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I wonder how this will work with AI stuff generating code without any source or attribution. It’s not like the LLMs make this stuff up out of thin air it comes from source material.

The Russia Ukraine war has shown big metal objects are liabilities in the cheap plentiful drone war of the future.

I suppose it depends on the model, code was useless. As a lossy copy of an interactive Wikipedia it could be ok not good or great just ok.

Maybe for creative suggestions and editing it’d be ok.

We have new grads, they could not be replaced by AI. If you have new grads AI can replace I’m not sure why it required a college degree.

Isn't this putting it in the Java territory?

Is Fil-C free of runtime overhead?

Intel losing great people at high speed. Not the first, not the last.

I love the x220 chassis, I wonder what it’d take to make a board with a modern risc chip and open firmware for Linux for this sort of thing.

This should be the sort of red flag to take note of. There’s an LLVM fork for every esoteric architecture now and this sort of thinking will lead to never being able to run your own software on your own hardware again. A reversion to the dark ages of computing.

See here https://intel.github.io/intel-npu-acceleration-library/npu.h...

Maybe also note that Qualcomm has renamed their Hexagon DSP to Hexagon NN. Likely the change was adding activation functions but otherwise its a VLIW architecture with accelerated MAC operations, aka a DSP architecture.

DSP is simply a compute architecture that focuses on mutliply and accumulate operations on particular numerical formats, often either fixed point q15/q31 type values or floats f16/f32.

The basic operation that a NN needs accelerating is... go figure multiply and accumulate with the added activation function.

See for example how the Intel NPU is structured here: https://intel.github.io/intel-npu-acceleration-library/npu.h...

We used to call these things DSPs

Well intel did layoff 45k people or so recently.. surely no coincidence

I got a 265kf and motherboard for 350. Plenty fast and saves money for the real issue which is GPU costs. Thankfully B580 is actually a pretty good deal as well at 250 compared to green or red options. Team blue has some good deals out there really if you aren't tied to a team color.

50B worth of meme generating power

Pinebook existed

Quantity yes, quality no.

Aren’t TSM fabs in the US little islands of Taiwanese workers? How is this domestic knowledge and manufacturing not exactly?

I mean if the experience is as good as any x86 laptop I'd try it in terms of installing any linux distro I want. No interest in android/chromeos myself.

The big win would be a linux capable device. I don't have any interest in mac os x but the apple m parts always seem amazing.

In theory this would be where qualcomm would come in and provide something but in practice they seem to be stuck in qualcomm land where only lawyers matter and actual users and developers can get stuffed.

tl;dr... It's still not fast

dragonwing docs are where?

Uno Q... zero docs available for this dragonwing part from qualcomm, I'd say I'm shocked but... par for the course.

I wonder how this will effect Arduino moving forward.

Electric cars need a lot fewer mechanical repairs. Sounds like yet more reasons to avoid buying one of these overpriced over complicated petro vehicles.

I hope cranelift continues to grow too. LLVM tragically has become fork hell. Every cpu vendor now seems to have a fork with enhancements for their cpu arch in some closed source package. It’s hellish as soon as you want to use another language frontend or find the inevitable compiler bug.

I wonder if they will try for a blended wing

This is exactly the issue with Qualcomm. If they actually had datasheets/ref manuals/open drivers... it'd be a no brainer. The part looks great.

The reality is this company is notoriously a law firm with a small technical staff on the side.

The wild thing here with a microkernel is that the syscall API to the actual kernel should be theoretically really small right?

I get the various little services might change, but ultimately the kernel supporting posix like threading and memory operations should be mostly enough?

Did qualcomm ever get its act together with firmware/drivers and linux? It's a dead end to me if they aren't at an Intel/AMD level of openness on this front.

Because it doesn't actually enforce anything and lets you blow your foot off just like C?