Thursday, February 21
Daily News Stuff 20 February 2019
Tech News
- That chemical contamination incident at TSMC could result in as much as $550 million in lost revenue. (AnandTech)
If you thought you were having a bad day...
- Intel launches new, higher-clocked Pentiums to take on the latest Athlon processors from AMD. (Tom's Hardware)
Wait. My calendar must need rebooting or something.
- Grand Canyon Park Museum offered visitors a taste of radiation. (NPR)
Uranium ore is pretty safe unless you eat it. Mostly alpha radiation. So don't eat it.A previous version of this story didn't explain that the proximity to uranium ore described was unlikely to cause health problems, and it referred to uranium instead of uranium ore.
Uranium metal is a different matter, but don't eat that either.
- Autocomplete using Markov chains.
Hah. I could add that to the new version of Minx. Have it write blog posts for you.
- A look at AMD's EPYC 3201. (Serve the Home)
This is an 8 core embedded server CPU; the EPYC 3000 series goes from 4 cores and 4 threads to 16 cores and 32 threads. I haven't seen AMD's plans for this range for 2019, but a "low end" embedded server CPU with 32 cores and 64 threads would be something.
- Apple may be supporting iPad apps on the Mac in a couple of years unless they don't. (Thurrott.com)
- How to optimise your piglet. (Badoo.com)
"No matter how hard you try, you can’t make a racehorse out of a pig. You can, however, make a faster pig.â€
 — A comment in the Emacs sourcecode.
Social Media News
- "Bots" and "astroturfers" took to the streets to protest the EU's garbage-tastic copyright legislation. (TechDirt)
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Having learned Russian before AMD came up with EPYC, I can't help but read it as the Cyrillic nonsense word 'erus'.
Posted by: Jay at Thursday, February 21 2019 04:25 AM (PMgKz)
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So the Russian attempts to maintain a succession of world-class foundries is still a failure, just like it was 20 years ago. They can design a CPU, but have to tape it out using TSMC libraries. BTW. Is 1.3 GHz the maximum clock one can squeeze out of 28 nm? Come on, people, get it together.
I left the company when we were just about ready to make 1 um chip, and it was making something like 200 MHz.
I left the company when we were just about ready to make 1 um chip, and it was making something like 200 MHz.
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