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DS426 replied to the thread News Each EUV chipmaking tool consumes as much power as a small city — EUV fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030, more than Singapore.The irony of using significantly more electricity to make chips more efficient... -
DS426 replied to the thread News Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week.As Jay Leno like to say, "that's hilarious!" Intel must be a really bad word over there. Yeah, it's not glamorous, but aren't there...
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DS426 reacted to King_V's post in the thread News Russian court fines Google 2 undecillion roubles for blocking 17 state TV channels with
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Reminds me of this bit: (Raucous laughter) "Dr. Evil, this is 1969. That amount of money doesn't even exist!" -
DS426 replied to the thread News Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake — Loongson adopts "tock-tock-tick" strategy to close the gap with Intel.Gotchya, theoretical / lab / low-ish volume CPU's. That or China is breaking trade sanctions -- take your pick. And yes, it's easy to...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Windows 11 Version 24H2 updates are faster and require less CPU usage — Microsoft claims up to 45.6% faster installation times and 25% lower CPU ut....Not suggestion speed of feature update from 23H2 to 24H2 being a main issue; I'm just curious how it compares from 22H2 to 23H2 as...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’.And it's better to have these new peons driving "tech" i.e. AI as the savior of humanity!?!?... Lol definitely cynical on my part but...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’.I think ignoring marketing in general works best for both personal/consumer and business/enterprise; that's great to be informed by a...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Intel CEO is "frustrated" with CHIPS Act payout progress — Intel has received $0 from the $8.5 billion that the US government promised.Why is there talk on Qualcomm acquiring Intel again? Do they really think that would and should get past anti-trust hurdles? I just...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Microsoft CEO earns $30.6 million more despite laying off over 2,000 employees in 2024 — salary package represents a 63% raise from the previous year.They're all in one ship... well, until you have to walk the planks. What's crazy to me is how terrible firing and layoff communications...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Windows 11 Version 24H2 updates are faster and require less CPU usage — Microsoft claims up to 45.6% faster installation times and 25% lower CPU ut....But how long does it take to upgrade from W11 23H2 to 24H2? Much longer than 22H2 to 23H2 which was an enablement package?
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DS426 replied to the thread News Microsoft DirectSR adds support for AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling — Microsoft’s one-stop upscaling API for DX12 games gets an upgrade.Good deal on FSR 3.1 support and I'll gladly take less shimmering and flickering.
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DS426 replied to the thread News Intel gets off the hook and won't have to pay $1.1 billion EU antitrust fine — chipmaker was previously accused of offering incentives to partners....The fact that Dell still has a s**t-showing of AMD business PC's today is sufficient evidence. Probably also why they are tanking in PC...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement.Whoa, shots fired!! *heads down until the smoke clears* I'm not a business law expert, but this seems like a rather trivial scenario...
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DS426 replied to the thread News Chinese SSD brands are in the top five in terms of market share — Kingston retains its spot as the largest SSD manufacturer in the market.Your telling me that Samsung isn't in the top 10 running and has less than 1% market share?
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DS426 replied to the thread News Linus Torvalds is "fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical attacks" — Linux kernel creator lashes out ahead of proposed kernel code....I agree with him but I'd still expect that security-oriented software devs are creating the mitigations for theoretical attacks and...
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