If it’s owned by Bain Capital, the data centre business is still subject to American corruption, criminality and degeneracy.

You want a service that is not owned by American entities and preferably does not have Americans in executive positions (if they are of the regular pro-crime type).

I am surprised the current US admin hasn’t banned Xiaomi from using TSMC’s high end nodes. For a second I thought this was 3nm from SMIC.

Could this be linked to the size of your walls and the exact “line” towards the router?

I have some locations in the family apartment where only 2.4 GHz works (two walls).

Would be curious to see the full analysis. As things stand, this sounds more like biased research by an industry group where the primary motivation is getting more spectrum. This may or may not be a good idea, but it’s difficult to trust an industry association that does not include all stakeholders.

This about downloadable RAM, it will now have a new filetype extension.

Would love a threadripper for my video editing/encoding hobby. But unfortunately, I can’t justify the price.

Easier to leave batch tasks for overnight processing on my aging 5800X.

I would personally replace the top one with a disc drive. That being said, I am into b-movies (including non-english ones) and for some sources you actually have to order physical DVDs (there are cases where even “alternative” sources do not offer DVDRips or the quality is subpar).

The $299 9060 8GB will be closer to €400 where I live. At that price, it’s better to suck it up, save a bit more cash and get a slightly better dGPU SKU or go with Intel (prices are also higher relative to US list prices, but not as much as with AMD, let alone Nvidia).

He also thinks the policy will harm humanity, because half of the world’s AI researchers are in China and he rates their output as among the world’s finest. He wants them using on Nvidia hardware so their work can be used around the world.

This is where Huang is openly lying. He is not concerned about humanity or Chinese AI research being used around the world. He only cares about selling high margin enterprise GPUs.

I am curious how exactly will Steam integration work. Knowing MS, it’s likely going to be clunky and subpar.

Even that won’t be enough. Apple users do not use older applications and there are a lot less niche, long tail (domain-specific, region-specific) applications on their platform.

Our sources confirmed to me this morning that the next Xbox systems, however, are not based on Qualcomm chips. There might be some third-party “Designed for Xbox” Arm-based offerings, like the Logitech G Cloud. But, the main plan from Microsoft, at least for now, is for the next-gen Xbox systems to have as much compatibility with your current library as possible. The overheads required to emulate games built for Microsoft’s AMD-based systems are beyond what the Snapdragon line up is currently capable of.

In a sense, this is MS indirectly admiting that their current Windows-on-ARM strategy has significant weaknesses and their emulation is not really performing and viable.

Intel demoed one system running the newly-resurrected Clippy as a large language model to demonstrate that the chips are running AI workloads.

This is actually sort of cute in a nerdy, retro way.

Huang that they can pass on TSMC’s prices to their customer. “GenAI” still growing and while there are some early signs of a bubble forming, we have yet to see any major signs of a correction. And consumers will just keep buying Nvidia.

16W active power consumption for the 1.6 TB SKI is brutal. But I guess this makes as sense for an enterprise U.2 SKU.

I am willing to bet the B50 will be €500+ where I live.

The barriers to entry (even if you have a large amount of capital are simply too high).

That being said, Intel was the undisputed leader of semiconductor fabrication for over a decade before TSMC took the lead.

Neuromancer IRL.

Switch sounds like a massive win for Samsung; likely enough to keep solid utilisation (and profit) for years.

I am surprised Samsung isnt more cautious with Chinese clients; seems like a high risk strategy considering the volatile nature of the current US admin.

This is a rather radical forecast for total storage shipped.

Wonderful contrast with HDD units shipped: