Amid Malaysia's Silicon Valley ambitions, internal constraints such as a talent crunch, funding problems and other supply chain gaps present key hurdles to the Southeast Asian country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/19/tech/malaysia-silicon-valley-challenges/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #malaysia #southeastasia #semiconductors #softbank #samsung #intel #amd #arm
Somewhere in a meeting room in AMD headquarters there's a manager asking his engineers, "Okay, we did 192 cores per socket. Did Jerry max that out? Where can we go from here?"
The current #gpu situation is a joke, I do not understand why no tech reviewers are talking about the #amd 9070 pricing compared to the 7800 pricing.
The 9070 is basically the 7800 of this generation, that should be about £500 or less. Don't get me wrong its a good generational leap but its a mid range card commanding enthusiast pricing at the moment.
Because #nvidia hasnt provided any generational uplift we seem to have forgotten the 9070 is a mid range card, and should be priced as such.
The build is complete! Man, this thing is fast as hell. Lots more setup to go, but it felt great to finally turn it on after months of planning and waiting.
No surprise, Newegg failed me yet again with the 9950X3D launch. Fortunately Amazon saved me again.
Linaro is ready to announce the commercial launch of ONELab at #EW2025 
ONELab is the platform for continuous automated testing for Arm SystemReady-DT compliance and broad OS compatibility. Learn more here: https://www.linaro.org/news/linaro-announces-commercial-launch-of-onelab/ #AMD #Arm #ADLINK #Renesas
My new PC (coming from a Skylake) is still ridiculous to me. Top makes me giggle.
I just found out that the NVIDIA driver on Linux simply cannot utilise the system RAM when your GPU is running out of VRAM. Allocations will simply fail.
That fucking sucks.
Windows is apparently remarkably good at managing video memory, so many games simply rely on that and don't take into account how much VRAM is used or available.
Seems like AMD's drivers (Mesa) can deal with this, but I'm not sure.
You know what? I'm not giving a shit about graphics cards anymore.
If you get one at MSRP, great for you. If not, #XboxSeriesS with #GamePass, #PlayStation5 or #SteamDeck and call it a day.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review: 4K Gaming Beast Under $600?
https://techtweakster.blogspot.com/2025/03/AMD-Radeon-RX-9070-XT-Review.html
For those of you wanting a new high-spec processor for all your gaming, perhaps the latest Ryzen X3D will be what you're after. Announced back in January, today we now have the confirmed launch dates and pricing.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/amd-confirm-ryzen-9-9950x3d-9900x3d-price-and-release-date/
Idk where Linus got this info but he deduced that #Apple's new #MacBook Air which is ofc an upgrade over the previous M3 MacBook Air and yet is selling for a cheaper price, despite US tariffs, might mean that the new Macs are either manufactured in Vietnam or... Malaysia.
#Intel/#AMD chips, other semiconductor or flash memory/storage stuffs, sure, but since when do we make anything for Apple, lol? Super unlikely. What's happening is most probably Apple absorbing the tariff costs (considering their high profit margin - that's too easy to do), if any, or if they indeed have moved or are moving their manufacturing.. it's almost certainly not here.
https://youtu.be/lqQjZOTuVBY
Zentool -- AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation Utility
https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/pocs/cpus/entrysign/zentool/README.md
#amd
I was hoping that I could finally retire my GTX 1080ti and replace it with and upgrade to a RX 9070 XT, but no. Everything is sold out. Bummer.
Has anyone got any metrics on underclocking/power limiting the new #amd #9070xt so its closer to the #9070
A lot of 3rd party reviews are indicating the 9070 is one of the most efficient cards to date, but its just a binned 9070XT so surely if the 9070XT was to be power limited a bit more it could potentially provide far better efficiencies.
It feels like it was overclocked to be a 5070ti competitor rather than remain at 280w which was where I think it originally was meant to be.
3/ BTW a related PSA for users of modern #AMD GPUs on #Fedora Linux:
To install va-drivers with support for hardware acceleration of AV1, H264, and H265, enable #RPMFusion free repo if you haven't yet and run this:
sudo dnf install mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
The days of "sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld" are over, as the conflict with Fedora's va-driver package is not needed anymore. 
PSA for #Fedora users with modern #AMD oder #Intel GPUs:
#RPMFusion since a week or two ships #Mesa #Vulkan driver packages for #Fedora >= 41 with support for patent encumbered video codecs such as H264, and H265, which is missing in Fedora's mesa package.
To switch to those drivers, run:
sudo dnf swap mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers-freeworld
[Edit: dropped AV1 from the list of codecs this toot mentioned, as it seems to be supported by Fedora's standard vulkan drivers; sorry for the mishap!]
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