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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.worldDELETED
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    Eh Intel’s data center GPUs suck. Gaudi was okay, but gained no critical mass and is being phased out, Xe-HPC is being phased out and was hardly used anywhere, even Falcon Shores keeps getting delayed and looks to be in trouble going by statements about focusing on “consumer inference.” They seem dead in the water here, which is very worrying.

    The MI300X is actually good, but AMD totally blew it by ignoring a few glaring software issues and not seeding development with consumer GPUs, hence it’s not gaining much traction. The MI300A (the big APU) basically isn’t available or cost effective in any cloud instances.


  • I’d say one major difference is that most US citizens are just ignorant of what’s going on and don’t contort themselves to support whatever war crime Netanyahu is committing now or play “what about X country.” Yeah a few old gheezers remember when Israel was fighting for survival, which is apparently who Biden caters to, but they are living in a different decade.

    If the US, my country, invaded Mexico for being “A proxy against the US” and isolating us or whatever, I would sure as hell want China and Russia to send the narcos nukes for us being such morons, and would take every opportunity to give my government the middle finger, not justify invading a country with a microscopic fraction of our military power. I would hope we fail, miserably, so maybe the lesson sticks this time and the president gets kicked out, no matter what the Mexicans actually did.


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    Their CPUs are mostly fine now. The “small” cores are very competitive in servers because they are so small for their perf, and TBH that desktop drama was marketing clocking the CPUs way too high to squeak out 4% more benchmark performance.

    It’s… everything else that’s the problem, as work is increasingly shifting away from CPUs. They are totally screwed if they cut funding for Arc, in particular, or if they don’t secure any real fab customers.




  • I’ve thought about it as some of my niche interests have dried up on Reddit and apparently only live on Twitter now.

    And maybe Discord. It’s hard to tell because it’s closed, but I see hints of discussion spilling out into GH issues or whatever.

    I despise both for different reasons, but where else am OlI gonna go if I actually want to talk with the community?



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    I don’t even know what I’d do as CEO.

    Pat’s direction was spot on. Cut “side” divisions to focus on their core, stick with long term bets most CEOs wouldn’t (like the GPU division) and try to cut the delays.

    …But the delays keep coming!

    If they just can’t launch products on time with whatever rot is in the company, I’m not sure what Intel is supposed to do.

    …So whoever they hire as CEO now is probably there to just distribute golden parachutes and eat the company as it dies :/


  • No, but it’s not unimportant.

    As dystopian as it is, we are stuck with AI, and there are two futures:

    • Stagnant, earth burning, censored corporate APIs.

    • Open weight, power efficient, extensively community modified, locally or “swarm” run models.

    And it really is urgent, because the later has a great fighting shot now, but funding/regulation dries up for it, it will never catch up again. Altman an the “AI bros” know this which is why they are pushing the AI danger angle so hard… so you can only by it from them.







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    At risk of going off topic, I don’t like Twitter posts like this:

    • Both users ‘verified,’ essentially paying for more engagement, but with no actual “verification” like community mods tagging users.

    • In your face engagement metrics all over the posts, as if that’s all that matters. Not even a user “poll” like Lemmy/Reddit or Mastadon/Facebook.

    • Hiding most replies other than the most algorithmically engaging ones.

    • Posted as a screenshot, unfortunately necessary as they essentially broke Nitter and it’s nigh unusable unless logged in.

    I don’t like that the Twitter format is kinda the center of the social media universe, and seemingly staying that way now that we basically voted to back it with the US govt.