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What? Fujitsu has been making supercomputers in Japan for decades.

Its ARM predecessor started in 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer)

And before that they were the using SPARC64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC64_V

CAD vs USD is rather stable, varying between 0.70-0.73 the last 12 months though trending down from 0.8 in the last 60 months.

There is a nuance: Xiaomi is not Huawei. They were not sanctioned. This chip is made in Taiwan like all the non-Samsung competition.

In this case it's more that multiple companies (Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and now Xiaomi) have used the same process (N3P) to produce multiple chips with similar performance. Regardless of Moore's Law death that isn't surprising.

Also note that CPU cluster here is about ~30.5 sq mm. That's about 50% larger than the A19 Pro (~20 sq mm).

No free lunch.

Xiaomi has not been sanctioned like Huawei. So it is made by TSMC on N3P. The Huawei chips, made by SMIC, are so far behind they're not competitive at all with even Xiaomi's first generation chip.

It's an ARM-designed CPU core, made in Taiwan. Very little difference from say MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity SoC just announced earlier because it is made on TSMC N3P instead of N2.

I don't think they have any angle with that.

Canada has basically the same debt to GDP ratio: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/GG_DEBT_GDP@GDD/CAN/...

It's likely a really bad idea for either side to tariff the other but as I understand Canada feels a bit forced here. And is likely thinking this will only be a few years of pain.

Memory prices are cyclical. But this is bigger and longer than most cycles.

I guess they don't bother using Speedtest in Switzerland, as the average speed seems about the same as the US: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

Must be a sampling bias or something.

AMD's first Athlon chips did not run particularily hot. They needed a fan, just like Williamette chips, but actually used less power than the competition. The difference was they had no internal, on-chip diode. If the heatsink and fan fell off, then the chip could cook itself. The boards had a thermal sensor to initiate shutdown if the fan stopped working. But it's debateable if it would detect it quickly enough if the entire cooler fell off.

In that scenario, shutting it off seems better. But it might roast itself on start up anyway.

The plan doesn't involve running fabs again. Too expensive. IBM licenses their manufacturing technology (so far to Rapidus in Japan).

No, it stems from a lineage of Tegra chips that pre-date the M-Series. This chip was called GB10. One of its predecessors, GV10 was shipped in 2018. It was a 256 bit, unified-memory system on a chip with a Volta GPU and 12 ARM Cores. GB10 is a 256 bit, unified-memory system on a chip with a Blackwell GPU and 10+10 ARM cores.

MediaTek designed X925 + A725 CPU. It's already been benchmarked in the GB10 products. It is not even close. Like 0.75x SPECint 2017 of the M5.

It's the same configuration as GB10. 20 core MediaTek 3nm part which is competitive with a AMD's 2025 16 core 4nm part with similar power draw.

https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cpu2...

What's the real cause of them being unable to price competitively?

Is it DRAM, NAND flash storage, SoC cost, simply scale?

I must also admit to preferring Sim City 3000 over 4. I don't know if I can handle a 4K user interface without a magnifier, however.

I suspect general attitude to AI will split along those who had to apply for jobs in the post-AI world of automatic resume generation and filtering and those who didn't.

There's little reason at this price. I run both, Plex for people who are already used to it, and Jellyfin for myself and anyone new. At around ~$100 I think the Plex experience was better enough to justify it, personally.

Nethack embeds Lua 5.4.8, so you don't need it installed from a distribution's package manager. As long as your system can build C99* it can build Lua. And given that Nethack 5.0.0 is C99, this dependency is not reducing portability any further.

* Lua has a LUA_USE_C89 flag so it may be more portable than Nethack 5.0.0 at this point.

@jasoneckert For the sake of science, can you disable your e cores and try this test again?

Question: do those vectorize code as in the example here? I was of the understanding they performed a more limited subset of optimizations.

Some instructions are microcoded but others take the fast path and avoid the microcode sequencer. Can't patch the latter in microcode RAM.

It does not. For any of the dual CCD parts AMD has ever released for consumers. Even Strix Halo which has higher bandwidth, lower latency interconnect doesn't make a single L3 across CCDs.

It'll probably only happen when they have a singular, large die filled with cache upon which both CCDs are stacked.

Run this test if you're curious: https://github.com/ChipsandCheese/MemoryLatencyTest

Per compute die it functions as one 96M L3 with uniform latency. It is 4 cycles more latency than the configuration with smaller 32M L3. But there are two compute dies, each with their own L3. And like the 9950X coherency between these two L3 is maintained over global memory interconnect to the third (IO) die.

> 16MB L2 (8MB per die?)

It is indeed 8MB per compute die but really 1MB per core. Not shared among the entire CCD.

It is 2 separate cache dies bonded to 2 separate compute dies which in turn maintain coherency and access memory via Infinity Fabric in the single IO die.

So do you have a lot of trust in people that "cannot hope of ever achieving a comfortable life"? It seems like a risky proposition.

>And the government did nothing.

Why didn't a private investment company, even venture capital, extend them a bridge loan? It seems like the type of technology that could have decent returns in licensing fees.

I ask this question because it seems odd to someone in the software world so flooded with startups that the government would be expected to intercede on behalf of a startup.

Unfortunately Apple is learning to be as annoying too. I don't want to upgrade to Tahoe which is inscrutable to me. Maybe remind me next year. But they pop up every week reminding me to "upgrade" even though most the problems are unfixed. They have pushed iCloud in the settings application as if it is an adboard.

Hopefully they stop but I recognize these steps from Windows slippery slope.