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 Strix 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 80 watt hour 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 5 too.
The vibe is very much like, uh, why the heck not?
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.
Zuo Yang Pottery.
Oh, okay. Somebody in the comments tell me what the AI was trying to translate there.
The same new mini SSD slot and the same Strix Halo chip are also going to show up in the One X Player Super X
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 Strix Halo handheld launch arrived just as Tech Power-Up retested
the also unfortunately named MSI Claw 8 Plus AV2M,
the only handheld equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, a Lunar Lake chip.
Tech Power-Up 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. The Win 5 gets double the frame rate in some games because, I mean, you know,
it's new chonk 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's 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 Gelsinger is smiling at this graph.
Not so much the other ones. Intel's stocks were also trending up following reports from Bloomberg
and the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. 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.
Hoorah! The idea of the government buying part of Intel was reportedly one of the things discussed
during this week's meeting between Intel CEO Litbu Tan 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 the money, we just want to protect our businesses and our people.
By giving them a bunch of money, I guess.
Do you hear that?
That's the quick bits. Struggling to be born.
Why do I? Meta's personalized chatbots 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 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, hmm, maybe AI does need some guardrails.
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.
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.
There's a company called Normal Computing. I'm sorry, I just... I love that.
Has reached the final tape-out 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
height-beasty branding. Have they been talking a sand disk? 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. Hmm, our vibrational harmony is a little low.
Turn up the gobbly-goog! 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.
Look, we got track and field. The bots had a little too much oil to drink beforehand,
but that's fine. 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.
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 show that you watch for some reason.