'We've an Unexpected Manufacturing Advantage For the First Time Ever': Intel's Manufacturing Glitch Opens Door For AMD (theinformation.com)

Over at The Information (paywalled), reporter Aaron Tilley has a splendid interview of Forrest Norrod, a senior executive who joined AMD four years ago. Mr. Norrod describes the challenge AMD has faced over the years and how, for the first time ever, it sees a real shot at making a significant dent in the desktop market. From the report: Advanced Micro Devices' battle with chip giant Intel has often seemed like a gnat fighting an elephant, with AMD struggling in recent years to gain even a tenth of the market for the chips that power PCs and data center servers. Forrest Norrod, a senior executive who joined AMD four years ago, says the company suffered from "little brother syndrome" where it tried and failed to compete with Intel on lots of different chips. Now, though, AMD may have a shot at coming out with a faster, more powerful chip than Intel for the first time. Intel in April said it was delaying the release of a more advanced chip manufacturing process until sometime in 2019. AMD has its own new, advanced chip, which it will now be able to release earlier than Intel, potentially giving it an edge in the market for high-performance chips for PCs and data center computers.

It's a market opportunity worth around $50 billion. That's what Intel makes from selling chips for PCs and data center servers, and it dominates both markets. The data center market is particularly important because of the growth of new technologies like artificial intelligence-related applications, much of which is handled in the cloud. Companies that buy chips for data centers or PCs could gravitate to AMD chips as a result of Intel's delay. "I think we have a year lead now," said Mr. Norrod, who oversees AMD's data center business. AMD now has "an unexpected [manufacturing] advantage for the first time ever," he added.

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My roommate in college had one of these.

Once I was on a date with a cute girl. It was going pretty well, so I brought her back to my place. When I got there, my roommate bolted up from the couch and said he had to talk to me urgently. He said the girl had to leave. So I told her bye and she left.

He reached down and scratched his asshole. Then he brought his finger up, and there were little bits of white on it. They looked like tiny pieces of rice.

I said what the fuck is that. He said he didn't know.

We forgot about it, but a month later it happened again. Then a month later, again. His asshole would get all itchy, then it would get covered with little white rices.

Eventually we started calling this his ass period, because it came once a month and made him grouchy. The only other side effect was that he developed disgusting gas and burps that we called "vomit burps" because they smelled like vomit. if he vomit burped, it could stink up an entire car like vomit and make everyone else want to barf.

Well, he was pre med, so he started researching it. One day he went to the clinic, and he came back really grouchy. He had a pill that he called "the horse pill." He said that it was a nuke and it would destroy his problem.

We didn't ask what the problem was, but a few days later he got an awful stomach ache and went for a shit. He said he felt something dying inside of him, wiggling around and fighting.

Basically he went to shit, and he pooped out the mother. The mother would "segment" once a month and send out the little rices, which were its babies. That's what we found out. So the mother came out of his butthole, but only part way. He had to grab it and pull it out of his ass bit by bit. Hand over hand, like a sailor pulling a rope. It was very long, he said.

When he came out of the bathroom he was white as a sheet, and all he said was "it's over" and "never tell anyone about this."