1
00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,919
this is a tough video to make because the popular cool thing to do right now

2
00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:10,080
is to praise AMD and dunk on Intel and

3
00:00:07,919 --> 00:00:14,160
for good reason i mean it does appear to be that thanks to AMD we have

4
00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:19,039
experienced more excitement in the last three years than the prior decade but i

5
00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:22,960
need to make it anyway not because i'm trying to influence your next purchasing

6
00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:28,480
decision you guys should always buy the product not the cool brand but rather

7
00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:31,519
because i'm worried about Intel not until the company they're doing fine

8
00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,160
they're making billions of dollars but rather the people at Intel and i need

9
00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:39,600
them to hear this after this message from our sponsor

10
00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:43,600
ridge wallet ridge wallet wants to redefine the wallet with its compact

11
00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:47,440
frame and rfid blocking plates check out how they can help keep wallet bulge down

12
00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:51,399
and use offer code Linus to save 10 and get free worldwide shipping

13
00:00:58,239 --> 00:01:05,920
it can be really easy to forget that branding aside a company isn't some kind

14
00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:11,119
of hive mind entirely aligned to one purpose and that it's easy for a handful

15
00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:15,680
of people who are too disconnected from the customer or too focused on bean

16
00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:21,280
counting to steer the ship in the wrong direction in spite of the hard work and

17
00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:27,040
best intentions of the vast majority and the thing is while Intel does a lot of

18
00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:33,040
stuff wrong as someone who has actually met many individuals over there over the

19
00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:36,079
years i can say confidently that Intel employees

20
00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:42,320
well they might not have cute nicknames like googlers or yahoos but

21
00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:46,960
that company is chock full of really awesome people who care a lot

22
00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:51,280
like imagine the most hardcore overclocking enthusiast you know

23
00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:55,280
now imagine that he's got like an awesome beard and he's jacked and he's

24
00:01:53,040 --> 00:02:00,240
like carrying a surfboard i basically met that guy at an opt-in event one of

25
00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:04,880
my other favorites is a gentleman who is always inviting me to see the secret

26
00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:10,879
room at trade shows all you guys have ever seen of it is some laptop b-roll

27
00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:13,680
but even though there's literally no roi

28
00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:18,640
for the company or really for me since i can't report on it he's always sneaking

29
00:02:16,319 --> 00:02:22,879
me away from the laptops to get a look at what his team has been working on

30
00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:26,239
behind the scenes for no reason other than that he knows that i'm going to

31
00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:30,239
share his appreciation for it even ex-im tellers seem to take a

32
00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:34,480
disproportionate amount of pride in their work i've had it happen on

33
00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:39,840
multiple times that i do a retrospective on an old piece of enthusiast gear from

34
00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:43,519
Intel only to have an ex-engineer reach out and be like you know what hey i

35
00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:47,599
poured my soul into that thing and i'm just really glad that you liked it

36
00:02:45,519 --> 00:02:52,400
knowing these people i can say with confidence that many if not most of

37
00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:56,080
Intel's mistakes happen for reasons that are closer to

38
00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,080
human flaws than they are to pure evil

39
00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:04,319
and we all make mistakes let's take their most recent

40
00:03:01,519 --> 00:03:08,080
self-inflicted wound it's very clear from the revenue growth and steady

41
00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:13,040
profits over at team blue that the business folks are in charge and doing a

42
00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:17,440
very good job of delivering maximum shareholder value or whatever it is that

43
00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:21,680
they do but it's also clear that this strategy wasn't one that rewarded

44
00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,519
delivering exciting products to enthusiasts and gamers Intel spent the

45
00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,920
better part of a decade with no competition in the CPU market and used

46
00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:34,959
that opportunity to do what monopolies do best get very

47
00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:38,879
very comfortable delivering incremental generational improvements targeting the

48
00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,120
widening upgrade cycles of their corporate and small and medium business

49
00:03:40,959 --> 00:03:48,239
customers even something as simple as using proper thermal interface material

50
00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:50,480
on their cpus didn't happen until AMD

51
00:03:48,239 --> 00:03:53,840
forced their hand it's also clear that they were focused on growing markets

52
00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:59,200
rather than mature ones with r d so

53
00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:04,319
laser focused on mobile and data center products that talking points about

54
00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:08,640
performance per watt always seem to make their way into the product sheets and

55
00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:13,200
reviewer guides for like overclockable k series desktop cpus where young Linus

56
00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:17,600
was looking at them going sorry what performance per watt who cares how fast

57
00:04:15,519 --> 00:04:22,880
does it go how much does it overclock why is there a GPU taking up valuable

58
00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:27,280
silicon on my CPU where is my mainstream six core well the sleeping giant

59
00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:31,280
awakened two years ago and don't kid yourself they have awakened and they

60
00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:35,680
will come roaring back i've seen this movie a couple of times now but some of

61
00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,960
the rumors coming out have me worried that until they're ready to make a

62
00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:42,960
legitimate play for the performance crown again Intel might do some

63
00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:48,160
desperate things that will damage the things about them that i still love even

64
00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:53,520
if i'm not a big fan of their price to performance right now so

65
00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,440
Intel employees intellers blue badges in

66
00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:59,600
no particular order here are some things that i really don't want to see go away good

67
00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:05,199
engineering in my experience with our AMD based NVMe

68
00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:10,240
storage server i learned that AMD has a whole server slash data center platform

69
00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:15,280
out there that as far as i can tell no one ever thought to go hey what happens

70
00:05:13,039 --> 00:05:20,240
if i light up all these PCIe lanes with data and then actually load up the CPU

71
00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:23,919
at the same time turns out that the data gets retrieved so fast from that big

72
00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,880
flash array that by the time the CPU comes back around to get it

73
00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:32,080
it's gone rarrow wendell made an offhand comment to me

74
00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,840
that really stood out while we were troubleshooting the issue i said to him

75
00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:40,320
you know man i never saw any of these kinds of stupid issues when we rolled

76
00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:45,840
our Intel all NVMe storage server and he goes yeah Intel's got fewer PCIe lanes

77
00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:49,280
and they're a generation behind but they put some really good engineering into

78
00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:54,880
them i've always kind of taken for granted that a PCIe lane is a PCIe lane

79
00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:59,360
and it made me hesitate to fully transition the backbone of my company to

80
00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:04,080
pneumonic server until these wrinkles are sorted out either by AMD or by the

81
00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:08,319
Linux community through kernel patches and as someone who has forgotten more

82
00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:12,479
about both software and hardware than i will ever know about either of them put

83
00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:16,080
together when those words carry a lot of weight with me go sub to him by the way

84
00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:22,639
level one tags great guy then there's the talent pool and team size Intel is a

85
00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:25,120
much much bigger company than AMD and

86
00:06:22,639 --> 00:06:29,440
that can be a double-edged sword their massive r d resources are how they can

87
00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:35,440
be simultaneously competing head-to-head with AMD also a multi-billion dollar

88
00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:37,759
company on cpus samsung on data center

89
00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:43,039
storage broadcom on network connectivity solutions and soon to be NVIDIA on gpus

90
00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:47,520
and deep learning all multi-billion dollar companies but guys it's the

91
00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:52,560
attention to detail that makes customers happy back to my AMD server again i was

92
00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:58,400
blown away that there is no official Windows 10 support on epic or an onboard

93
00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:03,680
raid controller on the epic platform there is basically no material cost to

94
00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:08,639
adding either these things so as far as i can tell it just came down to r d

95
00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:12,800
priorities and not having enough to do everything i mean Intel might try and

96
00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:16,400
nickel and dime you on a license to unlock motherboard capabilities like a

97
00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:20,400
special raid mode but i wouldn't even consider the

98
00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:25,120
possibility that it wouldn't be there the next big one is partnerships Intel

99
00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:30,160
is always out there nurturing new and emerging technologies whether it's vr or

100
00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:33,759
wearables or global connectivity solutions

101
00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:38,639
even if those initiatives don't use any Intel silicon yet and the time and

102
00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:43,199
effort that they put into working with other industry leaders is a big part of

103
00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:46,639
why they end up at the heart of so many products i mean do you guys think it's

104
00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:52,319
an accident that Intel design wins outnumber AMD ones and laptops

105
00:07:49,039 --> 00:07:55,039
by so much even at a time when AMD

106
00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:59,919
genuinely has a competitive laptop product like their new 4th gen mobile

107
00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:04,960
ryzen finish goods manufacturers rely on silicon makers like Intel AMD and NVIDIA

108
00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:09,280
for a lot of guidance and engineering support something that takes time and

109
00:08:06,879 --> 00:08:12,400
resources if you want to do it right industry consortiums are another prime

110
00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:17,759
example of this name one and Intel is probably a member

111
00:08:15,199 --> 00:08:21,120
and recently they even gave Thunderbolt 3 to the usb implementation forum to

112
00:08:19,919 --> 00:08:27,599
make its features available cross-platform as usb4 something

113
00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,720
everything in my list had in common is

114
00:08:27,599 --> 00:08:32,399
trust and over the last little while the

115
00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:38,560
cracks in that trust have been starting to show meltdown spectre and since we're on the

116
00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:43,279
subject a Thunderbolt 3 security flaw that microsoft has evidently been wary

117
00:08:40,399 --> 00:08:48,240
of for years but while those problems have catchy names and they do make for

118
00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:49,680
good headlines they're honestly unlikely

119
00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:54,560
to cause real everyday problems and damage to Intel's

120
00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:58,800
long-term reputation with the average joe my real concern there comes from

121
00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:03,120
rumors about the upcoming 10th gen consumer chips early reports seem to

122
00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:06,880
indicate that Intel's geriatric 14 nanometer process with however many

123
00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:11,920
pluses we're adding to the end of it by now is going to be used to build 10 core

124
00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:15,600
chips that will run at 80 plus degrees underwater

125
00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:20,320
out of the box without any overclocking there is a reason that in the absence of

126
00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:25,200
competition Intel wasn't doing that obviously so

127
00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:29,920
that gives me some worry that a compromise has been made somewhere like

128
00:09:27,279 --> 00:09:35,760
i said i've seen this movie last time Intel fell behind their pentium d

129
00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,080
processors ran hot and loud and while to

130
00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:41,760
my knowledge the cpus didn't have a higher than acceptable failure rate the

131
00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:47,279
motherboards oh man that was hard that was hard to look

132
00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:52,240
at we would pull those boards out even just two or three years down the road

133
00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:55,600
from the system and the backs the backs of the boards where the vrms were

134
00:09:53,760 --> 00:10:00,480
soldered on on the front they would be dark and sometimes like warped like bowed

135
00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:05,519
from the heat even if they were somehow still running i'm not saying that's

136
00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:09,680
going to happen uh validation techniques and CPU power delivery technology have

137
00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,880
certainly come a long way since the early 2000s

138
00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:16,720
i'm just saying that pushing the envelope in this way is a dangerous path

139
00:10:15,279 --> 00:10:22,079
with the potential for unforeseen consequences because here's the thing

140
00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:27,279
when an enthusiast like like you asks me for a recommendation these days you're

141
00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,360
going to hear a lot of AMD AMD AMD

142
00:10:27,279 --> 00:10:32,640
can i say they're rocking it right now but when someone who might come back to

143
00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:36,880
me for help asks for a recommendation

144
00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:41,920
they are more likely to hear Intel i want to know for sure that everything

145
00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:44,079
from the CPU to memory compatibility to

146
00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:48,160
the usb controller on the motherboard to wi-fi

147
00:10:45,279 --> 00:10:51,680
is all just gonna basically work i'm not saying the upcoming 10th gen consumer

148
00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,920
chips are bad or that they're going to fail prematurely not by a long shot i've

149
00:10:54,240 --> 00:11:01,839
still got that trust i'm just saying please tread carefully guys because the

150
00:10:59,279 --> 00:11:06,880
better long-term play may be to just take it on the chin for a couple years

151
00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:10,640
learn from it especially you executives more r d to enthusiast stuff please

152
00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,720
there's not a lot of us but we're really noisy and then come back with your

153
00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:18,640
performance leadership and your reliability intact

154
00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:22,079
because it's not even my word on the subject that matters really it's the

155
00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:26,480
tier one system integrators that are pumping out millions of machines a year

156
00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:32,160
and i'm sure those guys are watching all of this much more closely than i am

157
00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:35,120
just like you guys are watching closely to see how he's going to segue to that

158
00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:39,760
sponsor micro center is open to supply all your

159
00:11:38,079 --> 00:11:44,160
work from home or learn from home technology needs the main gear element

160
00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:47,279
laptop is available at 25 micro central locations as well as on amazon for

161
00:11:46,079 --> 00:11:53,040
anyone who's not near one of their stores it's got an Intel core i7 9750h

162
00:11:50,320 --> 00:12:00,000
processor NVIDIA GeForce rtx 2070 graphics 32 whopping gigs of ddr4 memory

163
00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:02,880
two terabytes of NVMe storage and a 15.6

164
00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:07,600
inch full hd narrow bezel ips display check out it and other micro center

165
00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:11,760
specials at the links below if you guys enjoyed this video uh maybe

166
00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:15,519
you'll enjoy a more critical letter to Intel from back at computex

167
00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:20,720
2018 i'm not sure if anyone over there really you know took it to heart but

168
00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,639
hey i'm gonna i'm gonna keep doing these every time i feel like they're necessary