Rakesh Malik

AFAIK SideFX has not announced a date yet, but during the keynote on June 22 on YouTube live, one of the SideFX staff mentioned "weeks, not months" in response to a similar question, which means that we should get a release date pretty soon.

alexeyvanzhula1984
I think they still drag a ton of useless x86 legacy crap anyway.

There's less and less of that nowadays, as the legacy crap is from so long ago that even a crappy and inefficient emulation is faster than anything compiled for legacy x86 had access to.

I still hope that it will fade away entirely, and hopefully be replaced with ARM or MIPS V or something much more efficient and probably also more scalable.

alexeyvanzhula1984
Everyone is gradually realizing that the x86 architecture is outdated. It's fascinating to watch an iPhone 16 Pro (MacBook NEO) processor capable of running Houdini

The modern x86 no longer bears much resemblance to the original, which is a good thing.

That said, I was rather surprised that AMD's SoundWave does not appear to be intended to replace Zen any time soon. But then Zen5 exceeded expectations, though it didn't get the adoption in mobile devices that I'd hoped for -- apparently the laptop vendors in particular are still loathe or contractually (or both) still stuck on pleasing Intel. Most of the Strix Halo laptops (all two or three) are crippled, apparently to keep them from steamrolling Intel.

It's frustrating because Zen5 is so far ahead of Intel efficiency wise, yet still able to scale up to a sizeable performance lead... but not if the system it's in keeps it throttled to 45 watts, which most of them do so the Halo can't run at its maximum clock speed.

Having 128GB is nice, but not having Karma XPU support for my GPU isn't.