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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Intel Might Merge Memory Controller Onto The Compute Die With Panther Lake, Attempting To Fix Deep-Rooted CPU Latency Issues

https://wccftech.com/intel-merge-memory-controller-compute-die-panther-lake-fix-deep-rooted-cpu-latency-issues/

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 mobile series Device IDs revealed: RTX 5050 to RTX 5090 Laptop GPU listed

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-mobile-series-device-ids-revealed-rtx-5050-to-rtx-5090-laptop-gpu-listed

Intel Files a Patent For “Disaggregated GPU” Design, Are We Going To See “True” Multi-Chiplet GPUs Soon?

https://wccftech.com/intel-files-patent-disaggregated-gpu-design-true-multi-chiplet-gpus-soon/

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Sold Out In a Flash In Japan & Out of Stock In US Too, Retailers Confirm Supply Is Low

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-ultra-9-285k-sold-out-in-flash-japan-out-of-stock-us-retailers-supply-low/

Sounds like they knew it was gonna be a shit show

Intel is in a bad spot, and that it's hard to understand how they let things go out of control to where they are now. And then, you read this:

Intel's former CEO pushed for the chip maker to buy Nvidia for $20 billion in 2005—the GPU company is now worth $3.5 trillion
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/intels-former-ceo-pushed-for-the-chip-maker-to-buy-nvidia-for-usd20-billion-in-2005-the-gpu-company-is-now-worth-usd3-5-trillion/
As some hockey player once said, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take". Or in Intel's case, you miss out on buying a company that's currently sitting second on the list of most valuable companies in the world, back when it was worth relatively little.

That's according to a report from the New York Times, detailing how Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive from 2005 to 2013, presented the board with an idea to buy a little computer graphics company called Nvidia. This wasn't long after he'd taken the position, and the board apparently put up a significant amount of resistance, as (at a $20 billion value at the time), it would easily have been Intel's most expensive acquisition to date.

As a result, Otellini backed away from defending the purchase. One attendee at the meeting reportedly described it as "a fateful moment", and I should think so, too. Given that Nvidia has since positioned itself at the forefront of the AI boom, and currently has a market cap estimated to be around $3.5 trillion dollars, it does strike as one of those misses you'd kick yourself for.

WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:

Factorio's expansion is setting record high player counts yet again so I'm expecting the world's IT infrastructure to collapse and innovation to stagnate any day now
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/factorios-expansion-is-setting-record-high-player-counts-yet-again-so-im-expecting-the-worlds-it-infrastructure-to-collapse-and-innovation-to-stagnate-any-day-now/
I'm here today to announce a dire portent. An issue that may or may not be disastrous for modern technological society. The Factorio: Space Age expansion is doing very, very well. After peaking at a record-setting 91,801 players on launch week, this weekend we've hit 118,674 players—more than triple the total we saw when Factorio launched its 1.0 release in 2020. This most illustrious of factory-building games is like catnip for engineers, coders, systems administrators, process designers, IT personnel, and also me.
Sure, it's the weekend now and that's responsible for the spike in peak player count... but what happens when their minds turn to The Factory, And How It Must Grow come Monday morning when they're supposed to be working? In a year already overrun with good factory games—surely hindering their productivity to date—we are seeing yet another monumenal release. I fear we shan't survive.
So, with a grain of salt, I'd recommend we all prepare for the full-scale collapse of technological civilization as we know it. Engineering tasks shall go un-gineered. Code shall be un-coded. Systems un-administered. Processes? Unprocessed. And there's no way the underpaid IT staff at the local government admin is showing up when they could be building factories that build rockets to send space factories to other planets, each of which has its own unique challenges, and then also build factories there to make yet more rockets.
>> We’re doomed!

Factorio is definitely making some big money they managed to get this far by never putting the game on sale and actually have only ever increased the price since it's early access and now the new expansion is as much as the game currently costs.

JEMC said:

ColdRidge, the game about cowboys doing 4x-style exploration, hits release
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/coldridge-the-game-about-cowboys-doing-4x-style-exploration-hits-release/
French indie studio Frog Collective is set to drop their first game on October 28: ColdRidge, a wild west-set adventure that has your cowpoke adventuring out into the wilderness each spring in the hopes of scouting out resources that the guild needs—and making enough cash before winter comes to survive until you can work again. Otherwise, well, you're outside the walls when those world-scouring snowstorms come.

Saw this game a few weeks ago and it looks pretty cool I think I might give the demo a try.

It's a risky formula, but it works for some studios, especially if the games have a niche appeal of sorts. All the better to them.

And I didn't know the game had a demo. Thanks for pointing that out.