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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Brother, have you heard of buses? Even INSIDE cpus/socs bus speeds are a limitation. Also i fucking hate how the first thing people mention now is how ai could benefit from a jump in computing power.

Edit: I havent dabbled that much in high speed stuff yet but isnt the picosecond range so fast that the capacitance of simple traces and connectors between chips influence the rising and falling edge of chips?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Wow, finally graphene has been cracked. Exciting times for portable low-energy computing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that fast enough to put an LLM in swap and have decent performance?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Note that this in theory speaks to performance of a non volatile memory. It does not speak to cost.

We already have a faster than NAND non volatile storage in phase change memory . It failed due to expense.

If this thing is significantly more expensive even than RAM, then it may fail even if it is everything it says it is. If it is at least as cheap as ram, it'll be huge since it is faster than RAM and non volatile.

Swap is indicated by cost, not by non volatile characteristics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds like that material would be more useful in high performance radars, not as flash memory

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It‘s likely BS anyway. Maybe it’s just me but reading about another crazy breakthrough from China every single day during this trade war smells fishy. Because I‘ve seen the exact same propaganda strategy during the pandemic when relations between China and the rest of the world weren‘t exactly the best. A lot of those headlines coming from there are just claims about flashy topics with very little substance or second guessing. And the papers releasing the stories aren‘t exactly the most renowned either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's definitely possible they're amplifying these developments to maintain confidence in the Chinese market, but I doubt they're outright lying about the discoveries. I think it's also likely that some of what they've been talking about has been in development for a while and that China is choosing now to make big reveals about them.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I'll never see it, unless TI or another American company designs their own version.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or they can do what they normally do, steal it and then sue to be considered the original invento/founder and then make a Hollywood film about how they invented it/found it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's called an iPod, it's not an mp3 player.

They are called airpods, they are not earbuds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's called an airplane, not an aeroplane.

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