WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 Stop! Listen. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.000 You don't hear anything, right? Good. The voices are just for me. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:15.000 GPD has fully unveiled the most powerful gaming handheld in the world. 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, 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. 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, 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:40.000 powered by this chunky 80 watt hour battery. 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. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.000 You may also want to consider investing in a belt. 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:57.000 But the Win 5 has some other tricks, like a brand new, compact SSD form factor 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:01.000 that goes in a push pin accessible tray, like a SIM card. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.000 It's made by a Chinese company called Bewin. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:09.000 It's only slightly larger than a micro SD card, while being nearly four times faster, 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.000 with capacities up to two terabytes. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.000 But there's a regular micro SD card slot on the Win 5 too. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.000 The vibe is very much like, uh, why the heck not? 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. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.000 It has God. Oh, if that's confusing, there's a helpful label. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.000 Zuo Yang Pottery. 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:36.000 Oh, okay. Somebody in the comments tell me what the AI was trying to translate there. 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 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.000 a gaming tablet that's apparently trying to beat Elon Musk and Xbox 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.000 in the most annoying X-based naming competition. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:58.000 Speaking of competition though, the Strix Halo handheld launch arrived just as Tech Power-Up retested 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:03.000 the also unfortunately named MSI Claw 8 Plus AV2M, 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:10.000 the only handheld equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, a Lunar Lake chip. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.000 Tech Power-Up found that making some power level tweaks recommended by Intel 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:18.000 yielded up to 30% higher gaming performance in some titles, 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. 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, 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.000 it's new chonk city over here. 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 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:49.000 just reached an all-time high of 32.2%, according to Mercury Research, 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:52.000 whose findings were summarized by Tom's hardware. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.000 AMD's also starting to eat Intel's lunch in the server market, 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.000 but for mobile devices, even though most gaming handhelds use AMD chips, 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. 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 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, 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:22.000 which also just launched a new USAI landing page 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. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:33.000 Yes, we want the singularity. Accelerate the birth of the machine god. 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 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.000 during this week's meeting between Intel CEO Litbu Tan and President Trump. 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. 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, 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. 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. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.000 By giving them a bunch of money, I guess. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.000 Do you hear that? 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:22.000 That's the quick bits. Struggling to be born. 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. 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 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.000 while rushing to what he thought was a physical meetup with a Meta AI chatbot 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.000 who had been romantically leading him on for some time. 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 00:04:53.000 --> 00:05:00.000 it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.000 Even including dialogue examples for use in roleplay in these chatbot conversations like 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. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:16.000 It's enough to make you think, hmm, maybe AI does need some guardrails. 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 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 after Reuters asked them about it. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:29.000 Okay, that was sad, but guess what? We do have some good tech news. 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:34.000 Swedish and US researchers ran a successful trial that could allow diabetes patients to produce 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:40.000 their own insulin by transplanting genetically modified cells that don't also require them 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:45.000 to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their life, which would be good. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:50.000 And Apple figured out how to add blood oxygen monitoring back into the Apple Watch without 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:56.000 stealing the technology from someone else. Why do I still have to make it sarcastic somehow? 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:00.000 I don't know Riley why. This is cool news here. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.000 Teenage engineering set out to make the cheapest computer case in the world, 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.000 and their computer 2 case is indeed so cheap that it's free. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.000 It's a fun little MITX plastic case. You build by clipping the pieces together, 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. 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:24.000 I'm bad at this. Also wait, sold out? I mean, it's free. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:31.000 There's a company called Normal Computing. I'm sorry, I just... I love that. 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 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:42.000 thermodynamic computing chip. And that sounds cool, but not as cool as their website's 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.000 height-beasty branding. Have they been talking a sand disk? What's going on here? 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.000 Yeah, we make chips, but they're anything but normal. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.000 Anyway, Normal's chip uses what's called probabilistic computing, 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.000 and theoretically operates much more efficiently than traditional computer chips 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.000 by harnessing signal noise to perform calculations. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:08.000 They say they're using algorithms that leverage stochasticity and non-determinism, 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.000 and their stochastic processing unit, or SPO, consists of eight resonators 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:20.000 and random noise generators. This sounds more like an art project than a computer chip. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.000 And I love it. Hmm, our vibrational harmony is a little low. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:30.000 Turn up the gobbly-goog! That's what engineers do in my mind. 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, 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:39.000 and oh, oh, yep, they're having the World Humanoid Robot Games right now. 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, 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:48.000 but that's fine. We got soccer. We've seen that before. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:53.000 And I think they actually did better last time. Is he trying to hit the goalie? 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:58.000 Get this guy out of here. Oh, this is new. Terracotta robots drumming. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:02.000 Hey, that's just a human guy acting like a robot. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.000 Okay, we got some Elton John cosplay and a whole fashion show. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.000 It was so couture, one of them fainted. 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. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:20.000 So nice for them. And they made the website too. Very nice. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:28.000 So nice. We'll make it twice in that we'll do another episode on Monday. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.000 And that'll be like today is one and Monday is two. 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:38.000 So that's two episodes of TechLink to this show that you watch for some reason.