The next episode of Broken Silicon will see us be joined by High Yield yet again! We will be heavily discussing Zen 5 vs Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, Strix, and upcoming GPU launches But of course, you can ask us ANYTHING about recent or future hardware releases (whether PC of console). This is one of those episodes that will be heavily steered by what YOU want us to talk about!
Just make sure you use good grammar, are as concise as possible, and are respectful to have your ...
2024-06-21 23:57:17 +0000 UTC
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We evaluate the Snapdragon X Elite, leak new Intel Instability Testimonials, and discuss Zen 5!!!
0:00 Tom Suddenly has a Zen 4 Build, Naming Schemes (Intro Banter)
8:50 Apple Unveils “Apple Intelligence”
20:13 Qualcomm X Elite Releases to Mixed Reviews
41:29 Will Qualcomm generational gains outpace AMD & Intel?
52:11 AMD Confirms Zen 5 Performance Details
59:13 Zen 5 Pricing Exclusively Leaked by MLID
1:13:41 Will Zen 6 increase laptop...
2024-06-19 03:34:03 +0000 UTC
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We evaluate the Snapdragon X Elite, leak new Intel Instability Testimonials, and discuss Zen 5!!!
0:00 Tom Suddenly has a Zen 4 Build, Naming Schemes (Intro Banter)
8:50 Apple Unveils “Apple Intelligence”
20:13 Qualcomm X Elite Releases to Mixed Reviews
41:29 Will Qualcomm generational gains outpace AMD & Intel?
52:11 AMD Confirms Zen 5 Performance Details
59:13 Zen 5 Pricing Exclusively Leaked by MLID
1:13:41 Will Zen 6 increase laptop...
2024-06-19 03:33:59 +0000 UTC
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Tom & MelodicWarrior discuss patterns and details people missed from the XBOX Legal Leak, talk about XBOX’s pivot towards mobile, and even debate if PS5 needs a price drop.
0:00 Console Fanboyism & VOIP quality compared to 15 years ago
5:05 Things people missed from the XBOX Legal Leak
10:11 xCloud Fallacies, PS5 Cloud Streaming (lack of) Success
20:28 Why the “Netflix Model” is one that almost always FAILS
27:00 Why XBOX decided to sta...
2024-06-12 10:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Tom & MelodicWarrior discuss patterns and details people missed from the XBOX Legal Leak, talk about XBOX’s pivot towards mobile, and even debate if PS5 needs a price drop.
0:00 Console Fanboyism & VOIP quality compared to 15 years ago
5:05 Things people missed from the XBOX Legal Leak
10:11 xCloud Fallacies, PS5 Cloud Streaming (lack of) Success
20:28 Why the “Netflix Model” is one that almost always FAILS
27:00 Why XBOX decided to sta...
2024-06-12 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The Creators of Spirit of the North 2 join to discuss next gen consoles and game development!
0:00 Founding Infuse Studio
8:56 How Game Development has changed over the past decade
12:47 Game Developer Layoffs
26:14 Has AAA Development become bloated?
32:58 Scaling Studios with Success & Game Design
47:41 PC Minimum Requirements - How are they Decided?
51:23 Nintendo Switch 2 Performance – Enough for AAA?
1:02:28 Console CPU Limita...
2024-06-10 10:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The Creators of Spirit of the North 2 join to discuss next gen consoles and game development!
0:00 Founding Infuse Studio
8:56 How Game Development has changed over the past decade
12:47 Game Developer Layoffs
26:14 Has AAA Development become bloated?
32:58 Scaling Studios with Success & Game Design
47:41 PC Minimum Requirements - How are they Decided?
51:23 Nintendo Switch 2 Performance – Enough for AAA?
1:02:28 Console CPU Limita...
2024-06-10 10:00:09 +0000 UTC
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I discuss the latest AMD, Intel, and Nvidia rumors trickling out of Computex!
0:00 Intro Rambling
1:02 RTX 5090 & 5080 Release Date Whispers
5:13 AMD RDNA 4 Release Date Whispers
9:08 RTX 5090 28GB Thoughts
13:19 (AD) Micro Center has a Charlotte, NC location now!!!
15:19 Intel Lunar Lake Misconceptions
26:29 AMD Zen 5 costs less to produce than you think...
31:45 Zen 5 DDR5 "sweet spot", Intel Sandbagging IPC
35:00 Zen 5 Boost ...
2024-06-07 03:07:45 +0000 UTC
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I discuss the latest AMD, Intel, and Nvidia rumors trickling out of Computex!
0:00 Intro Rambling
1:02 RTX 5090 & 5080 Release Date Whispers
5:13 AMD RDNA 4 Release Date Whispers
9:08 RTX 5090 28GB Thoughts
13:19 (AD) Micro Center has a Charlotte, NC location now!!!
15:19 Intel Lunar Lake Misconceptions
26:29 AMD Zen 5 costs less to produce than you think...
31:45 Zen 5 DDR5 "sweet spot", Intel Sandbagging IPC
35:00 Zen 5 Boost ...
2024-06-07 03:07:32 +0000 UTC
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Tonight MLID Discord Member MelodicWarrior will be joining Tom to discuss things he learned, and that he believes people still have missed, from the XBOX Leak after reading all of the documents in it! We will also be talking about the new launch of XBOX Mobile and what that means for Game Pass, and also briefly touch on Sony's situation in console with PS5.
You have ~5 hours to submit below in the event you have any thoughts on these subjects. :...
2024-06-06 19:57:28 +0000 UTC
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In the next two days Tom will be doing a Loose Ends that plans to touch on these subjects from the past 5 weeks:
Nvidia not announcing the RTX 5080 & 5090
AMD Sound Wave ARM APU
Midrange GPU Pricing hitting record lows
AMD Zen 5 & Strix
Intel Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake (including new details popping up about performance)
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
PS...
2024-06-05 23:01:33 +0000 UTC
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The next episode of Broken Silicon will see us be joined by Tayler & Jacob, founders of Infuse Studio! These are people that Tom has actually met in person years ago, and they are VERY excited to answer an eclectic set of questions regarding:
Challenges and lesser known things about Game Development
What it's like to be an "Indie Dev" in 2024 vs in 2010
How CPU, GPU, VRAM, SSD, and NPU Performance influence the performance of a game.
Lion Cove is only getting a 14% IPC increase, and we discuss all Computex 2024 News!
00:00 Tom needs Sleep, but he saw Modest Mouse! (Intro Banter)
3:44 Onshoring Silicon Misconceptions (Corrections)
9:30 Midrange GPU Pricing's INSANE, AMD Rebaits Backfires
19:39 Should you sell your 4090? How strong can RDNA 4 be?
25:52 Nvidia Unveils Vera Rubin & Snubs Gamers at Computex
33:44 Is Nvidia overhyped? Is the Copilot+ TOPs requirement arbitrary?
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2024-06-04 22:31:54 +0000 UTC
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Lion Cove is only getting a 14% IPC increase, and we discuss all Computex 2024 News!
00:00 Tom needs Sleep, but he saw Modest Mouse! (Intro Banter)
3:44 Onshoring Silicon Misconceptions (Corrections)
9:30 Midrange GPU Pricing's INSANE, AMD Rebaits Backfires
19:39 Should you sell your 4090? How strong can RDNA 4 be?
25:52 Nvidia Unveils Vera Rubin & Snubs Gamers at Computex
33:44 Is Nvidia overhyped? Is the Copilot+ TOPs requirement arbitrary?
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2024-06-04 22:31:52 +0000 UTC
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We discuss the significance of Game Pass getting COD, Microsoft’s goals, and the future of XBOX.
0:00 Content Release Updates
5:00 Immediate Reactions to COD coming to Game Pass
15:36 Psychological Barriers to Game Pass Succeeding
21:29 What outcome would be a considered a “success” by Microsoft?
31:29 Is there a backup plan if this fails? How could MS evolve Game Pass?
2024-05-30 19:25:07 +0000 UTC
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We discuss the significance of Game Pass getting COD, Microsoft’s goals, and the future of XBOX.
0:00 Content Release Updates
5:00 Immediate Reactions to COD coming to Game Pass
15:36 Psychological Barriers to Game Pass Succeeding
21:29 What outcome would be a considered a “success” by Microsoft?
31:29 Is there a backup plan if this fails? How could MS evolve Game Pass?
2024-05-30 19:25:05 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the short notice, but in an hour or so we will be recording an impromptu episode about the recent announcement that XBOX will be putting the next Call of Duty on Game Pass. The fact is that we won't have time to discuss this for the next Broken Silicon due to all of the Computex news about to drop...and so we wanted to cover it now!
Write in below with your thoughts about if this will make a big difference for the survivability of Game Pass, what could
2024-05-29 21:04:44 +0000 UTC
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We discuss how AMD is taking US Gov't Market Share from Intel, Nvidia AI, and Future Warfare.
0:00 Defense Leaks in Gaming Forums
5:20 The State of FSR, and what FSR 4.0 needs to Achieve
11:41 AMD Marketing is Adrift…
19:20 RTX 5080 Pricing & Nvidia’s Market Dominance
33:30 RDNA 4, PS5 Pro PSSR, Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake
46:08 AMD taking US Gov’t Market Share from Intel
1:12:15 Trusted Foundry Certification, US Chips Act
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2024-05-27 03:15:22 +0000 UTC
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We discuss how AMD is taking US Gov't Market Share from Intel, Nvidia AI, and Future Warfare.
0:00 Defense Leaks in Gaming Forums
5:20 The State of FSR, and what FSR 4.0 needs to Achieve
11:41 AMD Marketing is Adrift…
19:20 RTX 5080 Pricing & Nvidia’s Market Dominance
33:30 RDNA 4, PS5 Pro PSSR, Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake
46:08 AMD taking US Gov’t Market Share from Intel
1:12:15 Trusted Foundry Certification, US Chips Act
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2024-05-27 03:15:19 +0000 UTC
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The next episode of Broken Silicon will see us be joined by "Matt", an Engineer working in the Defense industry for the US Government! He has technically been on before as the "Gov't Engineer", and now he has gotten the OK to speak more openly about what he does and what he is seeing regarding purchasing decisions at the department of defense.
The US Government switching to AMD from Intel
Intel's Future
AMD Strix Point, Strix Halo, Kraken
We release NEW AMD “AI 9 100” whispers, and discuss the latest gaming hardware news!
0:00 Wendy's a Long Girl & Tom's Studio is Cleaner (Intro Banter)
4:35 Nvidia Poised to Launch RTX 5080 early…for China…
15:10 Dell Roadmap leak confirms MLID’s Intel Leaks
25:19 Apple introduces M4
30:00 Is AMD about to copy Intel’s Ultra Stupid naming convention?
45:48 Zen 6 Core Counts Confirmed
50:10 AMD Sound Wave leaked to utilize ARM, not...
2024-05-20 21:02:32 +0000 UTC
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We release NEW AMD “AI 9 100” whispers, and discuss the latest gaming hardware news!
0:00 Wendy's a Long Girl & Tom's Studio is Cleaner (Intro Banter)
4:35 Nvidia Poised to Launch RTX 5080 early…for China…
15:10 Dell Roadmap leak confirms MLID’s Intel Leaks
25:19 Apple introduces M4
30:00 Is AMD about to copy Intel’s Ultra Stupid naming convention?
45:48 Zen 6 Core Counts Confirmed
50:10 AMD Sound Wave leaked to utilize ARM, not...
2024-05-20 21:02:27 +0000 UTC
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Tom & Dan discuss an eclectic set of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, XBOX, and PlayStation questions.
0:00 No, Vite Ramen didn’t Hospitalize Tom lol
4:18 AMD Zermatt & Breithorn
6:52 Digital PlayStation Buttons, Spiderman 2 Hacked to PC
17:01 What could have fixed XBOX Game Pass?
23:37 What would Tom do with GeForce if he was CEO?
31:00 RDNA 5 Competitiveness
34:05 Arrow Lake Power Targets in a Post-Baseline World
37:43 S...
2024-05-16 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Tom & Dan discuss an eclectic set of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, XBOX, and PlayStation questions.
0:00 No, Vite Ramen didn’t Hospitalize Tom lol
4:18 AMD Zermatt & Breithorn
6:52 Digital PlayStation Buttons, Spiderman 2 Hacked to PC
17:01 What could have fixed XBOX Game Pass?
23:37 What would Tom do with GeForce if he was CEO?
31:00 RDNA 5 Competitiveness
34:05 Arrow Lake Power Targets in a Post-Baseline World
37:43 S...
2024-05-16 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The founder of SemiWiki.com joins to discus the future of Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and TSMC!
0:00 Daniel Nenni Introduction, Semiconductor News is Mainstream
5:23 Why did Nvidia move Blackwell to 4nm? Is AMD skipping 3nm?
13:06 Intel Arrow Lake on TSMC 3nm - A mistake?
27:33 Intel’s Financial Situation – Can they Survive Zen 5?
42:11 Could Nvidia buy Intel? Will AMD start acting like Nvidia...
2024-05-14 00:54:10 +0000 UTC
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The founder of SemiWiki.com joins to discus the future of Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and TSMC!
0:00 Daniel Nenni Introduction, Semiconductor News is Mainstream
5:23 Why did Nvidia move Blackwell to 4nm? Is AMD skipping 3nm?
13:06 Intel Arrow Lake on TSMC 3nm - A mistake?
27:33 Intel’s Financial Situation – Can they Survive Zen 5?
42:11 Could Nvidia buy Intel? Will AMD start acting like Nvidia...
2024-05-14 00:54:08 +0000 UTC
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Broken Silicon's next episode will see the return of Daniel Nenni, founder of SemiWiki.com! We plan to heavily discuss Intel's current situaiton, if IFS can ever catch up to TSMC, future SAMSUNG Nodes, and upcoming AMD & Nvidia products. This will be a more professional and silicon-focused episode than usual, but still one where almost any question can be asked.
So, don't hold back! Your submissions below ...
2024-05-11 02:18:49 +0000 UTC
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We discuss leaked Blackwell VRAM capacity, Zen 5 Strix Halo, and Intel’s Situation.
0:00 Tom's back from Vegas & Dan has a Truffle Pig
6:44 RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5060 Laptop Configurations Leaked
12:46 DLSS 4.0, RTX 5060 8GB, RTX 5070 Ti vs Navi 48 Laptops
29:48 MSI backs Nvidia - An outlier, or a new trend?
38:18 Intel Baseline Bios nerfs the i9-14900K, Intel Reliability called into Question
49:13 Intel & AMD Report Q1 Earnings - Can In...
2024-05-06 20:06:37 +0000 UTC
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We discuss leaked Blackwell VRAM capacity, Zen 5 Strix Halo, and Intel’s Situation.
0:00 Tom's back from Vegas & Dan has a Truffle Pig
6:44 RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5060 Laptop Configurations Leaked
12:46 DLSS 4.0, RTX 5060 8GB, RTX 5070 Ti vs Navi 48 Laptops
29:48 MSI backs Nvidia - An outlier, or a new trend?
38:18 Intel Baseline Bios nerfs the i9-14900K, Intel Reliability called into Question
49:13 Intel & AMD Report Q1 Earnings - Can In...
2024-05-06 20:06:35 +0000 UTC
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I leak Blackwell Laptop GPU details, disclose what OEMs are saying about Intel, and conduct Q&A!
0:00 A Rough Day for the Family
1:35 Nvidia RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5060 Laptop Leak!!!
5:47 OEM Outlook for Intel Laptops
12:00 Will AMD use HBM in consumer products anytime soon?
15:00 Zen 5 Strix Halo
19:00 Zen 5 / 6 / 7 on AM5
27:00 Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Expectations
32:00 Future AMD Handhelds
38:00 Will Strix Point ma...
2024-05-06 19:16:34 +0000 UTC
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