Alphane Moon
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
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2·18 hours agoAh I see, yeah was likely the consumer cards.
They seem to be available on AliExpress and a few (very few) local distributors in my country.
I find the recent fascination with headline grabbing large, round sums of “investment” (or even spend) among the US admin to be unconvincing.
US oligarchs can come up with any number they need for such PR copytext. It’s borderline meaningless.
Nvidia is probably too busy with their enterprise GPU business. For them, gaming is a mere Plan B; a backup market they can return to (and dominate with minimal competitive pressure) in case of a black swan type event (from Nvidia’s perspective) where enterprise GPU sales see a significant decline.
The package includes funding for infrastucture development, including underground transmission lines at semiconductor clusters which are currently being built.
A very specific requirement. I guess it’s better that the SK government is considering infrastructure investment (the benefits of which can more broad) as opposed dtonjust giving companies money.
Some interesting backrooms dealings and some suspect distribution deals; it’s refreshing to hear this after mostly PR friendly news about Ampere.
If they had challenges with getting 4,000 units for a distributor cost of $4M with upfront payments, things couldn’t have been going all that well.
This is how you know that polemics about “free markets” and competition require a critical eye. One would think that in a truly competitive market there would be no profits to fund a $45 billion passion project of the CEO,
Perhaps one of the most egregious is the Amazon Halo Rise, a $140 smart alarm clock and sleep tracker, which according to PIRG lasted for less than a year before Amazon pulled the plug on the cloud service the device depended on.
That’s pretty rough.
But then again we have MS trying to brick 400 million PC (as the article does point out.
That would be an interesting project, I am assuming it works out to be rather pricey,
China called the US administrations bluff.
Are there any DIY projects that could benefit from LiDAR? Ones that you can build with a SBC/Raspberry Pi.
Agree. I am just spitballing.
From what I’ve read 8K seems to be the limit in terms of historical content (35 mm benefits from 8K, but not from 16K) and general usage in terms of monitors and TV and somewhat typical scenarios.
Give me 1080p 120fps mainstream TV any day of the week
Is that even possible? Is the source video stream (from the cameras used in production) at 120 fps?
You are on less than 1080x1920? That’s a pretty old monitor/laptop screen.
I’ve never tried 4K streaming (don’t have the premium subscription), but 17.5 Mbps for 4K sounds like a joke. There are older 1080 sources (especially with grain) where you don’t want to go too much below 15 Mpbs on H264. Even H265 generally works better primarily on newer sources material (post 2005) and encoding high complexity older film with H265 is going to give marginal efficiency improvements relative to H264.
Chances are BD won’t really exist in context of the 8K market. 4K/UHD BD is a niche populated by western collectors and as strange as it sounds, content pirates that never interact with the physical disc but are looking for source, untouched 4K video streams. And I don’t believe even top end BD discs can’t handle 300 GB sizes that you would need for a 2 hour 8K move in normal bitrate.
That being said, UHD BD is at around 75 mbps. So 8K would be around 300 mbps, In theory if bandwidth costs continue to decline as they have since the introduction of early broadband, you could have streaming services supporting a 300 mbps “premium” 8K stream.
By buying $350B in energy per annum from the US (as per the proposals of the current US administration)!
I am surprised Sony exited the 8K TV market, even though it’s likely we will need to wait another ~5 years before we start getting mainstream 8K content (from what I read 35 mm film does map onto 8K very well). That being said, Sony electronics aren’t what they used to be.
It seems that this means it will be radically cheaper to purchase AMD x86 CPU/PC verses Intel upcoming Panther Lake CPU/devices in China.
I was curious what the distribution was for global EV sales (the article mostly refers to YoY growth). Turns out that:
Gives a bit more context on China’s role in the EV boom.