There are rumor about new intel SKUs coming out; they may be slightly more powerful than the two Battlemage GPUs that we know of.

Then again, the very fact that Intel needed to lower the prices of its leading-edge Xeon 6900P-series ‘Granite Rapids’ processors by as much as $5,340 per unit indicates that it is not exactly satisfied with the number of units sold and would like to increase sales. Another reason for the price reduction could be Intel’s intention to stop, or at least slow down, AMD’s strengthening position in the data center CPU market. AMD commanded a 24.2% share of the data center CPU market in Q3 2024, its highest share since the mid-2000s, according to Mercury Research.

It’s wild that even with Intel going through so many troubles, AMD still only has ~25% of (shipment?) share in the data centre.

Based on the Gamers Nexus video it seems to be somewhat of a better performer than what I expected.

Also not a card for me. Sticking with my 3080 for another generation.

Something is got to give. You can’t spend ~$200 billion annually on capex and get a mere $2-3 billion return on this investment.

I understand that they are searching for a radical breakthrough “that will change everything”, but there is also reasons to be skeptical about this (e.g. documents revealing that Microsoft and OpenAI defined AGI as something that can get them $100 billion in annual revenue as opposed to some specific capabilities).

I really hope this is the beginning of a massive correction on AI hype.

I am from Ukraine, where we have a very large uptake of digital national IDs and even government service mobile applications (municipal, health, military etc.). These service were relatively popular when launched, but there was a massive increase in uptake after the full scale invasion.

One of the main strengths of the digital national ID/mobile government services is that they are so convenient. A bureaucratic process (that was actually very simple) could take 4-5 hours waiting in line in say 2012, now it can be done almost immediately. The government constantly adds different useful modules and systems. For example, during COVID up to date vaccination status was present in the app and you could use it while travelling (at least to the EU, no clue about US). I like the Kyiv municipal app as well. It’s relatively well designed and offers a bunch of services. Broad uptake also means that there are network effects; with companies and government services integrating these services (e.g. in situations where you need to confirm your identity).

I would also argue the notion of privacy isn’t as linear and simple as might seem at first glance. There are legitimate situations where the government needs access to data to find traitors and collaborators. This saves lives as it weakens the russians’ ability to target their air strikes. That being said, we already had a national ID system (legacy of russian occupation under the USSR) before, so you only benefit from digitization.

Yeah, the article didn’t imply a physical tether, more speculation on my part

Gurman previously mentioned that a pair of smart spectacles were seriously being considered, and they would be tethered to an iPhone to remove some of the computing overhead.

I somehow doubt Apple will go with physical (i.e. via cable) tethering.

While the headline “68.1%” uplift is clearly misrepresenting the true picture, one can’t deny that top end iGPU have largely reached the same level as mid-range mobile dGPUs.

All the laptops I bought previously always had a dGPU, but for my next one I might consider a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 if I can find a good 17" device built on this platform.

One good thing about these initiatives is that a lot of the approaches and tech can be used for other use cases.

If (when?) the AI bubble pops, we can still make use of all these developments.

HW accelerated video decoding and encoding (not currently supported in software)

HW accelerated AI NPU with ~20 TOPS (currently not supported in software)

Why not release this board when you do have support for the NPU (the article implies older AMD dGPUs can work)?

The Geekbench 6 CPU scores are brutal.

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It would be much better to spend this money on global renewable energy generation, utility battery systems and grid expansion projects.

Say what you want about Nvidia, but one good thing about them is their closed source driver support on Windows.

Kepler was supported for approximately ~10 years. This is much better than most PC component manufacturers.

I feel like for productivity you still want separate monitors as opposed to a an ultrawide display. That being said, I’ve never had an ultrawide.

This would be awesome for game that do support ultrawide.

With legislation such as the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) now in force, customers and resellers alike are expecting more detailed carbon emissions reporting across all three Scopes from suppliers and vendors, according to Canalys.

This expectation of transparency is increasingly important in vendor selection processes because customers need their vendors to share specific numbers to quantify the environmental impact of their cloud usage.

“AWS has continued to fall behind its competitors here by not providing Scope 3 emissions data via its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, which is still unavailable,” Caddy claimed.>

“This issue has frustrated sustainability-focused customers and partners alike for years now, but as companies prepare for CSRD disclosure, this lack of granular emissions disclosure from AWS can create compliance challenges for EU-based AWS customers.”

We asked Amazon why it doesn’t break out the emissions data for AWS separately from its other operations, but while the company confirmed this is so, it declined to offer an explanation. Neither did Microsoft nor Google.

These companies operate as if they are above the law. Why would you try and hide the emissions data? Everyone know it is likely very large and growing rapidly, what is there to hide?

Very cool add-in card, it’s really too bad mainstream consumer CPUs don’t support 32+ PCI-E lanes; can’t use this with a dGPU.

Sounds a lot like HP’s approach with “security features” to limit cheap ink.

The honestly seems more like a PR initiative and an overall oligarch/corruption alignment ritual of sorts.

Lenovo crowdfunding?