I will speculate this is purely a political move to maintain good relationships with the current US administration (as mentioned in the article).

No way is this happening.

They likely use a generic image provider and though this image looked better than just an ARM (or Qualcomm) logo.

Not to mention performance on a power adjusted basis.

While I am all for competition; I would support making all IP (copyright - driver code, firmware, EDA deliverables, patents) public domain after 10 years (only for high tech stuff), I doubt this SKU will provide competition on a global scale.

Added archive link in post.

TH are kind enough to not block Ukrainian users it seems. :)

Trying do a URL lookup at archive.fo. For Wired there is very likely an archived copy.

Well, they clearly have too much money

They may have a lot of money, but they definitely don’t have anything close to a reasonable return on investment. I believe the total revenues from “AI services” are sub $50 billion per year compared to at least x20 times capex and likely a very high amount of opex (hundreds of billion) per year.

Yes, the link didn’t work.

I am from Ukraine, so I didn’t need the link. :)

Thanks for this.

Very interesting for a nerd like me.

Agreed. If there were American bases in Crimea/Donbas, I don’t think the russians would have invaded in the first place.

I was refering more to a hypothetical scenario with a mutual defense treaty without bases. A situation where they would have to land in Crimea and start sinking the russian black feet and bombing Moscow.

I have my doubts they would act even with a treaty that used explicit wording around a russian invasion in context of mutual defense obligations. I think Obama would chicken out and cite some technicality.

In general, the impression I get is that US leadership in the last ~40 years has been subpar both in the foreign policy arena and in domestic matters.

Dont take this an an Anti-American rant. Our leadership was incompetent and corrupt. Poroshenko had a chance after the Revolution of Dignity, but he messed it up. Zelebakyy is probably the first leader of modern Ukraine that has been competent and has shown some level of achievement.

I could see that being true in some places, but it you do need an actual mobile phone number where I lived for certain things (not only government services).

Golli is right regarding the wording of the Budapest memorandum, it isn’t explicit at all.

I would even agree that perhaps technically “the UK and USA have held up their part of the deal”.

Nothing in my OP denies this, I am talking about a more general evaluation of the reliability of the US.

Keep in mind the original X Elite benchmarks were never replicated in real world devices (not even close).

They used a desktop style device (with intense cooling that is not possible with laptops) and “developed solely for benchmarking” version of Linux (to this day X Elite runs like shit in Linux).

This is almost certainly a premeditated attempt at “legal false advertising”.

Mark my words, you’ll never see 4,000 points in GB6 ST on any real products.

I am aware of the limitations of the wording in the Budapest memorandum. Note the exact words that I used.

Even if the wording was more explicit, do you honestly think Obama and the Americans wouldn’t chicken out in 2014 and would be willing to fight to kick out the Russians from Crimea?

I wouldn’t trust the Americans if I were Taiwan. Scepticism about their reliability is reasonable. They guaranteed Ukraine’s integrity in return for denuclearization; we have enough data to make educated guesses about their behaviour and level of courage.

Yeah, a mandatory work phone (where the employer can define requirements) should be purchased and funded by the employer.

“People are realizing that their creativity doesn’t need to be boxed in by a budget – there are no constraints creatively and that’s why AI can really be a positive,” continued Eline. “It’s just about changing people’s viewpoint.”

What does this even mean? Agreed, creativety doesn’t haved to be limited by a budget, you can implement workarounds (Blair Witch Project), but those workarounds require creativity and not whatever this fellow is pitching.

I was going through their site and it looked almost too good to be true.

If it works as advertised, our government should make a clone of this (our productions and operational costs are always going to be significantly less than in the US), perhaps even under license.

We could really use a few hundred of these systems here in Ukraine (if they worked as advertised, but it seems they do work).

They are mobile too which is great.

The 1:1 rule honestly sounds like something a teenager would come up with because it sounds cool (and of course the teenager didn’t even bother to do basic back of the napkin type calculation as a sanity check).

I’ve also never seen a CMOS battery LED, that was a random though.

I just don’t the idea of them messing around the with PC with the PSU on a bit shocking.