Thursday, June 21
Daily News Stuff 21 June 2018
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- AMD and Cooler Master show off their giant air cooler for the upcoming 32 core ThreadRipper. Water cooling is clearly a more practical choice here, but not actually required.
- AMD and ASRock show off a workstation motherboard for the existing 32 core EPYC CPUs, taking advantage of the chip's 128 PCIe lanes for 4 x16 and 3 x8 slots.
- AMD's Forrest Norrod says "We are going to crush Intel like a bug! A bug! Mwahahahaha!"* Update: Bug-in-chief flees in terror.
- Europe's kill-the-internet copyright bill passes out of committee heading for a full vote in the Diet of Worms next month.
- Samsung showed off its 7nm EUV process at this year's XVLSI Symposium. EUV is the big new thing in lithography; it saves multiple steps in production compared to older methods, but is apparently something of a bitch to work with, since you can't, for example, focus the beam with a lens of any known material.
- IMEC furthers high mobility nanowire FETs for nodes beyond 5nm or possibly makes a breakthrough in X-ray crystallography of living filoviruses, hard to tell.
- Just say NAML to YAML.
- Erlang turns 21. Only problem is, it's still Erlang. On the plus side, it's not PHP or JavaScript. Or Java. Or Go.
- Mouse devours Fox, creating world's largest ball of failure.
* According to usually reliable sources.
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