My god, it's full of CORES...
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·TechLinked
·2022-05-05
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1,229 words · ~6 min read
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- Tech news makes me feel fuzzy inside. It's not normal.
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I need a doctor. - [Man] Help. - Help me. As part of its status center event today,
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AMD announced plans to launch a new EPYC processor
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with code name Bergamo. Packed with a 128 cores in total.
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Which is just selfish. Some people don't have any cores at all.
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- [Man] Come on. - But these chips won't be powering your gaming rig.
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They're geared more towards data center, cloud computing
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with special power efficiency and scaling features.
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True to the leaks, AMD is also going to be launching a Genoa.
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Genoa, Genoa, Genoa. I'm pretty sure it's Genoa, isn't it?
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- [Man] Genoa. - Genoa, CPU with 96 cores. Which is obviously nothing to sneeze at.
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Man, I've been sneezing all day, but I can't sneeze at that one.
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- [Man] You can't sneeze on demand. - That should be out next year.
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With the beefy 128 core model appearing around late 2022 or early 2023.
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Meanwhile, gamers are stuck scrounging for extra cores in the dirt like an animal.
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Heartless. - [Man] Help them. - Although we just got a couple of new chips from Apple
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for the new lineup of MacBook Pros, a new report indicates
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that Apple will be launching its own 3 nanometer chips sometime in 2023.
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How fitting. This is a big deal. Considering Apple's current leading edge chips
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are built on a five nanometer process. And this year is M1 Max and M1 Pro
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have already shown relatively impressive performance. Despite the fact that the CPU cores
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aren't very much different from the M1 they replaced.
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Using a smaller process means that Apple may pack as many as four dyes
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and a total of 40 cores onto just one chip.
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The size of an M1 chips. Oh yeah, that's gonna be rough.
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The iPhone is also expected to move on to the 3 nanometer process by 2023,
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leaving 2 nanometers for those gamers scrounging in the dirt to try and find something.
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Anything. - [Man] Who are gamers? - The gamers. - [Man] Help them.
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- Think of the gamers. Thanks Apple. Good luck guys. Good luck.
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- [Man] Tim help. - Tim Apple doesn't care about you. He never cared.
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And did you notice your new Pixel 6 isn't charging as quickly as you expected.
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you aren't alone. As testing performed by Android authority has shown
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that the Pixel 6 isn't using the full potential at Google's own 30 watt charger,
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which isn't even included in the box. And sells separately for 25 bucks.
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They make you buy a charger and then make it suck?
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To be clear, even topping out at 22 watts. The phone does indeed get from zero to 50% charge
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in about half an hour, consistent with Google's advertising. But after that power delivery drops precipitously.
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And it takes nearly two hours to go from 0 to 100.
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Google hasn't yet commented. Presumably because the only thing
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they could actually say would be, "Oh (beep) you found that?"
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(man giggles) - [Man] We thought we hid it.
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You have made it to the Quick Bits.
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Congratulations, wanderer. - [Man] I'm so thirsty.
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- We might finally have some kind of answers as to why we didn't get that rumored SwitchPro this year
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and instead settled for a model with an OLED screen and not much else.
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It did have a kickstand. It's a better kickstand.
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- [Man] I love that kickstand. - Nintendo has said that the global chip shortage is slowing its hardware development.
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Like they need any global chip shortage to slow their hardware development.
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Nintendo. But has also confirmed it is working on new hardware.
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So don't worry. The company assures you the Switch 2 will come out
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sometime before the year 2100.
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- [Man] My kids will love that. - Yeah, maybe they'll... Yeah.
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Maybe they'll do the Hanafuda cards again, or maybe love hotels.
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That was the thing that Nintendo did. Did you know that?
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- [Man] We'll get into different businesses? - Yeah. If you're still running Windows 7, 8 or 8.1
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and use Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage service,
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be advised that OneDrive for those operating systems will stop syncing with the cloud in March of next year.
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You can still do this through a web browser, but you can also pull carrots out of the ground
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with your teeth. It's just nicer to cook them in a stew
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or something, you know. - [Man] Boil 'em, mash 'em. - Stop punishing yourselves.
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- [Man] Put them in a stew. - Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
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- [Man] Nasty taters. - A new study published in Nature Communications
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indicates that renewable energy sources might be more feasible for providing large scale power
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than previously thought. The paper indicates that 85%
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of the United States energy consumption could be handled by wind and solar only.
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Once the other 15% is made up of earth and water power
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legend says Captain Planet will appear. - [Man] And kill us all.
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- Well you forgot heart. - Is that actually-
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- Yeah, it's earth wind, water, fire, heart - [Man] I should have made an Avatar joke.
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Oops. - Walmart has officially begun using driverless trucks
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to deliver packages. The service is currently only available in Bentonville Arkansas,
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where a Walmart is headquartered. And runs between a fulfillment center
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in a Walmart branded grocery store. The move has sadly
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run all of the mom and pop driverless truck businesses out of town.
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- [Man] We've been doing this for 40 years. - That's just how Walmart rolls.
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- [Man] 100 years and now this.
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And from the in case you missed it file.
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McDonald's and IBM have announced a partnership to further McDonald's foray into AI powered order taking
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at drive-throughs. As if order taking at drive-throughs
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wasn't already arduous enough. The golden arches tested it earlier this year
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in a few locations in Chicago. And while it did make things faster,
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human employees did have to intervene a little too often.
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So McDonald's is hoping IBM can help cut down on the error rate
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as screaming into a drive-through speaker is already annoying enough without having to convince an AI,
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not to take your job too. - [Man] I can drive that better than you.
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- Hello, welcome to McDonald's. I see your job is driverless car driver.
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(man laughs) And now it's time for them to take my job as the video host,
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because the video is over. Come back on Wednesday for more tech news
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and seek medical attention for any abnormal feelings of fuzziness in your abdomen.
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- [Man] Out. - It's happening again.