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91.
by bfrog 10mo ago
Intel losing great people at high speed. Not the first, not the last.
92.
by bfrog 10mo ago
I love the x220 chassis, I wonder what it’d take to make a board with a modern risc chip and open firmware for Linux for this sort of thing.
93.
by bfrog 10mo ago
This should be the sort of red flag to take note of. There’s an LLVM fork for every esoteric architecture now and this sort of thinking will lead to never being able to run your own software on your own hardware again. A reversion to the da
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by bfrog 10mo ago
See here https://intel.github.io/intel-npu-acceleration-library/npu.h... Maybe also note that Qualcomm has renamed their Hexagon DSP to Hexagon NN. Likely the change was adding activation functions but otherwise its a
95.
by bfrog 10mo ago
DSP is simply a compute architecture that focuses on mutliply and accumulate operations on particular numerical formats, often either fixed point q15/q31 type values or floats f16/f32. The basic operation that a NN needs accelerat
96.
by bfrog 10mo ago
We used to call these things DSPs
97.
by bfrog 11mo ago
Well intel did layoff 45k people or so recently.. surely no coincidence
98.
by bfrog 11mo ago
I got a 265kf and motherboard for 350. Plenty fast and saves money for the real issue which is GPU costs. Thankfully B580 is actually a pretty good deal as well at 250 compared to green or red options. Team blue has some good deals out ther
99.
by bfrog 11mo ago
50B worth of meme generating power
100.
by bfrog 11mo ago
Pinebook existed
101.
by bfrog 11mo ago
Quantity yes, quality no.
102.
by bfrog 1y ago
Aren’t TSM fabs in the US little islands of Taiwanese workers? How is this domestic knowledge and manufacturing not exactly?
103.
by bfrog 1y ago
I mean if the experience is as good as any x86 laptop I'd try it in terms of installing any linux distro I want. No interest in android/chromeos myself.
104.
by bfrog 1y ago
The big win would be a linux capable device. I don't have any interest in mac os x but the apple m parts always seem amazing. In theory this would be where qualcomm would come in and provide something but in practice they seem to be st
105.
by bfrog 1y ago
tl;dr... It's still not fast
106.
by bfrog 1y ago
dragonwing docs are where?
107.
by bfrog 1y ago
Uno Q... zero docs available for this dragonwing part from qualcomm, I'd say I'm shocked but... par for the course. I wonder how this will effect Arduino moving forward.
108.
by bfrog 1y ago
Electric cars need a lot fewer mechanical repairs. Sounds like yet more reasons to avoid buying one of these overpriced over complicated petro vehicles.
109.
by bfrog 1y ago
I hope cranelift continues to grow too. LLVM tragically has become fork hell. Every cpu vendor now seems to have a fork with enhancements for their cpu arch in some closed source package. It’s hellish as soon as you want to use another lang
110.
by bfrog 1y ago
I wonder if they will try for a blended wing
111.
by bfrog 1y ago
This is exactly the issue with Qualcomm. If they actually had datasheets/ref manuals/open drivers... it'd be a no brainer. The part looks great. The reality is this company is notoriously a law firm with a small technical sta
112.
by bfrog 1y ago
The wild thing here with a microkernel is that the syscall API to the actual kernel should be theoretically really small right? I get the various little services might change, but ultimately the kernel supporting posix like threading and me
113.
by bfrog 1y ago
Did qualcomm ever get its act together with firmware/drivers and linux? It's a dead end to me if they aren't at an Intel/AMD level of openness on this front.
114.
by bfrog 1y ago
Because it doesn't actually enforce anything and lets you blow your foot off just like C?
115.
by bfrog 1y ago
The self feeding AI has destroyed itself at last
116.
by bfrog 1y ago
X elite uses an older node than lunar lake and does better
117.
by bfrog 1y ago
You mean how they all use tsmc n3 and the two arm parts still beat out lunar lake? It’s not like a whole generational node behind here. I get they aren’t the exact same process node but still.
118.
by bfrog 1y ago
I have, the m4 is significantly ahead by any measure I’ve seen, with snapdragon just behind. https://www.xda-developers.com/tested-apple-m4-vs-intel-luna...
119.
by bfrog 1y ago
Have they reached apple m level of performance/watt after half a decade of the apple m parts being out yet? Do either AMD or Intel beat Apple in any metric in mobile?
120.
by bfrog 1y ago
I'm glad Intel is continuing to make GPUs, really. But ultimately it seems like an uphill battle against a very entrenched monopoly with a software and community moat that was built up over nearly 20 years at this point. I wonder what

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