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Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
(www.tomshardware.com)
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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Realtek are monsters of semiconductor creation.
Destroyed
What's next?
If only they were also monsters of incrementing the pcie device id when their chip revision breaks compatibility.
So you don't spend forever trying to Google on your phone or other laptop that you have to pull and rebuild the latest kernel, without an internet connection, because only that one knows that revision K needs power management set before the link will come up.
Ohh I don't think they make superior products they just destroy entire sections of the semiconductor industry through brute force. I think creative Labs and turtle Beach made superior sound dsp's. I think Intel still reigns supreme in Ethernet chips.
Creative labs made shit audio chips, at least post isa, they never figured out pci at all. Haven't forgiven them for killing aureal either.
Turtle beach was quality, but overpriced and they completely focused on the pro market after a while, ignoring gaming.
Realtek makes garbage, I always bypass it with a good USB DAC (fiio usually) because the mobo manufacturers always route lines so it buzzed when the GPU started using power.
You are right that they killed the market, but only for people who don't care, and you can pick up a banging used mellanox for cheap that gives you excellent sriov.
Literally anyone else could have done this. They all chose not to. So fuck them.
I think they're making a bit of a joke here. It's just progress.
Oh please do printer interface.
Right up there battling broadcom for worst.
Rtlsdr too