Intel is Back, Baby! - TechLinked, Sept 20, 2023

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METEORIC RISE

Intel Innovation 2023 –Intel Meteor lake launches Dec 14^th, a glass substrate for chips, lots of AI Stuff,

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1648/intel-innovation-2023-empowering-developers-to-bring-ai

Intel Meteor lake launches Dec 14^th

https://www.anandtech.com/show/20046/intel-unveils-meteor-lake-architecture-intel-4-heralds-the-disaggregated-future-of-mobile-cpus

AI and Wafers

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/intel-innovation-2023-liveblog-meteor-lake-ai-and-a-whole-lotta-wafers

Glass substrate

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-glass-substrates/

 

ALEXA, OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS

Amazon hardware event – some cool devices, but most of the emphasis is on a new LLM-Enabled Alexa

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-2023-devices-event-live-blog

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/amazon-devices-event-live-blog-all-the-big-product-news-as-its-announced

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-18/amazon-devices-event-is-new-chapter-for-alexa-and-echo-speakers

Pivot to AI has reportedly damaged morale

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-devices-unit-morale-wanes-amid-cuts-weak-development-pipeline-sources-2023-09-19/

 

CYBERPUNK 3.5

NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 On September 21st

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/dlss-3-5-available-september-21/

Coming first to Cyberpunk 2077

https://www.engadget.com/nvidias-dlss-35-brings-upgraded-ray-tracing-to-cyberpunk-2077-this-week-174447575.html

Not just an aesthetic improvement

https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-2-0-nvidia-ray-reconstruction/

Roundtable video discussion

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2023-ai-and-the-future-of-graphics-how-nvidia-and-cdpr-pushed-out-rt-visuals-in-cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty

 

QUICKBITS

 

NEITHER SAFETY NOR LIBERTY

The UK passes massive online safety bill that threatens privacy

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/britain-makes-internet-safer-as-online-safety-bill-finished-and-ready-to-become-law

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880919/uk-passes-massive-online-safety-bill

Court blocks California’s online child safety law as likely to increase online harm to children

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/online-child-safety-law-blocked-after-calif-argued-face-scans-not-that-invasive/

 

BROKEN PHONES, BROKEN PROMISES

Ifixit Retroactively drops repairability score for the iPhone 14

https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropping-the-iphones-repairability-score-en

https://www.ign.com/articles/ifixit-lowers-iphone-14-repairability-score

https://www.pcgamer.com/ifixit-says-apples-iphone-14-is-literally-not-repairable-due-to-strict-parts-validation-rule/

 

NO (HUA) WAY

New Huawei SoC features processor cores designed in-house

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/new-huawei-soc-features-processor-cores-designed-in-house/

US finds no evidence Huawei can mass produce advanced phone chips

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/19/us-finds-no-evidence-huawei-can-mass-produce-advanced-phone-chips/

According to this tear-down

https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7nm-n2-huawei-mate-60-pro

 

THE CURE FOR GREED

Tuberculosis Testing Company Agrees to sell basic tests for its genetic testing machine “at cost” in poor countries in response to public pressure

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/09/19/danaher-lowers-price-of-tuberculosis-test-after-pressure-campaign/?sh=5c67ab0e2fdc

Criticism of “printer ink” business model, calls to do more

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/tb-tests-danaher-price-drop-1.6964582

Johnson and johnson also capitulated to a related online campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/18/cheaper-tb-drugs-for-millions-after-global-deal-on-patent-rights-agreed

 

FREE BRAIN PROBE

Neuralink is recruiting subjects for the first human trial of its brain-computer interface

https://neuralink.com/blog/first-clinical-trial-open-for-recruitment/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/19/elon-musk-neuralink-human-trials-brain-implant

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/tech/musk-neuralink-human-trials/index.html

[Shimejii]

QC seemed to have failed to catch the last whole minute of video being black screen lol. 

[D1am0nd]

8 hours ago, Shimejii said:

QC seemed to have failed to catch the last whole minute of video being black screen lol. 

Fixed now