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Re:AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat by totalZero on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:15PM (#25937261)
Haha, yes you are correct. My time machine is on the fritz. That said, it is true that I would have been happy to buy a Zen 4 laptop. It is also true that they were not available.

The laptop I ended up buying comes in a Ryzen 5 4500U flavor as well as a Tiger Lake i5-1135G7 flavor. I would have preferred the AMD-powered device but it was not available from my preferred retailer and sold out from the manufacturer, so I ended up going with the Intel version.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize that the leading number didn't denote generation.

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Re:AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat by greggyb on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:56AM (#25943836)
Hardware naming is awful, in general, in my experience (:

The interesting part of all of this is something that you've experienced directly, here. People crap all over Intel for being stuck on 14nm, and there are definitely good reasons to do so.

But the upshot is that they are sitting on a ridiculously mature, optimized manufacturing node that has ample capacity. They can pump out enough silicon to meet demand, or at least get much closer to it than anyone else right now.

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