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    Hardware support: Steam Hardware Survey: AMD processor usage is over 20% for the first time in years

    Hardware support: Steam Hardware Survey: AMD processor usage is over 20% for the first time in years


    Steam Hardware Survey: AMD processor usage is over 20% for the first time in years

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST

    According to the graph Intel peaked last year at 84.7% and is now down to 79.5%, showing a slow downward trend.

    https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

    BTW, these graphs only show the last year and a half. Anyone know if there is a way to see older data ? On SteamDB I can only see information for games and Steam users in general, but I can't find the hardware and OS statistics.

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    [AnandTech] Imagination Announces A-Series GPU Architecture: "Most Important Launch in 15 Years"

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 05:20 PM PST

    TSMC now Asia's most valuable company

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 01:24 PM PST

    (Anandtech) Toshiba to Expand HDD Production: 20 TB & 10-Platter Drives Coming

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 06:37 PM PST

    Apple's Acquisition of Intel's Smartphone Modem Business Completed, Intel Admits 'Multi-Billion Dollar Loss'

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 05:13 PM PST

    Think Silicon® demonstrates early preview of Industry’s first RISC-V ISA based 3D GPU at the RISC-V Summit

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 09:54 PM PST

    [VideoCardz] - AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT launches next week, Radeon RX 5600 XT in January?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 11:57 AM PST

    Unveiling Core Technologies of Huawei SSD

    Posted: 03 Dec 2019 01:21 AM PST

    Is the inside of a microchip routed in 2D or 3D?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 03:44 PM PST

    So a microchip is basically a bunch of transistors built on top of silicon, but are the connections between the transistors routed all in two dimensions or can they be stacked on top of each other like you would in a multi-layer PCB? Are the connections on top of the chip or on the bottom where the pins are? Can they be on both sides?

    What about the transistors themselves? Can they be stacked?

    What prompted this question is when I was thinking about how the "active interposer" works on Intel's new Foveros chip stacking technology, which apparently is a chip that the CPU, GPU and RAM are soldered onto that handles both the physical routing between those components and the base PCB, but also contains cache, I/O logic and auxiliary processing. So basically would all these exist on different layers of the interposer or will the routing and processing have to compete for surface area, such that there will be a trade off between the number of interconnects between chiplets and the amount of space for actual logic?

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    Intel still hasnt fixed all security issues with their CPUs

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 11:27 PM PST

    Rocket Lake leaker now says it will have AVX-512 support and is likely a Willow Cove backport to 14nm.

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 05:09 AM PST

    https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/PC_Shopping/M.1575216141.A.FF7.html

    Sharkbay is the same leaker behind the 8C and Gen 12 iGPU leak a few days ago:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/e31dpp/intel_rocket_lakes_desktop_processor_comes_in/

    https://www.techpowerup.com/261611/intel-rocket-lake-s-desktop-processor-comes-in-core-counts-up-to-8-gen12-igpu-included

    edit: The relevant portion:

    Thanks for copying the spec and copying the wrong RKL-UP3 / S, which is AVX-512.

    Vernacular: 14nm version of RKL = TGL minus iTBT weakens IGD

    Plus change the power scheme SVID

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    Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 01:03 PM PST

    [Phoronix] FreeBSD 12.1 Runs Refreshingly Well With AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X - Benchmarks Against Windows + Linux

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 08:07 AM PST

    The Online Museum and Technical History of Hewlett-Packard

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 02:56 PM PST

    Can an FPGA be reprogrammed on the fly? How fast is the programming process?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 11:16 PM PST

    Using an FPGA as a coprocessor to a PC or workstation has always been a cool concept, but is it actually possible to change parts of the internal configuration of an FPGA without shutting it down and completely reprogramming it? For example, if you were doing a video transcode in one process and doing a file compression in another, once the file compression has finished can you clear away the part of the FPGA that was programmed to do that and, say, use that region to do encryption without affecting the video transcode that's still running?

    How fast can this partial reprogramming be done, if at all? Will there be a noticeable delay in starting a process and the FPGA being ready to actually start doing calculations for it?

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    ARM + NVIDIA HPC Software Ecosystem Evaluation on Wombat at NCCS (Wombat vs. Summit, ARM vs. Power 9)

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 09:44 AM PST

    Do high-end components have greater variable production costs than low-end components?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 08:10 AM PST

    E.g., does it cost more for NVIDIA to produce an extra unit of RTX 2080 Ti than an extra unit GTX 1070? Is it at all possible to say something general about this?

    EDIT: And do variable production costs constitute a non-negligible portion of total costs?

    Thanks for the elaborate answers.

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    Lenovo #3: Gross mis-representation

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 11:15 AM PST

    Microsoft acquires Express Logic, accelerating IoT development for billions of devices at scale

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 05:07 PM PST

    AMD Radeon VII

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 11:44 PM PST

    [ServeTheHome] Intel Xeon E-2274G Benchmarks and Review

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 07:06 AM PST

    I What do you do with your old computers?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2019 01:23 PM PST

    I am in the process of retiring 5 computers from my relatives and I'm dumbfounded what to do with all of them. They are all maxed out on RAM and they still work ok, but really they just want something more zippy.

    The computers are all Dell Core2Duo, three E7500, one each E6600 and 8400. All have 8GB RAM (4x2GB) and hard drive varies from 300GB to 500GB. The E7500 are XPS and the other two are Optiplex.

    Are there charities or whatever that could use these despite being 10 years old? These computers are only worth maybe $50 each on CL.

    They still work for web and watching netflix and youtube with occasional stuttering.

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