TRANSCRIPT · Gaming-Handheld: Acer Predator Atlas 8 startet ab 1.299 Euro

## Gaming-Handheld: Acer Predator Atlas 8 startet ab 1.299 Euro (ComputerBase)
https://www.computerbase.de/news/gaming/gaming-handheld-acer-predator-atlas-8-startet-ab-1-299-euro.100109/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Acer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld is on sale, and the price tag has its own spec sheet.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. Acer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld is on sale from 1,299 euros. Gary is in the block world to size it up.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: That is the entry price only: small CPU and GPU, 512 GB SSD. Acer sells several configurations.
GARY: Gravel Gary, deep underground. Intel Arc G3 or G3 Extreme, Arc B370 or B390 graphics, raytracing, XeSS 3. Graphics: great. Wallet: critical.
GARY: On the file footage: the 8-inch touch display, 1,920 by 1,200, 120 hertz, VRR, 500 nits, Gorilla Glass on top. Looks great, like torchlight.
GARY: Up to 24 GB of LPDDR5X, SSD up to a terabyte, two fans, and TMR sticks, so no stick drift is supposed to happen. Windows 11 Home inside.
GRANT BRICKMAN: No stick drift. Our station's 1987 weather map drifted for years, and nobody offered us a refund.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Different kind of drift, Grant. Also, price comparisons so far list only the 24 GB variants.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Quite. A handheld of that calibre, one hopes, comes with a charger the size of the handheld. Back to you, Greta.

## Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark (The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/sam-altman-dram-samsung-presidents-cheeky-pint
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Sam Altman visited Samsung, which makes the memory he talked about, two days after the remark.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Sam Altman has been to Samsung, days after the RAM remark. The AI keeps a busy diary. Vera, to the board.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: For viewers just joining: we first told you about the RAM remark earlier today. Now Samsung has hosted Altman in person.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Samsung hosted Altman for talks with about 50 of its presidents on Saturday, at its training centre in Yongin, south of Seoul.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The theme, per The Next Web: how AI will change the next ten years, and what companies should choose to do.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Vera, did they discuss the RAM? Someone in that room must have brought it up.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The report doesn't say. It notes the podcast went out two days earlier, with Altman calling DRAM in people's own computers quite terrible.
DR. VERA VECTOR: DRAM is the memory chip Samsung makes. Earlier today we reported Altman's point that PC memory is used only some of the time.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And what did Altman actually say in the room?
DR. VERA VECTOR: Samsung published nothing Altman said and named none of the executives present. The detail comes from a statement on its Korean newsroom.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Samsung frames it as training: managers' judgement and execution matter, so presidents should learn AI themselves. The rest is open.

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