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Diameter of a silicon atom is 210 picometers, (according to google - other sources have it between 110ish to 240ish) so roughly 5 silicon atoms across per nanometer

So... We're at 15 atoms now. Isn't the silicon limit 4 atoms for a transistor?

The report from the lab testers say the newest chips are more vulnerable, while Intel is claiming they're not, is what it appears.

The official webpage by the guys who discovered the exploit to begin with, which I linked earlier in the thread. https://mdsattacks.com/

By what I've read, 9th generation processors may in fact be even more susceptible to these attacks, despite Intel's claims otherwise, due to the fix for spectre/meltdown making it easier for these new attacks to function. Here's a detailed webpage covering things on how it works, for anyone...

If I'm not mistaken, i heard that negative effects from quantum tunneling start happening sub-10nm, but don't become a serious issue till 4nm? But yeah, kinda crazy to consider that we're maybe five years off from the physical limits to how small we can shrink silicon.

We've already seen that Ryzen is rather fine in single core performance. This shouldn't be any slower than a normal Ryzen chip at the same frequency, and by the look of things we're talking only around a 100-200mhz drop in performance for the high end chips, ex the 1998x vs the 1800x. So, I...

Let's see, HardOCP and TPU both denied review samples, and tomshardware having no word on it that I'm aware of?.. Well AMD, I am disappointed. I may not have been looking at getting one, but this is just.. one hell of a BS paper launch.

since my 7870 has gone to it's grave, really hoping I win on this one... Even if the chances of that are slim, I still have hope!

So I currently have my GPU pulled and am running off of my Intel 4000, but I've done some basic troubleshooting and am wondering for second opinions on whether it's A: drivers, B; The Graphics card, or C: The PCI-e slot. 1. Safe mode boots and I tried deleting and reinstalling the regular...

Nvidia has what, 20+ times the budget AMD has? And AMD has to divide their budget for more things than Nvidia and has fewer engineers? I'd say AMD is doing well to offer what they do, all things considered.

Compared to the hype I felt? Yes, yest it is. I wanted to wake up this morning and squee about how amazing the Fury X was after I read the reviews. I wanted it to be fast enough to justify my paying more for it despite my 1080p-ness. I wanted a Titan X Killer, and instead I saw a 980ti...

I.. Can't believe just how much of a fail this is. By specs and everything else, this thing should be so much better. My inner AMD Fanboy is screaming right now. Well, I guess I'll just wait a few months and see if the Nano is really better than a 390X and get whichever of them as planned...

Wild guess #1: Maybe AMD supersized the height of the cooling block? Wild guess #2: Maybe there's a hybrid passive heatsink under that dimple-holed plate? Wild guess #3: Maybe AMD thought it would just look nicer? Wild guess #4: Maybe they stuffed a good sized pump in there? Wild guess...

Only criticism I have is that I can't buy it in the USA through a reputable distributor yet.