Perhaps trying to convince the incoming administration that it would be worth helping Taiwan militarily.

I see. I would also label such high level executives oligarchs. I guess it’s a matter interpretation of the term.

Curious why you think Nvidia’s leader, Jensen Huang, would not be considered an oligarch?

He clearly wants to leverage corruption to promote self-enrichment. It’s framed in different terms and I recognize many in the US would disagree, but that’s why I got out of his statements.

I wouldn’t necessarily position them as capitalist. They are capitalists of course, but the term oligarch seems more appropriate, at least from a non-US perspective.

Nvidia expects to sell 3 million units thought September 2025 and 16 million units between October 2025 and September 2026.

I am assuming this for all their WoA devices on this Nvidia SoC (not just Lenovo).

Considering around ~260 million PCs (laptops and desktops, not including DIY desktops) were shipped in 2024, that’s a relatively modest target of annual 6% unit shipment share.

Seems somewhat reasonable considering this is Nvidia we are talking about. It will be interesting to the velocity at which they will convert their shipments into the channel into sales.

This seems to be a reaction to the coming of a new US administration even if it is positioned in more generic commercial terms.

I can’t imagine the Taiwanese government willingly wanting to lose what the article refers to as their “Silicon Shield”.

Nvidia has fired back at the US government in a statement of its own, claiming that “global progress is now in jeopardy.”

“In its last days in office, the Biden Administration seeks to undermine America’s leadership with a 200+ page regulatory morass, drafted in secret and without proper legislative review,” the company’s press release reads. “[B]y attempting to rig market outcomes and stifle competition — the lifeblood of innovation — the Biden Administration’s new rule threatens to squander America’s hard-won technological advantage.”

I am not from the US, are sanctions/duties part of the legislative review process? I remember have to work with import duties around hardware appliances during Trump’s 1st term. I don’t remember this being part of a legislative package, but I could be wrong. Honestly the source was the least of concerns, impact analysis on the other hand…

People stick x90 cards into SFF cases? Seems almost counterproductive.

Too little too late IMO. Although functionally multi-class structure (A/B/C) and Universal Verified End User/National Verified End User systems do make sense.

I say this as someone who is not a citizen of the US (Ukraine falls under class B), but also who is not fond of the CCP.

Read this article earlier, it wasn’t very clear to me what the focus was of this illicit gen AI content.

Very sneaky approach I have to say.

A GT 1030.

I am not really sure why you would want to run frame gen tech on Civ. Even with modded Civ 5 (to allow for much larger continents on the largest map size) and 11 AI civs + 24 city states, turns can take 30-40 seconds in the late game on a 5800X. The roadblock is the CPU.

This is the definition of a gimmicky CES product. At first I thought it simply does wireless charging in a toaster form factor, but no…

Seems like a “mid-range” product all in the all. The price would need to be competitive relative to the 5070 (and hopefully the performance is close) for this product to make sense.

I wouldn’t doubt Nvidia’s commitment, capabilities and execution. But there is one factor that I think might limit their success in this area. Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Apple, Amazon all have an enormous economic incentive to switch to their own hardware for AI compute. They are not stupid. They will do everything they can to try and give Nvidia less money.

Nvidia might have full dominance on the gaming end-user services around AI tech (DLSS and so on), but they do not have strong position in any other end-user facing AI services (LLM, gen AI etc.)

SSD $/TB costs will keep going down, but I can’t see them rivaling HDDs in the next 5-10 years.

These are crazy prices if they are correct. I am assuming the prices are placeholders and the final ones will be more competitive.

Isn’t the daringfireball blog a de facto front for Apple PR?

Interesting concept, but the hard part is productization. I think one would be better of with Framework for that.

!hardware@lemmy.world (self-promotion, I am a mod there) covers semiconductor related topics pretty well.

That being said, some articles do include business and tech news.