and hard as f to get in reality. I still remember several years ago pre-ordering an ASUS with an RTX 4090 mobile laptop six months in advance which had the equivalent of a mobile 9950 CPU and a month after it was supposed to launch ASUS cancelled it. As quick as I was to want to blame them it turns out the AMD version never launched at all.
x86 players will not give up their baby that easily and they will compete aggressively with ARM. Because if they are left with no choice but to license ARM, they end up paying royalties to ARM (Softbank) which they never want to do. It would be the ultimate defeat if that comes to pass.
You know, the royalties we’ve been paying for
Single core 1 GHz CPUs used to be priced at $1000 (Extreme Edition and Athlon FX). We are comparatively very lucky these days. Someone on overclock.net is selling a decent binned Core 270K for just $200.
almost entirely agree except for the lack of lanes available at the consumer level. Not that I truly need them but I do miss having the option.
If they gave that away, their HEDT sales would crash coz most of the users are buying those more for the lanes than the quad channel RAM or extra cores. I do wish they would introduce an HEDT Jr. platform with triple channel RAM, dual sockets that accept only consumer CPUs and 50% more lanes than the desktop platform. It would sell well. And if they can set it up so that you are running different OSes on each CPU and can switch between them on the fly (a UEFI based hypervisor) then that would be even more enticing. So many times I've looked at some Linux software wistfully but unable to try it because I don't want to run a VM and they still don't have vertical M2 slots on mobos so you can just pop in an NVMe stick and start working right away.
That was bugging me coz never heard about that and then google told me, maybe you mean Transmeta Crusoe! It was a really cool concept.
He is talking about HEDT. The problem is HEDT no longer exists. He's wishing it still existed, as do I. I sorely miss it. Current-gen Threadripper and Threadripper Pro are sometimes called "HEDT" but they are faaaaar from it. Those are priced waaaaay the f*ck too high to be considered the middle-ground "prosumer" market that exists between consumer mainstream and workstation/server/enterprise. I sure as f*ck don't consider them HEDT. Stuff like X58, X79, X99, etc, THOSE were true HEDT. Threadripper started out there, but after a couple generations they h3lla lost the plot on that sh1t. Still, I give them props for at continuing to at least pretend, whereas Intel pretty much gave up on HEDT after X299, if I recall correctly.
My X99 board from 2014 has one:
Wow! So they CAN do it but won't
