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Over at www.semiaccurate.com they are discussing - in unfavourable terms - the launch by Intel of the 'Comet Lake' series of CPUs:
Intel LogoLast week Intel launched their '10th Gen' CPUs, a self-inflicted wound that shouldn't have been released. If you think SemiAccurate is being a bit harsh here, ask yourself why Intel birthed this debacle in the first place.
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But performance is why we are mocking Intel over this ‘family’. The company split out the Ice and Comet briefings so as to minimize comparisons and uncomfortable questions between the two. As we pointed out in our earlier article on Ice there were vague comparisons between the two ranges but no actual data. Intel even unethically hid the SKUs they were testing.
This time was more of the same, absolutely zero charts comparing this ‘generation’ to the last, or even to itself. All we got was a slide saying, “up to 16% better overall performance vs. previous gen”. That may sound great but, err, 6 cores vs 4 should get one a 50% higher performance or at least something closer to 50% than 0%, right? Don’t forget the faster memory on the new Comet devices which should get you a big chunk of that 16% alone. That level of sleaze is expected but we didn’t expect Intel to be outright unethical. Again. Actually we kinda did but we honestly hoped they wouldn’t do it again.
Yup that 16% max increase when going from a 6C i7-10710U to a 4C i7-8565U was bad. The fact that they compared a 25W 10710U to a 15W 8565U and buried that fact in the fine print is unacceptable. We once again call for the idiots responsible to be fired, not that Intel will do anything, it seems this sort of behavior has become acceptable at big blue. It still isn’t right.
Read the story and see if you agree.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 27 2019, @08:38PM (2 children)
with all their combined computing power, i am sure they can make a duopoly work exactly like a monopoly just without the "breaking the law" part?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:56AM (1 child)
Kinda off topic but it's similar to the whole merger with T-Mobile and Sprint. Now we only have three players. Dish is supposed to take over as a fourth ... but it will take a while for them to build the infrastructure. By then there will probably be another merger or two of course so the whole promise that there will be four players to convince us that these mergers are OK is all a lie. So we get the immediate disadvantage of having only three players in the industry now and that disadvantage will continue on into the future once/if Dish does ever advance itself into a fourth player in the distant future because by then there will be another merger or two.
Referenced from the bottom Slashdot article that doesn't allow anonymous comments anymore. Lets be clear, the only reason Slashdot no longer allows anonymous comments is because it's now owned by Dice and Dice has never been in favor of anonymity to begin with. The anti-hate speech logic is just a convenient excuse.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/08/27/212201/dojs-plan-to-make-dish-the-fourth-major-carrier-has-a-fatal-flaw [slashdot.org]
Sorry for the off topic rant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @01:27PM
maybe we can put up our own 66G wireless base station and get money if people use them?
like net-metering for solar but for mobile phones?
(we all got 1Gbps phiber backhaul by then, right?)
the mobile phone "operators" now only need to be concern with billings and stuff ^_^