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    Hardware Nexus: ASUS Scammed Us

    I’ve only had one experience with Asus warranty and it was painless, I see now I am certainly the exception to the rule. Board shipped to me with an old bios so it refused to detect my CPU, they just swapped the board. I think ill avoid them for a bit regardless.
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    AMD Hits Highest-Ever x86 CPU Market Share in Q1 2024 Across Desktop and Server

    Games get weird if you try to really push them across threads it’s very easy to enter deadlock states or find yourself waiting for memory access.
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    Opinion: Could Broadcom buy Intel

    https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1GQ22N/ I thought they were Chinese-based, but everything I see says they are American... I thought they were bought up by China back in their 2016 merger but I guess not. It is followed up with this though...
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    And with Meta releasing the Horizon OS to vendors to they can make their own headsets, Apple might have a lot more competition in that space then they would have had otherwise. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-open-mixed-reality-ecosystem/
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    Buyer's remorse paired with a simply whelming experience was bound to result in these popping up all over.
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    AMD and Nvidia consume the entirety of TSMC’s CoWoS packaging processes until 2025

    The CoWoS process is specialized but it was formerly used by a lot of companies… Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, Meta, etc… If this is true it completely screws their datacenter AI plans, as well as a lot of other things.
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    Opinion: Could Broadcom buy Intel

    Headquarters in Singapore, close ties to the CCP and Huawei. It’s why Broadcom was named in the whole 5G fiasco, and why they will be in the impending 6G one too.
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    AMD and Nvidia consume the entirety of TSMC’s CoWoS packaging processes until 2025

    https://wccftech.com/tsmc-entire-cowos-supply-reserved-by-nvidia-amd-until-2025
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    Opinion: Could Broadcom buy Intel

    Factual answer no, no they couldn’t. The US Govt would not allow that to fall into the hands of China cutting off access to the closest thing to a modern node from a US company on US soil.
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    Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone - happens on both clean installs and reinstalls

    I just got off a call with HP and in it they detailed that they do enable BitLocker automatically and it's part of their onboard security platform for business and enterprise clients, it's part of what they call their HP Wolf Security which is a whole platform and part of their Pro Support and...
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    Subscription Growth Has Flattened claims games industry analyst

    Giggles in 6000 lumens...
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    Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone - happens on both clean installs and reinstalls

    I built a machine with their most recent image yesterday and it didn't do this, but I can't say it wont be something coming in the future. But I do see that on April 26'th Microsoft added some new never before available (to me) options in the admin portal, so I really want to find a piece of...
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    Subscription Growth Has Flattened claims games industry analyst

    We as gamers, know it's true, game developers, and journalists know it's true. It is 100% true, but Microsoft in their infinite wisdom seems to believe that Game Pass subscriptions will soar and this will be a bygone issue in due time. So at Microsoft, there are several very distinct camps about...
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    Subscription Growth Has Flattened claims games industry analyst

    The other side of this is Game Pass itself is killing XBox game sales, there is a big internal fight over this at Microsoft currently because while subscription income is good and consistent it is flat and it is not covering the spread of game sales. So when a good game gets added to Game Pass...
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    Intel 4 is ready to go and 18A is on track for H2 2024

    https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-18a-cpus-on-target-for-2025-launch-ceo-confirms Intel please don't f' this up. One interesting sidebar to all this news is that in 2022, Gelsinger announced that Intel 18A was "ahead of schedule." At the time, he noted that it was scheduled for 2025...
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