Tell me you’re not working in Silicon Valley without telling me you’re not working in Silicon Valley.

It’s funny how they call the 5870 the best AMD GPU of all time.

They are not wrong, but it’s also their biggest strategic mistake ever: right when they had Nvidia in the ropes and had a chance to crush them with top of the line performance by an insane margin, they decided on they brain dead small die strategy, leaving an escape route for a Nvidia to still remain on top with absolute performance even if their performance per area was a disaster.

It’s just another example of AMD marketing shooting themselves in the foot.

I have a MacBook Air 15 M2, and a piece of shit expensive Dell Inspiron. I have a couple of desktops with pretty high-end CPUs and GPUs too.

But I also have a 2012 Thinkpad X220, that I use quite a lot. It cost me $75 plus another $100 for upgrades. It’s great for Linux on-the-go. Decent battery life (much better than the 2020 Dell), fast enough, small, and cheap enough to not have to worry about it getting stolen.

ASML is a Dutch company, but the US is blocking them from exporting to China just the same.

They don’t have to follow the US order, but a minor consequence would be that they can’t sell to US companies anymore…

These large language models are getting better and better at producing corporate messages with zero content.

I wonder who’s the intended audience of this?

“Nvidia is better at gesture, and ray tracing and rasterization, but other than that… RDNA4 is pretty good.”

https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ?si=ooBYa5pmTxZa4aTZ