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    Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?

    Does it say where those jobs are? Because outsourcing relatively simple jobs to coding sweatshops in India, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc... was incredibly common, and you had to triple-check that code. Because it was cheaper to pay $5 US to somebody there to bang out a few hundred lines of...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    This is why getting the fabs up and running for 3'rd parties is so critical for Intel; there is a very plausible reality where Intel's fabs are worth substantially more than the CPU and design side of things. Intel and AMD can happily trade x86 clients back and forth every couple of generations...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    Nah, no need for them to build a monolithic CPU for x86 specialized tasks; Intel and AMD are far more likely to resume selling x86 chips on a PCIe card. Trying to add multiple architectures into a single CPU package gets ugly, and you get a lot of duplication and complication for something...
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    Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?

    Without reading the article the answer is yes. There was a crapload of funding made available to businesses during COVID to hire staff. That funding is gone and a lot of workers just don’t provide any actual value and much of their work can be automated away or simply reassigned to somebody...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    Well, as ARM datacenter and enterprise presence grows, more software platforms get optimization for ARM, it's not an ISA issue, it's an optimization issue. There are always going to be some problems you can't optimize your way out of, but that's why the other platforms aren't really going...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    Apple optimizes its programs to make extensive use of every accelerator and instruction set available to it. Built into XCode and the LLVM compiler, Apple has the Whole Module Optimization tool (equivalent of Intel's Binary Optimization Tool), and they just do a fantastic job of making sure that...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    ARM has an intrinsic advantage when you are dealing with a system that has to handle a crapload of small, simple tasks. In a highly transactional environment where the CPU is mostly performing fetch tasks, having a crapload of weak cores can perform better overall than a small number of strong...
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    It makes sense for Vera to absolutely crush in some metrics and get absolutely wrecked in others. Nvidia knows what their existing CPU's are primarily used for, they know how Intel and AMD CPU's are primarily used when paired with Nvidia's Datacenter GPU's. I have to assume that Nvidia has spent...
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    NVIDIA no longer reports gaming as separate revenue line as PCs and consoles move under Edge Computing

    That data isn't detailed enough to be useful in a lawsuit against Nvidia, and they keep it that way. In Windows, if you do just the Driver install, then the logging functionality is limited to driver issues and GPU usage metrics; it's pretty minimal. You don't have to install the Nvidia...
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    NVIDIA no longer reports gaming as separate revenue line as PCs and consoles move under Edge Computing

    I’m surprised it took Nvidia this long. When they were getting sued over Gaming GPU sales numbers propped up by Crypto mining, it became the obvious answer. Now with AI chewing up GPU’s even faster than Crypto did it’s a necessity. Nvidia doesn’t track what you do with the cards, just because...
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    Creative Launches Sound Blaster AE-X PCIe Sound Card

    Supposedly it’s to better deal with noise isolation and signal integrity. Apparently GPU’s (especially gaming ones) and PC power supplies are electrically noisy, running a sound card directly over the PCIe spec then requires the signal to be cleaned that can result in the signal itself being...
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    Corsair Vengeance DDR5 Memory Modules with CXMT DRAM Chips Surface

    About time, I do wish they used a different branding on them, I would hardly call the Vengence lineup "budget", but with timings like that, I would be hard pressed to consider it anything else.
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    Bipartisan Bill Would Impose New Annual Fee on Electric Vehicles

    Got mine in 2019, I haven't even managed 50,000 km, let alone miles, maybe average 2000 mi a year. One of the wonders of living in the middle of nowhere, Canada, is that you can walk everywhere, and out-of-town trips are basically glorified Costco runs.
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    Creative Launches Sound Blaster AE-X PCIe Sound Card

    USB headphones tend to (there may be an exception I don’t know about) use their own software sound drivers and don’t bother with any other ones the system may be equipped with.
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    Creative Launches Sound Blaster AE-X PCIe Sound Card

    Mostly for the mic and comfort.
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