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    News AMD Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs edge closer — review samples pictured, motherboards get new stickers

    But how official do you really need? If AMD is posting that info in a Press Release on their NewsRoom pages... isn't that at least a tacit endorsement of the content in that Press Release...
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    News TSMC may increase wafer pricing by 10% for 2025: Report

    Quarterly Earnings call/report is next week, should be actual guidance at that time. 🤔 TSMC's Gross Margin's were already in that range, 53% for 4Q23 and 53.1% for 1Q24. They likely want to return to 55+% of a year ago (56.3%). 🧐 Makes sense to increase pricing when demand has skyrocketed...
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    News Windows 10 gets Copilot as part of mandatory update — turns AI widget into a full-fledged app on the taskbar

    That's only because they sold their Imagjng department that was doing the Ai work a coupla years ago. They are a shadow of their former self... Loved that company 😩 , even visited them in Mtl, had many of their cards in my life. 🤩 Morrowind on the Parhelia spanned across 3 projectors in an arc...
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    News Alleged Ryzen 9 9900X result puts AMD on top as single-threaded CPU champ in Geekbench

    9600X @ 5.47Ghz & 9700X @ 5.57 to add to the list. So slightly (70Mhz) above original 'max boost' specs of 5.4 and 5.5 respectively, but inline with rumours of a possible bump before launch. https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7-9700x-and-ryzen-5-9600x-geekbench-tests-have-been-leaked...
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    News Semiconductor analyst theorizes that China might want to destroy TSMC instead of capturing it — a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would destroy supply c...

    His quote is pretty clear: "I'm not promoting the idea... these are some of the things that are actively being debated amongst US policy makers.." Which satisfies the requirements of the article's statement, and is corroborated by the Ambassador's words. Meanwhile you "follow" the congressman...
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    News AMD may unveil next-gen Radeon RX 8000-series GPUs at CES 2025 according to leaker

    Well it's not that easy, with nVidia and Samaung usually opening CES on Press day or Day 1 as the early 'main attractions' Intel and AMD usually have something later. All of them are pretty fun to attend, and often have entertaining guests (oddest one for me was still Sarah Silverman for...
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    News AMD may unveil next-gen Radeon RX 8000-series GPUs at CES 2025 according to leaker

    I doubt that it's price. (Edit: well looking at his comment in the Brand recognition thread I guess it is solely based on price. Oh, well. 🤷) Agree to disagree... Edit2: After his follow-up, looks it wasn't just based on price... so back to agree. 🤣 Price only gets you somewhere if cost is...
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    News Semiconductor analyst theorizes that China might want to destroy TSMC instead of capturing it — a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would destroy supply c...

    He wasn't speaking metaphorically , read (or listen to) his comments from the Milken institute panel, he is being quite deliberate in his statement, and also in his follow-up response to incredulity that this would destroy a two trillion dollar sector of the economy, he clearly states "I'm not...
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    News Huawei reportedly facing bad AI chip yields for processors made at Chinese fab SMIC: Report

    First, people need to stop getting distracted by phone chips. They only reference Kirin as it's also on Huawei's 7nm node. Getting side-tracked by cellphones is ridiculous, and an obvious effort to distract from the failure of SMIC Phone chips =/= HPC & AI accelerator chips, dramatic size...
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    News Ukraine war fuels rise of killer AI robots — report details rapid evolution using consumer drones and Raspberry Pi

    Oh sure.... take the side of Skynet... or you meant 2nd reply in. 🤔😉🙃😜 I'm on the fence on the debate of robots killing people, if it can better determine combatant vs non-combatant, then I'd say that's an improvement over the classical method. 💀 It is true that over time, IN GENERAL...
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    News Nvidia could receive French ban hammer — antitrust charges may follow government raids of Nvidia's offices in France

    I didn't say it was. I just quoted the section of the article that was outlined in the statement of objections in addition to anti-competitive practices charges, showing that those are the other claims, and not subsidies. However price fixing is something that is usually viewed as a monopoly or...
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    News Nvidia could receive French ban hammer — antitrust charges may follow government raids of Nvidia's offices in France

    Irrelevant, if the issue is "anti-competitive practices" as claimed, that is all that is required, same as collusion can be the #2 & 3 players and still be illegal. If they did so in an unacceptable manner, then it is nVidia's fault. And to be clear the US is also perusing these same...
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    News Leaked Intel Arrow Lake chipset diagram show more PCIe lanes, no support for DDR4 — new chipset boasts two M.2 SSD ports connected directly to CPU

    Yes I know, I've been working with it for decades (even as an installer in the late 90s early 2000s before moving to mobility), and mention that very challenge previously in this thread. I was focusing on the adoption attitude, whereas toslink vs coax digital was "OK , no problem" (and they...
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    News Leaked Intel Arrow Lake chipset diagram show more PCIe lanes, no support for DDR4 — new chipset boasts two M.2 SSD ports connected directly to CPU

    Oh yeah, I meant specifically that, it's far more work to find something that is ONLY Cat5e nowadays, by default pretty much everything is at least 6, and even that is changing, because the cost to mfr cat7 is inconsequential vs being stuck having inventory of old cable. Cat 8 is still a leap in...