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I assume the author meant the GA10B die, which is based on Ampere, and which he's mentioned in previous articles on the Switch 2 SoC. Given the similar names, it's pretty easy to make such a mistake and for it to slip through the editing process. It would indeed be a little odd if an SoC nVidia...

I know very little about chip design but this isn't necessarily the case. The B580 does have fewer transistors, despite a larger die size. But it draws an extra 30W. Now, some of this will be due to using TSMC's N5 process, whereas the 9060 XT is on their N4P process. But I'd guess Intel is also...

Nice to know nVidia sees no ethical problem with selling ~$700 million of GPUs to a datacentre that will almost certainly be 100% fossil fuel-powered. At best this'll merely produce yet more AI slop, at worst machine learning will help Crown Prince Bonesaw identify and disappear more political...

Haha, in Australia they charge $3400 AUD for that configuration. Now, that includes GST, while the US price omits sales tax. Even then, at current exchange rates they're overcharging us by about $200 USD. The low-end configurations are even worse. $1900 AUD for a config with an X Plus chip, 16...

If only we could take off some of the overbuilt power delivery found on most motherboards and stick it onto the GPU card instead. ;-) On the bright side, modding these cards so that the power delivery stays cool shouldn't be too difficult, though I assune it'd void the warranty. Not sure about...

Intel might control 70% of the desktop market, but what proportion of that is Arrow Lake? e.g. Dell's current lineup of desktops and all-in-ones goes as far back as Alder Lake. If you include thin clients, they even have a Celeron N5105 option, i.e. "Tremont" Atom cores, the generation before...

For context, last year's federal budget was $6.75 trillion, with a deficit of $1.8 trillion. A savings of $1 million/year would fill 0.00006% of that deficit hole, assuming the claim is even accurate. I suspect any savings are a false economy at best, fraudulent accounting at worst. Here in...

I'm guessing missing ROPs wouldn't affect most AI/machine learning tasks. Maybe it'd affect upscaling, but not running an LLM locally. Perhaps that's why this retailer thinks a minimal discount is sufficient to shift these cards.

PCIe is backwards compatible, so yes, you can use a PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 SSD even if the motherboard and/or CPU only support PCIe 3.0. Plenty of budget laptops do exactly that :-) My laptop is a secondhand T480 Thinkpad, and the SSD is limited to just two PCIe 3.0 lanes rather than the more typical...

The CHIPS Act has funding for DEI initiatives because one of its goals is to grow the size and talent pool of the US's STEM workforce. See also parental leave. But I guess cutting those ~owns the libs~ or something.

As TerryLaze points out, Intel can't really do that until they're no longer outsourcing the GPU dies to TSMC. Aside from that, the consumer discrete GPU market is small-potatoes compared to Intel's current financial hole. nVidia's gaming division just reported an annual revenue of $11.4...

I can't read German, but the WinFuture article uses the phrase "den Speicherchips der SSD". Some googling indicates that Speicherchip ("memory chip") is a general term covering RAM, flash, EEPROMs, maybe even a mask ROM. The surrounding paragraph also seems pretty speculative, i.e. it...

1. That might have made working from home during pandemic lockdowns a little bit harder. 2. At *some* point, most government systems need to be publicly accessible. I don't know how the process works, but presumably foreign investors need to submit applications/supporting documentation to the...

Medieval gongfarmers sold literal human s*** for money, and its modern equivalent, the "biosolids" industry, is worth several billion dollars worldwide. Of course, I'm no farmer, so *to me* human excrement (raw or treated) has negative value ;-)

I think this display is powered via GPIO pins so it can be compatible with older Raspberry Pi models. The Pi 4B was the first model to have USB 3.0 ports. A USB 2.0 port nominally supplies up to 2.5W, and you measured this display as sometimes using at least 3W. Though it would be nice if the...