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by iforgotpassword 2857 days ago
You cannot deliver competitive quality, performance and pricing right away, completely agree. But there's generally a threshold to how much more expensive it can be in the beginning, and more importantly, how much you benefit from it. The problem here is that only few people even understand the problems with what Intel does, and even fewer people care. My games still run fine so why should I care? HN is a real echo chamber in cases like this and easily give a false impression. As you also mentioned, AMD is the only realistic winner from all this, since it's also x86 so you can switch over and everything stays the same. But in general, remember that people are very good at forgetting, and at just accepting that "everything's fucked up" is the new normal. Intel only needs to keep delivering competitive performance and people will keep buying.

I'd really love to see a big shift to a new architecture, RISC V, OpenPOWER etc. get me really excited because as a nerd new technology in general is always interesting, but the above simply is my prediction of the future based on history. I mean, how long ago have the first serious Intel ME vulnerabilities been disclosed? What happened apart from a short shitstorm on tech websites and some small companies offering laptops with crippled down IME that only complete neck beards care about?

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But riscV processors will always be closed source. so you cannot crowdsource vulnerability finding...
Why would they always be closed source?