• AMD has announced a 280W 64 core Epyc CPU for water-cooled  servers.  (AnandTech)
  
  Admittedly Intel's 56 core parts use 400W, but this is starting to get out of hand.  The 5nm node is only expected to reduce power consumption by 20%, so that's not going to solve things either.
  
  
• Oppo's Reno 10x Zoom has a 5x zoom.  (AnandTech)
  
  Apart from that it's all the usual - Snapdragon 855 with a 2340x1080 screen, 6 or 8GB RAM, 128 or 256GB flash, and no headphone jack.
  
  
• The graphics on Intel's 10th gen Irish Coffee Lake processors are much improved.  (PC Perspective)
  
  It actually beats the Ryzen 3700U in several tests, though it gets soundly beaten in others.  Lots of benchmarks at the link if you're looking to buy a laptop with an iGPU adequate for light gaming.
  
  
• Intel's 10 core 10900X high-end desktop CPU is slightly faster than a Ryzen 3800X.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Intel said earlier that their 10th gen HEDT parts would deliver far better price/performance than current models.  I said that would mean price cuts.  I was right.
  
  
• Intel's Core i9 9900KS will have a 127W TDP which means it will actually use 250W at full load.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Intel's standard desktop TDP numbers are measured at base clock, and the 9900KS features a 5.0GHz all core boost clock.  Great chip for getting through the winter if you live somewhere like Hokkaido.
  
  
• Comcast announces yet another streaming platform.  (TechDirt)
  
  Wealth isn't finite, true, but you guys are still idiots.
  
  
• Tumblr's new parent just raised $300 million in funding which ought to last them six months.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Fuck you cPanel.  Was wondering why I was suddenly leaking another hundred bucks a month.  Plesk it is then.
  
  
• How to programatically handle the incomprehensibly tortuous new European Union copyright laws.  (GitHub)
  
  
• Thirdripper is up to 70% faster.  (ZDNet)
  
  The current 2990WX is a niche product that performs very well in some cases, and quite poorly in others, due to high memory latency on two of the four CPU dies.  It would seem that this has been fixed.  It would seem that this has been very fixed.  And that's just the 32 core part - AMD can freely scale up from there as needed.
  
  
• Samsung announced its first PCIe 4.0 SSDs with transfer rates up to 8GB per second.  (ZDNet)
  
  These first models are for PCIe slots and U.2 2.5" drives, not M.2.  And while prices were not mentioned you can count on "not cheap".  They do have a form of internal RAID and will keep working even if an entire flash die fails, so that's good.
  
  
• Well, that's spectacular, even for YouTube.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  They suspended Laci Green for impersonating a well-known YouTuber, specifically, Laci Green.
  
  Laci Green appealed this, and YouTube promptly responded...  And confirmed the suspension.
  
  

I'll take Manhattan, the Bronx and...  Yeah, that one too, because three hundred years from now it will drive some Englishman completely crazy.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, September 20 2019 12:46 AM (Iwkd4)

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