Tae Kim

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Senior writer at Barron’s. I'm writing a book on Nvidia. Prior: Bloomberg Opinion tech columnist. Sign up to my substack below for Nvidia book updates: https://firstadopter.substack.com/

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Does anyone else wince when they see their monthly electric bill?

I love Wegmans bagels. That is all.

Wow. Canva is accelerating. The startup told me they were growing 40% as of March at $1.4 billion runrate. Now it's 50% at $2 billion

@dark1x.bsky.social heard you on a podcast praising Sega Rally. Where’s the best platform to play it?

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the best Mario game since Super Mario World, hard stop. It sparks pure joy during gameplay and keeps you constantly smiling. Epitome of what gaming can do in today's crazy world.

Oh, it’s coming. And it’s going to be amazing. So many incredible stories.

Kudos to @dylan522p for noticing Nvidia's updated product roadmap slide first inside the company's October investor presentation. God help Nvidia's rivals in competing against this accelerated product cadence s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/fi...

Beautiful

The highest signal social network is Reddit now. Not even close. Just have to find the right smaller topical reddits.

Must read story on Valorant from the always great @cecianasta.bsky.social The game has 28 million players per month vs. League's 100 million www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m impressed

"Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!" - Elon Musk, 10/27/22

How is Bluesky app scrolling as smooth as silk while Threads and Twitter are stuttery messes? Bluesky has much less money! Makes no sense.

Oh, I went there. Shout out to Nirvana fans too

First thing I'll say is I have never seen an author dominate the digital and media airwaves like @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has this past week. Dunno how she was able to do all these gazillion newspaper, media, newsletter and podcast interviews for her great debut book. I'm in awe

So apparently Threads isn't going to amplify news. Guess back to Bluesky now

"Denny’s CEO Kelli Valade was joined by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Tuesday to unveil a plaque at the Silicon Valley Denny’s where NVIDIA’s founders hatched their idea" blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/09...

Market seems to be saying paying 30Xs earnings for little to no growth in a rising rate environment may be aggressive

Nvidia RTX 4080 handily outperforms AMD RX 7900XTX in AI feature workloads for DaVinci Resolve www.pugetsystems.com/labs/article...

It is now confirmed that the iPhone 15 Pro Max has the X70 Qualcomm modem chipset, offering faster 5G speeds versus last year's 14 Pro Max's X65. Source: iFixIt www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmQH...

University research teams are now bragging about their Nvidia H100 count. It's a new world. 300 H100s! 💪

Y'all think the Trader Joe's version is any good?

Yum

Trader Joe’s is the busiest I’ve ever seen it

No joke, every third time or so I update to the latest graphics drivers, various Call of Duty games stop working and crash. PC gaming is so frustrating

Feels like I spend more time waiting for shader optimization and installing the latest graphics drivers on PC than I do actually playing. Only slightly exaggerating.

I got the iPhone 15 Pro yesterday. Other than screen size change from my prior 14 Pro Max, the phone feels and runs exactly the same. Though, I keeping mistaking the action button for the up volume button 🤦‍♂️

Just a few hundred people or so waiting on line to get their prepaid iPhone 15 preorder pickups at 5:30pm in Grand Central.

$1.7 trillion for 55% up-time seems like a bad deal “F-35 fleet mission capable rate—the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions—was about 55 percent in March 2023, far below program goals.”