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Intel and AMD have a common history, but each company has gone its own way in chip design. Why are Intel chips and AMD chips not compatible? And is there one type of chip that's better than all the rest? 

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As one social media platform after another lights itself on fire, we spend a good chunk of this month's Q&A thinking about other ways to use (or just get off of) the Internet, plus field some other Qs about ways to keep Windows XP alive, laptops for parents, some thoughts about the coming passkey era, acceptable data hoarding, and more.

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The return of Two Grumpy Old Men Complain about Windows! Richard chats with Paul Thurrott about a year of Windows 11 - the good, the bad, and the meh. Paul talks about the bits of Windows 10X that became Windows 11 and how simplifications in Win11 may annoy power users but are beneficial to regular folks. But nobody benefits from the ads on the desktop - except Microsoft. The conversation turns to the hardware side of the world and the soon-to-be-announced ARM-based Windows laptop. After all, there are already ARM servers in Azure, so when do we get a new generation of great workstations?

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Recorded September 8, 2022

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AMD has a very healthy X86 market share now, not just in servers.  There have been some fast and loose claims around adaptive sync monitors so far, bluetooth hack gets more air time for remote hacking, the RX 6650 XT might get the nod for most improved "50" version, and more!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:00 Food with Josh
04:11 AMD Claims Nearly 30% CPU Market Share
06:21 Arc vs. Larabee
10:44 VESA Adopts Adaptive Sync Claim Certification
16:30 Phison PCIe 5.0 Redriver Excitement
20:47 Geometric Future Model 8 Cowboy Case?
23:55 Radeon 6650 XT is Interesting
29:21 Podcast Sponsor: Linkedin Jobs
30:30 Gaming Quick Hits
37:44 A New Bluetooth Hack
43:30 Picks of the Week
55:10 Outro

😨 ARK Invest's Big Ideas includes 'Re-inventing the Data Center', where Cathie Wood states Intel (INTC stock) has lost its way. Let's talk about Apple (AAPL stock), Nvidia (NVDA stock), and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD stock), the 3 companies disrupting Intel's x86 processors by making their own ARM-based chips, and why Intel stock could be a massive value trap.

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Sources & Further Reading:
ARK Invest's Big Ideas 2021
https://ark-invest.com/big-ideas-2021/

Apple: A New Era For The PC (Seeking Alpha): https://seekingalpha.com/article/4420499-apple-new-era-for-pc

Cost Analysis - An x86 Massacre: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd/9

Apple M1 chip specs, release date, and how it compares to Intel: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-m1-chip-everything-you-need-to-know-about-apple-silicon-macs

Apple takes TSMC's whole 3nm production capacity for Mac, iPhone, iPad: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/12/22/apple-takes-tsmcs-whole-3nm-production-capacity-for-mac-iphone-ipad

Increasing in Share of Developers, Apple and Amazon Could Topple Intel’s x86 Empire (ARK Invest): https://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/developers/

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Armv9 is here, and although it took nearly 10 years to arrive, it comes right at a major inflection point in the semiconductor industry where all of the major chipmakers have started dabbling in processor architectures outside of their heritage. The implications of this are currently being felt in more advanced use cases like the data center and high-performance computing, but the roadmap decisions of today – such as the massive emphasis on AI and ML workload processing in Armv9 that will surely continue under NVIDIA leadership – will  have significant ramifications for the embedded systems of tomorrow. And, oh yeah, what does NVIDIA’s potential stewardship of Arm mean for NVIDIA competitors who also happen to be Arm licensees, like Intel and Xilinix? Brandon and Rich discuss.

Later, Intel’s Sailesh Kottapalli, Senior Architecture Fellow, and Mandy Mock, VP and GM of Product Engineering Systems, join the Insiders to help set the record straight on Moore’s law. To be fair, the number of transistors keeps increasing at a rate that’s fairly consistent with Gordon Moore’s original projections, it’s actually some of the ancillary benefits that we’ve come to expect from that transistor scaling that aren’t keeping pace. So, is it fair to say it’s dead? And, maybe more importantly, should anyone even care?

Finally, in this week’s Tech Market Madness, Perry Cohen tries to make sense of “the edge” with Matt Trifiro of Vapor O and Jacob Smith of Equinix, who co-chaired the LF Edge’s 2021 “State of the Edge” report. All these years later, do we have a definitive answer to the question, “What is the IoT edge?” And, if we can agree on something, how will it reach critical mass? Here’s a hint: Open source. 

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