WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 Okay, I'm gonna try to keep it together for today's tech news, because I... 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.040 Got nightmares about Ludwig all night. Riley sucks, ass. 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:19.520 You suck, ass. Why? Intel has announced their latest ultra flagship gaming processor, the $689 Core i9-14900KS. 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:21.920 And if you thought it was kind of a pointless product, well... 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:30.560 Listen to this. Not only can it boost up to 6.2 gigahertz, 200 megahertz more than the now pathetic 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:36.960 regular 1400K, get it out of my sight, it may be Intel's last flagship desktop processor 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:43.920 based on a monolithic die. Since Team Blue's next-gen Aero Lake chip lineup will use Foveros modular tiles, 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:51.120 and it's also Intel's last CPU designed for the LGA 1700 socket, the last of its kind. 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:58.640 That is pretty based. But being the last is probably just fine with the many enthusiasts who seem to view the 1400KS 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:07.760 as the third re-release of the 1300K, featuring 3% higher clock speeds and a 20% higher TDP. 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.920 And sure, that sounds like a bad trade-off until you hear that ASUS ROG's overclocking team 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:21.520 used the 1400KS to hit 9.1 gigahertz, breaking the previous CPU frequency world record 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:26.800 set by Swedish overclocker and Australian Sesame Street character Elmore. 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:32.160 As Ars Technica points out, this chip seems like a strange relic of the millennial years, 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:35.200 when higher frequency was the only thing that mattered. 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.520 And chips wouldn't get goddamn jobs! 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:44.000 Intel just can't let go of the fact that AMD beat them to 1000 megahertz. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.640 I can't wait to see the look on their faces when Intel is first to 10,000 megahertz 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:55.760 and also the first to burn down their office. The now infamous banned TikTok bill shot through the U.S. House of Representatives 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:00.000 in a landslide vote this week, but it should slow down a bit when it gets to the Senate, 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.560 where many of the seats are held by the ants of Middle Earth. Don't be hasty. 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:10.080 But if the bill does eventually become law, TikTok will be banned in the U.S. of A, 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.320 unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells the app. 00:02:14.320 --> 00:02:19.840 But to whom? Well, some have answered the call, expressing interest in buying TikTok. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:24.960 There's former CEO of Activision Blizzard and secret Lord of the Goblin realm, Bobby Kotick, 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:29.680 Canadian business mogul, and the Simon Cowell of Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary. 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:34.560 Donald Trump's former Treasury Secretary, and that's all I'll say about him, Steven Mnuchin, 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.560 and the CEO of video platform Rumble, Chris Pavlovsky, 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.440 who apparently would want to buy TikTok even if all of its users fled in terror. 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:46.880 But these anti-Avengers may never actually need to assemble, 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:54.000 because according to TikTok CEO and favorite gum of sneakerheads, Xu Zichu, ByteDance ain't selling, 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.240 for obvious reasons, but also because China might block the sale, 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:04.080 rather than grant a tech export license for TikTok's secret sauce, its algorithms. 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:06.800 So it looks like TikTok may very well be banned in the U.S. 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:17.760 But I mean, China did it first, so. Cerebrous Systems has unveiled what they call the world's fastest AI chip, the WSE3, 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:23.040 featuring a whopping 4 trillion transistors. They put the whopping in there themselves, 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:31.360 so that may be part of its specs, I don't know. Burger King's involved. What I do know is that it's slightly easier to fit 4 trillion transistors on a chip the size of a 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:40.480 chunky iPad. The WSE3 is like 50 times bigger than NVIDIA's H100 GPU, because WSE stands for 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:47.440 wafer scale engine. The whole chip is a full wafer, the largest 5nm one that TSMC can make. 00:03:47.440 --> 00:03:55.680 It's got 900,000 cores, 44GB of on-die memory, and its CS3 system configuration can do 125 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:01.520 petaflops, compared to the 16 petaflops offered by NVIDIA's DGX H100 system, 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:09.520 and that's all before it rolls for intimidation. This thing is so juicy that YouTuber TechTechPotato, aka Ian Cuttrust, 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.600 tried to eat it, which I wouldn't recommend if you ever encounter this thing in real life. 00:04:13.600 --> 00:04:18.320 You should just run. Quick bits are not for eating. I know they sound delicious, 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:23.200 but I snacked on one, and now they won't shut up about it, so let's just don't. 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:28.000 NVIDIA's CPU Technology Conference starts in a couple days, and we reportedly may get a glimpse 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:34.160 of the company's next-gen flagship B100 AI chip based on the Blackwell architecture, 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.680 which might seem a little strange given that they won't even start shipping the H200 until Q2 of 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:45.280 this year. But I'm not sure that matters, since NVIDIA's last-gen A100s are still in very high 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:49.920 demand. I have to assume because no one knows about the iPad-sized chip yet. It's right there. 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:56.480 What does matter, though, is the possibility that we may also get a look at Team Green's Blackwell 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:01.520 gaming GPUs, although we only have one source for that. And when the RTX 50 series gets announced, 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:05.440 we're just gonna make fun of how overpriced they are anyway, so it's like whatever. 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:10.880 SpaceX launched the third test flight for their Starship rocket yesterday, and this time it didn't 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:17.520 explode. Within the first 10 minutes of flight, the Starship reached orbital velocity, and the 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:23.360 first-stage Super Heavy Booster successfully separated from the ship, which then entered space 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.160 and even began re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. And then at some point, it either 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.840 burned up or broke apart. I mean, at least it happened. What are you supposed to do? 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:37.280 Perhaps in some sort of unalive packed, the Super Heavy Booster, which was supposed to make 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:42.400 an autonomous controlled landing in the ocean, instead just hit the water at full speed. 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:45.760 It's a daredevil. 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:51.040 Still, this flight lasted significantly longer than the previous test, so progress is being made. 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:56.560 Elon has promised six more test flights this year. The next one will probably last at least a day 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.720 before it falls apart. I mean, you go to space and try to stay together. 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:05.680 Microsoft is expected to announce its new ARM-based surface devices next week, and rumor 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:11.520 has it they'll be rocking Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite. According to Windows Central's sources, 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:17.040 Microsoft is very excited about the performance and efficiency gains of the ship, and it might 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:24.160 be worth getting excited about, since the Snapdragon X Elite beat the Intel Core 7 Ultra 155H 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.880 in previously unseen benchmarks. Although the benchmarks were run by Qualcomm, 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:33.920 and both the Snapdragon and Intel reference laptops were built by Qualcomm, so maybe don't 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:38.160 just take that with a grain of salt, take a full daily recommended dose. 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:43.600 America's Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, has quadrupled the minimum internet 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:49.120 speed allowed to be marketed as broadband. The new standard is 100 megabits per second down, 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:54.560 and 20 megabits per second up. This is the first time they've upped the requirements since 2015. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.400 The agency seems to want to force ISPs to deploy more telecommunications infrastructure, citing 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:06.160 the fact that millions of Americans living in rural areas or on tribal lands don't have access to 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:12.320 fixed terrestrial broadband service, and setting a long-term goal of 1 gigabit per second down and 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:17.600 500 megabits per second up as something for stakeholders to strive for. I should be able 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:22.960 to drop from the battle bus with my squad from the Fond du Lac reservations with no ping. 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:31.920 And no, you haven't traveled back in time to 2021, but crypto miners are causing hardware 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:37.120 shortages thanks to the rising value of Bitcoin and Ethereum. It's the cryptocurrency's fault, 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:42.640 these people can't help themselves. But it's not GPUs this time. Ryzen CPUs are apparently 00:07:42.640 --> 00:07:47.360 more viable for certain mining algorithms, so prepare to have a hard time finding those, 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:53.680 and an even harder time once AMD launches their Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series later this year. 00:07:53.680 --> 00:08:00.240 Hey, you know what, never has a shortage? Books. Dune is a popular root as based on, you can read 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:06.400 that. But after you crack open a novel, come back on Monday for more novel technology information. 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:20.480 You know we had to dune to ya. There it is, there it, okay.