Alphane_Moon

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I missed the power consumption table, I assumed it was 120 W Max (with Turbo).

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A performance and price competitive SKU from Intel! Who could have thought?

Or is this some sort of fake launch that is meant to capitalize on lack of memory and SSDs?

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I initially (just for a brief moment) thought intel somehow add Direct3D (DirectX) support on their CPUs without turning it into an iGPU.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I highly doubt banking and eGov apps will work through the compatibility layer. But that's why I want to try using both phones in parallel; to find how to best manage the transition.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I am planning to buy myself a Jolla phone later this year.

Planning to use it in parallel with my Android phone, I want to prep for switching off Android.

Banking apps and eGovernment apps is going to be a massive issue. I am really hoping there will be a big push in Europe to adopt SailfishOS.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Good point, TSMC is not just the pick axe seller in the gold rush, they are a generalized "best in class" tools seller.

To some degree, I don't think it matter for them what they are baffing, they'll always have demand as long as they are the clear leader.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Good stuff! )

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 94 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love Sweeney's holier than thou attitude. MFer, you don't give a shit about anything other than self-enrichment and social standing among other oligarchs.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To hell with Starlink, it's giving money to individuals who wish you harm.

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