105. AMDs Competitiveness in 2021, Intels Comeback, RISC-V & SiFive | James Prior

Published: June 15, 2021, 2 p.m.

James was a Senior Product Manager at AMD who stewarded Zen, Threadripper, and more to success! He now works at SiFive \u2013 A RISC-V company that seems poised to become part of Intel\u2026\n\n[SPONSOR cheap Win10 & Gaming Keys: https://www.cdkoffers.com/]\n25% software discount code: brokensilicon\n3% EVERYTHING discount code: dieshrink\nWindows 10 Key: https://bit.ly/2vfKucI\n\n0:00 Who is James Prior? What did he do at Rage3D & AMD?\n8:00 Remembering the HD 6670 \u2013 one of the last great $80 GPUs\n11:54 The Journey from AMD Piledriver to Zen 2\n16:28 How does AMD see Intel? How companies analyze competition.\n23:09 Do companies adjust their products based on rumors?\n26:48 Zen 1\u2019s Turbulent Launch\n29:00 Did AMD expect Intel to have more? Creation of Threadripper.\n38:20 The State of Tech Journalism\n42:35 Lisa Su\u2019s Leadership: What changed at AMD to make them win?\n53:00 AMD\u2019s Competitive Position in 2021, When will Intel comeback?\n57:51 Why is Intel bringing big.LITTLE to Desktop?\n1:05:00 What is AMD\u2019s biggest weakness right now?\n1:15:17 RADEON vs Nvidia vs Intel \u2013 Graphics Competition\n1:26:04 How does AMD decide who gets new products for review?\n1:37:37 RISC-V & Intel Buying SiFive\n\n\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdprior/\nhttps://www.sifive.com/\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOCA_2_Touring_Cars\nhttps://www.rage3d.com/reviews/video/amd_hd6670_hd6570_launch_review/\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/chipmaker-sifive-is-said-to-draw-intel-takeover-interest