400/150 Mbps - $55/month

I pay the equivalent of $10 USD per month (we don’t do list prices, it’s the actual price) for 1 Gbit fibre.

And I am willing to bet that the “five-year price lock” advertising is fraud. There has to be a clause in their TOS that as per the company “price lock” means the ability to change prices.

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

I mostly follow big accounts and don’t that much with folks (outside of a niche hobby account that I am trying to slowly grow).

Best option seems to be to subscribe/browse hashtags that pique your interest. Eventually you’ll find people who regularly post/boost interesting content and users.

That is why American-run commercial social networks are inherently not viable if you care about user focus. Any rational adult (of any nationality, from US to Botswana) can make their own conclusions regarding US-run commercial social networks over the past ~20 years.

I deleted Twitter a while ago and switched to Mastodon, I did not move to Bluesky when it started getting big exactly because I knew their initial user-focus was a ruse (and their federation architecture seemed top heavy).

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

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.

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.

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.

It would be a big win for Intel if they could make performant GPUs using their own fabs. Let’s see what happens.

I am assuming this would be a driver for risc-v adoption.

That being said, from a consumer perspective, all risc-v offerings (SBCs, laptops) are far worse than ARM in every possible metric; performance, price, software support. Performance in particular seems to be atrocious even on a non-dollar weighted basis (one would expect less economies of scale with risc-v products).