the Consumer Electronics Show is happening in Las Vegas this week which
means a tech-linked episode every weekday filmed here in the studio not on
location because have you been to Vegas there's just a layer of
slime on everything it's like it's underwater demand for desktop gpus hit a
20-year low in 2022 according to data from John Petty research which I'm sure
AMD and NVIDIA are super confused by like guys we made you these really
powerful graphics cards all we ask in return is all of your money so team red
green and blue have responded the only way they know how by slashing their
orders for more chips from major chip manufacturer tsmc they're thinking
Gamers must just not be into gpus right now so I guess we'll stop making them
okay fine I'll put a pause on the sarcasm no one's buying gpus because
despite the supply shortage being alleviated last year prices are still
high thanks to NVIDIA and even AMD launching their new quite expensive
Flagship gpus which also seem to carry
their own unique burn risks they're special that's not to say NVIDIA has
totally ignored the budget Market they just launched a new RTX 3050 with a
lower TDP of 115 Watts so you can save a
few cents on your power bill you know they really know about the concerns of
the people India will be mandating the use of USBC ports for charging portable
Electronics weeks after similar legislation from the EU finally got
final approval or was signed into law got a lot of votes or something honestly
I feel like I've reported on that story like 18 times India's reasons for the
Mandate seem similar to the eu's they want to make life easier for consumers
reduce E-Waste to protect the environment and make apple do something
they don't want to do because that's funny the Bureau of Indian standards
would require mobile devices to use USBC by March 2025 although the rules also
make room for a second standard charging method for smart watches and other
wearables it's also important to note that Apple might be able to shimmy its
way out of rules like this by making a portless iPhone that charges via magsafe
since laws like these often have terms saying you have to use USBC for Wired
charging but I really hope Apple does make at least one official USBC iPhone
just so we have it because then we have it and like I said you'll want to
prepare yourselves for some hot Tech news from CES this week usually we have
a few pre-show announcements to report on but for the most part so far we've
only gotten some press releases from Samsung about monitors one is about the
8K Ultra wide which is not really 8K so it's kind of annoying that they keep
calling it that they announced that in November monitor specs are already
confusing enough as it is and another press release is about a color
calibrated 5K monitor meant to compete with similar models from Apple and LG
although Samsung did also announce a
Smart Oven with an internal camera that can recognize over a hundred dishes so
it can cook them automatically while you stream footage of it to Twitch now that
is a taste of the good weird CES stuff pun intended LG also announced their
2023 lineup of TVs is brighter no I
don't care it's too normal give me the smart robot toilets and sentient pillows
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quick bits have all sorts of other qualities too they're not just quick don't put them in a box benchmarks have
leaked for upcoming NVIDIA cards indicating that the unlaunched RTX 4080
12 Gigabyte aka the 4070 TI performs
about as well as the RTX 3090 TI at
least in 3D Mark another leak showed the unreleased laptop version of the RTX
4090 performing better than a desktop 3090 in geekbench but why am I telling
you this when NVIDIA's GeForce event at CES is going to start in a matter of
hours they'll probably give you all sorts of reliable information that you
can take at face value when they say it's a 4080 it's a 4080. it has a
multiple reports are claiming that Chinese smartphone Giants Oppo and
Huawei have made progress in designing and Manufacturing their own in-house
chipsets which would reduce their Reliance on non-chinese suppliers
huawei's designed their own chips for a while but they recently filed a patent
describing an extreme ultraviolet or euv
lithography process which enables the production of higher end chips so once
they launch phones without any non-chinese parts at least you can be
more confident that they're spying on you I mean I mean at least I know now
you know it's the uncertainty that gets me Netflix has ads now at least for
their cheapest tier and according to Jeremy Zimmer head of Hollywood's United
talent agency that means Netflix content
creators should be getting a cut of AD Revenue because Netflix has turned them
into YouTubers basically now that
argument would be pretty solid if
Netflix was making a lot of money off ads which it it doesn't appear to be
only nine percent of new Netflix signups in the US were for the ad supported tier
causing Netflix to actually have to pay back advertisers for some of their ad
spending so maybe Adam Sandler should consider YouTube uh or Floatplane can
you imagine we get some Adam Sandler flowplate exclusives I wouldn't watch
them the royalty-free av-1 video Codec has
had a hard time breaking into the mainstream but popular transcoding app
handbrake has added official av1 support in the latest release so now watch all
the cards fall okay fine the app doesn't support NVIDIA or AMD's implementations
of the codec yet but that will probably come soon hopefully before some Tech
Giant or another realizes that letting an open source standard that lets people
run things faster without paying them money might be a bad idea and Sam
bankman freed released on bail after being arrested in relation to the
collapse of the FTX exchange just can't stop himself from commenting on stuff
that he probably shouldn't like recent news that crypto wallets associated with
Alameda research the sister company of FDX have been spotted transferring out
funds none of these are me SPF tweeted
that's right Bud maintain innocence even
though your buddies all pled guilty to federal charges look I'm not saying he's
he's definitely guilty like let the trial play out I'm just telling him to
shut up stop talking speaking of which I'll take my own
advice now but you should come back tomorrow for more Tech news different
advice for different people you should never stop talking we need your voice in
this time