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How about overclocking on non K sku parts? Didn't Linus just make a video about this; maybe an Intel employee agreed and decided to make it happen....

I have been expecting this for a while now, but the issues are more than just consistency between layers. The heat density is bound to be an issue unless we are also going to include some integrated cooling channels. It will be interesting to see the different approaches taken by the different fabs.

I'm surprised you guys haven't mentioned process nodes or the special memory configuration used on M1. AMD will be on 5nm soon so they will then have parity with Apple in fact it's probably nice for AMD to now have Apple running pipe cleaners for them. It always feels like nodes take a bit of work getting them tuned for high performance since they always get small mobile parts run through them first. Now that Apple is running performance parts through the node it just means probably less work for TSMC to get AMD running. As far as memory goes, AMD is limited to DDR4L power draws and can't help that but it does sound like they are aware of it and have some creative solutions of their own coming. They are already more power efficient than their main rival so incremental steps are the correct way to approach these new technologies. AMD did beat the drum on HSA for a long time and they still have that tech and the realizable BAR is also and example of memory performance enhancements coming out from them so I'm sure we will see more from them in the coming architectures. The future is bright for both AMD x86-64 and ARM, and with chip-lets it would be neat to see a hybrid chip maybe a big little that could have a mixture of cores but maybe the software devs will v-toe that idea. Still lets not argue about stuff like this and just enjoy it when it gets here.

Thanks for mentioning qutebrowser. I had never heard of it before and it looks interesting from a project standpoint. I will be watching the developement of it going forward. Have you been following the Vivaldi browser much? I was a big fan of Opera back in the day so I jumped on Vivaldi as soon as I heard about it. It's now my favorite browser.

Don't forget Vivaldi in the Browser list. It's now my favorite browser and it keeps getting better.

Ares was a pinnacle product back when AMD was the only company doing two dies on one PCB. I was hoping that meant we were going to see a new line of GPUs coming from AMD that would be like Threadripper and combine two dies with the infinity fabric. That would be awesome to see a new pinnacle like that and why not bring back Ares to celibate. But no, we were just getting the same old cards with new stickers because AMD users don't like nice things right?

We knew this would happen and I bet people are talking to AMD but if there are no written contracts like it implies I don't see how they can pin anything on Nvidia until the damage is already done. Intel got in trouble because some emails were seized so unless we have it in writing it will take even longer than the 10+ years for Intel to finally start paying for their evil deeds.

Arez is a name that they have used in the past for a super high end graphics card from AMD. It was a sub brand to ROG like Strix but they only used it for a few Crossfire cards. The fact that you didn't know this shows just how difficult AMD's position is. Everybody knows Strix and ROG but Arez is new and consumers will not be as open to buying it.

Well they have Nvidia GPUs in them so it must be ok for them to be called gaming laptops but the Kaby Lake G based laptops probably won't be. Let's wait and see what Dell calls those laptops?

I smell a troll. Please show me the Gsync display that is cheaper than an equivalent Freesync panel? I would like to buy it.

Just with a few checks I can confirm that Asrock has at least two sets of ECC ram in the QVL for the Taichi. It is not supported officially by AMD but I don't see how this makes a difference when the board partners are willing to support it. These are the same dies as what we are seeing in the Epyc server chips so it's not a silicon/ hardware issue but rather BIOS/micro code. I grantee the board partners do know quite a lot about the inner working of their own BIOS/UEFI. At this point it's just semantics. Weather or not the end user is confident in the board partner is all it comes down to. Gigabyte and Asrock have gone so far as to list ECC support in their product spec lists and QVL so that's good enough for me. If I ran in to an issue I would be talking with them and not AMD any ways.

Like I said some motherboard vendors will have ECC ram on their HCL. AMD is just saying that they are not pushing the board makers to support it. My statement still stands all Ryzen chips can use ECC given it's paired with the correct board.

All Ryzen CPUs support ECC memory. It's up to the motherboard vendor if they wish to support it and even then you could probably still use ECC. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/75030-ecc-memory-amds-ryzen-deep-dive.html

Why because they didn't cram in as many meaningless names like Intel? The Intel slide had duplicates and was full of names that had nothing to do with "ecosystem" unless you define it in the broadest possible sense.

I'm waiting patiently. We have seen this before and we know what will happen. It's just a matter of time before we get $170 RX 580s.