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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by fxtentacle on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:25AM (#25185996)
Agree. In my market (AI & physics simulation) AMD has been the default choice for years. And with lots of investment into SSE & AVX performance gains, I don't see these tools switching to ARM anytime soon.

Edit: I didn't know before, but AMD also already has 20% of the notebook market. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3615331-amd-to-take-20-share-o...

So that makes it even more weird to say "expand Apple’s share of the PC market — at Intel’s expense" and not mention AMD.

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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by Dracophoenix on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:04AM (#25187402)
Is that so? I would have thought MKL and CUDA would have kept AMD from dominating in AI and simulations for at least the next 3-5 years. That is unless you're working supercomputers.
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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by fxtentacle on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:37AM (#25187833)
CUDA yes. I'm using an AMD Ryzen for data pre-processing and then an NVIDIA GPU for the actual AI training. The TensorFlow pre-processing pipeline is heavily optimized for parallelism, so it works perfectly on AMD CPUs with lots of cores.

As for MKL, yes it is impressive for some applications like real-time audio processing, but AFAIK with TensorFlow MKL is only used if you don't use a GPU, so pretty much never.

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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by read_if_gay_ on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:53AM (#25187288)
Why is it weird? If AMD is competitive with Apple and Intel isn’t, then it’s absolutely at Intel’s expense.
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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by fxtentacle on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:38AM (#25187850)
Hmm I kind of have to agree with that. Apple is pushing into the market, AMD will stand their ground, so it's Intel that will lose the most.
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