Recent content by wco81

They better be planning to iterate the Macs soon. But the dual OLED display may be more significant than the M4 at this time, especially for iPad sales, which was flagging. Hope they addressed the security flaw. If that is the case they need to roll out the M4 across their product lines...

It's been over 7 years since the original Switch was released, in March 2017. Are we overdue or did the pandemic delay a new console? Wow this thread started in 2019, so people were hoping for a new iteration just 2.5 years after the original Switch launched. So if it launches by next March...

Lara Croft has been around over 30 years now? She'd be using a walker.

Did MS pay cash or use their stock to acquire Activision. I guess either way Kotick and other Activision insiders, who were revealed as vermin, are getting richer and richer.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/putting-microsofts-cratering-xbox-console-sales-in-context/ So hardware sales down, overall gaming revenues down but Gamepass and Activision games revenues prevent overall games revenues from dropping as much as they otherwise would have. Good thing MSFT...

Well we still have to see how these chips perform in devices. But Qualcomm has a lot at stake, from a multibillion dollar acquisition of Nuvia to litigation with ARM over trademarks involving these new chips.

Some speculation on how Apple may deploy different AI apps on their devices. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139266/apple-ai-model-openelm-iphone-laptops-strategy There are ELMs or Efficient Language Models which would take up smaller footprints on devices. There are also image-editing...

Changed the title. You're right but of course it's LLMs powering all the hype right now, though image and video generation may become bigger part of "AI." Apple has been able to skip on RAM and do well with the CPU-intensive functions like Portrait mode photos, Night photos, etc. They helped...

Read an article this morning about Apple possibly looking at finding workarounds to run LLMs locally, without embedding a lot of RAM in their next SOCs. iPhone 15 Pro Max has 8 GB of RAM. Non Pro models have 6 GB. In comparison, Pixel 8 Pro may have 12 GB and the new Pixel 9 phones may have...

They've been hyping AI in games for decades. Only it was suppose to be smarter CPU to make it more challenging to beat a game. What does specific NPU silicon on consoles do? Run LLM queries faster? Why would gamers care about that, unless MS is trying to get people to subscribe to CoPilot as...

Big bonuses for the executive suite? Or just trying to goose the stock price?

I scratch my head at the newer Godzilla films. Haven't watched them. I remember the old Japanese films which I watched as a kid. I guess with better digital effects they're revisiting them? It's similar to superhero movies. Again, a lot of people have nostalgia for the superhero comics...

They'd probably need tens of millions of devices sold and in active use before software developers are interested in porting. But I think in Xcode, it's just a flag so people making OS X software could literally get ARM executables by checking the flag. Of course they may do more to optimize...

Haven't seen it yet. Can it be better than The Last of Us? I haven't played TLOU or Fallout. But TLOU was pretty easy to get into for people who never played the game.

In the US, I think Dune 2 will stream on Max, as the first Dune film did. Or is still streaming on it.