Posts by retiredmonkey

AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze

>> Intel continues to lose market share to rival AMD across server,

and next

>> This is despite Intel suffering supply constraints on client processors due to a decision the company made earlier in the year to reallocate manufacturing capacity to output more server chips

So it is selling fewer servers because it is making more servers?

Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations

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GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Sure, now lets actually compare to the silicon, not the silicon plus a bunch of electrical supply and plumbing.

A 300mm wafer weighs about 90g and is worth about 20K to 40K. That's $220 to $440 per g, or 6K to 12K per oz.

Known good die from that will be more expensive by another factor of two or so.

OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

900,000 WSPM sounds implausibly large, since the largest fabs are only around 100,000 WSPM.

Even at a piddly $5K per wafer, it amounts to $54B per year in wafers, or likely 3X that in packaged chips.

Perhaps there is an extra 0 in there?

Problem PC had graybeards stumped until trainee rummaged through trash

Re: Pharmacists

They said "mostly". What fraction of software does Therac-25 represent?

‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’

Re: Two possibilities

>>The reply my colleague gave was along the lines of If that’s what you think I can’t stop you from believing that. He told us that to preserve the secret, they would supply a used train ticket to the value of the actual ticket.

Even that leaks some information as there is a finite set of places with that cost of train ticket.

Well, to be precise, there are a finite number of all train stations, but a smaller set with a given cost of ticket.

User demanded a 'wireless' computer and was outraged when its battery died

Re: fewer kHz

> Called "cycles per second then" and before about 1930 the Medium Wave was called Short Wave.

Haven't you heard of the expansion of the universe? This is red shifting all electromagnetic radiation, and is about 2X increase since 1930.

If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

Re: Tape ins?

Tape in is when all layout is complete and design is frozen. Next step is final verification before sending to fab, which is tape out. At least this is my recollection from 10 years ago when I was employed.

User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it

Re: Office relocations

Solid cast iron is definitely preferable to any other type for this application.

Fine print in Intel's CHIPS Act deal includes requirement to keep control of its foundries

" Uncle Sam's stipulations do mean Intel can't realize the full value of its chip manufacturing arm "

Considering that the value is probably negative, that might not be such a bad thing.

Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI

Re: Trick

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.

That hardware will be more reliable if you stop stabbing it all day

Wrong.

Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it

Re: We all have a price

A former partner in a startup, who did the businessy kinds of things, said always make the other party name a price first.

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

Well it might be going part of the way, at least.

Google's TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge

Re: Prior Art

Linear interpolation for logarithmic numbers predates this by many years.

David Lewis and Lawrence Yu, "Algorithm Design for a 30 bit Integrated Logarithmic

Processor", Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, Sept, 1989,

pp 192-199

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Harvard Business School has an entire course on how telling your customers to fuck off will lead to more revenue, higher profits, and increased value of t he company.

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files

This is why I have my own cloud NAs with RAID 1, 3 desktops that replicate it, one with RAID 1 and the other 2 with regularly scheduled backs, and 2 laptops that sync to it, for a minimum of 10 physical copies of any important data; and that is before I count in other manual backups because I am paranoid.

DoJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking a 'subreddit about spy stuff'

Re: team leader and sergeant

Is that a rhetorical question?

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

Re: A long time ago...

If they have to say this:

*Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters*

one wonders how stupid the intended audience actually is, and if they are capable of actually implementing security.

Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters

Re: Cognitive dissonance

A car is larger than a GPU, in case you haven't noticed.

Also, charging a battery does not dissipate the power, it stores it (well the vast majority of it) so there is only a few hundred watts of dissipation, while the GPU dissipates all of that power and turns it into heat.

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

Orthogonal layers of wood glued together is normally called plywood, unless an especially high degree of pretentiousness is called for.

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

Re: Unique keys

Your nephew is named Similarly Jones?

That seems unusual, but not a problem.

Re: Unique keys

My name is 13535793485676 characters long, generated by the algorithm a[i] = (19836231426^i)%26 indexing into the alphabet.

Do you still think systems should accommodate arbitrary names?

Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What's the actual score?

I can't imagine that any TLA's would take advantage of this.

Samsung to cough up third of a billion bucks for ripping off patent

East Texas. Of course they are guilty.