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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel's having a bad year... but it looks like it's going to be worse for AMD
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:20:00 -0400
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On the plus side, AMD has just announced an upcoming  patch that would
update  the branch prediction for its Ryzen Zen 5000/7000/9000 series
of CPUs, allowing up to a 10% performance gain (also, so far only for
Windows 11, but I assume that Torvalds and his cadre of 1337 hackers
will fix that ommission PDQ).

Given that Intel's recent malarkey cost me about 10% performance (and
they still haven't gotten back to me about an RMA), this is just AMD
rubbing salt in my wounds. I get it AMD; I chose poorly.

It still doesn't do anything about their Sinkclose bug, but I assume
that -were I to buy a new AMD CPU in a few months- I'd not have to
worry about that anyway. 

Anyway, releasing a major performance-enhancing patch like that is
terrific optics after getting hammered for Sinkclose. Meanwhile, Intel
is still acting like a bunch of schlubs.