Three Years of Broken Silicon - Die Shrink Telegrams

Loved the channel for the last couple of years. Whole hearted thanks to you Tom, Dan, and of course Reese and the rest of the MLID team. Massive Congratulations!! 🎊

Original_Ross

Dan no longer talks about dissecting frogs nor does he talk about being okay. We need a return to normalcy ASAP. Dan must be okay or else the fabric of space-time will forever be torn. Dan's okay-ness keeps the fabric of reality together. It's vitally important we continue his checkups.

The Immortal Cameraman

Hello Tom and Dan! Congratulations on the milestone! As I'm a newer viewer (7 months watching) what upcoming technology are you the most excided for?

What is stopping apple from implementing steam’s proton into the mac os so they could run steam? I have always believed that windows dominating pc gaming was a trump card compared to linux but if macs could game it would be a big deal.

Manordown

The format you have for Broken Silicon has worked really well in my opinion. Keep up the good work. I've not seen such a format used elsewhere - how did you come up with the idea of doing a weekly long form podcast that focus on news one week and a guest the next?

Chris Rijk

Question more for Dan: how much time you guys have had for actual gaming in this past 3 years? early episodes Dan commented Tom was both working dayjob and then doing MLID to late nights every day and then Dan went to PhD and also travels long distance... teenager + student years are more flexible in this. And how Dan prepares for these episodes? Have you guys mastered telepathic long distance communication due to training in early days, so you wont need neuralink in future?

Timo H

Hi Tom and Dan, CONGRATZ on 3 years! If money would not be a factor - what would you go for in case you would plan to upgrade around the end of this year? Raptor Lake or Ryzen 7000 / RTX 4000 or RX 7000?

Benni_Berlin

Dan says they cant mass manufacture silicon nanowires... so finally chemistry science studies pay off directly in MLID.... is Dan gonna join as advanced expert soon? Latest bleeding edge transistor tech are getting such complex, need PhD expertise to understand and separate total hype from feasible tangents.

Timo H

Hi Cap. Tom and Lt. Dan, congrats on three years! I've been listening since spring of 2020 and honstly did not expect to get as interested as I am in all that you do, as I'd only paid passing interest before that. You guys just manage to present things in a way that makes it all really enjoyable and entertaining to hear about. Also, the encyclopedic knowledge you have, comparing relative performance or citing silicon stats about years old hardware just off the top of your head, is truly incredible. Don't really have a question, other than where do you see the channel going? Is this something you think you'll want to do long term? Particularly Dan, since you're in school for something rather unrelated to this and I assume you'll want to enter your actual field once you graduate? Congrats again!

Alexander

Congratulations on the milestone. Don’t remember how I found MLID but I’ve been watching since late summer 2020. Are you excited for the future of gaming and server tech, and in turn all the interesting content you’ll be able to make? From what you’ve revealed so far it seems like the days of the relative stagnation will be over.

Guntis Paeglis

What is you opinion about speculations, that Nvidia (regardless of the performance of its future cards) basically lost the enduring "war" against AMD (and possibly Intel) the minute the ARM acquisition failed? Some claim, that a "full package" solution of CPU+motherboard+GPU has a tremendous advantage, as that gives the opportunity for interlinking the components, and creating a distributed data processing network even for personal computer space, which we saw a little from with the SAM feature.

The last 2 years have been a really interesting ride. It could be argued that covid pushed an already surging PC market to new market share while a simultaneous mining boom and supply chain issues crushed supply leading to astronomical price increases. Now with competition back in the cpu space, huge generational improvements in performance there, the return of a robust used market with a likely flood of used mining cards and huge generational improvements in gpus, can you ever recall a time where we went from such a bad situation for consumers to such an amazing one? Might q4 of this year be one of the best times to build a PC ever?

B. Fish