iOS dev with a background in hardware (where I used Perl daily to parse millions of lines of test data). Funny, just used perl the other day to parse an iOS repo for deeplink path handlers. Love it.
Browsed through to see what the hype is. I think it needs more timestamps. "Updated at ...". Readers need to know how up to date the information is and if it's still trustworthy. I understand railway systems don't change much but it's still helpful to keep track of time and dates.
Honestly my thing about buying a laptop for gaming is if you're gonna basically be plugged in to use it anyways you might as well get an itx case, throw in all the parts you need with a portable screen and keyboard and it will all fit in a backpack for you to carry around. Granted there aren't as many console style cases around as there used to be. I think I ordered the last Skyreach 4 Tiny.
I was at a YC startup in the mid 2010s for around 4 years. The most funding we got was a series B round but nothing more after.
Near the end, I had a happy hour or dinner with one of the co-founders. He told me that if he had to choose again (giving up his engineering job vs. starting up the company), he doesn't know if he would choose the start-up route again.
Just some food for thought. It's great playing the CEO or the founder and betting on yourself but at the end of the day, the financial trade-offs could be life changing (especially given the salary/stock options provided by top tech companies).
I agree with Dewan's comments. It sucks for people who don't drink or who choose not to drink. I think the tech industry should be more aware of that when it comes to events, prizes, etc. However, sometimes in life you're given the short end of the straw. Like for ex. I am a short person but when I go to Europe, the urinals are quite tall for me. It's something that I have to live with because that's the way things are.
There will never be a drastic change in this culture. Majority of people don't want this change. We'll just need to be more mindful of others in the future.
It was $1.86/share Oct/Nov 2012, quite a rally if you ask me. I think it was still $1.66/share sometimes in '15.
From Nov 2012 (that was after Bulldozer), it run to $153/share on 19th Nov '21 – that's 8255,38%!
I remember vividly back in 2002 studying the newly established 'FT Deutschland' (FT's German Edition) when being in Germany, that FT Deutschland brought an profound article talking about AMD's imminent impact of success (and how it's going to hit INTC hard) with the then-new Thoroughbred-Athlons – I should've invested as I felt something was up.
I bought at $5 and sold at 15 thinking I was so clever.
Then I bought at 80 and held through 160, now it's at 96.
I'm a long term bull on AMD, but I think the rocket left the atmosphere already. To me it's a blue chip. Intel nor AMD will ever go out of business, unless and until x86 itself dies and neither can pivot. AMD has a lock on consoles, it is the only competitor to Intel in x86, it basically can't go out of business.
Cloud vendors have been increasingly pushing their own chips. It's hard to see AMD having any pricing power in the long run, unless their chips are significantly better than what big tech can create on their own
The Gigacorps have done this, some of them. I have more interest in the ARM argument than in the "custom chip" argument, unless Amazon and co. decide to retail their processors.
Consoles, most OEMs, and all non-gigacorps will be buying off-the-shelf processors.
I'm pretty sure cloud and enterprise sales make up the bulk of their revenue and growth. Not consumer.
That being said there's likely still a few years of runway left for their growth. Even if cloud vendors don't push their own chips aggressively, they can use it as leverage to cut into AMD margins.
I don't see how ARM is an argument. AMD will easily be able to create competitive arm processors, there just wasn't a strong financial incentive to do it before
