AMD vs Intel a Long History

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  @dennissdigitaldump8619 · 1 year ago

  When I worked at Intel, most of the phones speed dial was #1, that department's boss, #2 AMD's equivalent department. We talked constantly and the joke when ending the call was "we hate you", "we hate you too." Instead of goodbye, often said in a silly voice.

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  @justfabulous3941 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Itanium was an Extremely Parallel Instructionset Computer processor? An EPIC processor?<br><br>Only now do I realize what a gigantic shot at Intel it was to name the Ryzen server line EPYC. That is just pure unadulterated Schadenfreude<br><br>Edit: You did bring it up at the end. I was having quite the laugh tho when the coin dropped in my mind

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  @wktodd · 1 year ago

  &quot;Basically required the compiler to be sentient &quot; &nbsp; LOL

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  @daemonspudguy · 1 year ago (edited)

  Glad to see that I&apos;m not the only one to joke about iAPX 432 being so complex that VAX is like a RISC chip by comparison.

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  @js-123 · 1 year ago

  Clean room reverse engineering doesn&apos;t mean they didn&apos;t look at it. It only means the team writing the code never looked at it. One team reverse engineers it and then documents it, the other implements it.

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  @EgonOlsen71 · 1 year ago

  The problem with quake wasn&apos;t so much that the non-Pentium-CPUs were so much worse on floating point but that they couldn&apos;t run them in parallel to the integer pipeline as the Pentium could.

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  @geekst0rm87 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QEJC_ZPwWY&amp;t=2280">38:00</a> <br>The AMD Duron was the budget version of the Athlon, not the K6-III

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  @RachaelSA · 1 year ago

  There used to be an mp3 encoder written in ASM called gogo / petite, that was 10 times faster than every other encoder, and it used 3D now, so it was twice as fast on an AMD K6.

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  @natashakerensky9406 · 1 year ago

  Thanks RetroBytes on this deep shallow dive into the rivalry. I remember working on “old IBM” PCs at Uni in 88. All these company names brings back memories. I too had a set of the Intel Bunny Suit plushies that I’m sure someone’s child at work got. The old days. Now everything is virtualized and only hardware is laptops, consoles and gaming PCs.

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  @schrenk-d · 1 year ago

  Man, this brings us down memory lane. <br><br>I was there for all but the earliest of releases. My first x86 PC was a 486 (family PC) … My first PC I ever purchased for myself was a Celeron. <br><br>I&apos;ve had, K6&apos;s, Athlons, (I had the first Gen one that went into a slot as well ... The slot A)...<br><br>The craziest thing we had was a dual Celeron with the Abit BP6(?)... Running Linux. <br><br>Those were the days...<br><br>Sh!t I&apos;m old ...

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  @TheRidders · 1 year ago

  Excellent trip down memory lane - thank you - that was Epyc!

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  @hypercomms2001 · 1 year ago (edited)

  &quot;intel had made themselves effectively &apos;a waffle iron that could do maths &apos;&apos; &quot;... Classic! I enjoy this channel for the sense of humour, but as an engineer the depth of technical information. Excellent job!

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