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...
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
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...
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...
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,"...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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
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
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...