Microsoft doesn't know when they can give you AI if you work for valve seems like you're set for life and looks like AMD is set cuz now they can run Cuda finally let's get in the hot news everybody I'm your Bret host we're going to be going over the hottest te news I can find on the internet while you enjoy your breakfast this Thursday July 18th 2024 we're going to start off today talking about co-pilot plus PCS everybody's favorite little devices that came out with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips and with people wondering when can everybody else get it this whole marketing operation of putting it only on the Snapdragon X Elite chips despite the fact that AMD is launching new CPUs that can support this this month and then Intel is supposed to come out with them in Q3 and uh never mind the fact that basically every Nvidia card can run this easily and at the same power efficiency as everything else for the last however many years just ignore all of that and Microsoft doesn't really know when they're going to be able to bring it out because it's just going to happen sometime this year not even a guaranteed release date not even a guaranteed time window the 24 H2 update which stands for the second half of 2024 they're really taking advantage of the fact that it is 6 months long not bringing it to their existing Partners the people that actually sell Microsoft laptops the companies that they've been partnering with for years the companies that are still trying to claw and Market chair and have actually made decent Headway like AMD with their AI 300 series for some reason they can't have access to co-pilot Plus at launch despite the fact that they have the hardware that can run it their npus are equipped with enough tops to do it and it's just indefinitely delayed just like Microsoft recall is if you can't tell I'm just a little spicy about it because it doesn't appear to be for any justifiable reason other than somebody got paid a lot of money how did this Arrangement between Qualcomm and Microsoft work out the entire Microsoft C- plus event was between those two Intel and AMD were nowhere to be found even though they were having Hardware events discussing all of this saying that they're going to be ready sure you're going to push Intel to the side cuz lunar Lake's not ready they're not going to have the mpus but it's it's like a month later and AMD is ready they're launching the AI 300s in about a week and you can't tell us when we're going to get it I think that's a little hog water but I can guarantee that valve employees could probably afford hog water it sounds like a little delicacy it was meant uh derisively but it could be something positive I don't know because even though valve's a quiet privately owned company where we don't have a whole lot of details coming out because they're in a lawsuit about how much money they make a lot of that information got leaked and so the Verge got their hands on some court documents where there's redacted information but they didn't redact it very well because even though there's boxes you can still get the numbers out of it so now it's public record some data about valve's payment situation and how their employee structures Works behind the scenes at least up until 2021 kind of the early years of the pandemic and kind of before the steam deck took off and was a major Hardware hit but what we found out is that valve has roughly 350 odd employees which is very very small for the amount of money that they bring in and that's actually something that valve boasts about that they are more profitable per employee than Google Amazon or Microsoft and that it's roughly $15 million per person that works at valve and turns out that that's not just money that's going into gab's pocket even though their headcount has balloon based on the data a lot of these people that work at valve are getting paid big time it seems like the least amount of pay actually went to the hardware Engineers who are working at valve again this is before the steam deck actually launched they really had only launched some minor Steam Machines they launched the valve index and then kind of the steam control things didn't really work out but those people are making roughly $450,000 a year each and then it just scales up from there so it if you got a job at valve it looks like you're set for life you're not getting publicly traded stock options but you are being compensated handsomely and they didn't want us to know that but I also hope that those Hardware Engineers since they've come out with the steam deck and the steam deck OLED potentially got a pay raise or as people say in other parts of the world a pay rise cuz they're they're doing good work I like I like what they're doing over there with the hardware stuff and that's one of the things that valve changed since 2021 anyways we'll keep you updated if anything notable comes out about this but it was just a fun little fact that these people make enough to buy a lot of houses and I don't want to talk about that part anymore so I'm going to let reys talk about the deals yo welcome back to UFT deals bringing the hottest Tech deals out on the internet I hope you guys had a wonderful day yesterday and hey we had a successful live stream where we found Community Source deals these are some of my favorites that are still active you can take advantage of and first up we have the hyperx Cloud 2 wired gaming headset going for only $47.49 making a $32.50 off but then next up we have this B quiet pure Loop 2 FX 360 mm aiio CPU liquid cooler going for only $92 22 making it $626 off and then lastly we have this XFX Speedster Merc 310 AMD radon RX 7900 XTX going for only $869 199 which is a phenomenal price for a $7,900 xdx and hey with that the deals are done you can find these am all Linked In the video description down below but until next time I'm going to hand you off back to bread for the rest of your hot news cheers well wor people wanted a deal on the raspberry pie case that fractal showed off at computex people saw this little box that looks like a fractal North and it houses a raspberry pie case because they were using it to show off their new fractal headphones at computex and people were like when are you going to sell that when are you going to sell that we want that that's cute that's beautiful we want it and fractor was like oh yeah we'll get around to it so the community was like no no no we're not having any of that and so makers and modders got their own 3D print files and provided that for themselves it kind of Hit the newswire two days ago that modders were doing that and then yesterday fractal dropped the 3D print file for you to be able to make your own and then you just kind of need to get the wood and acrylic to kind of make the whole panel yourself but you can 3D print it yourself fractal is not going to sell it but makers and modders providing you with fractal North raspberry pie cases fractal themselves giving you the data it's just a nice little thing for the North piie you check it out Linked In the video description but what's also a nice little thing is getting out of the clutches of Nvidia you might remember that Nvidia got raided by the French authorities because they're in an antitrust lawsuit about how they're handling certain things like who they allow access to the Cuda library or if things are finding their ways to work around how Cuda operates nvidia's been shutting it down like a previous operation known as Luda which got Intel and aim gpus to kind of work with Cuda so that it could actually do professional applications the way Nvidia GPU would do it slightly worse because there's other funny business going on but it's been something that Nvidia is now getting punished for they're staring down the barrel of a 10% Global Revenue fine from France for shutting this stuff down and now it seems like it's the perfect time for scale to announce that they have a natively compiling Cuda app for AMD gpus this is a very large deal in terms of getting AMD gpus up to Snuff when it comes to professional applications that leverage the Cuda acceleration zuda got shut down despite the fact that AMD was kind of in partnership with them at least investing some resources but now scale is announcing that they're here and that they accept Cuda programs as is there's no need to Port them to another language it will just allegedly work on AMD gpus now again this is a large deal because there hasn't been a massive application or massive uh software stack that has allowed this to happen and one of the negatives about it or at least the criticisms that could be leveraged here is that unlike other efforts this is not open source but that's kind of to the benefit of the project since scale actually has some Consulting that they do and that's how they've been financing the effort to develop scales so that Cuda could be leveraged on AMD so they're not necessarily being able to give this away for free or make it available for everybody there is a free plan for you to be able to check it out out but it likely will become a paid thing but in professional applications having to pay for this type of software isn't necessarily something that uh is unheard of so not open source not free but it now exists and could potentially make it so that AMD stops slipping in the market share for their gpus because it's been a it's been a rough downfall for them in the RX 7000 series despite the fact that I personally think it's been one of their best Generations uh that doesn't reflect in how many people are buying their chips and I don't know if I bought what you said in the comments so let me read it again and then repeat it back to you Andre saying Intel is taking if you can't beat them join them seriously but hey I guess that's what competition does all the better for us seems like it might be a good thing I saw a lot of comments where people were just kind of like oh this is probably how they're trying to make up for 13th and 14th gen it's like so yeah maybe maybe but if it's good for us in the the long run it's a little bit of ends Justified this is a means mentality which I don't typically Vibe with but I also know that engineering an entire new architecture isn't something that you could just whip up it's not something that they just had sitting around on a shelf and they're like hey uh that won't take any effort to launch let's get it out there this this takes considerable man-hours both on the engineering front the development front it's it's it's not a simple thing to come out with thinking sand friends and we got slug Bunny saying Ai and theft the iconic Duo of our time I love I love the preceden of our times right now at low 78 saying Google is outraged by a company training in AI with data that was not consented to be use they're just mad that a nonprofit is moving in on their business model uh that's not at at all what we reported on yes this is happening to YouTube and uh you know their Google owned Enterprise but it's not YouTube that they're stealing from it's the creators who are actually investing in uploading to the platform it's not Google who's going to bat for this it's all of the creators saying hey I invested heavily into my content and I was not contacted I do not consent I consent to uploading my videos to YouTube I'm engaging in a private transaction with Google for them to host store and serve my videos in turn for either exposure or AdSense revenue and I have a contract with them to do that I don't have a contract with open AI I don't have a contract with a Luther AI I don't have a contract with Apple for them to take my content and distribute it and use it and modify it however they want so it's not not Google who's going to bat here it's the content creator saying hey we didn't agree to this we didn't consent to this just because you can watch it for free as a public member of society doesn't mean that we've agreed to you in a business contract that you're allowed to use our content in that way so it's it's slightly different than that then we got Bubba saying Intel continues to release new LGA 1700 CPUs me CRI and EVGA z690 are they like they're not developing new bioses for it right like is that that's like done I didn't I I don't know how it works I don't have an EVGA setup like I I know they're not making new hardware but that makes sense that they're also not investing in the the software firmware for it so I'll cry with you I suppose and then lastly we got shet saying on many videos of the new arm-based laptops I've seen that some x86 apps do not run despite there being a prism emulator and an error message pops up so is there a way to force x86 apps to run or do you have to patiently wait till the developer drops an ARM version I haven't found a simple solution for how to get this to work I'm sure there is some sort of workaround that somebody can find where you can kind of force it to happen but that kind of is the point right like Qualcomm is saying they're going to take 50% market share they're going to be everywhere they're going to dominate where Intel and AMD have infiltrated offices in the Normie pipeline for computers when I can't run things just by clicking run and then I have to go and do a convoluted workaround you have now made me an early adopter that's a completely different Market segment than getting to 50% of everybody buying it so I there may be a way it's not easy it's not simple it's not intuitive it's not baked in and therefore uh it's frustrating unless you want the challenge in which case Dive Right In dive in head first struggle beond the beond the bleeding edge of Armon windows it's definitely going somewhere based on all of the signals I have right now and I'm going somewhere else uh I don't know hot news tomorrow we might hit a million subscribers tomorrow we're we're we're we're dangerously close to 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