Cool stuff. As an outsider, AWS naming always throws me for a loop tho haha.

Literally none of those are necessary unless you want a specific usecase that uses them all. Like using it as a desktop PC, in which case yeah no shit buying a literal desktop PC is cheaper.

The laptop based desktop chips exist they are literally a thing and have been for a while. Both AMD and Intel have not seen high demand for those. Also even if that wasn’t the case, your argument is not really an argument at all since it can just be used to justify literally anything that hasn’t been tried.

There is very little demand for a powerful iGPU desktop chip, so the ones that exist are derivatives of laptop chips and thus monolithic. So far there has not been a stacked cache monolithic die chip.

They can last multiple days if you turn off the AOD.

Makes sense. Thanks for that!

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I have no idea why this is important or really what it even is but Apple had a pretty video about it in their WWDC catalog so I guess it’s a trend now.

At this point it just refers to ‘next generations after 2nm’. Not only does the process obviously not exist, they haven’t decided on what transistor structure to use either whether GAAFET or a successor.

From the article it looks like nothing is being moved really. There is a general architecture that is Zen 5c but both TSMC and Samsung variants will be different designs developed independently.

Yeah such a great comment overall but with that stinker at the end out of nowhere lol

networking

Worth noting that Nvidia’s latest AI push is very dependent on super high end in house networking.

Fugaku still balling out this ‘late’ into its career is a stroke of massively lucky timing lol.

The top supercomputers have been stalling for a while. Which I’m pretty happy with since it let my boi Fugaku stay in the top 2 or 3 forever but it is high time for some more newcomers to unseat the old guard.

Lame headline. Deciphering old scrolls is easy shit. The mindblowing part is that the scroll was basically a rod of solid carbon after being cooked by Mount Vesuvius and the dude who did it was a friggin undergrad.

What does vertical integration mean in the context of SSDs? WD already owns a stake in their in house NAND fab and of course does NAND tech design in house. They make their own in house controllers, and combine the two in unique final products that are sold under their own brand.

M3 is probably on TSMC N3B, a node that is a disaster for yield so much that every customer other than Apple and maybe Intel has decided to skip it altogether. I suspect there’s just enough volume to ship the Pro iPhones, Pro Macbooks, and the low volume iMac. The mass market regular iPhone and Macbook Air is likely too high volume.