Enshittification. WD bought out any competitors they could.

Very excited to see how Intel continues on their trajectory with Alchemist, and soon Battlemage.

Apples to oranges. The RTX 4080 competitor is the RX 7900 XTX. The RTX 4070 Ti competitor is the RX 7900XT.

Logically the next thing to come out is the competitor to the RTX 4070, and a direct market replacement for the RX 6900 series and RX 6800XT. That should be the RX 7800.

If anything, it’s NVIDIA that has confused everyone by hiking up prices and the naming scheme.

This one should have DDR5-7200 support assuming the AGESA updates are intended to match future JEDEC spec updates.

So it’s an underclocked RX 7600? Interesting choice.

Would be wild to have Intel Arc Battlemage as an option to slot in there.

Reverse engineering CUDA in a hardware solution is going to be quite the feat if they pull it off.

Oh it’s going to be bad. Really bad. Microsoft said over a billion people were using Windows 10 & 11, but the vast majority of those were on machines that already ran Windows 7/8.1 just fine (and may have been upgraded forcefully).

They tried once to limit hardware compatibility as Intel was switching over to 10th gen by giving people a cut-off point where new versions of Windows 10 would not work on hardware older than Intel 8th gen, but it was so poorly received that they walked it back (and did it with Windows 11 instead).

An actual EOL is going to be very tough to pull off because everyone expects their computers to last more than three years now.

That will see more increases over time, especially as Windows 10 EOL approaches.

Ford’s aim is to replace the drivetrain with an electric variant, no?