Tue. 06/04 – Wait. Why More Layoffs?

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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More headlines from Computex. More layoffs at Microsoft, but why? Instagram is copying YouTube’s unskippable ads. Why Samsung is pre-emptively suing Oura. And Palmer Lucky is personally bankrolling a modern-day Gameboy. Sponsors: CrunchLabs.com/ride Links: Intel CEO Takes Aim at Nvidia in Fight for AI Chip Dominance (Bloomberg) E*Trade Considers Kicking Meme-Stock Leader Keith Gill Off Platform (WSJ) Microsoft is laying off hundreds in its Azure cloud business, sources say (BusinessInsider) Microsoft cuts jobs in Azure, HoloLens, and other units in latest move to control costs (GeekWire) Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads (TechCrunch) Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims (The Verge) Palmer Luckey is now selling pixel-perfect ultrabright magnesium Game Boys for $199 (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, June 4th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	More headlines from Computex. More layoffs at Microsoft, but why?
0:13.7	Instagram is copying YouTube's unskippable ads, why Samsung is preemptively suing
0:18.6	Aura, and Palmer Lucky is personally bankrolling a modern day game boy.
0:23.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	More from Computex today. Intel unveiled its Lunar Lake laptop chips with a new system on a chip design.
0:42.0	Up to 14% faster
0:43.4	faster integrated GPU and NPU
0:47.8	with up to 48 tops of AI performance.
0:51.8	They also announced
0:52.7	Zeon Six data center chips for AI.
0:54.9	The Series 6,700 comes with 144 efficient
0:58.5	and 86 performance cores. The 6900 comes
1:01.9	with 288 efficient and 128 performance cores.
1:06.2	They set a standard AI kit featuring Intel Gowdy 2 chips, introduced in 2022, will cost $65,000 and a Gaudy 3 kit unveiled in April will cost $125,000.
1:19.0	More in that in a second.
1:20.0	Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger also took a direct shot at NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's claim
1:27.0	that traditional CPU's like Intel's are running out of steam in AI,
1:31.0	quoting Bloomberg.
1:32.0	Unlike what Jensen would have you believe, Moore's Law is alive and well, he said,
1:36.7	stressing that Intel will have a major role to play in the proliferation of AI as the
1:41.2	leading provider of PC chips.
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