Comment on Ask HN: Did CPU in the past mattered as much as DL/LLM dev between NVDA and AMD?Comments−codingdave2yThere have always been a tiny subset of people whose work really did go better with a specific CPU, but in general my experience is that people have not cared - if they get the OS they want, and the CPU is speedy, they are happy.The one exception being the mid-90s because of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug - that one had impact across the industry.
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There have always been a tiny subset of people whose work really did go better with a specific CPU, but in general my experience is that people have not cared - if they get the OS they want, and the CPU is speedy, they are happy.
The one exception being the mid-90s because of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug - that one had impact across the industry.