I feel like ZRAM showed up when prices were historically low

There is some inkling of truth to this (the PS2 being used for military use, not Saddam buying them). At launch the Emotion Engine, largely thanks to the VPUs, could achieve a higher theoretical output than the most expensive PC CPUs of the time IF you could parallelize the arithmetic*. They’re very well suited to calculate stuff like trajectories.

Anecdotally, Kazuhiko Aoki (the legendary game dev of Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy fame, not the policitian), said that during the development of Final Fantasy IX, they had to check if the game worked on PS2’s backwards compatibility, and they had problems sending a devkit from Japan to Hawaii

*Total of 6.2 GFlops when you combine all three, which is higher than the Pentium 4 Willamette and Athlon Thunderbird.

If this is about Saddam using it to send missilies, it was the PS2

That’s not a very fair comparison, it’s more like saying you don’t really need 5Gbit internet cause 2.5 or 1 is plenty for your use cases.

Faster charging means you don’t need as many stations for the same demand, so that’s great from an infrastructure standpoint.

2.25 GIGAWATTS! GREAT SCOTT.

Not just some phones, the built in camera sensors on this exact model use LOFIC.

The info I can find on the Ruiying Z10 (the big attachment camera thing) is that it’s a 1-inch stacked CMOS w/ RYYB filter array, Nothing about LOFIC.

It’s there with Karl Urban and Viggo Mortensen buying Gundam

🔊🔊🔊 Crash Bandicoot is uncircumcised.

PS: Debi Derryberry is an amazing name.

If my high school physics and maths aren’t failing me, it’s not growing exponentially, it’s growing quadratically because inverse-square law.

Though maybe the energy required to power the laser increases exponentially but idfk

They have been looking into reflecting lasers since the Cold War. Even if you get 99.999% reflectivity, that only gives you a tiny window of time against modern lasers before the coating just goes poof thanks to tiny imperfections becoming hotspots

It’s specially unviable for drones since most drones are supposed to be as cheap as you can make them. And it wouldn’t protect stuff like cameras and sensors.

US supports Banderite coup --> Ukrainian missile factory loses its biggest client --> Missile factory sells its technology on the DL to the program they’re actively trying to sabotage

Yeah but those facts are only valid when talking about how the barbaric asian hordes will invade all of Europe. In other situations they are very frail and have to use old museum pieces. Special operation.

It’s necessary in the US to make it harder for the shooters

Just looking at numbers, this thing is impressive. No small cores but still lower power than the XRING O1, 10 cores, huge GPU. It’s actually going blow-for-blow against the 2nm next generation, based on the revealed or leaked specs. Not bad for their second attempt.

I want to see power consumption numbers, specially when cranking all those cores, cause that multicore performance is nuts.

TSMC is producing it in Taiwan.

For the love of God, copy that floppy

What about those small prebuilt workstations with Strix/Gorgon Halo chips and big ram pools? Chinese OEMs like Beeline and GMKTec are offering some sleek little boxes. I guess it still technically not unified on a system level, but you allot most of it to VRAM in the BIOS regardless. You can probably get comparable performance with a fraction of the cost.