Recent content by The Hardcard

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    News Intel's vacant CEO spot rumored to be filled by Toms Caulfield — abrupt GlobalFoundries shakeup sparks speculation

    As opposed to who? An experienced CEO for nodes below 12 nm? Are there more than three on the planet?
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    News Apple joins UALink Consortium for open-standard AI accelerator interconnections

    Apple did confirm plans to develop its own datacenter-class processors for AI. Private Cloud Compute. Why would anyone think that meant they were going to fill giant buildings with Mac Minis and Mac Studios? No it will be hundreds of thousands of datacenter capacity units, only running Apple...
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    News Apple Intelligence: Siri gets an LLM brain transplant, ChatGPT integration, and Genmojis

    The announcement for all of these features, displayed a graphic that included all the M chips M1 through M4 plus the last A17 Pro. What are you referring to?
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    News Total Recall: the only Copilot+ AI feature that matters is a huge privacy risk

    why is everyone complaining? You are about to get new computers. Paid for by your wives and or your bosses. Both will love this feature.
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    Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC Just Made “AI PCs” Obsolete, leaving anyone who bought a 2024 laptop behind

    Key to many AI features is memory bandwidth and capacity. The biggest problem for the 4050 (and up to 4080) is memory capacity. There will be many basic tasks that will operate in the 4 to 6 GB RAM range, but many of the biggest features will need at least 16 GB. That said, bandwidth will be...
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    News Snapdragon Elite X Windows AI PCs get official, starting at $1,099 — Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are all onboard, with some models promising “multi-...

    While Qualcomm will probably have the lead, I don’t think it’s a big enough lead. AMD laptops already are not too shabby on battery, much better than 2018 Windows laptops. More importantly, I think Strix and Lunar will both be more than good enough. I don’t see a path for any night and day...
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    News Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge Snapdragon X laptops leak — just ahead of Microsoft’s special event

    You will have to count yourself out of nearly the entire new Windows laptop market. I wonder if Microsoft will even allow Windows to be preloaded without the Copilot key.
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    News Latest AMD Strix Point leak highlights monster 120W TDP and 64GB RAM limit

    Also 256-bit wide 8533MHz LPDDR5X is 267 GB/s bandwidth.
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    News Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine

    1 On inventors is not understanding: it is happening. All these modern models are just being fed raw data. They train themselves. And they are getting increasingly better at getting results training themselves. There are several models that can accurately and explicitly describe most...
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    News Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine

    Yeah, we disagree on timeframe and endgame. I am looking at the same thing you are, I don’t know why it’s not painfully obvious, but if you can look at this and see something different, oh well. I just think you are putting yourself in position for your reality to be jarred. So be it.
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    News Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine

    No, we are stuck in disagreement, I say there is a “there” there. Meanwhile, in a few short years, hundreds of millions of people will be spending tens of billions of dollars on “salad.” And human life, relationships and economics will transform for reasons laid out there.
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    News Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine

    You are wrong, but clearly I can’t convince you here. Irrefutable developments are incoming. Barring some tragedy, I’ll still be on this site. In the meantime I posted some places to get information in another response here in this thread. You, like he, are welcome to check them out. We’re just...
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    News Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine

    If you look, you will see I’ve been on this site before AI, and I’m the same The Hardcard that has been on various tech sites since 2001. I have a very long pre-AI track record. I was speaking specifically about you asking for a meal, say Tandoori Chicken and, instead of researching and...
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    News Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine

    How does Tesla’s driving models get drive a car down a busy freeway with no hands. By having the appropriate electronics and mechanical devices. And access to the internet. Yes, AI models are going to be given tools. If that is all you’ve seen, then you are missing the action. Subreddits...