Serpent Lake (and its siblings) cover both consumer desktop and laptop.
Arc's team was disproportionately effected by the layoffs. A lot of the major engineers that worked there changed their Linked in details to list Nvidia, AMD, etc.
As for DC and Workstation GPUs, they also seem to be canceled.
Sundaras aren't great, but are sufficient for this. Scarlett series is also good enough.
At 48khz, with a tone generator (not rando Youtube videos or anything), you should be able to clearly hear up to around 16khz (as in, can tell pitch of tone), and be able to tell a tone is being played at all up through 18khz, and hopefully up to 20khz.
The problem with RocksDB is Facebook uses it, and has a similar system that replicates data across the world... and still faces unrecoverable data loss because of RocksDB.
Interesting, they used to be the largest ZFS user.
Hard to Google for it without getting AI slop on it, but apparently they built their own stack in 2019.
Not sure I like their solution, "Meta-data is persisted in RocksDB databases using a proprietary KV store called QuarkDB." Unless QuarkDB has magically removed RocksDB's amazing ability to corrupt and lose data frequently, this whole thing sounds like a bad idea.
Also, their data is not stored on any one system (local XFS, Ceph, Lustre), a recipe for disaster.
They weren't the first to do MTP like this, and arguably did it wrong: the MTP heads are kept in a separate file and have to be welded in by the inference engine.
Qwen 3.6 shipped with working MTP first, and had working MTP in llama.cpp first.
In a way, its funny you say Toyota is the foreign brand.
Of domestically produced GM, Chrysler, or Ford vehicles, most are shipped to foreign customers; of domestically sold GM, Chrysler, or Ford vehicles, most are manufactured by foreign factories. They do some assembly locally, but the majority of it is of foreign manufacture.
However, Toyota manufacturers most of their domestic sales domestically, and operate one of the largest car manufacturing plants in the US, only slightly below Ford's US plant that largely exports to Europe. Of domestically made cars that are domestically sold, Toyota dominates that.
BMW and Nissan also operate plants in the US for domestic use.
I agree that this backwards Reaganite behavior is just going to further shut the Detroit Three out of any future. They're already on the way out, a slow decline since they left the US, but this is going to finally finish those zombies off.