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    Gaming Display Prices are Dropping

    Still waiting for a curved, double 4k panel. Gaming may be a bit rough along with 144Hz and HDR, but the real estate... Could be nice for non-FPS titles as well.
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    Adobe to Kill Shockwave in April

    They've kept it around for compatibility along with a recommendation not to use it. Can't fault them for that, but yeah it needs to go.
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    Intel Announces Compute Express Link

    As it's likely data center focused with accelerators, security may be less of a concern. Disabling security mechanisms on a closed system in favor of performance isn't a horrible choice. OpenCAPI should be AMDs open version. Infinity just allowed them to ship it faster. As mentioned above...
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    Disney's New Streaming Service Will Include "The Entire Disney Motion Picture Library"

    Now if someone would just consolidate all the streaming packages into one app with subscribed content made available. Prime is close, but still apps or "channels" for all the services that behave differently.
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    The USB Promoter Group Announces USB4 Specification

    I'd still consider making an exception for plugs with added power delivery. The ones that could in theory handle 100W to drive some devices. Or possibly for docking stations with lots of bandwidth and IO.
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    The 16GB of HBM2 on the Radeon VII Is Needed for Real World 4K Video Production

    It's not as fast as the pro card or comes with the support though. Pro should have PCIe4 which would be significant in those markets. The 1/4 rate FP64 is fast, but not too fast for a large deployment. As a prosumer/gaming product with HBCC they picked a nice spot. Haven't checked lately if...
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    Californian Cops Outfit Tesla Model S as Future-Friendly Police Cruiser

    That may include modifications. Armoring the door, added bumper, etc may increase the cost a bit. Doesn't account for selling it back to the grid or using for something else like office lighting. Keep in mind top speed likely isn't as important as acceleration. Sitting next to a highway...
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    Could Microsoft Release a Desktop Linux?

    With a VM and GPU passthrough they would be really close with minimal performance hit. That doesn't account for the security gained by sandboxing the game or app either. A Linux core with Windows/MacOS/Android VM for whatever app is running should remove lots of comparability issues.
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    AMD Will Reportedly Launch the X570 Chipset, with PCIe 4.0, at Computex

    Agreed, however a GPU could be interesting. Ideally they could get MCM working, but a design similar to Rome with say 3 processing chiplets and 1 front-end/cache chiplet could be interesting. See if that allows them to really push clocks on the front-end around the serial issues they have now...
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    AMD Will Reportedly Launch the X570 Chipset, with PCIe 4.0, at Computex

    No reason not to with the Rome design. Infinity Fabric is based on PCIe signaling and speeding up the interconnect obviously has benefits. Secondly they only have to spin a new IO die to integrate the new standard without bothering with the chiplets if they arrive for consumers.
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    AMD Will Reportedly Launch the X570 Chipset, with PCIe 4.0, at Computex

    With NVME and possibly 10GbE pushing into the consumer space the extra bandwidth could be useful. Another big consideration would be USB3+ and thunderbolt connectors consuming a lot of bandwidth.
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    NVIDIA RTX Titan Teased by Influencers

    Shitty GDDR6 as well and not even HBM with that price. The added bandwidth may have actually made the raytracing doable at that price point.
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    RTX 2080 Ti GPUs Go Missing at AIBs

    Burned through that inventory in record time!
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    “Twisted” Fiber Optic Light Breakthrough Could Make Internet 100 Times Faster

    As I understand, it should in theory stack. This technique seems to be based on the angle of entry/exit to put it simply. Fire a laser into the fiber at +/-15/30/45 degrees etc. Then account for attenuation based on high angles having to travel further and/or exiting in opposite directions as...
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    “Twisted” Fiber Optic Light Breakthrough Could Make Internet 100 Times Faster

    Any long distance or backbone lines would likely benefit if the 100x increase in bandwidth was there. That's a rather massive volume of fiber.
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    Intel Has Disclosed New Security Flaws that Affect SGX and Virtualization

    Upcoming generation of 28 core 1 thread processors incoming with best in class single threaded performance!
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    Nvidia SIGGRAPH 2018 Livestream Starts at 4 P.M. PT

    I read that 10Grays/sec more as a fillrate that won't be achievable in most conditions. Even if the dataset fits in memory, the memory access is likely incoherent and limiting performance. As you said, any bounces will curtail performance significantly. Still a nice feature, but the rest of...
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    Patrick Stewart to Star in New “Star Trek” Series as Jean-Luc Picard on CBS All Access

    At this point Picard has to be an admiral, so the storyline will be interesting. DS9 got interesting once they got a galactic war and space opera in full swing. With modern CGI it could be interesting if they do something similar. Just a question of who the bad guy is. Someone from a new...
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    AMD ThreadRipper 2nd Generation, Intel i7-9600K & i9-9900K Cinebench Scores Leaked

    If worried about gaming performance, restricting a TR to a single NUMA node shouldn't be all that difficult and get similar results as a single chip. Then still have the upside of all the cores for when needed. Might take some work by Microsoft, but shouldn't be all that difficult to pull off...
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    AMD ThreadRipper 2nd Generation, Intel i7-9600K & i9-9900K Cinebench Scores Leaked

    Thermal throttling. That chip will be well worth the money for anyone who can use all those cores. Wouldn't mind seeing how compile times hold up on that thing. That would be the defacto developer platform if all those cores worked for compiling and a remote build setup wasn't available.
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    AMD Looking to Chiplets

    The 4 blocks of 16 are the shader engines and likely a more ideal chiplet size for manufacturing. A Vega10 comparable chiplet would be <10mm2 if broken into NCUs. Certainly possible, but as I said it might not be all that practical to manufacture. A SE would be <200mm2 which may be more...
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    AMD Looking to Chiplets

    NCUs would likely be too small to be practical. Shader engines might be more representative.
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    Unhappy With Facebook's Rules? Whip Out Yer Boobs!

    To be completely objective here we need to look at this issue from all points of view!
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    Micron Reveals GDDR6 Overclocking Potential, Up to 20 Gb/s Possible

    All the high end cards where the memory would be pulling 100W otherwise and really cut into that 300W window. IO is what burns a lot of power on memory and upping the voltage certainly won't help there and won't be all that useful for smaller form factors and mobile where the market appears to...
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    Intel Announces New Optane DC Persistent Memory

    I'm not sure byte-rewritable is quite the way to go though. The indirection with a TLB could be a real PITA for the caches. More addresses than actual data at that point. Further, I'm of the mindset some form of HBM acts as a high bandwidth cache between the persistent memory and processor...
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    Alexa Recorded a Woman’s Private Conversation and Sent it to a Random Contact

    I think you mean Amazon's Echo Look that comments on your outfit. Just when you thought the mic was, imagine that sending clips to a contact. Rhetorically ponder if someone will think your ass looks fat in a dress and it inquires on your behalf.
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    Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition Tech out to Law Enforcement

    Come on, those government jobs will be automated just like everything else. Leaving the police robots to keep us inline.
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    Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition Tech out to Law Enforcement

    I see quite a few good applications for this that aren't being mentioned. The ability to automate certain security and safety functions beyond just facial recognition could be huge. The system could detect armed robberies in convenience stores without any action by employees or using facial...
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    Steam Hardware Survey Was Wrong

    Considering the usage of the numbers, I don't think double counting is necessarily a bad way to go here. So long as it's counting unique gamers and the hardware they are using. Useless for hardware sales figures, but for a developer targeting a customer base it's relevant.
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    More Confirmation Of NVIDIA GPP Impacting Consumer Choice

    Except the concern there is cost associated with maintaining multiple soda fountains. Which takes extra space for the dispenser and inventory. The concern is that APUs and embedded designs displace the majority of dGPU volume if they take off. All the low end designs feature...
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    Google, Microsoft Push Websites to Go Password-Less

    One way to create an international fingerprint and facial recognition database for governments. All for the key idea, just perhaps not using fingerprints and faces.
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    Surprise: AMD cancels implicit Primitive Shader driver

    If you completely discount the clockspeed in the 4/clock then I guess you could be right. Few if any titles actually need that much throughput. The Vega issue looks more a temp issue holding back clockspeeds. It's doing well, but not maintaining the clocks that it should which hurts...
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    Surprise: AMD cancels implicit Primitive Shader driver

    So AMD found a preferable solution that is applicable to both IHVs and uses established APIs, and that means it never saw the light of day? Of course they could always go the explicit route and prevent devs from optimizing for Nvidia hardware. Then sink a lot of cash and devrel time into those...
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    512 GB Phones Are Here. How Much Storage Do You Actually Need?

    Lots of video will do it. I'd still rather have an external SD card option than internal though. Cards are getting faster and cheaper, plus they can be moved to new phones. Back to the video, anyone with kids might appreciate it. With offline options for Netflix and eventually other...
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    NVIDIA VOLTA's TITAN V DX12 Performance Efficiency @ [H]

    Might be worth keeping in mind, drivers aside, the actual games might not be optimized for DX12 on Nvidia hardware. I would think any game with Async On/Off would have similar paths for all DX12 hardware, but that may not be the case. Any chance of adding CPU utilization to the graphs in the...
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    Surprise: AMD cancels implicit Primitive Shader driver

    Why is that a surprise? Explicit > Portable Compute > Implicit. Makes more sense to focus on the portable option for developers as it works on all hardware. The 1080ti performance has already been achieved when everything is working. Doesn't mean it wont be added eventually either. That...
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    GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

    They'd certainly go along with AMD and Intel charging a premium for PCIe slots or designing GPUs with X86 memory controllers.
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