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TSMC prepares for 2nm trial production using AI-assisted process WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Sources have told Taiwan outlet Economic Daily that TSMC has started pre-production work on 2nm... Sounds like the AI assistance could lead to some power efficiency gains.

Smart phones made computing accessible in a super mobile way. VR/AR headsets are a luxury device and it doesn't look like that will change anytime soon. People need smartphones today, but they don't need headsets. Personality I've never spent more than $300 on a phone. Phones are also a bit different since most people end up paying for them over time as part of their monthly bill. I agree they will likely release a cheaper version at some point, but I doubt it will be $800. $1500 maybe.

Just to clarify something, the headset is not transparent. There is a screen on the outside that shows the person's eyes. I'm not up to date on the latest VR headsets, but I feel like there have got to be other headsets that do AR in this way but simply don't have a screen on the outside showing a display of the persons eyes.

Definitely give them credit for waiting this long and making their first headset a top notch one. It is a very impressive device, but VR overall is still far too expensive to be mainstream and this just pushes the price further into the extreme high end. Hopefully prices on VR will come down over the coming years, but so far it seems like it's only gotten more expensive. The fact that I could buy a gaming PC with a 4090 and a high end VR headset for less, or two PS5s and PSVR2 headsets for substantially less is a problem. But it's apple, this is what they do so no surprise there. I can imagine a lot of old people with money to spare buying this in sort of the same way old people bought the Wii when it came out.

The only thing new it brings to the table is higher res. There are other stand alone headsets. Not knocking the headset, just the price. The m2 chip is not a $1300 chip, and the cost is just too high. Good product, bad price.

Hololens is not marketed as a consumer products, but even if it were... it's the same price so I'm not sure it's a win. I'm sure apple will find ways to package it with add ons to make $3500 be the base price just like with hololens; perhaps they'll simply start selling an egregiously priced stand to go with it. Hololens is a different tech, both headsets have their advantages and disadvantages. I don't think making the screen semi-transparent and making each screen 4K justifies the price, which is 7 times more than a PSVR2.

Apple reveals Vision Pro AR headset, arrives early next year for $3,500 WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Apple capped off its WWDC23 presentation by revealing its long-anticipated augmented reality headset... Looks like a quality headset... that price tho, yikes.

AMD's Future Developments: Ryzen 8000 and Navi 3.5 (guru3d.com) I hope they don't design more CPUs that hit their max temp under normal working conditions going forward.

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Agreed, but it does seem like a future where HDD become almost entirely replaced by SSDs could be getting close.

Bought a 2TB NVME Mushkin drive, 3200mbps read 2500mbps write for $80 on Newegg yesterday. 1TBs are down to ~$35. At this rate, HDDs entire existence is coming into question.

I agree with this point but I think it needs to be said that not all tools are equal. AI is a tool, but it's one hell of a multi-purpose tool, and one that is going to be continually improving for all foreseeable future. No amount of hammers will figure out how to do the most tedious and labor-intensive parts of a lawyer's job, or write everything from simple memos to detailed articles, or learn how to pass medical exams. AI is a tool, but it's an incredibly disruptive one that we are only scratching the surface of right now. I have no doubt AI will cause major shifts in society during our lifetimes, at least for those of us under 50 or so. Even just imagining a time when self-driving cars becomes the standard instead of a rare feature seems like something that would have a huge impact on society, and that is a very real thing that will almost for sure happen in the next few decades. Once we put a good enough AI in a good enough machine that it can build more machines like itself, it's a whole new world and we're really not that far away. Sometimes AI makes me think about the Fermi Paradox and makes me wonder if perhaps there are places in the universe were an intelligence life form once existed, created advanced AI that can self-replicate and self-improve and thus outlived its creators; and there is some kind of AI swarm out there, or perhaps many.

In this context, it's the person controlling the drone. Not an AI term.

This test was a simulation specifically to see how an opporator would be able to respond if the AI drone stopped accepting commands. It was literally the point of the test. Pure click bait.

If anything, I think AI is undervalued. It's advancements come quick now, and it's rate of expansion is only going to increase. Nvidia does have somewhat of a monopoly right now just by being the only big player in town, but the AI market overall is still young.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-approaches-1-trillion-valuation-as-investors-embrace-ai-boom.html AMD and Intel need to catch up ASAP!

Nvidia beat it's most recent earnings call the other day. That's not mindshare, that's real money.

It doesn't make sense to compare AI to crypto at all. They have nothing in common other than that they both use GPUs. AI serves a real purpose, it's definitely not at all a similar kind of fad.

AI is flexible enough now to be used by a much wider audience for everyday tasks. It's only going to grow. Definitely not hype. Investing in companies poised to benefit from growth in AI is like living in the desert and investing in water right now. There's no limit on how much the AI industry can grow.

This is offensive. Reported.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/radeon_rx_7600_review,1.html Cheaper and slower than a 4060Ti. Similarly disappointing.

It's basically a 3060 variant/refresh with DLSS3 tacked on, but because DLSS3 does use some amount of Vram, it can't really help the 4060Ti get to 4K when it runs out of Vram well before that. It might be able to take a game running at 1080p or 1440p and double the frame rate, but since it already performs well at low res, so what? If you can't use the upscaling to get to 4K, it's pointless. It really is mindboggling. I usually like to argue devil's advocate but there is just nothing that can be said to defend this card. 4060 and up should have been 12GBs 4070 should have been 16GBs 4080 should have been 20GBs Would have thought Nvidia would try to redesign their GPUs to be more flexible on ram sizes after the 3000 series cards. I'm not that technical, but AMD figured it out soo.... It seems like it would have been such low hanging fruit for Nvidia to just no skimp on Vram this time and have huge success in the market, but instead another failed series is just going to lead to them lowering production to inflate the prices most likely.

Saw a video talking about it, but maybe the number was somewhat exaggerated.

Just a quick note, $400 today would be about $280 in pre pandemic-greedflation numbers. It's still a pathetic card, but the price isn't quite as bad as it looks.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_rtx_4060_ti_8gb_(fe)_review,31.html At low res, it can perform like a 3070. In high res it's worse than a 1080Ti, occasionally even worse than a 1070.