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.

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.

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

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns after an earlier crackdown on passenger cars and trucks.

Considering the mercurial nature of US policy, I wouldn’t be surprised if this plan is brought back at a later date.

I am a Fractal Design person when it comes to cases, but these look really nice.

It’s too bad it will be impossible to build an new PC in the next 24-36 months.

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.

My argument would be that the government is a representation of its citizens.

It’s up to each individual citizen to make the government work; be it with autonomous weapons or surveillance. Both have legitimate use cases and it is up to the voting public to make sure they are used responsibly.

Even in developed democracies, only around 70% of the population votes and in the US it is closer to ~60%.

I am not naive enough to think it won’t (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).

But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we’ll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.

If one wants this technology to “disappear” [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).

And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a “regional issue” back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).

I strongly disagree with this framing.

I live in Ukraine and I am only happy to see better drone technology for fighting the russians. Every time you walk in the centre of Kyiv you see the memorial for many thousands of fallen soldiers right on the main square of the country. Any technology that saves lives and kills more russian invaders is a good thing.

If one doesn’t want this tech to be misused, then the citizens of a given country need to deal with local oligarchs, corruption and crime.

In the case of the US (just one notable example out of many thousands), this would be arresting Mark Zuckerburg and his goons for enabling mass scale fraud that netted them $16B in 2024 alone.

And the scam run by Meta is the tip of the iceberg. I don’t support capital punishment, but for the ennoblement of the Rohingya genocide, it would be reasonable to consider an exception for Zuckerburg and other senior thugs in the Meta criminal gang.

Thank you!

I did check the site, but I missed it.

I wish there was a text transcript of this, I will check the video out after the holidays though.

I have my doubts about their benchmarks with respect to real world use cases. I have a 5800X that scores about 2,200 on GB6 ST. So does the 4,000 score mean it will be roughly x2 performant for constant throughput single thread use cases?

It means that they thought this was good and convincing sounding market copytext.

A lot of the “less active ones” are completely dead. Many mid-tier topics (not niche, but not “meme shitpost”) have a sea of dead communities and 1-2 active ones and it’s difficult to find them without actually clicking through the full list of results.

Doesn’t this also connect to Mastodon?

Also funny how every instance seems to have furry/anime motifs. Nothing wrong with that, I am a big fan of some 80s/90s and early 2000s anime, just thought it’s funny. :)

That said, for $2K I’d be looking for something with a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 gigs of RAM in it.

As you said, for $2K (I am assuming the real price is closer to $2,200 if it’s US style list prices) it is reasonable to expect a Strix Halo system.

The 7940HS is Zen 4 from ~3 years ago. Single thread performance isn’t all that great by modern standards and MT is subpar. Considering the form factor, it’s probably not much better than a 5800X (in a real case with strong cooling) from ~5 years ago.

It’s reasonable to expect that a professional, “computers for experts” that’s “made for making”, has strong ST performance and especially MT for $2K+. Not all professional use cases benefit from GPU compute, many require both ST and MT CPU performance.

I would argue it’s not deceptively good.

Interesting and unique design.

Radeon 780M iGPU for a $2 K price (I am assuming this is American style list pricing, even if they are London based) seems like a unattractive proposition.

The lack of detailed specifications on their webpage conflicts with the “Computers for experts” marketing.

An expert would want to know the SSD is used and the exact RAM model.

Not a hardware domain, but the same could be said for NFTs or “web 3.0”. With the caveat that 3D TV isn’t a scam.

The writing was on the wall when they started getting American VC money.

American VC culture is anthenema to truly user focused products.