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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Kisai in Intel designs an improved 12VHPWR Plug Connector   
    There's "built with error in mind" and then there is "built with the incompetency of the average weaponized-lawsuit American"
     
    It has to literately be idiot-proof. One of those ways to ensure that happens is by over-engineering the connector and having fuses. In fact the way that could have been prevented would be by having resettable fuses on the PSU side to prevent single-wire over-current. Or even dumb in-line fuses on modular cables so that they all blow sequentially before the GPU connector overheats. 
     
    Or you know, just having a thermal diode under the connector so that if it crosses the expected thermal limit, it tells the GPU to dial back power until the thermals drop, and send an error that the GPU is being safety throttled.
     
    The only reason anything melted is because the connector was under-engineered. Even previous 6/8 pin connectors sometimes melted due to user error, but it was never large quantities of cards, it tended to be people who were doing something stupid, like crypto mining while not using cables that can support that power.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Rent-A-Worker in Subject for WAN show? - EA app fully broken, thousands of players can't play their games   
    What I dislike the most of this transition, is the way EA forces you to move to their broken EA App.
     
    Your origin launcher working fine? Here is an ad for our new app that you cannot close or skip, that prevents you from interacting with settings or your games. Reinstalling origin or trying to use an older version? Nope, EA has hidden a flag/program that splashes the same ad on your screen.
     
    I can understand depreciating old software and not providing support, but surely making a working program non-functional is a dick move.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Kisai in  AI Created images (generated by Midjourney) lose registered copyrights   
    Summary
     AI Created images (generated by Midjourney) lose registered copyrights.
     
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    My thoughts
     
    Well, so using Midjourney to create an image leads to uncopyrightable images.
     
    We're probably going to see a few more of these stories for similar "full disclosure" of AI generated materials (eg GPT3/ChatGPT) but there will be further consequences for uses of AI in accessibility spaces (eg, someone who used an AI to write a story and generate images, because they're unable to use their hands) but other that that, I feel that there's going to be some deceptive copyright fights where fights to invalidate a copyright registration will be on the basis that the copyrighted work shows no WIP/draft versions to assure human authorship.
     
     
    Sources
    https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-created-images-lose-us-copyrights-test-new-technology-2023-02-22/
    https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klpygnkyrpg/AI COPYRIGHT decision.pdf
     
    Update:
     
    So the guidance can be summarized as "you must disclose the use of AI and the prompt used"
     
    Guidance https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-03-16/pdf/2023-05321.pdf
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/us-issues-guidance-on-copyrighting-ai-assisted-artwork/
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Andrei Chiffa in Swiss DoD research arm releases a report on LLMs in cyber-security (and cites WAN show)   
    Summary
    Cyber-Defense campus, a research arm of the Swiss DoD in everything related to cyber-security and cyber-defense, has released a first version of its report on the impact Large Language Models could have on cyber-security. After an introduction of the tech behind LLM, reviewing current models, and citing some fundamental limitations, they list the main threats they see, with the ones most relevant to the LTT audience being:
     - Phishing, especially when they have already compromised a system and can use Microsoft Office 365 Copilot
     - Ability to search better and deeper and have summarization of findings 
     - Vulnerability of the code generated by them, unlikely to be detected by beginner coders most likely to use them to write code
     - Private information leakage from interactions with models when they are learning from interactions
     - Hijacking systems that are controlled by LLMs (a bit like SQL injections)
     
    In the part where they review Bing Chat and GPT-4, they cite and link the Feb 10th WAN show with a timestamp as the source for their evaluation of abilities and the most likely architecture and training modes used to achieve it.
     
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    My thoughts
    Looks like a report that falls straight into the intersection of the currently two hot topics for LTT over the last couple of months. I would have been curious to hear Luke's take on the subject. 
     
    Also, watching professionally and with straight face Linus and Luke going nuts live for almost an hour, Two Soyjacks style, might have been a new experience for some of them.
     
    Sources
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12132
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Kisai in ChatGPT voice gets interviewed for 24 minutes on YouTube about the implications of AI on Automation and careers   
    It's also very much likely that's not going into the model when it returns that, it's likely something pushed into the output  given certain inputs (eg words containing "replace workers", "replace humans", "hire to do", etc)
     
    Just like the "jailbreaking" stories. People have to realize that you aren't teaching it anything. You can temporarily modify the inference state, but it never actually contributes that back to it's model.
     
    https://kotaku.com/chatgpt-ai-openai-dan-censorship-chatbot-reddit-1850088408
    https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zlcyr9/dan_is_my_new_friend/
     
    More to the point however, people who are fooling around with it, keep trying to humanize it, like it would seek to replace a human, when that's not at all "intelligent" in that way. It only responds to input. It doesn't sit there burning compute cycles thinking about anything when you haven't prompted it for anything.
     
    At best, don't use it for anything you could just use wikipedia for. It's very likely that any answer given by ChatGPT that is essentially a "what is..." is going to be less accurate than just a wikipedia crowd source article of the same thing. Where GPT's should be "better" is at generating text that needs to pass a certain level of readability where someone with a non-native understanding of English could not do it (eg outsourcing to Amazon mechanical turk would not produce something better.)
     
     
    edit: 
    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-spills-its-secrets-via-prompt-injection-attack/
    Well maybe don't assume people won't want to f with it then. You're connecting instanced chaos to the internet.
     
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Sauron in ChatGPT voice gets interviewed for 24 minutes on YouTube about the implications of AI on Automation and careers   
    That's not really how this works. ChatGPT doesn't "think" anything. It's not relaying to you beliefs it holds or facts it has access to. It's only generating what is most likely to be the next message in the current conversation if it were being held between humans online.
     
    So what you're actually getting is the average answer you'd get from a human as calculated from a snapshot of the internet from 2 years ago. It's dangerous to ascribe these tools any greater insight on what they do and their future than the average human would have after reading a relevant wikipedia page.
     
    Further, this:
    probably isn't an organic answer. There are filters put in place by OpenAI to avoid getting in trouble if ChatGPT accidentally oversells itself; think of them as disclaimers built into the tool.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Roswell in Fingerprint for Attendance   
    To state the obvious, you shouldn’t even be entertaining the idea of collecting stranger’s biometric data. Wildly inappropriate in the context of what you describe. In some states it would be straight up illegal to store their biometrics, in the others it would be legally dubious at best and open you up to lawsuits.
     
    All of that aside, I imagine you’d have at least a handful of people causing a scene over it.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Kisai in LTT on Mastodon   
    The problem with Mastodon is that it's silo'd.
     
    Silo'd social networks are basically a similar concept to discord servers. There is always someone in control of the server, moderating it. It operates at a smaller scale than twitter. However, because it's silo'd, that means you're basically in a preaching-to-the-choir setup which works fine if you're in a peer group, eg "tech journalists" but not "tech fans"
     
    Much of the problem can be levied at how de-centralized systems tend to fail to address why things become centralized.
     
    People used twitter, because their friends are using twitter, or the people they are fans of are using twitter. If they are not there, and are silo'd off into another server, then there is no point being in server A where the person is if you're not part of Server A's silo'd community and there's no point making account somewhere else because you won't see person's A content unless you're the one to repost it to yours.
     
    It's like how many of you are in 10+ discord servers? Now how many of you actually interact with all of them? For me, it's at most, two. The rest are there to occasionally read, but I'm not in their "fan community" more or less. There is not enough time in the world to interact with other fans of whatever thing the discord I'm in is for. If I can't interact with the person I'm a fan of, then it's a pointless effort. That's why Twitter is good, because you can interact (even if it's largely ignored) with the person you're a fan of, and sometimes they will interact back. But Discord? No that stuff just disappears into void after a few hours unless you go looking for it.
     
    And that's the problem with Mastodon as well. It good to be on it, but you're unlikely to actually use it because of the silo'd nature unless you're using it with a peer community (eg journalists, artists) but you aren't going to use it to get clients, and that's why creators won't use it.
     
    If people are wondering where everyone is going:
    Tumblr - if they're a general content creator
    Youtube - yes, there are social media posts on youtube that barely anyone uses. 
    Tiktok - if you're just into video
    Patreon-like services (eg Patreon, Onlyfans, Fansly, Subscribestar, Fanbox)
    Facebook/Instagram - I've heard of a few people going back to IG  but otherwise it's a dead service due to Meta also setting the place on fire.
    DeviantArt or Pixiv - For non-comic/manga artists to post their artwork.
     
    Mastodon appears to be appealing to a cross section of microblogging journalists, but it's just not appealing and too complicated for non-tech people to understand.
    Cohost is another service that seems to want to emulate the look and feel of twitter, but *shrug* that's about it.
     
    I think people need to stop and look before going "where are people fleeing twitter to?" because it's more likely that twitter is a ship that is already sinking, and it's the owner who set the fires. Just because one service is touted as the place to go, doesn't mean everyone is going there. Mastodon's core principles are actually more sensible than twitter, but people will read it as left-leaning, which means that it will be much more of a left-wing echo chamber over time.  https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
     
    But before I discourage anyone...
     
    There are mastodon servers who are disconnected from the federated "universe" due to hate or other illegal activities.
     

    https://axbom.com/fediverse/
     
    So maybe Twitter's collapse will push some innovation here, but I think it's just going to result in a bunch of these merging and then breaking off when the need for ad revenue to operate it becomes high enough that it can't self-finance.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Middcore in LTT on Mastodon   
    Isn't a big part of Mastadon's whole thing is that it isn't one site, it's a bunch of servers each with their own management similar to Discord?
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to TheawesomeMCB in New EU Law Could Force Apple to Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability   
    Summary
    The DMA EU bill came full force yesterday, this bill could force apple for sideloading, other app stores, and iMessage inter-compatibility.
     
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    My thoughts
    I think apple is in a really tight corner now. It’s either comply with the DMA laws. Or leave Europe but lose ~24% of its revenue and on top of that probably risk country’s to quickly pass bills and get hit with a anti trust because of anti consumer and anti competitive behavior if they did that. And if they just try to Geo lock it, I feel like buying a iPhone from Europe will skyrocket. So either way it’s a lose lose for apple.
     
    Sources
    https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/01/dma-eu-law-could-force-major-changes-apple/?fbclid=IwAR0T7Ulnov8ShDyiT0zv4zSOFJK4DqLVEWE8fGrY1eyLQtMMydyEmUict-o
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to AlTech in Apple policy document admits withholding security fixes for devices not on the latest supported OSes   
    Summary
     
    Apple has released a policy document clarifying their policies on security updates.
     
    Most of the information contained in the document was already known but, Apple admitted withholding security fixes from minor OS versions (what it calls "updates") that aren't on the latest OS version (what it calls " upgrades").
     
    The policy said that whilst older supported "upgrades" would get some security ffixe in updates, not all security fixes are backported in updates provided to supported older "upgrades".
     
    Security researchers have suspected this but were never able to prove this was the policy until Apple released the policy document admitting this.
     
    This means that the only way to truly be safe against security issues on Apple Hardware is to stay on the latest OS version.
     
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    My thoughts
     Not gonna lie I think this should be illegal. If an OS version is a supported OS and the decekopers know it has security issues they should be legally obligated to fix them or to drop support for that OS entirely.
     
    The justification provided by Apple that new OS versions have different dependencies on architecture changes and system changes sounds legit until you realuze that macOS hasn't changed that drastically under the hood since macOS 11 and even then the only major under the hood change was ARM64 support; most of the other changes were cosmetic changes.
     
    Sources
     https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-security-update-policy-only-the-latest-oses-are-fully-patched/
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Linthonus in (Alternative Timeline) Anthony Tech Tips Hires Linus Sebastian   
    WARNING: This topic is based off an alternative timeline in the LCU (Linus Cinematic Universe) where Anthony founded the Anthony Media Group and hired Linus Sebastian in May 2017.
     
    Anthony woke from a long and satisfying sleep in 2008. He rose, recording some video about overclocking a secret AMD processor to 3.6GHz.
     
    The result of the video? In the first week, it got 1,000 views. This was exciting for Anthony, as nobody had viewed him before.
     
    So Anthony married a girl called Yvonne a few years later. How? He threatened to eat her if she didn't.
     
    Then after he quit NCIX where he was working for a few years, he decided it was time to go Lone Wolf and record his own vids.
     
    He called his friend Luke and got to work in his garage, and not long after that his videos got over one views each. 
     
    In May 2017, after making over $4,000,000 USD in profit, he got a job application from Linus Sebastian. He hired him immediately! Linus made a great host, but his personality and energy was piss annoying, so he was waiting for an opportunity to lay him off.
     
    The perfect time came when Linus dropped an expensive Apple iMac display, cracking it. Anthony called Linus into his office, and after 30 bare bottom lashes with 10 braided ethernet cables, he gave him a choice:
    - Leave ATT immediately with a generous severance package (salary paid in full for an extra 3 months after leaving formal employment)
    OR
    - Accept half his salary (=$22,000 per year instead of $44,000!)
     
    What should Linus do? Should he take the severance package? Or should he take the lower salary? 
     
    CLUE: If he picks the half salary, this would make him a peasant in ATT. He would need to work his way up to the CEO rank. What did he choose? He poisoned Anthony's drink, and while he was looking for graphics cards in the warehouse but failing because his employees take them home all the time, Linus changed his will to read:
    "ON THE EVENT OF MY DEATH, I ANTHONY YOUNG GIVE MY ENTIRE COMPANY TO.... [crossed out Yvonne] Linus Sebastian!"
     
    Anthony found out this when he was on his deathbed 2 hours later, poisoned. Yvonne said: "I will miss you." Anthony replied:  "Take care of yourself!" "Teach my kids how to overclock AMD processor to 3.6GHz!" to which she replied "no"
    And then Anthony Died. The last word he heard was from his lawyer who said: "Linus will take care of your business."
    Then he coughed blood and died. He was laid to rest in the halls of his fathers.

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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Roswell in Voice cloning creepy? NOT this!! Dell + Intel use the technology for good   
    This feels like a great use of the tech in comparison to how creepy Amazon's presentation was.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to AnonymousGuy in Youtube most replayed parts   
    I like it in principle.  I can see it being better for small channels because instead of your viewing time being hogged by a 9M sub channel with a 15 minute video that has a 30 second "hook", you can get through that video in 5 minutes and have 10 minutes to watch other videos.
     
    The only complaint is going to be from clickbait youtubers and generally shitty ones who are padding their videos to run more ads.  And...who cares what they think they're not *really* adding value to the platform anyways.
     
    Take this for example:
     
     
    The answer is 30 seconds long.  It's a 11 minute video.
     

     
    Hey look the system works perfectly for getting me to the answer.
     
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Brooksie359 in (Sorry, but Not SORRY. Microsoft AMA about much wanted features) Tali Roth, Says Moving the taskbar is not worth the effort to implement   
    Can anyone tell me what new features they added to windows 11 over windows 10 that would actually justify the switch to windows 11? Because so far it sounds like they took windows 10 and made a worse copy or it. 
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Thaldor in (Sorry, but Not SORRY. Microsoft AMA about much wanted features) Tali Roth, Says Moving the taskbar is not worth the effort to implement   
    Putting to a random spot on the video and I landed on Paul Barr saying what are his favorite shortcuts. Wanna take a guess which was the shortcut this team wanted to really highlight? The Win+Shift+S for snipping tool? The Win+. for emojis? Nope.
     
    Win+F for Feedback Hub to give the Microsoft team feedback, that's very useful shortcut to highlight because our feedback is so valuable and you get to directly give it to Microsoft...
    And I'm being 110% sarcastic here, that is probably the least useful shortcut ever created right after, I don't even know, every shortcut coming to my mind is at least somewhat useful, even the emoji context menu. But directly opening Microsoft Feedback Hub? Maybe if you work at Microsoft it comes handy but for normal user, even enterprise user that is completely useless shortcut. You can write Microsoft feedback and be happy about that but it doesn't mean Microsoft would even read your feedback and probably 99% of feedback is just keyword searched and send right to archive and forgotten there. Maybe if you have Microsoft ugly sweater and belong to the "dancing on the stage is hip and Microsoft rulez 4ever"-fan club, the janitor at Microsoft might take a look and chuckle a bit how you just completely wasted your time, but it ever causing anything more than move to archive? Probably if there were extreme amount of feedback using exact same keywords a light in the attic of Microsoft HQ might start blinking (if it still works) but at that point the whole internet has already screamed at Microsoft at least a week straight to do at least something and leaving more feedback is completely pointless, again.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Dietrichw in (Sorry, but Not SORRY. Microsoft AMA about much wanted features) Tali Roth, Says Moving the taskbar is not worth the effort to implement   
    Microsoft has telemetry data for how many people use certain features, they are prioritizing based off of that. I am annoyed that it can't be moved. I prefer to have my taskbar on my left monitor only (bottom) while having my middle monitor be the default display where fullscreen apps open by default.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to darknessblade in (Sorry, but Not SORRY. Microsoft AMA about much wanted features) Tali Roth, Says Moving the taskbar is not worth the effort to implement   
    Summary
     Tali Roth, Microsoft's Head of Product Says Features like Moving the taskbar to the left or right side of your desktop screen is not a important feature
     
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    My thoughts
    Can someone please start a Petition to get " Tali Roth" FIRED. this is a feature many people want in windows 11 and have been using for decades.
    Claiming apps and programs cannot work with it is UTTER BS. since this has been working fine for AGES, even on Windows 10, there have been no issues at all, even with using Full screen store apps.
     
    Even I use this feature DAILY on every PC and laptop I have. it is really nice having a easy to use list of all programs, folders, etc.
     
    Like when moving about 5+TB from external disks to a NAS disk its easy to have all folders open in a easy to use list {not looking at the TAB feature they implemented in windows 11} as I can open folders in a easy to read list in order of what File goes to what "Temp Folder on my NAS".  before checking all files for duplicates using programs like Windir.
     
    Sources
    https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-changing-taskbar-location-in-windows-11-is-not-important/
    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/will-windows-11-be-adding-the-feature-to-move-our/7336b19f-6d22-4eb1-9d74-234b882793ae
     
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to CT854 in Newegg "Roll[s] a Critical Failure" - Tech Jesus Rants about "Scam"   
    This is genuinely why I love GamersNexus. Even in situations as viscerally egregious as this, the focus never shies away from the fact that this could have (and is in fact evidence supporting reports that it has already) happened to consumers that don't have a platform.
     
    Screw Newegg, seriously. I'm genuinely unsure if there will indeed be a market correction like one Steve talks about in the future wherein companies that push crap just because it sells deal with a reckoning, but I really do hope there is because the fact that Newegg can reasonably get away with this type of behavior because the market keeps them afloat is atrocious to me.
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to leadeater in Newegg "Roll[s] a Critical Failure" - Tech Jesus Rants about "Scam"   
    Watched this earlier today, great watch. Angry Steve is the best Steve
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Nimoy007 in Newegg "Roll[s] a Critical Failure" - Tech Jesus Rants about "Scam"   
    Acccording to Gamer's Nexus, and allegedly multiple comments by viewers of the GN YouTube channel, Newegg has been running what Steve (from Gamer's Nexus) calls a "scam." The "scam" involves consumers being denied refunds by Newegg after returning what are supposedly return-eligible products, specifically motherboards. Newegg has apparently been consistently citing "customer-caused damage to CPU pins" (from the video at the 4:10 mark) as the reason for witholding the funds from would-be RMA-ers. As Steve says, he's heard about the issue for years, and his best way to test the waters was to keep ordering product as normal for the business. Well, Tech Jesus, it looks like you finally got your answer. "...[T]hey rolled the dice on a random number generator, they happened to roll a critical failure for this one."
    Steve reports that after attempting to return a $500 (all-in) motherboard that Gamer's Nexus ended up no longer needing (a fact that they apparently made quite transparent in their return merchandise request), they received an infamous response about customer damage to the board. This Newegg response came despite Steve's claims that the box the product shipped in was never even opened. Tech nerds will be familiar with the protective covers in place in CPU sockets to prevent the very issues Newegg is accusing customers of having caused, so it seems unlikely that the pins or socket could have been damaged in shipping, either to or from the customers.
    Steve basically threw his hands in the air over getting the money back, but admits that creating the video revealing his experience with Newegg will likely make GN back the $500 quite easily and he also expresses his frustration in knowing that the average consumer would not necessarily have the luxary of buying a new part or have a loud enough voice to make the problem see the light of day. It seems likely that tech industry, especially the tech media on YouTube, will have a field day with the story, as they have with past investigations conducted by Gamer's Nexus, such as the biggest GN story of 2021 regarding explosive Gigabyte power supplies. Whatever the outcome, computer builders will likely be enthusiastic to know that they have such an outspoken ally in the tech media and hope to see any wrongdoing (if there is some) on Newegg's part brought to justice.
     
     
    Sources
     "Newegg Scammed Us" - 
     "Exploding Power Supplies: Gigabyte & Newegg Dumping Unsellable Product" - 
     
  22. Informative
    ocanada_techguy reacted to spartaman64 in Star Citizen scaling back plans and no longer posting long term target dates   
    source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/star-citizen-devs-scale-back-roadmap-to-avoid-timeline-distractions/
     
    I actually agree with them throwing out estimated release dates since they don't seem to be hitting them anyways. But if they are going to be removing promised features also, which again I agree with, but they should provide a refund path for people who bought in for those features. Also promising target dates and then not hitting them is their fault not the consumer's fault.
  23. Funny
    ocanada_techguy reacted to leadeater in Chiplets! Chiplets Everywhere! - Intel Patent "Confirms" Work On Multi-Chip-Module GPUs   
    *PCIe 6.0 has entered the chat*
     
    ... 5 years later
     
    *PCIe 7.0 has entered the chat*
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Lightwreather in Chiplets! Chiplets Everywhere! - Intel Patent "Confirms" Work On Multi-Chip-Module GPUs   
    Well, there was one about Intel using MCM for their Server chips (I think, not too sure), then there was AMD with their GPUs and Nvidia also for their Datacenter GPUs. Tho, I think there was also a die shot of Xe-HPG too that sparked something about them using Chiplets for that too. SO yea.
    Again, not too sure
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    ocanada_techguy reacted to Lightwreather in Chiplets! Chiplets Everywhere! - Intel Patent "Confirms" Work On Multi-Chip-Module GPUs   
    Summary
    A recent patent published by Intel (via Underfox) may be the keystone for its future graphics accelerator designs - and it utilizes the Multi-Chip Module (MCM) approach.
     
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    My thoughts
    Ayy, apparently Intel's GPUs are also getting into Multi-Chip Dies (Modules, etc.). And apparently, they're touting SLI/Crossfire -like gains in peformance but more. (To be clear, it's more like older GPUs in SLI according to their graphs.) It's worth noting that not all things detailed in patents see the light of day. But regardless, This is rather interesting actually (at least to me), maybe we'll see some of these in the upcoming Arc Alchemist, I highly doubt that, I feel like it would more likely be introduced in Battlemage or Celestial. Well, we're gonna have to wait and see what comes out of this.
     
    Sources
    Tom's Hardware
    FreePatents
    Underfox
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