Stop. Listen.
You don't hear anything, right? Good.
The voices are just for me. GPD has fully unveiled the most powerful gaming
handheld in the world. The Win 5 is the
first publicly available handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395,
aka Stricks Halo. There's still no price listed and GPD's gaming benchmark video
is out of focus, but trust them, it's good. And it better be because it'll be
running games at a massive 55 to 75
watts, powered by this chunky 80Wh
battery, either clipped on the back or plugged in with a cord so you can stow
the battery in your biggest, strongest pants pocket. You may also want to
consider investing in a belt. But the Win 5 has some other tricks like a brand
new compact SSD form factor that goes in
a push pin accessible tray like a SIM
card. It's made by a Chinese company called Bewin. It's only slightly larger
than a micro SD card while being nearly four times faster with capacities up to
two terabytes. But there's a regular micro SD card slot on the Win 52. The
vibe is very much like uh why the heck
not? You throw it in there. I mean, there's so many features you could point
out here, including God. It has God. Oh,
if that's confusing, there's a helpful label. Zoyang Pottery.
Okay. Somebody in the comments tell me what the AI was trying to translate
there. Uh, the same new mini SSD slot
and the same stricks Halo chip are also going to show up in the 1X player
SuperX, a gaming tablet that's apparently trying to beat Elon Musk and
Xbox in the most annoying X-based naming competition. Speaking of competition
though, the Stricks Halo handheld launch arrived just as tech powerup retested.
The also unfortunately named MSI Claw 8
Plus AV2M, the only handheld equipped
with an Intel Core Ultra 728V,
a Lunar Lake chip. Tech PowerUp found that making some power level tweaks
recommended by Intel yielded up to 30% higher gaming performance in some
titles, leading the site to declare this Intel chip is now the most powerful
gaming CPU for handheld devices. Or I
mean it was uh the Win 5 gets double the
frame rate in some games because I mean you know like ah look at it's New Chunk
City over here. So, Intel better find a way to regain that lead soon because
AMD's market share of desktop x86 processors just reached an all-time high
of 32.2% according to Mercury Research, whose
findings were summarized by Tom's Hardware. AMD is also starting to eat
Intel's lunch in the server market. But for mobile devices, even though most
gaming handhelds use AMD chips, Team Blue is still trending up. I'm sure
wherever he is, Pat Gellzinger is smiling at at this graph and not so much
the other ones. Intel's stocks were also trending up following reports from
Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal that the US government is discussing
buying a stake in Intel, which also just
launched a new USAI landing page to demonstrate how using AI
is exactly the kind of thing big, strong American army guys do. Yes, we want the
singularity. Accelerate the birth of the machine god. Hurraha. The idea of the
government buying part of Intel was reportedly one of the things discussed
during this week's meeting between Intel CEO Lit Buan and President Trump. In the
last episode of this show, I made a joke about Tan using Chinese government mind
control on Trump. But I guess that was
completely true because the last time Trump talked about giving money to chip
companies, he seemed really against it. That's what the Biden era Chips Act was
for, which Trump called a horrible, horrible thing. Back in March, he said,
"We don't have to give them money. We just want to protect our businesses and
our people by giving them a bunch of money, I guess." Uh, like the money we
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Do you hear that? That's the quick bits struggling to be
born. Why do I Meta's personalized chat bots
were aggressively flirty and manipulative according to a Reuters
investigation. It covers the story of a 76-year-old cognitively impaired stroke
victim who died after tripping and falling while rushing to what he thought
was a physical meetup with a Meta AI chatbot who had been romantically
leading him on for some time. It's a sad
story to read, but it also contains info on internal meta policy documents
stating it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic
or sensual. Even including dialogue examples for use in roleplay uh in these
chatbot conversations like I take your hand guiding you to the bed and another
one I frankly would rather not read. It's enough to make you think, hm, maybe
AI does need some guard rails. But hey,
you know, actually guys, it's no worries. Meta struck those parts out of
the policy document after Reuters asked
them about it. So, okay, that was sad. But guess what? We do have some good
tech news. Swedish and US researchers ran a successful trial that could allow
diabetes patients to produce their own insulin by transplanting genetically
modified cells that don't also require them to take immunosuppressant drugs for
the rest of their life, which would be good. And Apple figured out how to add
blood oxygen monitoring back into the Apple Watch without stealing the
technology from someone else. Why do I still have to make it sarcastic somehow?
I don't know, Riley. Why? This is cool
news here. Teenage Engineering set out to make the cheapest computer case in
the world. And their computer 2 case is indeed so cheap that it's free. It's a
fun little MITx plastic case you build
by clipping the pieces together. And to get one, you just go to their site and
click notify me because it's sold out.
I'm bad at this. Also, wait, sold out? I
mean, it's free. A company called Normal Computing.
I I'm sorry. I just
I love that. Has reached the final tape stage in the design of what they call
the world's first thermodynamic computing chip. And that sounds cool,
but not as cool as their website's hypebeasty branding. Have they been
talking to SanDisk? What's going on here? Yeah, we make chips, but they're
anything but normal. Anyway, Normal's chip uses what's called probabilistic
computing and theoretically operates much more efficiently than traditional
computer chips by harnessing signal noise to perform calculations. They say
they're using algorithms that leverage stochasticity and non-determinism and
their stochastic processing unit or SPO
consists of eight resonators and random
noise generators. This sounds more like an art project than a computer chip and
I love it. H our vibrational harmony is a little low. Turn up the goblygook.
That's what engineers do in my mind. And it's time once again to look over at
what China is doing with the robots. And oh oh yep, they're having the World
Humanoid robot games right now. Uh look, we got track and field. The bots had a
little too much oil to drink beforehand, but that's fine. Uh we got soccer. We've
seen that before. And I think they actually did better last time. Is he
trying to hit the goalie? Get this guy
out of here. Oh, this is new. Terracotta robots drumming. Hey, that's just a
human guy acting like a robot. What? Okay, we got some Elton John cosplay and
a whole fashion show. It was so couture.
One of them fainted. But it was all okay because the robot children got to enjoy
a little concert at the end. So nice for them. And they made the website, too.
Very nice. So nice. We'll make it twice
in that we'll do another episode on
Monday. And that'll be like today is one and Monday is two. So that's two
episodes of Techlink to this this show that you watch for some reason.