Recent content by Marees

See Intel & AMD are hardware companies Nvidia is a software company (cuda / dlss / raytracing denoiser etc.) that is vertically integrated like apple I believe Nvidia was the first with programmable/unified shaders & outsourcing to Taiwanese foundries/TSMC So AMD & Intel would like to be in...

Cool. So RDNA 4 will be cheap then Only RDNA 5 will be impacted

Microsoft announces DirectSR preview Today, Microsoft announced the public preview of DirectSR. Native support for DirectSR is provided in GPU drivers, where vendors tune their SR implementation for optimal hardware performance. DirectSR includes built-in support for GPU-agnostic variants...

INTEL NEEDS TO EXCAVATE MORE SAND Due to its wealth of fertile soil and loess, the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany has been home to people for thousands of years. The area that Intel picked to build its new fab turned out to be a "highly complex, long-used burial and ritual landscape,"...

What if, LLMs have reached the stage of diminishing returns ?? https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/evidence-that-llms-are-reaching-a

Google has done stuff with AI such as deepmind/alpha zero that work in a closed environment with clear rules. However I am deeply skeptical of this LLM stuff, if it requires additional (manual) step to verify the output

LLM is useful for summarizing the contents of any one website However to synthesize contents across multiple websites, there should be a weighting algorithm (like google used to have number of links metric for traditional search) I don't have knowledge in this area, but I hope there is a...

This feels like a bad mis-step from google Strangely, they don't seem to care at all that they have trashed the USP of their cash cow

When mistakes cropped up in Google’s very first demo of Bard in February 2023, shares of Alphabet dropped 7%, wiping $100 billion off the company’s value. On Friday, as more social posts of its latest gaffes went viral, they opened up almost 1%. Wall Street doesn’t seem to care. Does Google...

Why Google is (probably) stuck giving out AI answers that may or may not be right Is Google going to have to backtrack on this? No, says Google, which argues that the dumb answers it has been generating are few and far between. And that most people don't know or care about search answers that...

Apparently this has now been tested (& proved to work): Google AI said to put glue in pizza so I made a pizza with glue and ate it https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-ai-said-to-put-glue-in-pizza-so-i-made-a-pizza-with-glue-and-ate-it/articleshow/110406679.cms

A speculative blog analysis from last year What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud? Some possible economic and geopolitical implications Microsoft, up for the year by nearly half, perhaps largely on the promise of generative AI, might see a stock slump; NVIDIA skyrocketing even more...

Valve is on track to sell more consoles than Microsoft Already Microsoft lead on average daily sales has shrunk to less than 50% Eventually Microsoft might give up making xbox & instead open up xbox OS to allow installation of Steam

Windows Central's Jez Corden calls the next move by Microsoft to break Sony's PlayStation exclusivity on games. Bring Steam to the next Xbox(es) He expects Microsoft to release an Xbox OS that can be used by other PC partners to build their own version of the console (Phil Spencer had already...

The tariffs add a 25% duty on graphics cards, motherboards, and desktop PC cases. Over the past year, the US Trade Representative (USTR) has delayed restoring the Trump-era tariffs, which added a 25% duty on affected Chinese goods. The goal was to gather feedback from the industry and consider...