This doesn't sound like the result Big Oil would want in the report - only in reality. The report saying this will drive politicians to make efforts to increase renewables deployment, and lower data center electricity usage. What Big Oil would want is for the report to say "don't worry, you don't need to do anything, fossil fuels will be dead in 10 years anyway."

Yeh, and the Mac is far faster.

Wait... Apple doesn't come to mind for AI? You clearly no absolutely nothing about buying hardware for running AI.

In order of speed, your options are:

A server with $5000 nVidia GPUs with lots of VRAM on board.
A Mac, preferably with their highest end chip in it
A desktop PC with a high end desktop graphics card

Thanks to their unified memory architecture, Apple's neural engines are the fastest thing that doesn't cost $5000 for the GPU alone that doesn't instantly run out of memory running any vaguely serious model.

Apple ones - yes. The unified memory architecture makes them the fastest things you can buy for running AI outside of $5000 nVidia AI GPUs. Every desktop GPU is going to run out of memory on any serious model, and nothing else is as fast as these.

I mean, sure, you're likely wanting the M5 Ultra or M5 Max for doing that, rather than the base M5, but given that they're the same architecture, just with bits chopped off or doubled up, yeh... they're gonna need that.

I'm not sure that this will help them sell anything. They're just advertising that their customer service sucks. On the other hand, maybe the MBAs wont notice.

Letâ(TM)s take a look at some woke stances then.

- Black Lives Matter - ah yes, very oppressive.
- Womenâ(TM)s rights - yup, still sounding oppressive.
- LGBTQ rights - yup, same theme.

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Iâ(TM)m not seeing where the oppression comes in?

The right seems to think that it comes in when you get

- Cancel culture - meaning âoewhen we stop listening to you when you say horrible thingsâ
- Race based silencing - meaning âoewhen we put black peopleâ(TM)s view points on an equal footing to white peopleâ(TM)sâ
- Critical Race Theory - meaning âoeteaching people that weâ(TM)ve historically been pretty horrible to black people in the USâ

Sorry, Iâ(TM)m not seeing how any of that adds up to oppression unless you think itâ(TM)s oppression to no longer be treated as superior.

This is nothing to do with wokeness. Woke culture is about not being an arsehole to other people. This is about⦠I donâ(TM)t know, no guns because theyâ(TM)re terrifying and scary to executives? Maybe Luigi got to them.

So do paraplegics, all the time. Are you saying that those people are not lacking legs?

So youâ(TM)re saying that because they have a mental health condition they donâ(TM)t deserve to have any accommodations? You wouldnâ(TM)t say âoeoh please, people who canâ(TM)t walk are either babies or amputees, the whole wheelchair ramp thing should be binned immediatelyâ

If you have the president of the United States, who is blindly followed by millions, slandering you, of course trust in you goes down. Itâ(TM)s not the universities that have lost their way, itâ(TM)s the orange turd in chief who never was on the way.

Every study out there says that weâ(TM)d be as productive, or more so if we worked *less* in a week, not more. But noooo, mr âoeyou canâ(TM)t win at life if youâ(TM)re not a burnt out wreck by 33â canâ(TM)t deal the idea that he doesnâ(TM)t control you for the maximum possible number of hours.

I suspect if intel fail, then AMD is next, if they donâ(TM)t quickly pivot to designing ARM chips. Microsoft would see the failure of intel as a reason to drive windows for ARM much harder.

I mean, if Intel were willing to fab apples designs, I can see Apple biting. It would give them leverage to get lower prices from TSMC at the least.

The trick is that to compete in that segment you need to nail the gameplay. Nailing the gameplay is something much harder to pin down and understand than whether it looks pretty. While itâ(TM)s much cheeper to release a good game in this segment *if* you nail the good game part, itâ(TM)s very unreliable as a source of income if you havenâ(TM)t nailed it yet.

Nope. If I had the choice of paying $21 for Max, or $10 for Apple TV, I know which of the two premium services I'd be choosing.