Is Intel Hiding their GPUs

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#### Intel's Arc Alchemist GPU Facing Major Challenges

According to German tech tester and commenter Igor Wallacek of Igor's Lab, Intel is in hot water with many of its branded partners due to issues surrounding their Arc Alchemist GPU. The trouble began when Intel instructed their add-in board partners to avoid selling the cards on the retail market and instead focus on system integrators and OEMs, which carry a much lower profit margin. This decision has left partners disgruntled, as they now face massive amounts of unsold inventory. Additionally, Intel has reportedly refused to provide a guaranteed price point for their Arc A380 or similar cards, further exacerbating the problem. The situation is compounded by Intel's notably worse RMA and returns policy compared to competitors like NVIDIA and AMD.

As a result, some unknown manufacturers have ceased production of graphics cards entirely, citing quality concerns. Meanwhile, partners who remain on board have reportedly capped their marketing budgets for these cards and are not planning any big launch day pushes. This means the Arc GPU's official release could be much less of a grand extravaganza and more akin to a man standing by the side of the freeway with a sign that says, "Please buy my GPUs—anything helps."

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#### Intel Delays 3-Nanometer Meteor Lake GPU Order Again

In more Intel news, the company has once again delayed its 3-nanometer Meteor Lake tile GPU order. According to TSMC, Intel had initially planned to outsource the production of their TGPU chipsets for their 14th generation processors to TSMC in the second half of 2022. However, these orders were first delayed until early 2023 and have now been pushed further to late 2023. This delay has left TSMC with only one major client—Apple—for their 3-nanometer production line.

It is expected that companies like AMD, MediaTek, and Qualcomm will eventually also seek access to TSMC's 3-nanometer line. However, uptake is likely to be slowed due to limited capital available for expanding the production line ahead of these other companies. If Intel fails to mass-produce its Intel 4 in-house and on schedule, outsourcing to TSMC could offer some financial relief. But if Intel succeeds, it could spell future order cancellations as they move further away from outsourcing. As one commentator quipped, "Poor TSMC—always a bridesmaid, never a bride. You're always useless and barely employed."

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#### Twitter Rejects Elon Musk's Claims in Court

In a significant legal developments, Twitter has rejected Elon Musk's claims in court that he had legitimate reasons to back out of his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media platform. The court ruled that Musk's claims were contradicted by evidence and common sense, as outlined in a 127-page filing. According to Musk, he was "hoodwinked" by Twitter into signing the merger agreement. However, Twitter pointed out that the tool Musk used for his own bot counting—dubbed "Bottom Meter"—even identified *his own account* as a bot.

This machine learning-based tool calculates a score indicating how "bot-like" an account is. In May 2022, Protocol reported that Musk's account scored between four to five, or an 80% likelihood of being a bot. These days, he's getting a 1.2 out of 5 according to RS Technica. As one commentator noted, "If we're all being honest with ourselves, the 80 was much easier to believe—Zuckerberg is a 95."

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#### Quick Bits: Tech News Roundup

**World of Warcraft Mobile Game Scrapped:** Blizzard and Chinese gaming giant NetEase, co-creators of Diablo Immortal, have reportedly canceled an unannounced mobile MMO set in the same universe as World of Warcraft. The cancellation came after the companies failed to agree on financial terms for the title. One analyst speculated, "It might just be tragic—if one was trying to get a payment from the other each time a certain action was performed."

**Google Merges Google Meet and Duo:** Google is officially merging Google Meet and Google Duo. Originally announced in June, the plan was to keep the Google Meet branding while retaining Google Duo's features. However, the existing Google Meet app will still be available until September. This means there are now two apps called "Google Meet." As one commentator joked, "It'll take a few more months for them to combine and form some sort of meat loaf."

**YouTube Testing New Zoom Feature:** YouTube is testing a new mobile app feature for premium subscribers. Those who opt in can now pinch to zoom up to eight times on both portrait and landscape videos. While this feature may satisfy fans of true crime YouTubers, it won't allow for video enhancement—meaning CSI fans will still have to live out their tech fantasies.

**Intel Promises Wi-Fi 7 Speeds:** Intel has announced that laptops equipped with Wi-Fi 7 could reach speeds surpassing 5.8 gigabits per second. This is more than double the current wired speeds on most high-end laptops and nearly six times faster than standard wired devices. The IEEE expects the Wi-Fi 7 standard to be ready by 2024. When asked about what they'd use such fast Wi-Fi for, Intel representatives refused to make eye contact and began trying to clear their browsing history.

**Amazon Buys iRobot:** Amazon has announced a deal to purchase iRobot, maker of the "definitely not sentient" vacuum cleaner Roomba, for $1.7 billion. While it's unclear what Amazon intends to do with an expensive robot army that collects detailed floor plans of people's homes, one commentator joked, "Alexa, play deposity—oops, that's it for tech news today."

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#### Closing Thoughts

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"Make sure to go LTT Store, get yourself a backpack—we'll see you here Monday for more tech news... goodbye."

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's me colin bam my name's not colin nobody cares what your name is okay okay i could be waiting in line for the dole but no am i trying to rap what the is this intro i don't understand the joke intel's arc alchemist gpu is in trouble yet again according to german tech tester and commenter igor wallacek of igor's lab intel have run afoul of many of their branded partners causing widespread discontent amongst the manufacturers the trouble supposedly started when intel told their add-in board partners to avoid selling the cards on the retail market and instead focus on system integrators and oems which carries a much lower profit margin to make matters worse intel has also reportedly refused to give a guaranteed price point for their arc a380 or similar cards and their rma and returns policy are notably worse than those of nvidia and amd all of this has according to igor left the partners sitting on massive amounts of inventory and with the price of graphics cards in sharp decline it's getting less valuable by the day we've all been there evidently nobody wants a plush banana for scale from ltteststore.com filled with real banana skin why'd i order 40 000 of them they smelled worse than you one aib unknown manufacturers apparently cease production of art cards entirely citing quality concerns while the partners who still are on board have reportedly capped their marketing budget for these cards and won't be doing any big launch day pushes so the arc launch parties could be less of an extravaganza and more of a guy on the side of the freeway with a sign that says please buy my gpus anything helps please please and in more intel news the company has yet again delayed its 3 nanometer meteor lake tile gpu order according to its manufacturer tsmc it was announced last year that intel will be outsourcing the production of tgpu chipsets for their 14th generation processors to tsmc with orders due in the second half of 2022. initially they delayed those orders until early 2023 and now they've delayed their order further to late 2023. with intel leaving them high and dry tsmc has been left with only one client for their three nanometer production line and that client is apple it's expected that companies like amd mediatek and qualcomm will eventually also be knocking on their door for three nanometer but uptake will be slowed now that there's limited capital to expand the production line ahead of those companies throwing down some deposits if intel fails to mass-produce their intel 4 in-house and on schedule the resulting outsourcing to tsmc could still offer a bit of financial reprieve from the current situation however if they are successful it could spell future order cancellations as intel moves away from outsourcing even further poor tsmc always a bridesmaid never a bride you're always useless and barely employed this is a new guy this is a new guy very funny twitter has rejected elon musk's claims in court that he had legitimate reasons to back out of a 44 billion deal to purchase the social media platform saying that musk claims are contradicted by the evidence and common sense which we assume was padded out letter by letter across all 127 pages of the filing that also states that according to musk he was hoodwinked by twitter into signing a 44 billion merger agreement hoodwinked the richest man in the world got hoodwinked musk's case is based around twitter having more bot accounts than the five percent figure twitter advertised to him but twitter says the tool musk used for his own bot counting even identified musk's own account as a bot the tool hilariously called bottom meter uses machine learning to calculate a score that indicates how bot-like an account is a may 2022 article from protocol lists musk's account with a score of four to five or an 80 likelihood of him being a bot these days he's getting a 1.2 out of 5 according to rs technica though if we're all being honest with ourselves the 80 was much easier to believe zuckerberg is a 95. according to us below meter you're a zero now for the quick bits brought to you by vulture vulture provides high performance cloud servers bare metal storage and managed kubernetes for a great price you can easily deploy with your preferred os in over 25 server locations worldwide vulture talon cloud gpu lets you use fractions of nvidia a100s to affordably handle even the most advanced workloads and the fully managed vulture kubernetes engine is there so you can operate and scale with confidence using a 100 free control plane try vulture today and receive a 30 day 150 code for new signups at the link below on to the quick bits quick bits a world of warcraft mobile game that has been developed for the past three years has been scrapped reports bloomberg blizzard and chinese gaming giant netease co-creator of diablo immortal have apparently cancelled an unannounced mobile mmo set in the same universe as world of warcraft the cancellation comes after the companies could not agree over financial terms for the title i wonder if one was trying to get a payment from the other each time a certain action was performed it might just be tragic google is officially merging google meet and google duo announced in june the plan was to keep the google meet branding and the google duo features however the existing google meet app is still sticking around until september this means there are now two apps called google meet apparently it'll take a few more months for them to combine and form some sort of meat loaf he took the words right out of my mouth youtube is testing a new mobile app feature premium subscribers that opt into the experimental feature can now pinch for an up to eight times zoom on both portrait and landscape videos sure it'll let you zoom but it'll not let you enhance so fans of true crime youtube will still be unable to live out their csi tech fantasies that's probably for its best yeah intel says that they expect laptops equipped with wi-fi 7 to be able to reach speeds that will surpass 5.8 gigabits per second this is more than double the current wired speeds on most high-end laptops and nearly six times that of standard wired devices the ieee e the ie said it expects the standard to be ready by 2024 when asked about what they'd use such fast wi-fi for intel refused to make eye contact and began trying to clear the browsing history on their phone without anyone noticing it's like you in business meetings got me there that's true definitely not evil corporation amazon has announced a deal to purchase irobot maker of the definitely not sentient vacuum cleaner roomba for 1.7 billion dollars though unclear what amazon intends to do with an expensive robot army that collects detailed floor plans of people's homes there's surely absolutely no reason to panic alexa play desposito that's it for the tech news today folks i'm colin i've been your host thank you for watching make sure to go ltt store get yourself a backpack we'll see you here monday for more tech news goodbyeit's me colin bam my name's not colin nobody cares what your name is okay okay i could be waiting in line for the dole but no am i trying to rap what the is this intro i don't understand the joke intel's arc alchemist gpu is in trouble yet again according to german tech tester and commenter igor wallacek of igor's lab intel have run afoul of many of their branded partners causing widespread discontent amongst the manufacturers the trouble supposedly started when intel told their add-in board partners to avoid selling the cards on the retail market and instead focus on system integrators and oems which carries a much lower profit margin to make matters worse intel has also reportedly refused to give a guaranteed price point for their arc a380 or similar cards and their rma and returns policy are notably worse than those of nvidia and amd all of this has according to igor left the partners sitting on massive amounts of inventory and with the price of graphics cards in sharp decline it's getting less valuable by the day we've all been there evidently nobody wants a plush banana for scale from ltteststore.com filled with real banana skin why'd i order 40 000 of them they smelled worse than you one aib unknown manufacturers apparently cease production of art cards entirely citing quality concerns while the partners who still are on board have reportedly capped their marketing budget for these cards and won't be doing any big launch day pushes so the arc launch parties could be less of an extravaganza and more of a guy on the side of the freeway with a sign that says please buy my gpus anything helps please please and in more intel news the company has yet again delayed its 3 nanometer meteor lake tile gpu order according to its manufacturer tsmc it was announced last year that intel will be outsourcing the production of tgpu chipsets for their 14th generation processors to tsmc with orders due in the second half of 2022. initially they delayed those orders until early 2023 and now they've delayed their order further to late 2023. with intel leaving them high and dry tsmc has been left with only one client for their three nanometer production line and that client is apple it's expected that companies like amd mediatek and qualcomm will eventually also be knocking on their door for three nanometer but uptake will be slowed now that there's limited capital to expand the production line ahead of those companies throwing down some deposits if intel fails to mass-produce their intel 4 in-house and on schedule the resulting outsourcing to tsmc could still offer a bit of financial reprieve from the current situation however if they are successful it could spell future order cancellations as intel moves away from outsourcing even further poor tsmc always a bridesmaid never a bride you're always useless and barely employed this is a new guy this is a new guy very funny twitter has rejected elon musk's claims in court that he had legitimate reasons to back out of a 44 billion deal to purchase the social media platform saying that musk claims are contradicted by the evidence and common sense which we assume was padded out letter by letter across all 127 pages of the filing that also states that according to musk he was hoodwinked by twitter into signing a 44 billion merger agreement hoodwinked the richest man in the world got hoodwinked musk's case is based around twitter having more bot accounts than the five percent figure twitter advertised to him but twitter says the tool musk used for his own bot counting even identified musk's own account as a bot the tool hilariously called bottom meter uses machine learning to calculate a score that indicates how bot-like an account is a may 2022 article from protocol lists musk's account with a score of four to five or an 80 likelihood of him being a bot these days he's getting a 1.2 out of 5 according to rs technica though if we're all being honest with ourselves the 80 was much easier to believe zuckerberg is a 95. according to us below meter you're a zero now for the quick bits brought to you by vulture vulture provides high performance cloud servers bare metal storage and managed kubernetes for a great price you can easily deploy with your preferred os in over 25 server locations worldwide vulture talon cloud gpu lets you use fractions of nvidia a100s to affordably handle even the most advanced workloads and the fully managed vulture kubernetes engine is there so you can operate and scale with confidence using a 100 free control plane try vulture today and receive a 30 day 150 code for new signups at the link below on to the quick bits quick bits a world of warcraft mobile game that has been developed for the past three years has been scrapped reports bloomberg blizzard and chinese gaming giant netease co-creator of diablo immortal have apparently cancelled an unannounced mobile mmo set in the same universe as world of warcraft the cancellation comes after the companies could not agree over financial terms for the title i wonder if one was trying to get a payment from the other each time a certain action was performed it might just be tragic google is officially merging google meet and google duo announced in june the plan was to keep the google meet branding and the google duo features however the existing google meet app is still sticking around until september this means there are now two apps called google meet apparently it'll take a few more months for them to combine and form some sort of meat loaf he took the words right out of my mouth youtube is testing a new mobile app feature premium subscribers that opt into the experimental feature can now pinch for an up to eight times zoom on both portrait and landscape videos sure it'll let you zoom but it'll not let you enhance so fans of true crime youtube will still be unable to live out their csi tech fantasies that's probably for its best yeah intel says that they expect laptops equipped with wi-fi 7 to be able to reach speeds that will surpass 5.8 gigabits per second this is more than double the current wired speeds on most high-end laptops and nearly six times that of standard wired devices the ieee e the ie said it expects the standard to be ready by 2024 when asked about what they'd use such fast wi-fi for intel refused to make eye contact and began trying to clear the browsing history on their phone without anyone noticing it's like you in business meetings got me there that's true definitely not evil corporation amazon has announced a deal to purchase irobot maker of the definitely not sentient vacuum cleaner roomba for 1.7 billion dollars though unclear what amazon intends to do with an expensive robot army that collects detailed floor plans of people's homes there's surely absolutely no reason to panic alexa play desposito that's it for the tech news today folks i'm colin i've been your host thank you for watching make sure to go ltt store get yourself a backpack we'll see you here monday for more tech news goodbye\n"