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Yeah, I remember reading something a while back about this but, I'm not super confident on the source either tbh.

Source: AMD Rumored To Enter The "Smartphone Markets", Likely Introducing APU-Like "Ryzen AI' SoCs WCCFTECH.COM AMD is rumored to enter the "smartphone markets" and is already in talks with integrators to have its "Ryzen AI" mobile SoCs in smartphones. I always buy the latest Samsung smartphones as that's usually what works best for me (though Pixels are always on my radar). Would be interesting to see what an AMD powered smartphone might look like. Bring on the Extreme smartphone cooling!

I hope we do.. lol

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Perhaps I can toss in a 1050TI or 2070 if I get that rig up in time

Oh wow, nice. I have never played STALKER or the MSFS games, the trailers look good though. I watched a YouTube video but cannot remember the name of the channel where the host was talking about those 'middle-ground' type of game devs and how they are disappearing, gobbled up or closed down. It was a good video, if I can find it I'll add here. It's eye opening when I read that some AAA games cost 200-400 million dollars and I think, "maybe I'll buy it when its $20-30".

It's good to experience this masterpiece every now and then

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I suspect when you eliminate costs, for a time, they will enjoy increased free cash flow which many investors want to see. I'm always vaguely interested in the bigger Blizzard IP, seems that they have been working to win our dollars.

I do like dividends but I don't like waves of layoffs. Not sure the first actually requires the other to be honest. Blizzard seemingly does appear to be doing a lot with its IP and that is definitely something having 5 games in the to 10. 500B in annual revenue by 2030, that's the goal: https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/06/28/microsoft-stock-double-2030-satya-nadella-predict/

On the money there. When I talk to people and mention QLC you can see it on their faces, lower endurance, lower performance, and they cost too much. With the inflation everyone has seen, market changes in NAND, and the desire to manufacture things with lower and lower cost QLC really felt like a downgrade but at the prices people were paying for TLC (or more). I would not mind at all having my main system run a decently sized TLC drive with DRAM and then faster (likely the newer tech) QLC drives with HMB for bulk game storage for example to save on cost. I look at optane drives every so often and always end up with some in my cart but never make the purchase. I definitely want at least one to test with though.

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Faster QLC is definitely a win! I've tested a few more QLC drives lately, with HMB a lot of recent QLC drives are reasonable in terms of performance and the endurance isn't always terrible. I've found it's very unlikely that non enthusiasts / some gamers require more than ~1GBps SSDs or endurance ratings above 300TBW. I'd argue most enthusiasts / gamers probably don't need more then that either but, it is certainly welcomed when it fits in the budget. I've been thinking about re-working how I test SSDs to see what really matters in terms of value:$

I didn't look into the rumor much previously but that would really be an interesting product, a laptop form-factor PC with lots of compute based on ARM + nVidia. I don't often see a whole lot of love toward Windows and ARM for example but, I don't really search that information out to be honest. Intels jump into GPUs has been rocky but can definitely be solved by more investment. Will be interesting to see what nVidia can do since they likely have the funding to make it work.