Making prototypes is easy. Actually producing things is hard. Just cuz a KS has something working to show, doesn’t mean you should trust they can make enough of them for everyone.

Where’s Arch if you don’t RTFM? (I mean we’ve got 2 windows install modes there… only fair)

I don’t think it’s market slowness… more that there’s nothing worth upgrading to.

Now that the x3D came out, and it’s actually better than last gen, it sold out everywhere. People just want good new products.

And yeah 4% is small, just providing insight into why AMD layoffs are a huge surprise.

Sure Intel is doing poorly, but AMDs 9000 series was one of the worst selling launches in of new CPU in recent memory. They started slashing prices on them in record time.

There was also huge criticism from reviewers that the performance increase over 7000 series didn’t match what their marketing team had promised. Probably time to let some of those sales and marketing people go.

I dunno. If my company launched a new product, and then that product just sat on store shelves unsold, there’d probably be some people at my company who lost their jobs over it…. Regardless of how my competitors were doing.

9000 series was a total flop before the x3D, and their GPUs can’t compete at all. They are also missing out on a lot of the AI boom with many models being locked to NVIDIA hardware.

Furthermore, it must prove to its client base that it can recover from the Raptor Lake fiasco by releasing power-efficient and stable processors that deliver leading performance without any self-inflicted damage during their service life.

And that’s the rub, isn’t it? Even if these new processor release with great performance gains, who out there isn’t going to have some doubt in their mind that it’s at the cost of hardware longevity?

With their poor handling of this issue, I’d probably need to wait a good 2 years to confirm that stock settings aren’t killing their processors, before I consider buying Intel again.

If you’re doing it locally, more sensitive queries become ok, because that data is never leaving your computer……