Daily Tech News 6 January 2025

• CES is almost upon us. What can we expect to see this year? Crap. (The Verge)
  
  It's mostly things that you not only don't want, but would pay a modest amount not to have impinge upon your consciousness at all.
  
  Among all that there is probably something worthwhile.
  
  Probably.

• Having utterly failed to produce intelligence, OpenAI is now moving on to superintelligence. (Tech Crunch)
  
  In much the same way that California is building high-speed rail after so much success with the regular kind.
  
  
  
• Need HDMI output for your Commodore 64? The HD-64 is just wait you need. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Of course, a Raspberry Pi Pico could do all of this for five bucks, but then... Actually, I can't think of any downsides.
  
  
  
• The Espresso Pro 15 is a 15" 4K portable monitor. (9to5Mac)
  
  It's not bad hardware, but the price is another question. The Pro 15 isn't listed yet, but the Pro 17 costs as much as four 27" 4K monitors.
  
  
  
• Geekom is offering a Ryzen 370 mini-PC. (Liliputing)
  
  Twelve CPU cores, sixteen graphics cores, dual HDMI outputs, dual 2.5Gb Ethernet, WiFi 7, eight USB ports, M.2 2280 and 2230 slots for SSDs.
  
  And - this is the interesting part - two SODIMM slots for DDR5-5600 memory.
  
  Which according to my understanding was not supported at all by the Ryzen 370 family, and is the only time I've seen socketed DDR5 memory paired with these chips.
  
  Unless the spec sheet is wrong.

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