Recent content by SonoraTechnical

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    News New Ryzen 9000X3D CPU could deliver EPYC levels of game-boosting L3 cache — rumored chip reportedly sports 16 Zen 5 cores, 192MB L3 cache, 200W TDP

    Hmmm.. I like the idea of Zen5 going out with a big bang. If RDNA4 could do something similar...
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    News Meta's Zuckerberg outlines vision for 'personal superintelligence' in a letter — says that, unlike rivals, his approach isn't about automating ever...

    meh, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated... The Berg is still just a Borg, even if he does have curly hair now.
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    News Power usage in Wyoming AI data center could eclipse consumption of the state's human residents by 5x — tenant of colossal investment remains a mystery

    It will not end well. Me, a guy who's worked in the tech industry as an enabler his entire life... regrets not taking up regenerative farming.
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    News Faux-CRT monitor designed to pair up with retro mini PCs to recreate CRT feeling — cute 8-incher puts retro design first by shoving a 60 Hz LCD pan...

    I literally had 2 x 21" Dell Trinitron 21" D1626HT @ 1600x1200 used monitors on my desk up until about 2008. Then I found 2 x 24" Dell UltraSharp 2407WFPB @ 1920x1200 used monitors. The difference was incredible in terms of ergonomics. I had soooo much space on my desk again! I loved the...
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    News Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2

    Perhaps a little easier now... I guess I've been burned enough by the stark differences in early Win 10 and later Win 10...
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    News Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2

    The cadence and naming since Windows 10 is confusing to people... It's hard to explain to users that they are actually two very different versions of Windows 10 in wide distribution... It would have been so much easier for users had Microsoft just had Windows 10, Windows 10.1, Windows 10.5...
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    News Power utility built $95 million 500-megawatt power substation for Intel's $100 billion Ohio fab, but six-year delay leaves substation capable of po...

    We ahve the same issue here where I live, but the resource is Water. The Copper Mines and the Pecan Groves use about 95% of the water.... When we experience severe droughts, households cut back... you know.... to conserve that 5% that we are using... :rolleyes:
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    News Trump and TSMC pitched $1 trillion AI complex — SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son wants to turn Arizona into the next Shenzhen

    Thank goodness.. I had no idea what Ducey was thinking when he allowed that. I guess if you could follow the money, you'd learn what was really going on.
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    News Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base

    Many folks are now purchasing Android tables and IPads and passing over the poorly implemented Windows 10/11 in touch first environments. I have industrial clients that are now running Unix Thin Clients via terminal services for HMI / Machine Visualization tasks... Just 5-10 years ago, every...
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    News Trump and TSMC pitched $1 trillion AI complex — SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son wants to turn Arizona into the next Shenzhen

    US/Arizona are allowing Saudi Arabia to lease massive fields and plant wheat for thier own countries consumption and getting the water from newly dug wells... starving other communities of water as the water table drops. It bypasses all normal trade mechanisms (no american farmers and all of...
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    News Power utility built $95 million 500-megawatt power substation for Intel's $100 billion Ohio fab, but six-year delay leaves substation capable of po...

    welcome to capitalism where everyone competes fairly.... well... except for the corporate welfare part.. Pfff, I remember all of the excitement around big high paying jobs returning to the rustbelt.... Instead, the rustbelt gets an additional burden paid by their already stretched taxes... For...
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    News The CPU Core Wars return — Intel Nova Lake leak teases monster 52 cores, DDR5-8000, and 32 PCIe lanes rumored, would rival AMD's finest

    That is pushing DDR5-8000.. LIke to see that with 128GB of Ram... interesting to see if they alledged on board memory controller issues appear at those speeds on that platform. I do think my next machine is a Ryzen AI MAX 395 128GB DDR5-8000 if it can be had on a mITX board that has a good...
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    News Trump and TSMC pitched $1 trillion AI complex — SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son wants to turn Arizona into the next Shenzhen

    We weren't much cooler in Green Valley, AZ... 114degF (45.5degC) yesterday. measured at my home. There is also the issue of AI, Oracle and Softbank having trouble actually raising $500 Billion. I mean that amount of money is a significant portion of the GDP of countries like Spain, Mexico...