Raimondo called out Nvidia Corp., which designed chips specifically for the Chinese market after the US imposed its initial round of curbs in October 2022.

“If you redesign a chip around a particular cut line that enables them to do AI, I’m going to control it the very next day,” Raimondo said.

The GeForce RTX 4090D could theoretically make our list of the best graphics cards, if it’s not limited to China.

Must be music to Intel’s ears

Well I just picked up the MAG321UPF and it came with a dead pixel on the top center and 2 other bad pixels. Also I realized why it is cheaper than a M32U. The thing has no speakers.

I’m returning it today for a refund.

More like a sabotage attempt by Intel

Yeah, but the T700 is still the fastest 4TB drive. Nobody has beaten that

Still annoyed the Gigabyte M32U is still above $610, which is still higher than the record low of $570 last year. You also have new entrants like MSI MAG323UPF that is priced cheaper and offers 165Hz refresh rates at 4K

I thought Nvidia has an exclusivity deal with Micron to ban AMD from using GDDR6X?

Corrosion and ASUS, name a better combo

“I asked them is there a technical reason for why 12th and 13th gen parts aren’t supported and if not will they be included in the future? Their response to that question was as follows: Intel has no plans to support prior generations of products with application optimization. That’s a really garbage response to be perfectly blunt about it.”

This APO feature will die in obscurity since Intel will realize 14th gen is not being adopted and unless they want a repeat of XeSS, they will cut their losses and decide not to invest resources into a feature that barely anyone uses.

Would be nice if AMD restocks ITX AM4 boards since most of them are OOS or no longer stocked

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Where does AMD fit? They do make WiFi chips and early AM5 boards had them

“I asked them is there a technical reason for why 12th and 13th gen parts aren’t supported and if not will they be included in the future? Their response to that question was as follows: Intel has no plans to support prior generations of products with application optimization. That’s a really garbage response to be perfectly blunt about it.”

Yeah, let’s have people rush to upgrade to 14th gen when it already had questionable value to upgrade. This APO feature will die in obscurity since Intel will realize 14th gen is not being adopted and unless they want a repeat of XeSS, they will cut their losses and decide not to invest resources into a feature that barely anyone uses.

“I asked them is there a technical reason for why 12th and 13thgen Parts aren’t supported and if not will they be included in the future? their response to that question was as follows: Intel has no plans to support prior generations of products with application optimization. That’s a really garbage response to be perfectly blunt about it.”

Yeah, let’s have people rush to upgrade to 14th gen when it already had questionable value to upgrade. This APO feature will die in obscurity since Intel will realize 14th gen is not being adopted and unless they want a repeat of XeSS, they will cut their losses and decide not to invest resources into a feature that barely anyone uses.

By the way, the more I build that the happier my internal businesses are because they’re benefiting from those standardized PDKs, improved design IP capabilities, they’re not singularly carrying the burden of innovating every technology as well. So I really believe it becomes a positive reinforcing cycle and this takes seven, eight years to build this kind of business model.

So the “more you buy, the more you save”

Suppose one looks closely at Nvidia’s alleged data center product lineup for China. In that case, they will notice that the family is meticulously designed to avoid any possible violations of the latest U.S. export rules concerning AI and HPC GPUs. All the new AI and HPC offerings from Nvidia are designed to fit into the green zone in the chart.

Yeah CPU performance is not really important since it will only be used to access SATA drives and possibly a HBA card. I was not aware the AsRock Rack AM4 boards had a motherboard iGPU either, since the iGPU will only be used to see the OS. I will probably go with one of the cheaper 5000 series CPUs in that case with AM4, since I do want more CPU lanes for the M.2 and I/O. The higher lane count is needed to access 2.5" SSDs and preferably at least 16 drives. Yes, DDR5 ECC protection is not really good enough so the board will need to support actual ECC DIMMs (i.e. only ASUS and AsRock Rack).

I think the board price is expected to be expensive regardless of whether it is ITX or mATX since with LGA1700 you have only the W680 mATX or ITX, AM4 requires a relatively expensive PRO chip or AsRock Rack board, and AM5 is just expensive. That being said, AM5 seems to only have the downside of high idle power draw whereas the other 2 options seem very limited in board or CPU choice if pricing is ignored.