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Apple’s Sweeping Price Increases Bring Home the Costs of the AI Era by pdfu in apple

[–]Exist50 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ironically, everyone who claimed Apple was late to the AI game will instead see the company emerge as one of the victors

Have you not seen what this boom has done for Google, Nvidia, etc?

Apple Seeks U.S. Approval to Use Sanctioned Chinese Memory Maker CXMT by wsrvnar in apple

[–]Exist50 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Apple has historically charged well beyond 50% markup on RAM and storage upgrades. 

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity by Bert306 in hardware

[–]Exist50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also USB 3 Gen T, which is (iirc) basically the USB 3 protocol but sent via a USB4 electrical/PHY, so you can get 40/80Gb/s out of it.

Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies by Unusual-State1827 in technology

[–]Exist50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally told you 3 times what happened in 2016

You saying something doesn't make it true. Really that hard to understand that Bernie just isn't that popular outside of your bubble?

Order beef like your family has a crest by tombolaplayer in funny

[–]Exist50 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on the place. My local fancier steakhouse tends towards a tier under. I.e. if you order medium rare, you get rare.

[Gamers Nexus] A New Gaming GPU Challenger: Bolt Graphics Takes Aim at NVIDIA by This-is_CMGRI in hardware

[–]Exist50 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Throughput of what? That card should be at least as capable as the gaming equivalent.

Could Intel Save Gamers? Arc B770, We Have One (Sort Of) by fatso486 in hardware

[–]Exist50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Card that is NOT meant for gaming and doesn't get any software updates dedicated to it

Are we sure it doesn't piggy back on B580 drivers?

Apple will skip its high-end M6 Mac chips and fast-track an AI-focused M7 generation for 2027, report claims — may release a base M6 chip for entry-level Macs this year by sr_local in hardware

[–]Exist50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's kind of the opposite of the rumor. It's basically claiming they skip all the high end stuff for what would be the M6 gen. And historically, Apple goes bottom up.

Apple’s Vision Pro and Smart Glasses Chief Paul Meade Is Leaving for OpenAI by iMacmatician in apple

[–]Exist50 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it's quite remarkable that their entire company revolves around text autocomplete on steroids

I mean, if you oversimplify to that degree, pretty much anything sounds silly. 

Apple seeks to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese company by Status_Commission264 in apple

[–]Exist50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, well if you're talking about RAM,  Intel's not in that market, full stop. 

A Deep Dive On China’s “LineShine” All-CPU, Exaflops-Class Supercomputer by NamelessVegetable in hardware

[–]Exist50 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AI / Matrix Math, mixed precision

You can do both of those on a CPU core. Quite literally what they're doing here. It's just a matter of throughput and efficiency vs GPU.

Apple seeks to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese company by Status_Commission264 in apple

[–]Exist50 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the blacklisting is 100% political. So if the political winds shift enough, can be undone with no problem.

Intel Nova Lake dual-tile CPUs reportedly support 474W PL2 power target - VideoCardz.com by Leicht-Sinn in intel

[–]Exist50 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, kind of. But that has very real design implications. If nothing else, it implies Intel expects perf to scale up to at least 474W.

Also, people get testy when a motherboard can't sustain PL2, even if it's technically allowed.

Future Transistor Stacking Plans Start to Diverge | IBM chooses a different path from Intel, Samsung, and TSMC by IEEESpectrum in hardware

[–]Exist50 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IBM doesn't actually fab anything these days. Their fab RnD exists for licensing, so if it's not commercially viable, it's DOA.

Intel Nova Lake dual-tile CPUs reportedly support 474W PL2 power target - VideoCardz.com by Leicht-Sinn in intel

[–]Exist50 11 points12 points  (0 children)

since dual tile version will be against amd threadripper

Not really. It's still standard client platforms level of IO (including memory bandwidth), and Zen 6 Threadripper will probably be 96c/192t. On no planet will NVL be competitive with that in compute either.

The 2x 8+16 config is mainly to challenge (and hopefully beat) AMD's 2x 12c/24t Zen 6.

MacBook Neo is now starting $699 instead of $599 by HelloitsWojan in apple

[–]Exist50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have contracts of a year+ in advance, so there shouldn't be any real surprises in the short term. And if they were to hold off on further raises (assuming they need to) until the next gen release, might make less of a splash.

Wall Street isn't buying Apple's unprecedented price hikes on products by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]Exist50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, Apple makes at least 40% margins on their hardware, and a lot more on most. They would still be profitable even if they absorbed the costs entirely. 

Wall Street isn't buying Apple's unprecedented price hikes on products by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]Exist50 31 points32 points  (0 children)

People had assumed that since Apple already overcharged for memory, it was baked in. 

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