ItsTotallyOn's comments

ItsTotallyOn | 4 months ago | on: The AI Surveillance Dystopia: Spying, Data Trafficking, & Corruption

This group is known for clickbait, slanted 'exposes' that intentionally misframe content, and selective omissions if they don't support their narrative.

ItsTotallyOn | 7 months ago | on: We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed

I thought the US was a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

ItsTotallyOn | 1 year ago | on: The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust

This comment's absolutely and completely misguided and nakedly partisan/tribal viewpoint almost perfectly describes the issue with the media: A complete and utter lack of understanding that perhaps some opposing viewpoints are also valid and worthy of discussion, which then leads to completely biased and untrustworthy activist reporting.

ItsTotallyOn | 1 year ago | on: AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is dummy silicon

You aren't arguing with Tom's use of the term here - you are arguing with a semiconductor teardown specialist who pointed this out. They are extra chunks of silicon with no logic or transistors that are glued on. Hence, by every single definition of the term, they are dummy silicon.

ItsTotallyOn | 1 year ago | on: AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is dummy silicon

Yes, they are bonded (glued-on) chunks of silicon with no logic. That is the definition of Dummy Silicon. The person who wrote the report is a professional chip analyst who does die deconstruction.

ItsTotallyOn | 1 year ago | on: AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is dummy silicon

Your statement is incorrect. The analysis was made by a professional firm - dummy silicon shims are used because the dies are thinned, as per AMD's own disclosures. Those silicon shims are bonded to the compute and SRAM dies.

ItsTotallyOn | 1 year ago | on: Intel spends more on R&D than Nvidia and AMD combined

This is why they provided a normalized comparison versus market cap. They should have probably done it with revenue, but this does provide a means of analysis of the relative efficacy of value creation via R&D dollars.

ItsTotallyOn | 1 year ago | on: How to Make More Money Renting a GPU Than Nvidia Makes Selling It

This is actually not an accurate report. https://twitter.com/glennklockwood/status/178624248776766284...

ItsTotallyOn | 2 years ago | on: Apple Spent $1B on the M3 Tape-Out, Says Analyst

actually the timestamps show that the wccftech reporting was published after the Tom's Hardware article.

ItsTotallyOn | 2 years ago | on: Zenbleed

This story has comments from AMD, too.

ItsTotallyOn | 2 years ago | on: Zenbleed

does it require physical access to the machine?

ItsTotallyOn | 2 years ago | on: Zenbleed

What does this allow the attacker to do? Steal data? The post isnt very clear.

ItsTotallyOn | 3 years ago | on: Finally fixed my PC’s persistent graphics and audio stutters

This is a known issue with a fix that was reported a while back:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-issues-fix-and-workaro...

ItsTotallyOn | 3 years ago | on: Apple Silicon is an inconvenient truth

The author suggests that comparing Arm vs. x86 is easy due to a Geekbench test comparison. That's one of very few cross-platform benchmarks and highlights the fact that the author isn't very well-versed (if versed at all) in competitive performance analysis or PC benchmarks.

Geekbench is a terrible proxy for ANY workload, those subtests all run within the space of a few seconds -- they aren't meant to actually represent performance in sustained workloads.

Additionally, the smashing together of results from a wide range of incomparable applications, including unfair weighting that skews for memory, makes the cumulative scores largely worthless.

Finding other relevant benchmarks for comparison is difficult, especially given the locked down nature of MacOS.

ItsTotallyOn | 3 years ago | on: Intel Microcode Decryptor

Can someone ELI5 this?

ItsTotallyOn | 4 years ago | on: Arm China Has Gone Rogue

This article is entirely misinformed. Arm China already makes all these products, and has for years. This is a rebrand of existing products.

ItsTotallyOn | 4 years ago | on: Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warranty, Then Retracts Post

It makes absolutely zero sense for Crucial to implement such a warranty restriction - This is already covered under the endurance portion of the warranty. Making a clause that ANY use of the SSD for mining automatically voids the warranty is like saying your car warranty is void if you use your car to get groceries.

Crucial quoted its own warranty falsely and then attempted to implement that change retroactively. That's certainly grounds for a class-action lawsuit. They were smart to back down from this.

ItsTotallyOn | 5 years ago | on: New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

Except he didn't re-hire him. As noted in the article itself, the architect was already in negotiations since November. Also, new CEO doesn't step in until next month. Clickbait title.

ItsTotallyOn | 5 years ago | on: AMD Posts Record First Quarter, Revenue Up 40% YoY, Zen 3 and RDNA 2 on Track

Looks like the gas is coming out of AMD's EPYC.

"AMD's computing and graphics segment, responsible for both the EPYC server and console chips, generated $1.44 billion, a 21% year-over-year decline. AMD chalked this up to lower sales into the console market, while increased EPYC Rome sales reduced the impact.

In either case, the market's bullish prospects for AMD's EPYC Rome processors might be blunted by the lower revenue generation in this key segment. The unit posted a $26 million operating loss, compared to operating income of $45 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. AMD cited lower ASPs due to heightened cloud spending, and we know that Intel has been increasingly competitive as it slashed pricing on its competing Cascade Lake Refresh processors. Intel's server unit (DCG) also recently posted a 42.7% year-over-year sales increase due to coronavirus-spurred demand."

ItsTotallyOn | 5 years ago | on: AMD vs. Intel 2020: Who Makes the Best CPUs?

The fact that the Super 7 don't want to rely upon one vendor actually gives AMD a better shot - all other serious contenders use different instruction sets, so AMD's x86 procs are compatible with existing software ecosystems, thus reducing qualification and validation results. A viable x86 alternative to Intel has been sorely needed, and AMD fills that role quite nicely.