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It's kinda weird to me that they require you to use a flag to enable the existing support; is it that they prefer you get fallback modesetting and nothing...

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Glad to see that you were able to reach an interim compromise. I'm sure they'll come around now that you've met them half way, and in the intervening...

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Why would it matter for security? If Intel adds more ALUs to your CPU, does it become less secure?...

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Vega's fine, watt for watt, at the lower clocks. Navi is not necessarily "better"....

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Definitely useful for graphics, and for cryptography. For example, you could implement ChaCha20 as a pipeline in this, fairly simply I think. The more...

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It's not exactly SIMD, it's more similar to old Cray vectors, or SVE (on ARM).
The nice thing about it is that you can run the same code with good...

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Cool, I literally can't do my job in 16GB of RAM, so the 32 option actually brings me closer to being able to work on a laptop.

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Especially when they've received a bunch of grants, under that name....

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If you don't ask, how can you get? ;- )...

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I love how THIS was the last straw for people; not Richard Stallman's life of degeneracy. I suspect there are plenty of better-hidden, greater degenerates...