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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.

Short road tripping with the wife to an international food store https://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM?si=-BVmiKYCTTElAeXh

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.

It's possible you might be able to flash the card or present it differently with an updated driver but I suspect newer version of Davinci Resolve will not work well with it. I can only suggest trying to run version ~16 on that card from what I saw. Good luck

I'll have to check out the list, very cool work effort. That's kind of awesome about Sim City 3000, I have not seen that game in action in a long time, ha!

I was thinking more along the lines of Concord scale. Ubi doesn't* always release great games but, they seem to keep on chugging with enough sales. Hoping there's some game launch that is too tempting to pass up but right now, I feel like the winner of game launches this year will be Blizzards Classic WoW re-relaunch

I would generally /agree here. They are large enough to absorb a flop'd game and have plenty of IP they can leverage and clearly have planned already. I don't dislike the games they make and will probably pickup their most recent release in a sale eventually. I like my games in the sub ~$20 range

I can't comment on flashing the BIOS on these GPUs but, I do see instances of people claiming to successfully use the Quadro series GPUs. When you look at the Memory and GPU resources allocated inside of Davinci, what do you see? (Click on Davinci Resolve -> Preferences -> Memory and GPU) I'm assuming the M40 will not run out of memory but the RX 470 4gb might, I wonder if you need to deselect that GPU? It's possible your System memory might be too low in DR as well.

This is a good point, it's hard to see what future holds if even just 1-2% of total workers get laid off in multiple industries in a short period of time. Competition for remaining open jobs or available resources would look rough. It's also very difficult to see how another tech company will be any better with our data than the rest.

I find that unsettling. I have had interactions with chatbots and still do that range from bare minimum to extremely poor when attempting to get support. I know that this will eventually completely displace 'level 1' support for technology and likely above but, I'm guessing the customers paying the price literally and figuratively won't care about rising share prices. Even now when I use ChatGPT for assistance with scripting, it still takes work to get what I need from the tool.

Wow, yeah this was a long article The pandemic was an interesting time in history, many people experienced it differently, obviously some better or worse than others. To be honest, I had been living under a video game rock for a long time, I owned the Witcher games thanks to a Humble bundle but had never played them and I had not heard of CyberPunk until maybe a month or two before it's release. I saw the trailers and I had just finished watching Season 1 of Altered Carbon. Even though the show is not at all related, I had never really seen or been exposed to the 'cyber punk' genre. Feeling kind of inspired to play a game that wasn't like other games I was very excited in a short period of time. I also played on an RTX 3060Ti I remember having some issues here and there but I suppose I was so into the story and the world they built, I wasn't upset of the issues and as we all know, the game slowly over time got better and better. I am not a coder / dev but the bit about feeling not good during Christmas during the pandemic, I definitely have felt similar ways on projects and such in the past. Thinking something that was supposed to be awesome turning into a pit in your stomach that you get to walk around with for a while. It was also funny to see the common struggle for gathering opinions and thoughts from a large group of interested members over a chat application. Effective communication can be very difficult sometimes. It's honestly nice to read an article with this kind of detail about 'how it went down on the inside'. It was an interesting read for sure, thanks for sharing it. I will be waiting for the limited Hulu series in between the heavy hitter shows "The Real Story Behind CyberPunk 2077"

I will have to read the full article when I have time but I will say, CP2077 was the first game in a long time I bought at launch, played and really liked. Until then I had been playing mostly very old games.