Imagine if this somebow massively accelerated the development of viable fusion power.

Not to mention there is now an inherent liability involved with using American products and services.

No, current suggests they are already working on the next generation of dGPUs (Celestial) and their Battlemage SKUs were largely reviewed positively.

I really wish (hope?) this isn’t the case.

I thought Samsung’s big focus was on their 2nm node as they decided to give up on the 3nm release and treat it as learning experience?

Sam Altman will come after you if you store regular old data on these SSDs.

I want to try the original Deus Ex with the updated textures, models and RTX Remix!

Although it seems that there is no easy way to run RTX Remix on the OG Deus Ex.

Trash level prices even if this is for custom AIB variants. €483 for 5060 12GB? That means the 5060 8GB will be more than €400.

I highly doubt even the non XT version of the 9060 will be $350. We’ll be lucky if it is $400 out of pocket.

The power requirements seem promising. They key issue will be the price, I am particularly curious about the 16GB 9060 XT variant. If you can get it for under $500 (inclusive of tax etc.), it would be a solid offering.

The researchers hold out the prospect of a disk-based storage system matching or exceeding tape archive density. However, the working life of an atomic force microscope tip is currently measured at 50-200 hours in intermittent touch (tapping) mode versus 5-50 hours in continuous touch mode.

Unless and until a long-lasting C-AFM tip can be created, this would seem to be a fatal flaw in their molecular hard drive concept.

While there are many issues around cost and productization, this seems like an important weakness in the proof of concept.

What’s inherently good about “wiping out x86 chips?” Why does this even matter?

Global market share dynamics:

That really is an impressive growth dynamic.

It’s not at all surprising that China is moving towards RISC-V, but we still have to see mainstream RISC-V solutions that can come even close to existing ARM and x86 solutions.

“Even if a RISC-V solution priced at 10 million yuan might only reach about 30% of the level of NVIDIA or Huawei, buying three sets means the overall cost might still be lower,” he said during the event. “I think this is a breakthrough point.”

This seems more like an aspirational statement and I am not sure how a RISC-V CPU would compete with Nvidia in enterprise GPUs (the ARM CPUs developed/used by Nvidia for such solutions are arguably a small part of the total cost of the solution).

The government can also make an investment in Intel like they have done with other struggling institutions critical to the US economy and national security. And the current administration can move much faster than the previous one with support like tariffs. The Biden administration slow-walked the Chip Acts support over a two-year period while the Trump administration has demonstrated instantaneous decision-making and movement.

I do wonder if American oligarchs and business elites will regret running to giving tribute to the current American administration in medium to long term.

Last November, industry moles leaked details of an apparent abandonment of the company’s 3 nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process.

It must be painful to have a leading edge node be a complete dud.

Let’s hope they come a with a strong 2nm node, for our own benefit.

2,978 Points in GB6 ST is not bad at all for a laptop x86 CPU. But of course the really compelling thing is the RX 8060S which does seem to generally perform within a striking distance of the mobile 4070.

Let’s just hope there will be broad selection of products with Strix Halo.

At one point I was also reliant on a gaming laptop, (thankfully 17 inch and with a dGPU), but desktops (with nice ~30 inch monitors) are just so much better.

Both AMD and Intel want to be in the position Nvidia is in right now. ~3 players is not enough for a true free market.

I would assume their handheld focused chips will be in the 5-10 W range.

The tropes/motifs of 80s and 90s cyberpunk are really coming to life. 😀