An anonymous reader quotes TechRadar: AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series processors, spearheaded by the Ryzen 7 3700X, have led what looks like an unprecedented assault on Intel’s CPUs, at least going by the figures from one component retailer. The latest stats from German retailer Mindfactory (as highlighted on Reddit) for the month of July show that AMD sold an incredible 79% of…
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Are Nanosheet Transistor the Next (and Maybe Last) Step in Moore’s Law?
An anonymous reader quotes IEEE Spectrum:
Making smaller, better transistors for microprocessors is getting more and more difficult, not to mention fantastically expensive. Only Intel, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) are equipped to operate at this frontier of miniaturization. They are all manufacturing integrated circuits at the equivalent of what is called the 7-nanometer node… Right now, 7 nm is…
Open Source RISC-V License Helps Alibaba Sidestep US Trade War
“RISC-V is open source, so it’s much more resistant to government bans,” reports Tom’s Hardware: The Alibaba Group Holding, China’s largest e-commerce company, unveiled its first self-designed chip, Xuantie 910, based on the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture. As reported by Nikkei Asian Review, the chip will target edge computing and autonomous driving, while the RISC-V’s open source license may…
Is Hiring Broken?
DevNull127 writes: Hiring is broken and yours is too,” argues a New York-based software developer whose LinkedIn profile says he’s worked at both Amazon and Google, as well as doing architecture verification work for both Oracle and Intel. Summarizing what he’s read about hiring just this year in numerous online articles, he lists out the arguments against virtually every popular hiring…
Zen 2 Ryzen IPC Testing Shows AMD Has Closed the Performance Gap With Intel
MojoKid writes: AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 processors can boost as high as 4.6 GHz, a notable bump over previous Ryzen models, but what about AMD’s purported Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) gains? Has AMD’s Zen 2 architecture finally caught up to Intel’s Coffee Lake-based Core series processors in terms of IPC? To prove this out, HotHardware pitted a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X…
Apple Buys Intel’s Smartphone Modem Business
Apple is officially acquiring Intel’s smartphone modem business for $1 billion, the two companies announced today. As rumored earlier this week, the move “would jump-start the iPhone maker’s push to take control of developing the critical components powering its devices.” The Verge reports: The acquisition means that Apple is now well on the way to producing its own 5G modems for…
Apple In Advanced Talks To Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is in advanced talks to buy Intel’s smartphone-modem chip business (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), “a move that would jump-start the iPhone maker’s push to take control of developing the critical components powering its devices.” From the report: A deal, covering a portfolio of patents and staff valued at $1 billion or more, could…
Intel’s Pohoiki Beach is a Neuromorphic Computer Capable of Simulating 8 Million Neurons
During the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Electronics Resurgence Initiative 2019 summit in Detroit, Michigan, Intel unveiled a system codenamed “Pohoiki Beach,” a 64-chip computer capable of simulating 8 million neurons in total. From a report: Intel Labs managing director Rich Uhlig said Pohoiki Beach will be made available to 60 research partners to “advance the field” and scale up…
Intel Patches Two New Security Flaws
This week Intel announced two new patches, according to Tom’s Hardware:
The flaw in the processor diagnostic tool (CVE-2019-11133) is rated 8.2 out 10 on the CVSS 3.0 scale, making it a high-severity vulnerability. The flaw [found by security researcher Jesse Michael from Eclypsium] “may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure or denial of service via…
What’s New in Linux 5.2?
diegocg writes: Linux 5.2 has been released. This release includes Sound Open Firmware, a project that brings open source firmware to DSP audio devices; open firmware for many Intel products is also included. This release also improves the Pressure Stall Information resource monitoring to make it usable by Android; the mount API has been redesigned with new syscalls; the BFQ I/O…