Fork and fuck off time.

Section 7.1 grants Arduino a perpetual, irrevocable license over anything you upload. Your code, projects, forum posts, and comments all fall under this. This remains in effect even after you delete your account. Arduino retains rights to your content indefinitely.

This can't be something they can do under the GDPR, right? You have your right to have your data deleted and to be forgotten.

Damn, I had no idea Qualcomm bought them.

Qualcomm is one of the worst companies. I'm certainly not going to support Arduino anymore.

Sounds like you could wardrive with this thing

That's 18 years between 1970 and 1989.

Of course not, a shortage means higher prices

Is this Nazi hardware now? Or are we still waiting for Framework to endorse and hire more Nazis?

Great project

There are easier ways do to this in either of those applications. The only thing I can think of is click farms.

It's actually cheaper to use the USB 3 A ports then it is to use the USB C ports. There's a lot less wiring (and circuitry) that needs to be done for this amount of ports. A full spec USB C port has somewhere between 20-24 pins that are all used if you need USB 3.x speeds. A USB 3 A port has 9 that are used for full data speed. It's orders of magnitude less annoying to run that many traces on a board and keep the data speeds where they need to be.

In industrial settings you often need to collect data from lots of low bandwidth devices. 36 usb-to-serial adapters or something.

I can imagine a lot of other stuff too, like some kind of interactive display in a museum or art exhibition, with lots of IO and little computation. Anything that outgrows a Raspberry Pi.

It might be for driving multiple cell phones for click-farms.

No USB-C :(

Note how they are all old school USB ports, and not USB C.

It could be useful if you need to load documents on a large number of flash drives to hand out for some event. It could also be used with a bunch of SDR dongles for monitoring a lot of different radio signals.

I would assume they have multiple USB controllers, so there would be a lot more bandwidth available than just using USB hubs with a normal PC.

I cobbled together a bunch of external drives connected via USB 3.0 and made a big 10TB NAS using LVM.

It's stupid, but true.

What else would you need that many ports for? Genuinely don't know

To me, this seems like pretty much what they were expecting to do in the first place, and a classic case of pushing too far on purpose, just to back track to pretty much where they wanted to be; A plan that is a classic among big corporations.

I don't think this is good enough, because it still would make future customers wary of buying their products, just to have support for new features dropped, in some cases, just days after they buy the product.

Some could argue that they don't "owe" anyone that, but this is how the tech industry has worked for a while with its fast moving software pace. If NVidia, their only major rival, and even Intel, both continue to offer full fledged support for far longer than AMD, this continues to really dampen the reasons one would go for an AMD card.

Now AMD cards will have:

• Shorter prioritized driver support

• Less game support from devs (due to their lack of market share)

• Fewer games covered by their game specific features (FSR4 Suite) than their main competitor (NVidia with DLSS and FG)

• Trailing feature development (on average) when compared to their main rival NVidia

And users will be expected to accept this, all for a discount of typically just 50 dollars for GPUs of similar raw performance.

That seems like a very raw deal to me, and that is very unfortunate given the already greater than 90% market share NVidia commands in gaming and even higher market share in enterprise compute (AI included).

I'm not a comuper scientist, so I might be wrong, but GPU should have a processing unit too. A simpler one than a CPU, just to do some types of calculations specific for a GPU job which are more efficient.

RISC-V is a simplified architecture, like ARM or other RISCs. Maybe that's enough for an efficient GPU?

I'm confused. Wasn't RISK a CPU architecture?

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I had no idea the origin of Star Trek: Voyager's bio-neural gel-packs went back this far!

All the taste without the broken teeth!

RAM soup! Yum.

"Hey check it out. I trained one of the ape creatures to give me electricity by impersonating something they call 'RAM'."

"They're so easy to manipulate."

"So, Plan Omega, then?"

"Definitely. That was the last piece we needed."

"Initiated. Hang on to something. This shit's about to get really interesting."