Yeah the next generation of Strix Halo is what would get me excited. I think right now TSMC has no capacity, so maybe we have to wait another year. Kinda ironic that all CPU/RAM capacity is being sold to LLM companies, and as a result we can't get the hardware needed for good local LLMs.

> all CPU/RAM capacity is being sold to LLM companies, and as a result we can't get the hardware needed for good local LLMs.

yeah... Ironic I guess. It's as if they've realised that it's only a matter of time until we get a "good enough" FOSS model that runs on consumer hardware. The fact that such a thing would demolish their entire business of getting VC hyped while giving out their service for a loss surely got lost to them. Surely they and Nvidia have not realised that the only thing that could stop this is to make good hardware unreachable for anything smaller than a massive corp

Mark my words: in less than one year, we'll probably get something akin to Opus 4.6 FOSS. China is putting as much money into that as they can because they know this would crash the US economy, which is in the green only thanks to big tech pumping up AI. China wants Trump either gone or neutered as soon as possible, which they know they can do by making Republicans as unelectable as possible - something that will probably do if the economy crashes and a recession happens