Broadcom is actually fabless, except for some mostly irrelevant research facilities.

I have a crappy old IDE (not even SATA) cdrom in my closet which I bought a usb to IDE cable for. I can't find the power bricks to any of my old laptops with working DVD or CD drives. I think it would be hillarious if they just made a CD with an autorun.inf that played Never Gonna Give You Up. How many people would actually know

I just wanted to say. I don't think C or C++ are good languages and while I think clang is a pretty decent C++ compiler, I think it's far from what it could become.

Why not use an llm to audit code?

Maybe they should use a lot of LLMs, get second and third and fourth oppinions.

Or is the article making a point that the US government is limiting themselves to one llm and if you want to hack the government, you just need to find Mythos's weaknesses?

Seriously?

I used to hand code boot sector viruses by disassembling the msdos mbr and boot sector in debug.com and then making my own.

These days, if I wanted to hack, I'd load up vllm on wsl2 running Qwen or similar, open up opencode and just tell it to hack. I would do a much better job of covering my tracks, but Windows, Linux, Mac... it really doesn't matter. They're all the same.... the trick is you start by saying "find me a cloud service somewhere which I can use for running anonymous Linux vms, or find me a way to setup payment methods I can use to anonymously create accounts on cloud services".

I think NVidia is not particularly worried about it.

NVidia is an odd duck because they are profitable. And, they have now locked in long term contracts in business, industrial, automotive, aerospace and more. NVidia also has a surprisingly small footprint. Only 42000 employees. Facebook by random comparison has 77000, IBM has 264,000. They have $80 billion in cash and infinite credit lines.

Jensen is already working on the next big thing because he knows data centers is short term. And consider this, a full populated HGX B200 Board (8 GPUs + Baseboard) which costs $350,000 a pop, they have a 75-80% margin (all public info) and they sell data centers full of then. And, oddly, even though it will be a fraction of the margin, NVidia's consumer CPUs are soon going to utterly eclipse their data center profits because they let Qualcomm foot the bill to get Windows on ARM ready, got Microsoft to tune WoA for NVidia, and my guess is, they'll get MS to seed 5000 developers with dev units at Build.. which Qualcomm didn't do... which is why they failed.

I have been testing Intel ARC heavily for a week for local AI. Intel has a lot to do. I don't think AMD even has a plan.

Jensen is creepy as hell and is using FUD to cash in. And this announcement will have him staging a dinner with someone important to make a big deal about how this will push China into the lead and the US needs to get serious.

BTW, Deepseek making their own chips is a non-starter. They already have a tiny footprint compared to their peers, they actually wouldn't profit from it. It might just ge a fund raiser.

October 13, 2023
I would have expected the layoffs closer to two years than three, but Microsoft probably had a huge accounting mess to sort from the merger. And the DDR price hikes needed to be massaged until it could be a strong enough excuse to appease the unions.
The layoffs were planned as part of the buyout. They always aee.

I currently burn about 30 million tokens a day. I have a 98-99% cache hit on them. An RTX3090 and RTX5070 generates most of the rest at about 200t/s. I use Deepseek online as well for now because at $0.35 a day for 5-20 million tokens/day, it's cheaper than another GPU.

I expect that when laptops with 128GB RAM and a decent NPU happen, I'll start burning closer to 100 million tokens a day.

I don't think I could spend $2000 a year on tokens if I tried... Even a laptop is a 5 year purchase, so that can't cost more than $1200 a year

RAM is a pretty good gamble. There are two korean companies, a US company and a Chinese company, The entry barrier is high enough that even now, we should be executing Infineon's former leadership publicly for threatening the supply chain. CXMT is the best thing to happen in 20 years and Norway should drop $100 billion on licensing and building a European supplier (no, the EU can't do it, this is a one country thing, Germany is the only other one who could/should try, but their government is too broken because companies like VW and BMW would steal the money, claim it went to the workers and blame China).

If you're going to risk the entire national economy on something, RAM is safe. Whether due to AI, robotics, computer vision or anything else, 128GB is about to become the next 10 year norm. Every phone maker is planning on 32GB budget phones in the next 4 years. Now that China can mass produce RAM and is scaling massively, Korea has to up the bar.

BTW, if Trump doesn't lift restrictions, CXMT will continue to steal Korean RAM tech ... while Korean and US companies have to pay licenses for Chinese tech. CXMT is at the big kids table now. And if the US doesn't allow CXMT to license US and Korean tech, CXMT will just use it for free... which will make CXMT chips cheaper than US and Korean chips and threaten the world supply chain.

Even if this is the case, Tata has always been a disaster. There is a very good reason their cars never make it out of India. Their quality control is dismal. I honestly am not comfortable buying anything made by them. I would expect heavy use of hexane, toluene, xylene... and all those other lovely chemicals that are dangerous to the workers but give iPhones that new phone shine.

I hope Apple gives buyers the option to not buy Tata. I just feel they're a company that makes money at the cost of their workers health. And unlike the Chinese when they get caught, Tata will just find better ways to hide it.

I moved away from American AI. The risk of a cloud AI being yoinked from me as soon as I depend on it is too high.

Besides, anything Anthropic is peddling, everyone else will have shortly after.

But if the moron is going to brag that his product is a national security threat... Come on... It's like protesting that some moron got arrested for joking about bombs at airports

All the most profitable regulations are founded in FUD.

But "harvest now, decrypt later" is a real threat quantum or not.

There are a lot pictures on politician's telephones which would be damning today or in 20 years. And no, there are no encryptions are from time.

Do you seriously not have a clue?

You see this as a bad thing? This is a hell of an achievement and it's really impressive. And so you know, a lot of the CVEs were code fixes not just to windows but to open source projects which Linux depends heavily on, such as web browser engines. So, if you want to go down this path, I think you should also say "shouldn't the entire non-Microsoft infrastructure be embarrassed that Microsoft has to clean up their mess?"

Consider this, if all of this is being found and fixed by Microsoft, where are all the fixes for other platforms? Are we not advertising them? Are we keeping the vulnerabilities secret? Do you honestly think that Safari is on par with a web browser engine developed by multiple top companies? What about Firefox? How vulnerable is that and we don't even know it?

So, it used to be that the EU would sue for a valley company for a few billion every year or two to pay for the operations of the government.

The UK is out of that loop and realizing it needs a fund raiser.

But honestly, I think if were Microsoft, I would just consider shutting down UK operations.

Doesn't this suggest that the free market economy has lost to communism when the government of the leader of the world's free market economy admits that it can no longer compete in the free market economy without socialist protectionism?