• Intel's much-delayed Sapphire Rapids range of server CPUs is finally here.  (Serve the Home)
  
  At launch there are 52 models to choose from at prices ranging up to $17,000.  There's no clear winner because there is no model that has all the features on offer.
  
  In benchmarks it's kind of meh as you'd expect, because it goes up to 60 cores per CPU and is competing with AMD chips that go to 96 cores.  Plus, unless you are running Intel-created code that leverages a specific Intel-only hardware acceleration function, two 60 core Sapphire Rapids chips can be slower than one 64 core AMD Epyc Genoa.
  
  Also AMD will be launching 128 core chips soon.

• The matching range of workstation chips will launch on February 15.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The pricing on the server models gives us some guidance of how much the workstation models will cost, which is to say, a lot.
  
  
  
• Microsoft is looking at investing $10 billion into OpenAI, creator of lie bot ChatGPT.  (Semafor)
  
  I guess it's less annoying than Sam Bankman-Fried, if no more likely to provide a return on that investment.
  
  And Microsoft has a hedge here: ChatGPT runs on the Azure cloud - which is owned by Microsoft.  So that $10 billion will mostly flow straight back into their pockets.
  
  
  
• More than a million people fled the terror of free speech at Twitter for the familiar Marxist authoritarianism of Mastodon.  Then they decided it's too hard and left again.  (The Guardian)
  
  I'm not sure who loses here.  Why would Mastodon want a million new psychotic cretins?  They've got their fair share alread.

Posted by: normal at Thursday, January 12 2023 01:18 AM (LADmw)

Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, January 12 2023 03:20 PM (BzEjn)

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