[go: up one dir, main page]

Alphane Moon

That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.

  • 4.53K Posts
  • 3.39K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 9th, 2024

help-circle



























  • An interesting development, but it seems to be focused exclusively on parallel compute (enterprise dGPUs use cases):

    The Austin, Texas-based AI chip startup says it’s developing an optical processing unit (OPU) that in theory is capable of delivering 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 / INT4 compute — about 10x that of Nvidia’s newly unveiled Rubin GPUs — while using roughly the same amount of power.

    From my limited understanding for CPUs (which are arguably far more complex and less “predictable”), Moore’s Law is definitely dead.

    If you look at single-thread CPU performance, gains from say ~2013 (Haswell/Ivy Bridge) are relatively modest compared to modern ~2025 era top end CPUs (9800X3D). Just compare a late 486, say the i486DX2 from 1994 to a P3/Tualatin from ~2001, there is no comparison at all.






  • It is worth noting that the benchmarked Snapdragon X2 Plus ran on a reference platform, while testers used commercially available products for the other chips. This is a key caveat, as results can vary widely depending on chip binning, cooling, power limits, SSD speed, memory latency, and installed apps.

    What this means is that performance with real devices will likely be even worse.

    With the X Elite we also had benchmark results on “reference platforms” that were never hit on real devices.







  • The pen would be far from ordinary—described as “contextually aware,” it’s designed to work as a “third-core” device that sits alongside your laptop and smartphone. Think of it as an AI companion that fits in your pocket or on your desk, enabling seamless two-way communication with ChatGPT through a paired device.

    And why can’t you just your smartphone?

    The whole “AI device” thing sounds like Altman and Ivey wanting to become a new Apple of sorts. These people are so vapid and honestly boring.


  • TeamGroup’s general manager Gerry Chen warned that December contract prices for some DRAM and NAND categories increased 80-100% month-over-month. He expects availability to worsen significantly in Q1 and Q2 2026 once distribution stockpiles run dry. At that point, according to Chen, obtaining allocation could become difficult “regardless of willingness to pay.”

    Wow, this is crazy.