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    watzupken replied to the thread News US targets China's solar dominance with 50% tariffs on solar wafers and polysilicon — tungsten products will see a 25% increase.

    It is funny to see news commentaries about the "Trump" tariffs will drive up cost and inflation, but yet, the Biden admin is equally...

    Friday at 1:34 AM
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Gelsinger fires back at recent stories about 18A's poor yields, schools social media commenters on defect densities and yields.

    I think anyone can try and defend, but if there is no significant takers on Intel’s 18A, it’s a pointless debate. I may not know my...

    Dec 10, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel looks beyond silicon, outlines breakthroughs in atomically-thin 2D transistors, chip packaging, and interconnects at IEDM 2024.

    What is the point if you cannot scale it for sale to make money? Isn’t this like Samsung where they kept marketing GAA and whatever...

    Dec 8, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Shareholders pay up as Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger is reportedly set to depart with a $12 million golden handshake.

    I think he was more talking about his age that may not give him enough time to see through Intel’s turnaround. It’s not so much being...

    Dec 4, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel Arc B580 Battlemage GPU allegedly surfaces on Geekbench — with 20 Xe Cores, 12GB of VRAM, and 2.85 GHz boost it falls short of the A580 desp....

    Unfortunately, drivers don't become good enough in 1 or 2 generations. Both AMD and Nvidia had a long history of producing GPUs and...

    Nov 28, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel Arc B580 Battlemage GPU allegedly surfaces on Geekbench — with 20 Xe Cores, 12GB of VRAM, and 2.85 GHz boost it falls short of the A580 desp....

    In my opinion, I don't think they have much of a choice. GPU and CPU are part of the same package, so you can't just have a good CPU and...

    Nov 28, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Jensen says we are 'several years away' from solving the AI hallucination problem — in the meantime, 'we have to keep increasing our computation.

    This is the kind of “the more you buy, the more you save” kind of marketing. The more you buy, the faster you will solve AI...

    Nov 24, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Microsoft says Flight Simulator 2024 still suffers from access problems despite adding more server capacity to handle demand.

    When you release a new game and only planning 200K users worldwide to play this game at the same time, you are essentially being...

    Nov 21, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News RTX 5070 Ti rumor points to 8,960 CUDA cores and 300W TDP — Blackwell GPU may use the same GB203 die as the RTX 5080.

    Looking at the modest CUDA core increase and the same TSMC 5nm fab, I am apprehensive that you will see 30% performance uplift in most...

    Nov 21, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Nvidia warns of gaming GPU shortage this quarter, recovery in early 2025 — Chipmaker rakes in record profits as net income soars by 109% YoY.

    For the hardware specs that most reviewers are using, 1080p don't sound like a reasonable resolution. But as I mentioned above, 1080p is...

    Nov 21, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Nvidia warns of gaming GPU shortage this quarter, recovery in early 2025 — Chipmaker rakes in record profits as net income soars by 109% YoY.

    If you are always gaming at native 4K at high or ultra graphical settings, then you likely won't notice the impact of a faster CPU. But...

    Nov 21, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Nvidia's data center Blackwell GPUs reportedly overheat, require rack redesigns and cause delays for customers.

    Well, even if Nvidia made a subpar product, companies and individuals will still throw money at them. So with little consequences, they...

    Nov 17, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread Intel takes down AMD in our integrated graphics battle royale — still nowhere near dedicated GPU levels, but uses much less power.

    This is true, and each have its trade offs. To me, I feel AMD's APUs are probably the best of both worlds, i.e. between reasonable power...

    Nov 15, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread Intel takes down AMD in our integrated graphics battle royale — still nowhere near dedicated GPU levels, but uses much less power.

    I think I have to give it to Intel for their GPU efforts. In 2 generations, they seem to have caught up with AMD's iGPU by quite a fair...

    Nov 15, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel Core Ultra 5 225H delivers 14% better single core and 16% improved iGPU performance than Meteor Lake per early benchmarks — the CPU still fal....

    "Arrow Lake ships with Intel's upgraded Xe-LPG+ architecture with the Core Ultra 5 225H sporting the Arc 130T iGPU with 7 Xe cores (112...

    Nov 12, 2024

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