Broken Silicon 67: AMD Zen 3 Milan, RDNA2 vs Ampere, Nvidia buying ARM | Level1techs Wendell (Patreon)

Wendell from Level1Techs joins Tom to discuss the latest in Silicon. Nvidia buying ARM, AMD Zen 3, Ampere, RDNA 2, and next gen consoles are discussed.

0:00 Intro Banter (Linux People)

4:20 What did Wendell expect from Zen 1 in 2016?

13:00 Zen 3 and Intel’s Situation

16:57 Threadripper Milan, Intel’s Latency Advantage

30:00 Zen 2 Rome’s weaknesses

35:00 Monolithic AMD vs big.LITTLE Intel, Lucienne APU Info

47:11 Small Form Factor & APU future, Edge Computing

1:00:03 Ampere Availability & Price Manipulation, is the Founders Edition “better” than AIB?

1:11:37 Nvidia Ampere Performance, The future of Ray Tracing

1:22:40 RDNA 2 Info, Should anyone wait for Hopper/RDNA3? 

1:35:55 Console Availability, Microsoft buying Bethesda

1:42:00 Nvidia buying ARM Discussion

1:56:00 ARM on Desktop, RISC-V Adoption, Apple Silicon, IBM Power10

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https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-gaming-performance-review-leaks-out

MLID confirming 256-bit: https://youtu.be/EvU_thLGEoM

MLID confirming 10752 Cuda Core 48GB GA102: https://youtu.be/bx8RwwPNHKM

https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-6000-series-navi-21-16-gb-navi-22-12-gb-gpu-vram/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2020/09/20/lg-oled-tvs-having-issues-with-latest-nvidia-rtx-30-graphics-cards/#30c4b41d267a

https://www.notebookcheck.net/PS5-and-Xbox-Series-X-next-gen-consoles-could-face-shortages-until-mid-2021.494964.0.html

https://www.cnet.com/news/xbox-expansion-microsoft-buys-fallout-maker-bethesdas-parent-company-for-7-5b/

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/nvidia-s-ultimate-play

5GHz Zen 2 scaling discussion with Hardware Numb3rs: https://youtu.be/vm3VvEYyPrw