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ModernFW Was An Exciting Announcement This Week That Went Largely Unnoticed
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It probably didn't attract much attention because every attempt at this so far has gone pretty much nowhere. Great if they actually succeeded, but I won't hold my breath.
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Originally posted by tildearrow
What? Athlon was fast?
It wasn't until Intel released the "Core" series that they turned the tables.
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Originally posted by tildearrow
What? Athlon was fast?
Long story short, not so much faster in absolute terms, but leagues better in IPC.
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Guest repliedIs this project really needed? Wouldn't they be better off with contributing to coreboot and using it as a new basis for firmware? I understand investing into some experimental stuff to look for potential improvements, but considering how versatile and flexible coreboot can be, I don't understand why Intel wouldn't build on top of it to create a successor to UEFI. If they could accomplish something similar to rpi's firmware which can be configuring with a single text file, I'd be blown away (although I prefer booting straight into GNU GRUB).
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Originally posted by tildearrow
What? Athlon was fast?
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Originally posted by tildearrow
What? Athlon was fast?
Intel got the upper hand only through illicit marketing practices.
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I agree, over the last 10 years PC computing got rather boring as Intel optimized for their profits first (killing mainstream overcklocking along the way) and AMD had to catch up (same in graphics with Nvidia). But I hope we will see far more innovation during the next two years beginnig with Zen 2 at Computex this month. Some leaks suggest that they could take the performance lead again as in the Athlon days.
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Originally posted by ms178 View PostIndeed, this is very exciting news! Albeit not as shiny as a new CPU or GPU.
On the other hand, there are still a lot of questions unanswered about this initiative. The project description sounds like ModernFW is an experiment rather than in use anytime soon. Even 2020 sounds to be a very ambitious goal. Is this target still up-to-date or postponed as other CPU products from them though? Another question would be why haven't they joined the other efforts directly to collaborate from the start with the TianoCore, Coreboot and Linuxboot communities? Or do they? ModernFW looks like it is their own fork of these projects.
I am tired of new CPUs, same old boring stuff, Skylake, Skylake Refresh, Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake Refresh, Coffee Lake, Whisky Lake, etc it's all the same, its just a good old Skylake with a new name on it. Each new Intel CPU are built on the same old architectures, and is like 2-5% faster than the previous generation at best. Also, its like Swiss cheese, its full of holes!
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Indeed, this is very exciting news! Albeit not as shiny as a new CPU or GPU.
On the other hand, there are still a lot of questions unanswered about this initiative. The project description sounds like ModernFW is an experiment rather than in use anytime soon. Even 2020 sounds to be a very ambitious goal. Is this target still up-to-date or postponed as other CPU products from them though? Another question would be why haven't they joined the other efforts directly to collaborate from the start with the TianoCore, Coreboot and Linuxboot communities? Or do they? ModernFW looks like it is their own fork of these projects.
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