- Whoa!
I expected tech news
but I was not ready for what happened next.
- [Man] What is it, what are you doing?
What is this, click bait, what?
- Make that the title. - [Man] No.
- Nvidia's plans to buy Arm fell through,
but the company apparently continued working
on Arm processors,
including the beast of a server CPU
they announced yesterday
at the Game Developers Conference.
The Grace Superchip.
It's super because it consists of two CPUs
fused together to create a super powerful processor.
That's not ultra, that's super.
- [Man] What's the difference?
- One's Apple.
The other thing that makes this super
is it's 144 CPU cores
and one terabyte per second of memory bandwidth.
Much faster than M1 Ultra's 800 gigabytes per second-
- [Man] That's for children.
- Of course, Grace is for servers not consumers
and not consumers who work as servers.
So the more fair comparison
is to AMD's Epic CPUs.
Nvidia says Grace has 1.5 times more performance
in a spec benchmark,
than two last Gen Epic chips.
Oh man, imagine how many frames
that could get you in Elden Ring.
- Blocked at 60.
- Like, look how smoothly I can die.
The other interesting thing is Nvidia announced
that it's enterprise clients will be able to create
custom configurations of CPUs and GPUS using NVLink
which explains why they didn't join
that universal chip interconnect express initiative
that I always talk about on Tech Quickie.
- Oh, were you?
- It hasn't come out yet, but you'll see me.
Same sweater.
I mean, Arm is part of that
so it might just be a bit awkward.
- They're just staring at each other from across the room.
- AMD is also at GDC this week and as promised,
they released more information
and a demo of their new FSR 2.0 technology
which unlike Nvidia's DLSS 2.3,
will be available on Xbox consoles
and their competitor's graphics cards.
It's like I drink your milkshake,
but the opposite, - I give you my milkshake.
- I blow in the straw and give you bubbles.
- Hmm! - Happy times.
AMD showed the tech running in DEATHLOOP
at various quality settings
and it does seem to benefit both quality and performance.
But of course it does or AMD wouldn't have shown the demo
or maybe they would,
and they would a spoofed it or something.
AMD has had some chaotic energy recently.
- We're doctors, we can do whatever we want.
- I only wear these glasses so I can take them off.
(man laughing)
Unlike the company's driver level
Radeon Super Resolution tech,
FSR 2.0 won't work across the board.
It'll be up to game developers to enable it
but it might be an interesting option
for those with the GTX 1070 or above,
which should not have the Tensor Cores necessary
for DLSS support.
Team Green left you behind, join the other one.
- Team Blue (laughs)!
Whoa got the- - Soon
- (indistinctive) - Soon.
Are you an (indistinctive)?
And Enthusiast hopes that the Mac Studio's SSDs storage
could be replaced, have been dashed
after a couple of recent tear downs
were posted on the weekend.
YouTubers, Max Tech and Luke Miani,
did manage to remove the studio storage
only to discover that the machine
would not boot with any alternative storage installed.
- Very picky.
- You know, we're doing this on LTT.
There could still be a chance.
- There could still be a chance!
You're telling me there's a chance!
- Exactly, so there's still a chance!
Some speculated that apple had blocked upgrades
using software while smart developer person,
Hector Martin, two first names,
pointed out that those SSDs
were actually raw storage modules
that require the SSD controller built into the M1 processor
to work properly.
But Hector also points out fairly that issues like this
only arise because X86 enthusiasts try to put Macs
in their PC box.
When really the Mac Studio is a box
that you can't really put else...
anything else. - There's no room.
- Else into. - Don't use it for storage.
- It's a closed box.
- It's just a box.
It's just a box.
- What's in the box?
You don't get to know, that's why they use adhesive.
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just like we practiced. (man yelling)
After teasing something for weeks,
Nothing, the company founded by former OnePlus chief,
Carl Pie?
Announced their first phone called, what else?
The Phone (1).
True to their name, Nothing is still keeping
the details scarce and promising a device
that offers the most compelling alternative to Apple.
The most we actually saw was an image of the home screen
and an image of some lines that apparently
represent the back of the phone.
So yeah, basically nothing.
(both laughing) That's what they wanted!
- I see what they were doing now.
- (sighs) Hacking group, (imitates lisp) Lapsus$,
is certainly getting around recently.
Microsoft confirmed the group has indeed managed
to steal partial source code
from some of their products, including Bing.
- That's worth - Oh no!
- Billions on the black market.
And security company, Okta also confirmed
the group had made off with some of their data.
Although so far, neither incident seems to represent
as severe a threat to end users as the Nvidia hack.
I think it's time to ask whether Lapsus$
is able to get into all these company systems
because they're actually an advanced AI
that lives in the metaverse. - Whoa.
- And if so, I can't wait to one V one them in Beat Saber.
You get at me, Lapsus$!
The Steam Alpha for Chromebooks has just been released
for the Dev channel of ChromeOS.
Right now, the alpha is only supported
on a handful of Chromebooks, but if you really want,
you really want to try what is actually a longer
than anticipated list of currently available games.
You can try it out.
Although due to the inevitable early performance issues
I'd prepare myself for a level of difficulty
that puts Elden Ring to shame.
Second Elden Ring reference. - Were you just waiting
to unzip that the whole time?
- I just... - Like, I'm gonna pull it out.
- The story just made me...
Snap inc. has acquired the brain computer interface company
NextMind for an undisclosed amount.
Next! - I don't want this one.
- (laughs) Leading many to speculate
that the company is looking to incorporate BCI tech
into their spectacle smart glasses.
I just hope that they do enough fine tuning on the model
with thought control.
Would really suck to think, "Oh man, it would really suck
to accidentally send this video to my friend."
And then that's what happens.
And Xbox is celebrating the upcoming release
of Sonic the Hedgehog 2
with the new controllers covered in either blue or red fur.
- No!
- Unfortunately, these won't be available to buy...
only make love to.
(man laughing)
Just joking, they will be prizes in a giveaway.
Not sure how much of a prize it'll be.
If it makes gamer's hand sweat syndrome worse,
but weird stupid things like this
are what makes life worth living.
And they make the tech news.
Come back on Friday for more of this kind of stuff.
- (laughs) What?
- This isn't your normal daytime TV news is it?
We're so quirky.
- Oh, you're so weird.
- We're so furry. - I love how silly you are.
(man laughing) (bird tweeting)