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    Hardware support: (Igor's Lab) Does AMD with Zen3 still crack the 5 GHz barrier? Even faster engineering sample of the 16-core with 4.9 GHz appeared, AMD implements more X86 instructions from Intel

    Hardware support: (Igor's Lab) Does AMD with Zen3 still crack the 5 GHz barrier? Even faster engineering sample of the 16-core with 4.9 GHz appeared, AMD implements more X86 instructions from Intel


    (Igor's Lab) Does AMD with Zen3 still crack the 5 GHz barrier? Even faster engineering sample of the 16-core with 4.9 GHz appeared, AMD implements more X86 instructions from Intel

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:31 AM PDT

    HW News - RTX 3000 Dates, Intel Leaks, JayzTwoCents vs. Steve, AMD x86 Growth

    Posted: 08 Aug 2020 01:19 AM PDT

    Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G Review: Renoir Ushers in a New Era for 7nm Desktop APUs

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 03:42 PM PDT

    Qualcomm vulnerabilities leave smartphones open to attcks

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:49 PM PDT

    These S.Korean fabless startups are in rapid growth after Samsung, SK Hynix shifts strategy from domination to nurture

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 04:24 PM PDT

    I translated the article because I found this article interesting: https://www.sedaily.com/NewsVIew/1Z6GL3ZX36

    Translation/tldr: Korean Chaebols like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are infamous for employing the "winner-takes-it-all", or the "buy-and-spit" strategy where they systematically kill off potential contenders or acquire the technology from a startup only to "spit" it out leaving no potential for growth. As a result, although Korea takes 70%, and 35% of the pie in the global DRAM and NAND-Flash market respectively, Korea's industrial capacity in the semiconductor business could largely be summed by whatever technology these two semiconductors were developing.

    However, since 2017, the new Korean pres. Moon administration has been at work collaborating with Samsung to lead the establishment of a healthier semiconductor industry ecosystem that encompasses all areas from non-memory (Foundry, and Fabless IC design), to memory chips (DRAM, NAND-Flash) . It is since then Samsung announced plans to invest 133 trillion Won into their sensors, IC design, and foundry businesses. The key here is that the government is investing in the ecosystem to help the big 2 achieve their goals while nurturing new large tech firms. In return, the big 2 are helping these startups to establish themselves in the market rather than killing them off. It's been understood that Samsung is systematically nurturing fabless startups, to "set-up" their own future ecosystem for Samsung Foundry.

    Here are the 3 promising startups that have been established since 2017 and helped by the 'big 2':

    - Furiosa AI - Established in 2017, an NPU/software development company, selected as one of the only 3 startups in the MLPerf Inference v0.5 performance tests, which also involved participants like Habana Labs, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Intel, and Google: https://mlperf.org/inference-results. Their goal is to capture the growing NPU market

    They represent the HPC branch of the S.Korean government's 'Next-Generation AI Semiconductor Project', and are expecting to reveal their first NPU chip in 2021. R&D is supported by Samsung, ETRI, KETI, KAIST, SNU, and POSTECH. Recently received a Series B funding, and the market cap is approaching 100 million$.

    - SemiFive - Sells RISC-V open-source architecture platforms. ARM recently shared its IP with this startup for free. Market cap estimated to be upwards of 250 million$

    - Fadu - SK Hynix is eyeing this one. They sell SSD controllers that are said to be on par with Samsung and Intel products. Considering IPO.

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    Intel, ARM, IBM, AMD Processors Vulnerable to New Side-Channel Attacks

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 11:00 AM PDT

    Arm's conflicts in China will complicate Nvidia's reported efforts to buy it from SoftBank

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 10:53 AM PDT

    The Tech Tricks That Make PCI-Express 6.0 And Beyond Possible

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 03:50 AM PDT

    Does RAID cause constant disk thrashing?

    Posted: 08 Aug 2020 12:35 AM PDT

    I have 2x Seagate Ironwolf 12TB drives in my desktop PC, in RAID 1. It has been running for 2 years now, so it's not a fresh install that is still busy with initialization.

    I can hear the almost constant disk thrashing all the time, which is very annoying when I'm trying to focus.

    Task Manager doesn't show any processes using significant disk activity, no more than 0.1MBps.

    How can I investigate this further and find what is causing the constant disk activity or dampen the noise?

    Specs:

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    Windows 10 Pro, i7 8700K, 32GB RAM, Z370 mobo, 1TB NVME SSD

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    Major AMD EPYC PCIe Gen4 review of new Kioxia SSDs reveal that PCIe placement matters for performance

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:53 AM PDT

    James Stanley - I made a mechanical keyboard with 3d-printed switches

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 01:06 PM PDT

    EVGA Z490 FTW Motherboard Review – the Long Road to a Stable Overclock

    Posted: 07 Aug 2020 06:27 AM PDT

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