Intel's makeshift Kaby Lake Cores hope to lure punters from tired PCs Intel's stop-gap Kaby Lake processors – aka the seventh-generation Core family – will ship in laptops starting from September, we're told. According to Chipzilla, the first wave of the new Cores will appear in 10mm-thick notebooks and two-in-one convertible tablets aimed at small businesses and normal folk. The CPUs will …
That indemnification is worth zero if Apple is sued, because they have to fight the battle before Google is liable for anything. Google is completely unrealistic in thinking they can have a codec that isn't encumbered by patents. There were bystanders waiting until h.265 and h.265 was finalized before stepping out of the woodwork, if VP9 and VP10 becomes a thing, there will be patent holders (whether trolls or legit) coming out...
There is always the RedFox software tools to rip/bypass BD disk DRM and let you play what you bought as you want to.
Or simply wait for the 4k files to appear on some torrent, as they always do. Such a shame the movie studios seem not to realise that playing paid-for content should be the easiest and most pleasing experience of all.
Sounds more like handwaving than anything else.
It will probably be harder to use hardware accelerated decoding to another stream for anything that is wrapped in DRM but the CPU itself should be beefy enough to allow the DRM to be stripped software at an acceptable rate.
Content owners always demand DRM even if the IT industry keeps telling them that it's a stopgap at best and at worst tissue paper. As long as they intend to distribute their content in places like China, they really don't need to worry about people ripping, often legitimately (backups are legal), content they have paid for elsewhere.
"Content owners always demand DRM"
Yes, but being faced with not selling anything or dropping DRM, they would quickly drop DRM. We could simply outlaw it, just like we outlaw electric appliances that give you a shock while using them. DRM is a defect at best and a civil rights issue at worst.
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"... give seventh-generation Cores up to a 12 per cent performance boost over the sixth-generation – well, when running the SYSmark benchmark on a seventh-gen 15W 3.5GHz Core i7 7500U versus a sixth-gen 15W 3.1GHz Core i7 6500U."
Just so I'm clear, they bumped the max clock speed 12.9% and got a 12% improvement. Pardon me if I'm less than tickled paisley but I'm going to hold off on the back flips for a bit longer.
More importantly, check the Intel slides: it improves your productivity by up to 12% as well!
In other words, simply by upgrading to the latest Intel processors, you can fire up to 10% of your workforce.
I believe Intel have been testing this feature internally:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/19/intel_q1_fy2016_job_cuts/
"Hollywood bosses didn't want to stream 4K ultra high-def content from their studios' websites without mechanisms in place to thwart casual rippers"
. . .although, of course, it is not the casual rippers (or customers to give them their proper name) that they really need to be worried about. Sigh.
Yes, but that's the way ideology works: make the man on the street feel guilty as soon as you call his name, because we all know we probably have done something "wrong". Note, this is the inverse of "you've got nothing to hide" mantra of the data suckers.
"Hollywood bosses didn't want to stream 4K ultra high-def content from their studios' websites without mechanisms in place to thwart casual rippers"
... so they went back in time and screwed the telco network competition law so badly that few of the populous could even stream 4K even if they wanted to.
If you can watch it you can't pirate it ...
So, what, some kind of protected pipeline from specific servers belonging to the M. P. Ass. of A. to the video display probably using the magic of TPM?
I see as well as renting the OS with Windows 10 the future is paying a one-time licence fee for a computer so bigcorp may deign to let me do certain things that it approves of with it.
I can't tell if that's an Atari 65XE or an Atari 130XE that Kaby Lake is finally going to lure people away from...
But more seriously, if the new improved 14nm process features a wider pitch than the old one, and Dennart Scaling means smaller transistors aren't automatically all that much better, this makes it look as if going to 10nm won't allow a narrower pitch - but maybe it will, just not as much narrower as formerly expected - which makes me wonder if this means that there isn't any point in going to 10nm.
I was going to wade in with a similar comment.
It could be a 65XE or a 130XE - there's no way to tell on that image without seeing the badge. Either way, the A8's used 5.25" floppies almost exclusively. There may have been some company offering a 3.5" drive towards the end of its life, however no commercial software would have been released on that media.
Does anyone really care about Windows any more (apart from hardcore gamers) when it comes to this sort of spec?
Windows is doing a very good job of footgunning itself to death. Putting W10 on one of these will only speed up that process.
My HP Laptop (with W10 installed) did the BSOD cycle of death yesterday. Some update borked it during the night. God knows how many BSOD, reboot cycles it had done before I found the poor beast and turned the power off and put it out of its mysery.
It says 'bad driver' but no indication of which driver.
And I will not buy that chip on that basis. I am certain they will muck it up, it will be hijacked by hackers, used as a malware insertion point, prevent me from viewing my legitimate content locally, and so on and so forth.
DRM is not only evil, it is inherently stupid because it never considers all the use cases and defaults to "NO" if there is a doubt - meaning people can be cheated from their own content.
My house is my castle. What I do in it is nobody's business but mine, and I will not condone surveillance imposed by anyone, especially not Hollywood & Co.
This DRM malarky never ceases to annoy me to no end. I buy my films, and I have to put up with imposed trailers (that are laughable five years later) and those bloody FBI warnings I shouldn't even see since I BOUGHT THE DAMN DISK.
So I buy my content, thank you very much, and then I rip the hell out of it, put it on my NAS and watch it the way I want to see it.
They can stuff their DRM where the sun don't shine.
I buy my films
Actually, you never do. You only ever buy a licence to watch a film even if they tell you "you own it". The interesting thing, that neither Big Movie nor Big Music, have never come clean over, is that the licence should be independent of the medium. Many of us have, over time, bought new licences for the same content but I don't remember ever being offered to trade my VHS copy of something in for DVD version for a nominal charge to cover duplicating and handling.
I'm well aware of the technicalities of the legal side of the argument.
They say it's a license. I say bollocks.
If it were a license, then you could bring in a broken disk and get a free replacement, because the disk is your right to view.
But that never happens, ergo it's mine, license be damned.
"So in other words, changing up from a 2015 Core i7 to the equivalent 2016 part can speed up web browsing by up to a fifth"
So it's magically able to speed up the web server and the bit of t'interwebs between that server and the PC displaying the content as well?
Yeah, right, whatever. I believe you Intel, thousands wouldn't.
Intel is in trouble and they know it. Summit Ridge has already shown it has Intel's best easily covered so expect fir sale pricing from Intel over the next 3-4 years as Zen based AMD products convert the Intel abused punters to AMD customers. It's all over except the dismissals at InHell Incorporated.
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