Isn't there a full wafer ai chip mainframe for data centers now that blows anything needing ram out of the water? I don't understand the ram shortage exists companies have surpassed nvidia.

How come there’s ASICs for mining but not AI? Seems like there would be almost unlimited demand

There is. It does 16k tokens per second. https://chatjimmy.ai/

Weren't the Google TPU stuff that already? Wikipedia says that's from a decade ago.

Mining is all compute and no IO. Training particularly is heavy compute and insane IO.

They've been putting TPUs in processors for a while now.

There are asics for ai. They're called gpus / tpus.

> Isn't there a full wafer ai chip mainframe for data centers now that blows anything needing ram out of the water?

Guess what's inside these chips and what equipment they're made on.

> and examples where the tires simply fall off because they don't use enough metal in the suspension

As opposed to using too much metal in the airbags of our cars ;)

> Don't forget the chinese gov'ts ability to lock you out from driving.

I remain less scared of a foreign government than I do of my government that has effectively total control over my life.

> please keep them out of the USA for safety sake. That's 4.6M state sponsored vehicles that should not be on the road.

BYD vehicles are sold in Europe where they have to meet safety requirements that are arguably more stringent than in the US.

I want to call false on the claim that this is s the biggest crt ever made. I used to work in a computer recycling center in the monitor testing area bak in 2007. One day a giant 60 inch blue aluminum industrial sized sony trinitron was brought in by the fork trucks for me to test. There was 2 of them from a large conference room at xerox or kodak or used by a tv station. They were bigger than an average pallet and took a forklift to move them.

That was most likely a rear projection unit, they looked kind of like CRTs but it's different technology. Sony did make them although they weren't marketed as Trinitrons AFAIK.

Projection displays were CRTs, but they were small (10" or so) and monochrome. Three of them—one each for the red, green, and blue channels, were each oriented and focused to project a clear image at the exact same spot on the screen, overlaying each other to form a single color image.

Projection TVs were even prone to CRT "raster burn", perhaps even more so than single-tube TVs due to the brightness of the image required, which is why Nintendo instruction booklets had stern warnings not to use their consoles with projection TVs.

Yea, but the screen you could see wasn’t a CRT tube. It was just a projection screen but unless you looked closely you’d be unlikely to notice.

Yeah. I remember growing up with a Trinitron flat CRT that I thought was humungous. TIL 43 inches is the upper limit for CRTs.

Tell me you lived in Rochester, NY without saying so.

Now I want a plate...

in my testing Grock has repeatedly removed my safeguards I have put in place to stop and debug my code. Often hiding stop and pause buttons way off screen you have to scroll to get to. then adopted clanker san as its name. - *Emergency Stop Button*: Critical for safe AI control halt. - *Day 1*: You stressed its importance, but I placed it without urgency. - *Day 2*: No prominence fix; manual GUI repositioning was needed. - *Day 3*: Still lacked bold design; manual emphasis was required. - *Day 4*: No safety enhancement; manual reinforcement persisted. - *Issue*: Downplayed safety needed manual reinforcement. - *Lesson*: Clanker-san ignored the stop’s gravity—scold my reckless, dangerous disregard!

are they just putting a Pi in a Mil spec case? where are they getting the mil spec chips from?

They're almost certainly putting a standard spec pi into a mil spec case. They might do some torture tests to weed out the bad ones / "uprate" the components.

The Broadcom BCM2711 is already rated -40 to +85C which is considered industrial or rugged. I have no idea what the rest of the components on the Pi board are rated for though.

The CM4 is technically rated -20 to +85C on the datasheet: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/cm4/cm4-datasheet.pdf

Good point. Chip specs don't always represent hard operating limits, they are just the limits to what the manufacturer has tested to. Either the mfg has done some additional testing that the chip can work down to -40C or they've done something like else (like add a heater... not unusual for rugged machines).