibrium of before, so we gotta keep the pressure up. This is a great time to write to your elected officials, especially the ones who weren't up for reelection this cycle.

Just read the other day that Sony says PS6 is on track. Granted, of course they'd say that. Also, there's rumours it'll be more mobile focused.

Allocation still matters though.

CPUs are somewhat flexible, as desktops, servers, and a few laptops all use the same compute die.

But with GPUs (for the moment), they have to make long term development/production decisions between server dies and gaming dies. It’s not like older GPUs where server cards literally shared the die with Vega, the GTX 780 TI or whatever, and they could essentially slap a different sticker on to change market allocation.