mikedilger on Nostr: The problem is that an Intel CPU might one day explode in my face if I were to ...

The problem is that an Intel CPU might one day explode in my face if I were to criticize Israel too harshly. Not only does Intel have big operations in Israel, when I lived in California everybody that I knew who worked at Intel was Jewish. Of course that doesn't matter to me (being Jewish that is, those people were my friends (being tied to Israel does matter to me)), but maybe it does to you.

Also, while AMD has lagged behind Intel for most of history, several times it has come neck-and-neck or even beat Intel. Right now AMD products are almost neck-and-neck.

This isn't to say I trust AMD. I think they have NSA backdoors just like everything else. For example, when the Zen3 came out, the RDRAND instruction was giving all 1 bits and they had to issue a microcode fix. That should be impossible, RDRAND should be pulling random noise from a diode loop. So it led me to believe there is a backdoor to 'disable' the true randomness whenever government targets you.

We have to live with difficult decisions like this. Maybe one day the Chinese will catch up and offer a PC CPU. Then someone could build a PC with two processors, an American and a Chinese, and have the processors audit each other.