WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.199 Stop. Listen. 00:00:05.359 --> 00:00:11.440 You don't hear anything, right? Good. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:16.960 The voices are just for me. GPD has fully unveiled the most powerful gaming 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:18.800 handheld in the world. The Win 5 is the 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:25.840 first publicly available handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:30.960 aka Stricks Halo. There's still no price listed and GPD's gaming benchmark video 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:36.239 is out of focus, but trust them, it's good. And it better be because it'll be 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:39.920 running games at a massive 55 to 75 00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:42.640 watts, powered by this chunky 80Wh 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:46.960 battery, either clipped on the back or plugged in with a cord so you can stow 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:51.440 the battery in your biggest, strongest pants pocket. You may also want to 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:57.600 consider investing in a belt. But the Win 5 has some other tricks like a brand 00:00:54.000 --> 00:01:00.640 new compact SSD form factor that goes in 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.800 a push pin accessible tray like a SIM 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:08.159 card. It's made by a Chinese company called Bewin. It's only slightly larger 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:13.119 than a micro SD card while being nearly four times faster with capacities up to 00:01:11.119 --> 00:01:18.640 two terabytes. But there's a regular micro SD card slot on the Win 52. The 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:20.320 vibe is very much like uh why the heck 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:26.240 not? You throw it in there. I mean, there's so many features you could point 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:27.840 out here, including God. It has God. Oh, 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:34.479 if that's confusing, there's a helpful label. Zoyang Pottery. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:39.119 Okay. Somebody in the comments tell me what the AI was trying to translate 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:41.280 there. Uh, the same new mini SSD slot 00:01:39.119 --> 00:01:46.159 and the same stricks Halo chip are also going to show up in the 1X player 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:50.799 SuperX, a gaming tablet that's apparently trying to beat Elon Musk and 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:55.200 Xbox in the most annoying X-based naming competition. Speaking of competition 00:01:52.880 --> 00:02:01.759 though, the Stricks Halo handheld launch arrived just as tech powerup retested. 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:05.200 The also unfortunately named MSI Claw 8 00:02:01.759 --> 00:02:08.720 Plus AV2M, the only handheld equipped 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:11.120 with an Intel Core Ultra 728V, 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:16.160 a Lunar Lake chip. Tech PowerUp found that making some power level tweaks 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:20.080 recommended by Intel yielded up to 30% higher gaming performance in some 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:26.720 titles, leading the site to declare this Intel chip is now the most powerful 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:29.760 gaming CPU for handheld devices. Or I 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:31.840 mean it was uh the Win 5 gets double the 00:02:29.760 --> 00:02:38.319 frame rate in some games because I mean you know like ah look at it's New Chunk 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:43.120 City over here. So, Intel better find a way to regain that lead soon because 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:48.319 AMD's market share of desktop x86 processors just reached an all-time high 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:51.680 of 32.2% according to Mercury Research, whose 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:56.000 findings were summarized by Tom's Hardware. AMD is also starting to eat 00:02:53.760 --> 00:03:00.400 Intel's lunch in the server market. But for mobile devices, even though most 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:04.720 gaming handhelds use AMD chips, Team Blue is still trending up. I'm sure 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:10.159 wherever he is, Pat Gellzinger is smiling at at this graph and not so much 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.280 the other ones. Intel's stocks were also trending up following reports from 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:18.720 Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal that the US government is discussing 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:21.680 buying a stake in Intel, which also just 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:27.280 launched a new USAI landing page to demonstrate how using AI 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:32.560 is exactly the kind of thing big, strong American army guys do. Yes, we want the 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:37.519 singularity. Accelerate the birth of the machine god. Hurraha. The idea of the 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:41.280 government buying part of Intel was reportedly one of the things discussed 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:47.120 during this week's meeting between Intel CEO Lit Buan and President Trump. In the 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:52.799 last episode of this show, I made a joke about Tan using Chinese government mind 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.879 control on Trump. But I guess that was 00:03:52.799 --> 00:03:59.200 completely true because the last time Trump talked about giving money to chip 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:03.680 companies, he seemed really against it. That's what the Biden era Chips Act was 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:08.640 for, which Trump called a horrible, horrible thing. Back in March, he said, 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:12.879 "We don't have to give them money. We just want to protect our businesses and 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:18.160 our people by giving them a bunch of money, I guess." 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It's a sad 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:43.360 story to read, but it also contains info on internal meta policy documents 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:48.560 stating it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:53.680 or sensual. Even including dialogue examples for use in roleplay uh in these 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:58.400 chatbot conversations like I take your hand guiding you to the bed and another 00:05:56.320 --> 00:06:04.400 one I frankly would rather not read. It's enough to make you think, hm, maybe 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:05.680 AI does need some guard rails. But hey, 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:10.960 you know, actually guys, it's no worries. Meta struck those parts out of 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:13.440 the policy document after Reuters asked 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:17.759 them about it. So, okay, that was sad. But guess what? We do have some good 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:22.000 tech news. Swedish and US researchers ran a successful trial that could allow 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:26.960 diabetes patients to produce their own insulin by transplanting genetically 00:06:24.479 --> 00:06:31.360 modified cells that don't also require them to take immunosuppressant drugs for 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:36.240 the rest of their life, which would be good. And Apple figured out how to add 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:40.319 blood oxygen monitoring back into the Apple Watch without stealing the 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:46.560 technology from someone else. Why do I still have to make it sarcastic somehow? 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:49.039 I don't know, Riley. Why? This is cool 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:53.360 news here. Teenage Engineering set out to make the cheapest computer case in 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:59.599 the world. And their computer 2 case is indeed so cheap that it's free. It's a 00:06:56.479 --> 00:07:01.599 fun little MITx plastic case you build 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:06.720 by clipping the pieces together. And to get one, you just go to their site and 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:10.319 click notify me because it's sold out. 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:12.880 I'm bad at this. Also, wait, sold out? I 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:17.599 mean, it's free. A company called Normal Computing. 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:20.400 I I'm sorry. I just 00:07:17.599 --> 00:07:24.720 I love that. Has reached the final tape stage in the design of what they call 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:29.360 the world's first thermodynamic computing chip. And that sounds cool, 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:33.199 but not as cool as their website's hypebeasty branding. Have they been 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:38.800 talking to SanDisk? What's going on here? Yeah, we make chips, but they're 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:43.280 anything but normal. Anyway, Normal's chip uses what's called probabilistic 00:07:41.039 --> 00:07:47.360 computing and theoretically operates much more efficiently than traditional 00:07:45.039 --> 00:07:53.120 computer chips by harnessing signal noise to perform calculations. They say 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:59.759 they're using algorithms that leverage stochasticity and non-determinism and 00:07:56.080 --> 00:08:03.120 their stochastic processing unit or SPO 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:05.120 consists of eight resonators and random 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:10.879 noise generators. This sounds more like an art project than a computer chip and 00:08:08.080 --> 00:08:15.720 I love it. H our vibrational harmony is a little low. Turn up the goblygook. 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:21.840 That's what engineers do in my mind. And it's time once again to look over at 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:27.599 what China is doing with the robots. And oh oh yep, they're having the World 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:32.159 Humanoid robot games right now. Uh look, we got track and field. The bots had a 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:36.800 little too much oil to drink beforehand, but that's fine. Uh we got soccer. We've 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:42.000 seen that before. And I think they actually did better last time. Is he 00:08:38.959 --> 00:08:44.720 trying to hit the goalie? Get this guy 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:50.240 out of here. Oh, this is new. Terracotta robots drumming. Hey, that's just a 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:57.519 human guy acting like a robot. What? Okay, we got some Elton John cosplay and 00:08:52.959 --> 00:08:59.519 a whole fashion show. It was so couture. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:04.080 One of them fainted. But it was all okay because the robot children got to enjoy 00:09:01.680 --> 00:09:11.200 a little concert at the end. So nice for them. And they made the website, too. 00:09:06.800 --> 00:09:14.880 Very nice. So nice. We'll make it twice 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:17.440 in that we'll do another episode on 00:09:14.880 --> 00:09:22.959 Monday. And that'll be like today is one and Monday is two. So that's two 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:27.440 episodes of Techlink to this this show that you watch for some reason.