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Our vulture survived Computex – now he just needs to tell us the highs and lows

(2024/06/08)


Kettle Well, that was Computex 2024. A week of Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others talking up the hardware and software they intend to roll out to the world over the next year or so.

You can find our coverage of Taipei's mega-conference [1]right here . And what with so much being announced, our journos decided to get together for a [2]Kettle episode to boil it all down to what you, the reader, needs to know the most. And you can watch that discussion below.

[3]Youtube Video

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On this week's episode, we've got Simon Sharwood, who was reporting from the event, plus our regular vultures Chris Williams and Tobias Mann, and your host Iain Thomson. Our editor is Nicole Hemsoth Prickett.

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The Kettle series is also available as an audio podcast via [6]RSS and MP3 , [7]Apple , [8]Amazon , and [9]Spotify . Enjoy! ®

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[1] https://www.theregister.com/Tag/Computex/

[2] https://www.theregister.com/Tag/Kettle/

[3] https://youtu.be/VesxViQEyqk

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[7] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-register-kettle/id1713589041

[8] https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/fe62a659-3451-496b-b064-f30744c2ad65/the-register-kettle

[9] https://open.spotify.com/show/3SkH00VOX02KYNaAbYzajj

[10] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/



Transcript?

steelpillow

Oh, please, videos don't sync to my work pattern. Please, please provide an old-fashioned transcript!

ThatOne

> Please, please provide an old-fashioned transcript!

Agree.

I know video is the new fad and "if it's not on YouTube it's not real", but some people don't have the leisure to watch a 5 minutes video to get 30 seconds of reading information.

Mysteresis

HuBo

Cool program! In its international incantation, it could be cool to have a clock displaying local time in each of the individual video feeds (for that worldwide time-zoned feeling, especially with Taiwan halfway across the globe and all). Inquiring minds also probably want to know what that blue-ball-handbag contraption was in Tobias' background, and what sort of red-fluorescent-protein cocktail it was that gave Chris his sudden penchant for crocodiles (something isolated from jellyfish, like GFP? Or maybe one of Simon's street-walking whole alien-flattened face-hugger deep-fried squids? Prawns -- pronounced prôn?)! Inquiring minds ...

Kirk to Enterprise -- beam down yeoman Rand and a six-pack.