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Roughly estimated, we are talking about 1 GW of energy demand - requiring a massive nuclear power plant. It would take at least a decade to plan, build, fuel and commission such a huge power plant. So, is that idea just a dream or is it realistic? After all, those sweet B200 GPUs will be...

In music production, film editing or photography, it has long been known that limited tools may actually boost creativity and output, For example, A musician who has installed more than 500 VST-plugins to his DAW will never get to know and master each individual virtual instrument as a similarly...

Well, depends on what one associates with the term "aggressive". For me, aggressive means that a company is really pushing forward and taking the lead. So, if AMD were to bring their N2-based chips to market subsantially earlier than Intel their own 18A chips - now that would indeed be...

With an expected launch date "somwhere in 2026" , these N2-based chips from AMD will probably hit the market around the same time as Intel's 18A chips (first half of 2026), or maybe even a few months later than Intel. So, that's nothing I would call "aggressive strategy", as both AMD and Intel...

I wonder how these regulations will affect pricing beyond of new tariffs. These new transparency rules do add a sizeable chunk of extra work to the manufacturers, which might be reflected by increased prices.

I read somewhere that total amount of money spent (government and private combined) on scientific R&D is around 700 billion dollars for both US and China, with some slight advantage for the USA. European countries do also spend a lot of funding into R&D, and this is actually a great thing. By...

All FOSS is free, but not all free software is FOSS. With FOSS one gets the open source code, and is free to modify it. Users cannot change the code of Freeware (e.g. Acrobat reader) as it is distributed as an executable without access to the sourcecode.

Absolutely true. Even though Intel has shown despicable behavior and lack of ethics in the past, the customers do ALWAYS benefit from larger competition. The more succsessful chipmakers are out there, the higher the potential competition, the better the technological development and the more...

So, after firing Pat Gelsiger for being unsuccessful, the 18A process turns out to be success, after all? Maybe someone should check the competence of the Intel board...

Wouldn't the new AMD Strix Halo-APUs provide much, much better AI-related performance per Dollar compared to any of these dedicated GPUs discussed in this article, considering they would have up to 128 GB of RAM which could dynamically be allocated and shared between GPU and CPU? At least with...

Even if we assume that AMD may not be interested in selling too many gaming GPUs as these chips don't provide strong enough margins when compared to data center CPUs or Ai accelerator cards, there is reason to believe that they are making a huge strategic mistake: by flooding the market with...

Sounds good for anything inference-related. That being said, if training of LLMs (or even finetuning) is a goal, then 128 GB would probably not exactly be the most feasible amount of DRAM for that kind of task. Then again, one can run inference tasks even on much less than 128 GB of RAM. So, I...

Billy, he didn't say that nobody is using Intel or that Intel is inherently bad. He alluded to the ald adage of throwing stones in a glass house, since Intel has a well known history of sketchy and shady marketing tactics.

Most likely written by their marketing department. The marketing people usually have no clue on anything related to technology, nor do they really understand what they are talking about. But they are getting paid to make it sound really big and great.

Psychologically, mocking competitors is a sign of own insecurity rather than dominance.