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    ASML Could Stay in the Netherlands with Further Investments and Create 20,000 New Jobs

    In the same vein, Dutch govt will need to solve the housing and power problem instead of letting "free market" dictate.
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    Noctua Introduces NH-L12Sx77 Low-profile CPU cooler

    This occupies a niche within a niche, its not going to be a volume seller.
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    Which one to choose from these 3 laptops offer?

    Based on reviews, the performance of the CPUs should be largely similar (top of the list in Notebookcheck). In terms of clock speed they will normally turbo up over and above nominal speed, depending on thermal headroom. I do think you should pick the one with best warranty support, unless you...
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    China Bans AMD and Intel CPUs from Government Systems

    I wonder if they are using this push the transition to ARM or RISC-V instead of staying with x86. It would make quite a lot of sense to move out of x86 if they are planning to forcefully sever the software side.
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    AI-Capable PCs Forecast to Make Up 40% of Global PC Shipments in 2025

    Training takes a lot of effort, running the model takes a lot less (but still a lot of effort). What's going to happen is that we will be running other workloads such as image processing and other data analytics instead of ChatGPT.
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    NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing

    Cant wait to see benchmarks. On one hand its running at the same node as its predecessors, on the other hand Nvidia has done a lot of optimisation to match workload. They are sacrificing FP64 perf to increase INT8 perf.
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    Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarked Against Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

    You are correct on all counts. However, its noted somewhere in this thread that ARM and x86 are starting to become more similar than different, and at some point the implementations of both will converge close enough that most people will go for the more efficient one (either price, power...
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    Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarked Against Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

    I am not sure why people are still so dismissive of ARM. x86 became niche before COVID. There are far more devices on ARM than x86, and we collectively spend more time on ARM devices than x86 devices. Phones, TVs, routers all use ARM instead of x86. The only holdout in x86 are legacy software...
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    Intel Gaudi2 Accelerator Beats NVIDIA H100 at Stable Diffusion 3 by 55%

    Looks like Intel needs their equivalent of TensorRT package. Wonder how long that will take to design and publish.
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    ASML's Future Growth in Netherlands Uncertain Amid Immigration Concerns

    The amount of niche labour ASML need is extremely high. Certain skillsets will take decades to master, if ASML is only open to hiring Dutch workers instead of hunting internationally (for example, poaching from Taiwan), they going to open another branch in Taiwan just so that they can hire the...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16-series Finally Discontinued

    I wonder what the cybercafes are migrating towards. RTX3050?
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    CNET Demoted to Untrusted Sources by Wikipedia Editors Due to AI-Generated Content

    I wonder if its a wholesale demotion, or its a selective demotion from 2020 onwards. Really hoping Wikipedia can be a good judge of the incoming misinformation wave.
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    Microsoft Investment in Mistral Attracts Possible Investigation by EU Regulators

    By the time the regulators are done with their investigation, the agreement would have run its course.
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    Intel CEO Discloses TSMC Production Details: N3 for Arrow Lake & N3B for Lunar Lake

    Back then no one cared about AI and Cloud.
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