Subj : Re: Intel's potential exit from advanced manufacturing
To   : Accession
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Jul 30 2025 18:46:49

  Re: Re: Intel's potential exit from advanced manufacturing
  By: Accession to Nightfox on Wed Jul 30 2025 07:15 pm

 Ac> I didn't read the article because that site begged me to disable my ad
 Ac> blocker, which I'm not going to do. But it is starting to look that way. I
 Ac> saw something recently about somewhere upwards of 40,000 layoffs, too?

Yeah, I've heard about that recently too.  And specifically since I live in Oregon (where they're one of the state's largest employers), I heard they recently laid off over 2,000 people in Oregon.

 Ac> At one time they were a great company, creating great chips that were
 Ac> /made/ to be overclocked (and they even told you to do so!). Then, at some

I don't remember Intel specifically telling you to overclock their CPUs..  I know of their Turbo Boost technology though (which I didn't think was really overclocking, but more of a power-saving technique to increase clock speed only when needed). And I know if their unlocked processors, but I thought that was more of a "do so at your own risk" thing.

 Ac> I'm not all that sad about it, to be honest. With all that's been going on
 Ac> with Intel the past few generations, I've been leaning towards an AMD
 Ac> build next time, anyways.

I don't particularly feel sad about it either.  I feel like it's just weird to see Intel doing so badly lately when they've been so big in the market for so long.  I had actually used AMD processors for a long time in the past. I've been considering using AMD for my next PC as well.

One thing though is that Intel processors have QuickSync, which basically does hardware-based video encoding, and it helps with video transcoding.  I sometimes do video transcoding on my PC, and I have another PC that I run Plex Media Server on, and if Plex needs to transcode the video to a lower resolution (due to bandwidth issues or if the client TV has a smaller resolution), the QuickSync helps with that.  As far as I know, AMD CPUs don't have QuickSync, as it's an Intel-only technology.

Nightfox
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