He strikes me as a “wannabe American”. As someone who has lived in the US, but didn’t necessarily want to immigrate on a permanent basis, you can smell the deep insecurity with Elmo on this issue.

Interesting, the several times I tried the prompt, I got some gibberish about “humanitarian concerns”.

This was earlier in the year though.

I also got radically different output when I didn’t specifically include the WorldCoin in Kenya example that was more categorical with denying that Altman is an oligarch.

Prompting Gemini LLM about Sunder Pichai was also interesting.

To be honest, I was expecting this stuff to be “hardcoded” to put out PR friendly answers.

This doesn’t seem to be for a handheld though. The addition of HDMI CEC and the high TDP suggests this seems to be a console of sorts.

Beautiful irony to see this coming from Sam “Worldcoin” Altman.

Bonus points, try inputting a prompt into ChatGPT asking whether Sam Altman is an oligarch and his “rescue” of Worldcoin executives in Kenya is an example of oligarch power.

Is mmWave even a thing?

I live in a country with no 5G yet (honestly I don’t feel like I am missing out all that much), but I haven’t really heard that much about mmWave after the initial PR push during the early introduction of 5G.

As I was reading this rather information dense piece (the part on Ruthenium interconnect required multiple re-readings for some reason), a strange thought came to my head.

I imagined a senior Intel executive having to explain this research to Trump (or even his senior advisors). How would you even summarize this in a concise (e.g. x3 bullet points) way while still emphasizing the importance of this research?

“Using “next gen” ruthenium instead of legacy copper for greatly improved semiconductor wiring and electricity distribution”

Something like that? 😀

They want the best of both worlds.

Or perhaps the “have your cake and eat it too” idiom would be more appropriate.

At one point BitTorrent/P2P was responsible for something like 30-40% of all global internet traffic.

The thing is the protocol never really developed beyond some useful, but minor evolutionary updates.

Short-form vertical video social platforms are here to stay.

We are not going to turn back the clock. I say this as someone who doesn’t use TikTok.

The only semi-realistic (and I use this term very casually) option would be some sort of radical, never-seen-before change in our global societal and socioeconomic models. The dynamics of short form video social media will be the least of our concerns in such a scenario.

I still use HDDs for mass/archival storage and will continue to do so, but I do think in 5-10 years SSD $/TB will be catch up to HDD (or come close enough where more and more people will choose SSDs).

We’ll found out in 5-10 years. 😀

I wonder if these 30TB+ drives will ever come to the consumer realm.

I have a feeling that NAS-scale consumer SSD arrays will likely be a better option in the medium to long term.

Chinese chip makers have been barred from using Arm’s advanced Neoverse V-series CPU cores for some time now. HiSilicon will likely leverage a modified version of the Armv8 ISA or even Armv9 for that matter since both architectures are not subject to the US trade ban.

Modified version of an ARM ISA? Does ARM even sell licenses that allow a fully independent child branch ISA based on ARM IP?

When asked whether 18A is more geared towards high-performance compute (HPC) applications than anything else, Chandrasekaran said this was “absolutely right.”

“There are certain aspects of 18A that’s extremely powerful for compute applications, especially the backside power. It’s going to be very beneficial for compute applications.”

But he added that all the “learning” from implementing that process node will go into its successor technology, 14A.

“So as 14A comes in, there will be a broader market that 14A will address, including compute and mobile and other applications and also how the PDKs (process design kits) are done so that it’s not just for with Intel, but it’s also focused on the broader ecosystem taking 14A and applying it to their designs,” Chandrasekaran said.

Does this mean 18A will be relegated to high margin server CPU (and some high-end consumer desktop/mobile SKUs?)

LiFePO4

Most likely. 10KW max output (not sustained?) and assuming you would want at least 40 KWh is going to be very, very expensive.

The design is solid, but the price to performance ratio never made any sense (not to mention the general lack of support on a global basis), especially for a desktop.

This seemed like a niche device for US-based executives types who wanted a laptop.

The report asserts that without substantial government intervention or significant advancements in domestic semiconductor technology, the slow pace of progress is unlikely to accelerate

I wonder what “substantial government intervention” refers to in this context (the source DigiTimes article is paywalled); hasn’t there already been massive government intervention to support local Chinese semiconductor manufacturing (both on the supply and demand side)?

I didn’t intend to ask for personal details.

Just high-level generic information. I am just curious what sort of use cases would require someone to manage a server, but still have challenges with using a slightly different UI.

Not to mention mass scale HW supply chain attack would likely have massive geopolitical and economic risks.

If you don’t mind me asking, what sort of servers/clients do you work with?

Because this is AI slop, somewhat more convincing sounding than typical AI slop, but still a fundamentally shallow and pointless answer.