Discussing buying wi-fi chips at work to ship to customers
I remark we can use an Intel AX200/201
$coworker replies "no. Just the 200"
I explain the (minor) difference between the two
She fucking copy pasted the Google Slop Machine replying about CNVi instead of PCI-E and that it would cause issues
Of course if she'd read the extremely short Wikipedia article on CNVi she'd see it's supported on Intel chips since the 8th gen series in 2017
...We're using Intel CPUs from 2024
@CursedSilicon also even if there's no CNVi or M.2 slot, one can get AX2xx chipsets and successors from several sources as #MiniPCIe cards…
@kkarhan Both the 200 and 201 come in the same M.2 formfactor. They just speak CNVI instead of PCI-E on the bus
Which means it won't work AT ALL on AMD machines (it won't even *show up* if you lspci it)
But this company has shipped 100% Intel systems for 20~ years now. It is literally *not a problem* for us. But it was such a tedious "nuh uh" pushback moment
@CursedSilicon yeah, then that's obviously a non-tangential argument since someone in the hardware departmebt like you would've been told IF there was a need to accomondate other CPU vendors.
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Kevin Karhan 