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    Hardware support: [Digital Foundry] Exclusive: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition Analysis - The First Triple-A Ray Tracing Game

    [Digital Foundry] Exclusive: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition Analysis - The First Triple-A Ray Tracing Game

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 08:35 AM PDT

    Apple Reports 2Q 2021 Results: $23.6B Profit on $89.6B Revenue, Record Mac and Services Revenue

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 05:13 PM PDT

    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 "Lite Hash Rate" series to begin shipping mid May

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 05:54 AM PDT

    I created a simple chart to explain why the world is experiencing a semiconductor shortage

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 09:41 AM PDT

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    Event Reaction Consequence
    The Pandemic hits. Facilities shut down globally – Including in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Global semiconductor production slows down in general.
    Automakers brace for lower sales. Automakers book fewer future production slots for critical components like micro-chips. Risk increases as 'Just-in-time' inventory management style complicates future production ramp up.
    Increased demand for home office equipment as people work from home. Consumer technology brands gobble up all available production slots within semiconductors. Automakers left with too few available production slots due to lack of foresight.
    Next generation video graphics cards and game consoles go on sale during a time of peak gaming demand. Demand for semiconductors further increase. Prices skyrocket on gaming hardware in general as demand overtakes supply.
    Increased cloud infrastructure and network strain as more people take advantage of available tools from home. Cloud data center providers needs to rapidly expands to meet demand. Network, processing and graphics equipment further explode in demand and price. Production backlog builds up.
    Society slowly reopens as vaccines roll out and governments grant stimuli. Consumers starts spending again. Production ramps up. No production slots available for auto makers, others. Vast production backlog. Peak shortage.

    I made it for an article I wrote about the most significant events going on in the semiconductor industry and I figured others might find it interesting. It is based on individual research so major factors may have been missed or left out.

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    I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 12:33 PM PDT

    [der8auer] Unreal Precision - Analyzing a Single TSMC 7nm Transistor. Visiting Kleindiek Part 1/2

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 02:44 AM PDT

    [Long Post] I think big.LITTLE makes sense in desktops.

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 02:28 AM PDT

    A lot of people are saying that big.LITTLE won't make any sense outside the scope of mobile computing but I personally disagree. Sure, there are a lot of things that can potentially go wrong but I can see the appeal:

    1. The 'little' cores, as per rumors, will have as much IPC horsepower as Skylake. As someone who's still stuck with a Sandy Bridge quad; that's not bad at all although frequency will likely be kept to a minimum in order to save power. Probably <2GHz?
    2. The little octa-core cluster takes-up about as much space on the silicon as 2x big cores so basically you're sacrificing 2 cores / 4 threads and getting 4 more threads in return with much improved multi-core performance overall.
    3. It's great news for professionals, at least in theory. Now sure, it all depends on Windows' scheduler and whether or not both clusters are allowed to run simultaneously (they probably should in desktops) but if it really turns out to be the case then users can browse the internet or play light games and stuff while the big cores are busy processing edited videos in Premiere etc. Basically two computers in one package.
    4. Same goes to gaming. The entire horsepower of the big cluster can be focused on the game while the little 'coprocessor' takes care of the mundane background tasks i.e streaming, updates etc. without messing up the frame times.
    5. Fan less mode (hopefully) as the little cores are rumored to consume around 10-15W of power at peak. For comparison, that's the idle power draw of my i5-2400! Great news for HTPC users.

    Now, let's talk about the cons. Apart from the technical difficulty of effectively managing two clusters in Windows; I don't see any other major disadvantages. Sure you'll need a new CPU HSF thanks to the rectangular CPU and yes, Intel's 10nm fab has a bad reputation but apart from that everything else seems... fine?

    Lastly, LGA1700 platform will be good for 3 generations so Intel is apparently pretty confident about it. I'm hopeful that Alder Lake will be able to lock horns with Zen3 and the big.LITTLE coprocessor thing will likely revolutionize the x86 world.

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    Samsung Announces four new Intel-powered laptops detailed in "Galaxy Unboxed" Event

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 08:13 AM PDT

    HyperX and MSI Set Bring DDR4 OC at 7200MHz

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 06:36 AM PDT

    (PC Mag) Acer to Sell SSD Storage and RAM

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 08:08 AM PDT

    eGPU Scaling Benchmark - RTX 3090 v 3080 v 3070 v 3060 Ti

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 03:23 AM PDT

    Do round solid state graphics card capacitors require cooling?

    Posted: 28 Apr 2021 08:31 AM PDT

    Do round caps need thermal pads?

    How come high end cards put thermal pads on the round capacitors but lower end cards just rely on ambient cooling? Wouldn't putting thermal pads on the caps just dump unnecessary heat into them?

    https://overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2020/09/25155649451l.JPG

    This is an image of a "low end" 3090 the gaming OC varient. It has no thermal pads on its round capacitors.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabytegaming/comments/le1aeo/good_to_see_top_quality_thermal_pads_being_used/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

    This is an image of a "high end" 3080 variant and it comes with thermal pads on its round capacitors. But wouldn't this heat them up for no reason since their operating temperature is only around 40C. Either I'm missing something or the capacitors are all different Internally and have vastly different operating temperatures? But those two boards use the same capacitors and the "higher end" variant has more of them for a chip that should draw less power which intuitively doesn't make sense to me? Shouldn't those capacitors heat up even less?

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