Lunar Lake officially in Q3 24
80 laptops, 20 OEM and 45+ TOPS NPU, fastest ever
Intel announced a bit more details about the next-generation notebook technology SoC codenamed Lunar Lake and synced it up with Microsoft’s Copilot+ announcement. Lunar Lake has new P and E cores, 1.5 times faster Battlemage graphics, 45+ TOPS NPU and an additional 60 TOPS from the GPU, advanced low power, and most importantly performance faster than Ryzen 7 8840U & Snapdragon X Elite.
20 systems, big OEMs, and available June 18
Snapdragon X Elite based on Oryon cores and Nuvia acquisition has finally reached its pinnacle moment. Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X platform as a heart of a Copilot+ PC, OEM designs and availability a day before Microsoft Build. To sum it up, there will be seven major OEMs, with twenty systems in the first wave, available for preorder today, and shipping June 18.
Nvidia's only needs 1200W
Intel has let slip that its soon-to-drop Falcon Shores AI processor, a nifty hybrid chip that marries x86 and Xe GPU cores, is set to be a proper guzzler, chugging down a hefty 1500 watts (W) of juice -- a fair bit thirstier than Nvidia’s B200, which only sips up to 1200W.
John Draper could exploit it with his Captain Crunch whistle
Security expert Bruce Schneier has pointed out that large language models are open to the same kind of weaknesses that phones in the 1970s had, the kind that John Draper exploited.
NetBSD bans AI
Hoomans only
NetBSD contributors are prohibited from incorporating any AI-generated code from ChatGPT, CoPilot, or other similar AI tools.