| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: ASUS ROG Ally successor most likely to launch this year, claims ASUS India VP |
I get that this is just another business for ASUS (and also MSI) and getting new models every year is the way to go, but I think that this handheld PC market is closer to the console one than they think, and that may cause them troubles.
In my opinion, most users will stick to their current device until it either breaks or no longer can play newer games, and givem how recent are these machines, that means that the second gen may not sell as well as they hope, giving them the wrong message.
Steam's approach, launching a revision almost two years later that, to the end user, only changed the display and storage, while saying nothing of the successor, may work better because it does feel like a console cycle, with a successor launching maybe three or four years later bringing noticeable improvements that everyone will be able to see and feel.
| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: NVIDIA’s Global AI Chip Market Share Reaches a Whopping 90%, Analysts Says Competitors Years From Catching Up |
This made me think of this article I read this morning:
AMD Instinct MI300X Released at Opportune Moment. NVIDIA AI GPUs in Short Supply
https://www.techpowerup.com/318351/amd-instinct-mi300x-released-at-opportune-moment-nvidia-ai-gpus-in-short-supply
LaminiAI appeared to be one of the first customers to receive an initial shipment of AMD's Instinct MI300X accelerators, as disclosed by their CEO posting about functioning hardware on social media late last week. A recent Taiwan Economic Daily article states that the "MI300X is rumored to have begun supply"—we are not sure about why they have adopted a semi-secretive tone in their news piece, but a couple of anonymous sources are cited. A person familiar with supply chains in Taiwan divulged that: "(they have) been receiving AMD MI300X chips one after another...due to the huge shortage of NVIDIA AI chips, the arrival of new AMD products is really a timely rainfall." Favorable industry analysis (from earlier this month) has placed Team Red in a position of strength, due to growing interest in their very performant flagship AI accelerator.
Of course, those that are getting those monsters now had already preordered them a long time ago, but Nvidia's dominance also brings supply problems that may help AMD enter this market a bit faster than they had hoped. Also, AMD's chips are fast, and that's also a plus.
Please excuse my bad English.
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