Technology moves at an exponential pace. The time it took to go from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit to 64 bit got shorter and shorter.

Imagine how pissed off Nvidia is.

I can think of 100 things to worry about more if there’s actually a war between the US and China.

It’s simply not fair that the worlds 2nd largest economy is closed off to foreign competition.

I just went to China. Countless foreign brands everywhere. Audi and BMW sell more cars in China than in Europe and the US. McDonalds everywhere. Starbucks everywhere.

Meanwhile, the US is doing everything possible to prevent Chinese companies from competing with American car makers, solar panel producers, 5G equipment makers, phone competitors, etc.

Here’s the top upvoted story on HackerNews right now.

One of the greatest user interface disasters in history https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/111490485825183949

Basically, US Navy ship had bad UX for a system and shot down an Iran Airliner that killed 290 people.

Here’s the first comment. It’s spot on.

Everything’s possible, but there would be no debate about UI mistakes if it was Iran shooting down a US plane. They would’ve done because they are evil by nature, or at least perceived as such. In that case the media and the public buys into its own reality, but of course the UI discussion could be a distraction from the public maybe starting to question if that’s actually the reality.

…put 2 iphones on a shelf…one from CN and one from INDIA and I know which one I would pick. CN is so optimised for building these devices (inc supply chain proximity), I don’t want a phone from a struggling factory.

The assumption is that Apple would not sell any iPhone that does not meet quality standards. So any iPhone they put on the shelf should be equivalent in quality. The problem here seems to be efficiency, yield, speed, etc.

2. Most of the plant assembly workers are atleast graduate. Many upwards of 80% know English and they wont be able to work 12 hours straight, as many of their peers are just working 8 to 9 hours per day in other IT industriers.

India’s population will surpass China’s soon. They have enough people without a college education who will want to work in factories.

Whenever I see people saying that China is evil on Reddit, I always think that they’re just humans working really hard to survive and provide for their families. The political stuff is mostly about preventing China from competing in industries that developed countries compete in. It’s a way to prevent China from moving up the value chain. Developed countries don’t want China to produce chips, software, AI, electric cars, etc. They just want China to be the world’s factory forever.

How was I combative? Just curious.

They’re a limited liability company, so no stock market pressure. As a Dutch BV voting majority can still lie with the founders.

LLC doesn’t mean it’s automatically better. LLCs can also have investors and a board. Furthermore, it could be less advantageous to be a private company because you can’t see into their financials and there is no transparency.

Most people buy a new phone if it gets damaged from a drop. It happens quite often. Here you can swap the parts cheaply and with only a screwdriver.

But the phone will get repaired (if it still has value) and gets resold. Anecdotally, most of my friends and family just get the screen repaired.

If you wonder how sturdy it is: https://youtu.be/H1UJ5k3yMvA?si=zQ1VEeA8YqMINUR7

Any drop test?

And here’s Louis Rossman on it: https://youtu.be/EAogtqyN22M?si=9slIZEuTbAZhE__Y

Sorry, who? And what is the message? Not going to watch it.

And remember, you can always switch away from Fairphone if they become “evil”. It’s not like Google, Amazon or the influence of Social Media companies that you can’t escape.

It uses Android, right? So why does it matter? You’re going to get Google influence since it’s Android no matter what.

Fairphone is a for-profit business, correct?

If so, what’s there to prevent the company from eventually (or even now) prioritizing profits over the longevity of its products? For example, let’s say that their board wants to make higher margins. One way they can accomplish this is to use poor-quality parts in the initial product so that they need to be repaired more often, thus, they sell more replacement parts.

I’m a software dev. AI might be closer to replacing devs than you think. At least low level devs.

Not this shit again.

Except the difference is that anyone with a brain can figure out that 5G is just faster internet. Most applications aren’t limited by slow internet speeds. LTE is usually enough.

The AI hype is just different. It’s real in my opinion.

He’s probably the best CEO in the US. Built Nvidia from nothing to $1.2 trillion company over ~30 years.

Maybe it’s a good video, maybe not. I’m going to downvote due to the obvious clickbait title.

Cinebench

Can we ban reviewers to focus mostly on Cinebench as a general purpose CPU benchmark?

It has its niche. But please. Stop basing CPU performance on Cinebench.

Another political article masquerading as hardware content.

I wish mods can grow some balls and ban all politically motivated articles on this sub.

they should understand that they don’t have a product as good as RTX and focus to provide decent low price GPUs with a lot of RAM in the 200-400$ range.

It’s easy to explain from a business point of view. The reason AMD doesn’t want to compete in the $200-$400 range is because there is barely any profit there. GPUs are huge dies with a lot of memory. They’re significantly more expensive than CPUs to manufacture per unit. Therefore, AMD would rather spend all of the TSMC wafers on Epyc chips than $200-$400 GPUs.

Take for example, Navi 32 (7800XT), has 28 billion transistors and sells for $500. That $500 has to include expensive GPDDR RAM, a board, capacitors, and a heatsink.

Conversely, a 64 core Zen2 Epyc has 40 billion transistors and sold for $5000+. No GPDDR RAM needed. No heatsink fan. No board. No capacitors. Just the chip. $5000.

So you tell me what AMD should prioritize making.

Lastly, if AMD starts a price war at the $200 - $400 range, Nvidia will respond with something $250 - $450 but slightly faster. Nvidia isn’t just going to let AMD take that market without any resistance.