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Its extremely low for someone with such a high skill level after tax it'll be about 35-40k euro not counting VAT on all the products you buy in EU (avg 18-23%).
Outside m1/m2 there isn't any chip that can be compared to i5 intel 13 gen especially for PC space [that is in the same price bracket]. (maybe some arm chips can get close to i3 12100f but you can get it for 90 usd and get good single core performance so im not sure if in this price point is even any arm alternative)
I was big cloud enjoyer in like 2016-20 but then some hacker news post open my eyes to the truth. They are trying to milk everyone and hook every possible person on some free credits then bump prices and get fat profits and ofc make as hard as possible getting out of the platform.
I just don't care and move to smaller providers for VPS and database + cloudflare for dns and pseudo s3 (still in almost free tier).
Its not "trust us" it is facts not even speaking about troll farms destroying social media for past 7/8+ years (and possibly 2016 US election)
Russia was attacking west for past 10+years on the cyber-front they even blew up few ammo depos in Central Europe (European Union and NATO countries), assassinate people living in UK without consequences, they were corrupting German politicians with Gasprom money, they were killing opposition inside and outside their country for past 10+ years.
They are barbarian nation and should be stopped and that was common knowledge for everyone living in Central/Eastern Europe and post USSR central asian countries for decades.
It's good that US and West wake up and I'm hoping Russia can get proper XX/XXI century leap in mentality sooner then later cause they definitely stopped growing as society about 1960. (or they can go all in and get destroyed in conventional war vs NATO both options seems good for everyone that isn't Russian oligarch)
They got 100mil USD in founding and I feel like pressure squeeze them hard as they are trying to monetise models, but how you monetise open source models when someone can just fine-tune your weights and make better/faster/cleaner model and software without losing 10mil+ on training original.
You are always few mil behind rivals and after past few weeks which was PR nightmare they lost most of the "community driven" advantage.
I fell like they are extremely desperate for attention (drama was artificially created cause it clicks conspiracy) or they are just so chaotic and lack proper leaders that everything is burin.
Both 7950X and 13900k don't lose much performance from limiting power to "reasonable" wattage.
Pretty weird that roles changes and now Intel is dominating low end and AMD is trying hard to dominate high end.
And Intel is on at least 1/1.5 node behind right now so still impressive for me especially 12600k that totally destroys 7000 series right now.
China ban => lower demand from CCP
nvidia RTX 4090 still out of stock in most places :|
I'm pretty sure datacenter and military chip usage will grow in next few years even if recession hit consumer market even harder then past year then US chipmakers will get fat checks just 2be prepared for China retaliation (probably feels good to be Intel in chip war time).
Not sure if it'll work in current recession economy.
But to be honest if your code is open source im pretty sure Microsoft don't care about licence they'll just use it cause "reasons" same about stable diffusion they don't give a fuk about data if its in internet they'll use it so its topic that probably will be regulated in few years.
Until then lets hope they'll get milked (both Microsoft and NovelAI) for illegal content usage and I srsly hope at least few layers will try milking it asap especially NovelAI which illegally usage a lot of copyrighted art in the training data.
Also Nvidia would probably go more into custom accelerators (tensor cores) as whole industry is moving more towards bigger VRAM and more tf32/bf16 units for AI training over standard fp32 gaming workflow and that's isn't focus of RTX class gaming cards.
And 4090/3090/2080ti is old Titan class card for prosumers mostly focused on 3d rendering/video editing etc. and also gaming for AI pros they are milking sweet money out of quadro lineup.
If you are rly limited by VRAM you should just go fully TPU not wait for some magic consumer VRAM increase as it won't happen for a few years probably (most games in 4k can't utilise 16gb.)
But 2be fair amd is/was growing and intel is stagnant and lose market share right now but with a massive investments and going back on track with fabs process i would assume Intel soon start 2grow again (ofc after the end of the recession)
We have to remember AMD is making money out of TSMC advantage over Intel node which I assume won't last forever and if TSMC blunder even one node it can be catastrophic for AMD. Considering USA shift and focus on tech war with China Intel fabs can only grow faster or everything can crash.
Same case with arms export German population wanna help, politicians not so much and bomb every export proposal(even with 70%/75%+ popular support which is extremely weird for democracy)
Also US who knew about invasion few months before.
Global pandemic is kinda once every few 100 years think so unlucky for us that happen right now.
History lessons show that to global or even continental conflict you need to have blocks of equal powers (from Ancient Greece (Peloponnesian War as local but "big" conflict) till modern times and Napoleonic Wars/WW1/WW2) and there is no block that can rival US right now (maybe in 10 years if China go back on tracks and push more funds into army)