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    Computex 2024 Preview: The Hardware Side

    AnandTech preview: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21418/computex-2024-keynote-preview Intel: Bringing AI Everywhere When: June 3rd, 11:00pm ET (8:00pm PT) What: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will present a keynote entitled “Bringing AI Everywhere.” What To Expect: The final of the major Computex...
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    AMD Expected to Announce Ryzen 5000XT CPUs at Computex

    If you are building a new system then you should be able to get a cheap AM4 motherboard with cheap RAM & pair it with the $290 6750 xt 12gb So a good deal for those looking for value rather than the bleeding edge
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    [hot]XFX 6750 XT $295 @ Newegg and $300 @ Amazon

    Right now it says $290 after code VGAEXCAB329 XFX SPEEDSTER QICK319 RADEON RX 6750 XT CORE Gaming Graphics Card $10 off w/ promo code VGAEXCAB329, limited offer
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    RTX 5xxx / RX 8xxx speculation

    See Intel & AMD are hardware companies Nvidia is a software company (cuda / dlss / raytracing denoiser etc.) that is vertically integrated like apple I believe Nvidia was the first with programmable/unified shaders & outsourcing to Taiwanese foundries/TSMC So AMD & Intel would like to be in...
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    US to Resume Tariffs on Graphics Cards Assembled in China

    Cool. So RDNA 4 will be cheap then Only RDNA 5 will be impacted
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    Microsoft set to announce DirectX DirectSR (Super Resolution) at GDC 2024

    Microsoft announces DirectSR preview Today, Microsoft announced the public preview of DirectSR. Native support for DirectSR is provided in GPU drivers, where vendors tune their SR implementation for optimal hardware performance. DirectSR includes built-in support for GPU-agnostic variants...
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    Intel's fab construction at Magdeburg, Germany, delayed until 2025 due to too much black soil

    INTEL NEEDS TO EXCAVATE MORE SAND Due to its wealth of fertile soil and loess, the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany has been home to people for thousands of years. The area that Intel picked to build its new fab turned out to be a "highly complex, long-used burial and ritual landscape,"...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    What if, LLMs have reached the stage of diminishing returns ?? https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/evidence-that-llms-are-reaching-a
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    Google walks back AI search results

    Google has done stuff with AI such as deepmind/alpha zero that work in a closed environment with clear rules. However I am deeply skeptical of this LLM stuff, if it requires additional (manual) step to verify the output
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    Google walks back AI search results

    LLM is useful for summarizing the contents of any one website However to synthesize contents across multiple websites, there should be a weighting algorithm (like google used to have number of links metric for traditional search) I don't have knowledge in this area, but I hope there is a...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    This feels like a bad mis-step from google Strangely, they don't seem to care at all that they have trashed the USP of their cash cow
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    Google walks back AI search results

    When mistakes cropped up in Google’s very first demo of Bard in February 2023, shares of Alphabet dropped 7%, wiping $100 billion off the company’s value. On Friday, as more social posts of its latest gaffes went viral, they opened up almost 1%. Wall Street doesn’t seem to care. Does Google...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    Why Google is (probably) stuck giving out AI answers that may or may not be right Is Google going to have to backtrack on this? No, says Google, which argues that the dumb answers it has been generating are few and far between. And that most people don't know or care about search answers that...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    Apparently this has now been tested (& proved to work): Google AI said to put glue in pizza so I made a pizza with glue and ate it https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-ai-said-to-put-glue-in-pizza-so-i-made-a-pizza-with-glue-and-ate-it/articleshow/110406679.cms
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    Google walks back AI search results

    A speculative blog analysis from last year What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud? Some possible economic and geopolitical implications Microsoft, up for the year by nearly half, perhaps largely on the promise of generative AI, might see a stock slump; NVIDIA skyrocketing even more...
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    Another day, Another Rumor of Valve being Acquired

    Valve is on track to sell more consoles than Microsoft Already Microsoft lead on average daily sales has shrunk to less than 50% Eventually Microsoft might give up making xbox & instead open up xbox OS to allow installation of Steam
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    Microsoft says Xbox has "lost the console wars."

    Windows Central's Jez Corden calls the next move by Microsoft to break Sony's PlayStation exclusivity on games. Bring Steam to the next Xbox(es) He expects Microsoft to release an Xbox OS that can be used by other PC partners to build their own version of the console (Phil Spencer had already...
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    US to Resume Tariffs on Graphics Cards Assembled in China

    The tariffs add a 25% duty on graphics cards, motherboards, and desktop PC cases. Over the past year, the US Trade Representative (USTR) has delayed restoring the Trump-era tariffs, which added a 25% duty on affected Chinese goods. The goal was to gather feedback from the industry and consider...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    I am with the AI on this. Cheese is supposed to melt. If you want it to stick then adding (non-toxic) glue is a fair answer Maybe the Ai should have just said pass to weird questions without a proper answer but otherwise nothing wrong in this case
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    Google walks back AI search results

    This is fake (a meme & not real)
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    Google walks back AI search results

    Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search The company confirmed it is ‘taking swift action’ to remove some of the AI tool’s bizarre responses. Google spokesperson Meghann Farnsworth said in an email to The Verge that the company is “taking swift action” to remove AI...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    "AI optimists argue that we should embrace the hype because of the rapid progress made so far, trusting that it will continue to improve. I really do believe that this technology will continue to get better, but focusing on an idealized future where these technologies are flawless ignores the...
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    RDNA 5 speculation

    My guess is that RDNA 4 was supposed to have software based crossfire for the top chips but didn't work out. So it had to be scrapped So AMD is now working on incorporating it in RDNA 5. Remember in ATI days there used to be the x990 cards Check the Active Interposer Dies (AIDs) in the linked...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    The tech companies are spending so much heat & energy on GPU driven LLM models but the tech is not ready for primetime yet There are so many screenshots floating around but I have no way to confirm if those are fake or real. I saw a screenshot where the AI summarized pineapple on pizza as the...
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    Atari VCS architect quits the project; claims he hasn't been paid for six months

    Atari vanquishes its most ancient foe by acquiring Intellivision, declares end to 'the longest-running console war in history' The concept of a "console war" didn't really exist, but the competition was real. Mattel had been working on the Intellivision (the name is a portmanteau of...
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    RTX 5xxx / RX 8xxx speculation

    A hypothetical question: What if the smaller chip (Navi 44) is between 7600xt & 7700xt (matching 4060 ti on raster & RT) & the larger chip (Navi 48) is closer to the 7900 GRE rather than 7900 XT in raster (basically a 4070 ti) Then AMD can do a really funny thing. They can launch the navi 44...
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    ONEXPLAYER X1 — 11" 2.5K display tablet with attachable elephant ear joysticks

    An interesting concept but terrible implementation https://onexplayerstore.com/collections/homepage/products/x1?variant=47713400488230&sscid=51k8_shl1y& This X1 is $1,100 for the standard bundle with the controllers and magnetic keyboard. You could buy an actual laptop, with consistently...
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    Nvidia acknowledges Huawei as top competitor in SEC filing

    Nvidia cuts China prices in Huawei chip fight major stumbling block to the success of Nvidia's H20 chip in China has been a directive by Beijing for companies to buy Chinese chips, although two of the three sources said those orders had eased in recent months. The H20 became widely available...
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    Square Enix Market Value Plummets By $2 Billion After Final Fantasy 16 Release

    Apparently game time (the demand side) is limited and its mostly taken up by old games such as fortnite/roblox, so rest of the gaming industry (the supply side) has to adjust to it This is the reason Square Enix is trying to increase the addressable area of the market by ditching PlayStation...
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    GPU prices — is the worst behind us ?

    Looks like the 6700 xt/6750 xt have run out of stock now. But the 6800 is down to almost $350 That is a pretty good deal for a 16gb card which can max out 1080p gaming or even play 4K low This is probably the best value 16GB card that you can buy in the budget range in the next few years
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    Radeon 6800 for $355

    If you are buying a GPU now, then let it be the 16GB 6800 says MLID XFX SPEEDSTER SWFT319 AMD Radeon RX 6800 CORE Gaming Graphics Card for $355 in NewEgg https://www.newegg.com/xfx-radeon-rx-6800-rx-68xlaqfde/p/N82E16814150886?Item=N82E16814150886 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_qlPl58qcY
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    Unreal 5.4 Update now available

    astonishing demonstration of Unreal Engine 5's core technologies: Hellblade 2 is one of the Unreal Engine 5 games to ship that takes full advantage of everything the engine has to offer to produce visuals that feel like a genuine leap forward. This isn't the first shipping game to use these...
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    Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

    Hellblade 2 is a story-driven experience more than what one might think of as a typical game, let alone a triple-A juggernaut. This is evident in how input is handled - there are many scenes where you push up, watch an animation play out, then push up again when that animation is finished. In...
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    RTX 5xxx / RX 8xxx speculation

    Any idea when the 2 AMD chips will launch RoCM updates confirm that there are two: Navi 44 & Navi 48 https://github.com/ROCm/clr/blob/943fddc1a678508bd3e629b8e7b67c3e4a04e46d/opencl/tests/ocltst/module/runtime/OCLDeviceQueries.cpp#L122
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    AMD Counter-Strikes Itself, Pulls Driver After Anti-Lag Feature Causes CS2 Bans

    Anti-lag+ is back as Anti-lag 2. Now it has to be integrated on a per game basis by individual developers based on sdk provided by AMD https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/amd-radeon-anti-lag-2-technical-preview-now-available-in-counter/ba-p/686012
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    AMD 2nm Zen 6 “Morpheus” & 3nm Zen 5 “Nirvana” Core Architectures For Future EPYC CPUs Leak Out

    Rumours of max 32 cores per CCD of zen 6 https://www.techpowerup.com/322694/amd-zen-6-to-cram-up-to-32-cpu-cores-per-ccd?cp=2#comments
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    Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

    Agreed. What I meant when I said it is 'free' is that if you have subscribed for game pass due to other reasons (ex. To play Call of Duty) then this game is complementary or free. That is the marginal cost is free, if you are already subscribed to game pass (assuming you see a value in that...
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    Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

    It is free, if you have gamepass. But if you are spending $50 then it is too short a game for that
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    Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

    Wil the below work ? https://x.com/SKHYJINX/status/1793115606881063064
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