If we’re nitpicking about AMD: another thing I dislike about them is their smaller presence in the research space compared to their competitors. Both Intel and NVIDIA throw money into risky new ideas like crazy (NVM, DPUs, GPGPUs, P4, Frame Generation). Meanwhile, AMD seems to only hop in once a specific area is well established to have an existing market.
For consumer stuff, AMD is definitely my go-to. But it occurs to me that we need companies that are willing to fund research in Academia. Even if they don’t have a super good track record of getting profitable results.
Uh oh. I used to work University IT. I can only imagine the number of tickets this would generate:
“Bad wifi at XYZ hall”
“Request to setup private router in dorms due to bad wifi”
“Please fix my computer I’ve heard this patch breaks wifi” (meanwhile, the reporter never installed said patch)