Ciro Santilli - youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=118 Buldozer series CPUs was a disaster
- youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=324 got sued for marketing claims on number of cores vs number of hyperthreads
- youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=556 Ryzen first gen was rushed and a bit buggy, but it had potential. Gen 2 fixed those.
- youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=757 Ryzen Gen 3 surpased single thread performance of Intel. Previously Gen 2 had won multicore.
They have been masters of second sourcing things for a long time! One can ony imagine the complexity of the Intel cross licensing deals.
This was the CPU architecure that saved AMD in the 2010's, see also: Video "How AMD went from nearly Bankrupt to Booming by Brandon Yen (2021)"
Bibliography:
- wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd an issue tracker
- github.com/ROCm/ROCK-Kernel-Driver TODO vs the GitLab?
Mentioned e.g. at: videocardz.com/newz/amd-begins-rdna3-gfx11-graphics-architecture-enablement-for-llvm-project as being part of RDNA 3.
- youtu.be/HqWWoaA8pIs?t=779 Newton Minow mandated UHF on all television sets in 1961, and the oscillator needed for the tuner was one of the first major non-military products from Fairchild, the 28918 (?).
- youtu.be/HqWWoaA8pIs?t=1053 Fairchild had won the first round of a Minuteman contract, but lost the second one due to poor management