They too can use AI to do projects. In fact, those students can do projects that come to mind, w/ AI helping them code every step of the way. Then they can try testing those, and see what they get

This trend is cyclical, and has been since the 90s. Glut in the RAM market leads to price erosion, which lead to a slowdown in manufacturing. In the meantime, those low prices tend to spur new designs that use plenty of it, spiking the demand, then creating a shortage which leads to a ramp up in manufacturing, which then leads to another glut

Unless and until the AI bubble bursts, don't expect RAM prices to come down anytime soon. Also, by now, it's well known that this is a volatile market, making it unlikely for new entrants. Even while it's littered w/ the skeletons of companies like Qimonda

It does too many things. The latest being age-verification, in response to laws by some US states and Brazil. Too much for an init system

How many Arm based Windows laptops have sold from anybody? Any Wintel user who bought them could only have lived w/ them if s/he had no legacy Wintel-only software that needed to run on it. But if they needed software that was not cloud-only and whose ISOs they had in Wintel, they'd have been SOL on it here

In that case, Linux could have supported the first generation of Snapdragon based Windows laptops. It doesn't, since the firmware is very different from the UEFI firmware on Wintel laptops

Why bother about x86 emulation, when iCore Ultra and Ryzen is gonna beat you all day long?

Cool! Hopefully, at some point soon, the BSDs - NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD - will add support for it

A company also has the option of publishing its HDL models openly, w/o violating any license, since this is an MIT licensed CPU. (Why they might want to is another story)

RISC-V is still relatively new, just like Arm was in the 00s. Once there are a variety of Arm vendors, it will be a different story

I was under the impression that Espressif had used Tensor cores, and later migrated to RISC-V. I had no idea of any products in which they used Arm

Really? Yesterday, as a test, I asked different AI models (CoPilot, Gemini, Brave Leo/Qwen, Venice AI) what they thought about Trump's rebranding of Artificial Intelligence as "Super Intelligence". All of the others pointed out that Super Intelligence is a term that already exists for a class of intelligence, but Qwen, which is a Chinese model, told me that Trump was not the current president of the US. Gave me my first AI hallucination

The claim about Chinese AI being superior or even competitive is highly overblown

CoPilot aside, it's good that you didn't. They are Arm based laptops: in other words, they'd be completely worthless in terms of running legacy Wintel software if you had any. If you need to buy a Windows laptop, stick to x86. If you aren't tied to it, best off would be looking at the new GoogleBooks - although they ought to introduce some in the $500 range

As I mentioned above, the CoPilot+ PCs are Arm-based Windows offerings. Vendors who are not Microsoft should ditch the idea, and instead make them GoogleBooks - installing GoogleBooksOS on them. That way, they are selling Android based PCs.

That's a lot better than asking customers to be ready to install a different OS on them, which would be more difficult than on x86 based laptops, given the installed firmware

Very true. In my experience, whenever it has had to draw anything, particularly maps, it makes a royal mess of things. It's just about okay for mundane things, but if one needs precise advice on anything, go w/ the alternatives

They are not killing off CoPilot. It's one of the AI's I use (others being Gemini, Venice AI and Brave's Leo/Ocacia), and it has a list of features that it will be rolling in over the next 2 months - notebooks, studios and the capability of moving Q&As into different notebooks. (Notebooks being the equivalent of files in Windows Explorer, and Studios being the equivalents of folders, except that there can't be >1 level of nesting)

However, if you have noticed, the CoPilot+ PC branding is how they have branded their Arm based Surface laptops, to distinguish them from their iCore based ones. For the latter, they didn't have to do anything software-wise: it's any normal PC that can run any legacy Wintel software w/o any issues. That's not the case w/ their Arm based laptops, where if you have an old Wintel title, it's not likely to run on this unless it has a native port. In order to make it usable for something, they decided to focus on its power-savings and NPU and market it as a PC on which one does just AI stuff

Frankly, I don't see that going far - and the same is true for all the PC vendors - Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo, Asus.... that made Snapdragon based laptops running Windows 11, for the above reasons. They've introduced into the market new product lines that do not run legacy Wintel software, but pricing them on par or even higher than their Wintel lineups. Those offerings are even less useful than ChromeBooks, which are on their way to being replaced by GoogleBooks, which will run Android. The best thing these companies can do for all their Snapdragon or MediaTek offerings would be to offer GoogleBooksOS on them. That would make them equivalent to Android phones, and make them far more useful, while at the same time utilizing their AI capabilities (i.e. their NPUs and TPUs)

So CoPilot+ PCs going away may mean nothing more than ending that disastrous Windows on Arm experiment of Microsoft's. Ever since their debacle w/ NT on RISC in the 90's, Microsoft was never going to make a successful OS not based on the x86. In fact, Microsoft needs x86 even more than x86 needs Windows

Really? Which other spreadsheet has this "feature"? Or do you need more CoPilot in Excel?