1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Stop! Listen. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 You don't hear anything, right? Good. The voices are just for me. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 GPD has fully unveiled the most powerful gaming handheld in the world. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,000 The Win 5 is the first publicly available handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:29,000 aka Strix Halo. There's still no price listed, and GPD's gaming benchmark video is out of focus. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:37,000 But trust them, it's good. And it better be, because it'll be running games at a massive 55 to 75 watts, 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,000 powered by this chunky 80 watt hour battery. 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Either clipped on the back, or plugged in with a cord so you can stow the battery in your biggest, strongest pants pocket. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 You may also want to consider investing in a belt. 10 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:57,000 But the Win 5 has some other tricks, like a brand new, compact SSD form factor 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 that goes in a push pin accessible tray, like a SIM card. 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 It's made by a Chinese company called Bewin. 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 It's only slightly larger than a micro SD card, while being nearly four times faster, 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 with capacities up to two terabytes. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 But there's a regular micro SD card slot on the Win 5 too. 16 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 The vibe is very much like, uh, why the heck not? 17 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Throw it in there. I mean, there's so many features you could point out here, including God. 18 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 It has God. Oh, if that's confusing, there's a helpful label. 19 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Zuo Yang Pottery. 20 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Oh, okay. Somebody in the comments tell me what the AI was trying to translate there. 21 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:45,000 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 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 a gaming tablet that's apparently trying to beat Elon Musk and Xbox 23 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 in the most annoying X-based naming competition. 24 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaking of competition though, the Strix Halo handheld launch arrived just as Tech Power-Up retested 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 the also unfortunately named MSI Claw 8 Plus AV2M, 26 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:10,000 the only handheld equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, a Lunar Lake chip. 27 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Tech Power-Up found that making some power level tweaks recommended by Intel 28 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 yielded up to 30% higher gaming performance in some titles, 29 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:25,000 leading the site to declare this Intel chip is now the most powerful gaming CPU for handheld devices. 30 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Or, I mean, it was. The Win 5 gets double the frame rate in some games because, I mean, you know, 31 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 it's new chonk city over here. 32 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:43,000 So Intel better find a way to regain that lead soon because AMD's market share of desktop x86 processors 33 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,000 just reached an all-time high of 32.2%, according to Mercury Research, 34 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 whose findings were summarized by Tom's hardware. 35 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 AMD's also starting to eat Intel's lunch in the server market, 36 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 but for mobile devices, even though most gaming handhelds use AMD chips, 37 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Team Blue is still trending up. I'm sure wherever he is, Pat Gelsinger is smiling at this graph. 38 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Not so much the other ones. Intel's stocks were also trending up following reports from Bloomberg 39 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,000 and the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. government is discussing buying a stake in Intel, 40 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 which also just launched a new USAI landing page 41 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:29,000 to demonstrate how using AI is exactly the kind of thing big strong American army guys do. 42 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Yes, we want the singularity. Accelerate the birth of the machine god. 43 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Hoorah! The idea of the government buying part of Intel was reportedly one of the things discussed 44 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,000 during this week's meeting between Intel CEO Litbu Tan and President Trump. 45 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:51,000 In the last episode of this show, I made a joke about Tan using Chinese government mind control on Trump. 46 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,000 But I guess that was completely true, because the last time Trump talked about giving money to chip companies, 47 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:04,000 he seemed really against it. That's what the Biden-era Chips Act was for, which Trump called a horrible, horrible thing. 48 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Back in March, he said, We don't have to give the money, we just want to protect our businesses and our people. 49 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 By giving them a bunch of money, I guess. 50 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Do you hear that? 51 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,000 That's the quick bits. Struggling to be born. 52 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Why do I? Meta's personalized chatbots were aggressively flirty and manipulative, according to a Reuters investigation. 53 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:39,000 It covers the story of a 76-year-old, cognitively impaired stroke victim who died after tripping and falling 54 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 while rushing to what he thought was a physical meetup with a Meta AI chatbot 55 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 who had been romantically leading him on for some time. 56 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:53,000 It's a sad story to read, but it also contains info on internal Meta policy documents stating 57 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:00,000 it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual. 58 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Even including dialogue examples for use in roleplay in these chatbot conversations like 59 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I take your hand, guiding you to the bed, and another one I frankly would rather not read. 60 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 It's enough to make you think, hmm, maybe AI does need some guardrails. 61 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:22,000 But hey, you know, actually guys, it's no worries, Meta struck those parts out of the policy document 62 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 after Reuters asked them about it. 63 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Okay, that was sad, but guess what? We do have some good tech news. 64 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Swedish and US researchers ran a successful trial that could allow diabetes patients to produce 65 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:40,000 their own insulin by transplanting genetically modified cells that don't also require them 66 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,000 to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their life, which would be good. 67 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:50,000 And Apple figured out how to add blood oxygen monitoring back into the Apple Watch without 68 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,000 stealing the technology from someone else. Why do I still have to make it sarcastic somehow? 69 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I don't know Riley why. This is cool news here. 70 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Teenage engineering set out to make the cheapest computer case in the world, 71 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,000 and their computer 2 case is indeed so cheap that it's free. 72 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,000 It's a fun little MITX plastic case. You build by clipping the pieces together, 73 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,000 and to get one, you just go to their site and click notify me because it's sold out. 74 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,000 I'm bad at this. Also wait, sold out? I mean, it's free. 75 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:31,000 There's a company called Normal Computing. I'm sorry, I just... I love that. 76 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Has reached the final tape-out stage in the design of what they call the world's first 77 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,000 thermodynamic computing chip. And that sounds cool, but not as cool as their website's 78 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 height-beasty branding. Have they been talking a sand disk? What's going on here? 79 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Yeah, we make chips, but they're anything but normal. 80 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Anyway, Normal's chip uses what's called probabilistic computing, 81 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 and theoretically operates much more efficiently than traditional computer chips 82 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 by harnessing signal noise to perform calculations. 83 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:08,000 They say they're using algorithms that leverage stochasticity and non-determinism, 84 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:14,000 and their stochastic processing unit, or SPO, consists of eight resonators 85 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:20,000 and random noise generators. This sounds more like an art project than a computer chip. 86 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 And I love it. Hmm, our vibrational harmony is a little low. 87 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Turn up the gobbly-goog! That's what engineers do in my mind. 88 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 And it's time once again to look over at what China is doing with the robots, 89 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,000 and oh, oh, yep, they're having the World Humanoid Robot Games right now. 90 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Look, we got track and field. The bots had a little too much oil to drink beforehand, 91 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 but that's fine. We got soccer. We've seen that before. 92 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,000 And I think they actually did better last time. Is he trying to hit the goalie? 93 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Get this guy out of here. Oh, this is new. Terracotta robots drumming. 94 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Hey, that's just a human guy acting like a robot. 95 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Okay, we got some Elton John cosplay and a whole fashion show. 96 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 It was so couture, one of them fainted. 97 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,000 But it was all okay because the robot children got to enjoy a little concert at the end. 98 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,000 So nice for them. And they made the website too. Very nice. 99 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:28,000 So nice. We'll make it twice in that we'll do another episode on Monday. 100 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 And that'll be like today is one and Monday is two. 101 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 So that's two episodes of TechLink to this show that you watch for some reason.