Saturday, March 28
Daily News Stuff 28 March 2020
This Is Not The Fascism I Requested Edition
This Is Not The Fascism I Requested Edition
Not Exactly Tech News
Tech News
- DDR5 is on its way. (AnandTech)
I was expecting it to appear this year - in something, if not in mainstream products - but it looks like it will be 2021.
- New benchmark leaks show that the 35W 4900HS is 30% faster than the 15W 4800U. (Tom's Hardware)
That's impressive performance from the low-power part. Time for a 16 core 30W laptop CPU maybe?
- The whole of TechDirt has been delisted by Google under the EU's abominable "right to be forgotten" law. (TechDirt)
This only applies within Europe, at least for now.
- Yelp recently unveiled an initiative for businesses to easily join in fundraising efforts to help fight Corona-chan. (The Verge)
Only they didn't bother to inform those businesses that they were being signed up to promote the fundraising efforts. They just sort of went ahead and did it.
- Frederik Pohl, call your agent: SpaceX awarded contract to supply cargo to the Gateway space station. (Space.com)
With no helpful Heechee around, we're going to have to build this one ourselves. Gateway won't orbit the Earth, but the Moon.
- In the other direction, you can now book a holiday trip to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. (Bloomberg)
$750,000 per person, but there are currently no reported cases of Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague in the Marianas Trench.
Disclaimer: No reported cases.
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"That's impressive performance from the low-power part. Time for a 16 core 30W laptop CPU maybe?"
Race to sleep is great for bursty workloads, not so much for sustained ones. I wanna see a laptop built like a gaming laptop, with a beefy cooling system and a great APU, but without a gaming GPU.
Race to sleep is great for bursty workloads, not so much for sustained ones. I wanna see a laptop built like a gaming laptop, with a beefy cooling system and a great APU, but without a gaming GPU.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, March 29 2020 03:25 AM (Iwkd4)
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" Gateway won't orbit the Earth, but the Moon."
We will politely ignore the fact that Gateway is not likely to ever orbit anything.
We will politely ignore the fact that Gateway is not likely to ever orbit anything.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, March 29 2020 03:28 AM (Iwkd4)
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With 5nm and DDR5 coming next year, AMD could build an APU with double everything on the 4800U (CPU, graphics, cache, memory bandwidth) and a TDP under 25W.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, March 29 2020 09:05 AM (PiXy!)
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For what I do, 8 cores is plenty. I want a higher base speed, and it seems like ultimately heat is the limiting factor (with total mAh available of course visible). I like my Acer Spin 5, but the sustained speed is about 1.8GHz, and that's pretty slow when you're compiling a big project in Eclipse and my 3600X is more than twice as fast.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, March 29 2020 10:33 AM (Iwkd4)
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Yeah, the problem is that it's a lot easier to double the core count than it is to double the clocks speed. That works great for the GPU but has limited benefit on the CPU side.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, March 29 2020 01:46 PM (PiXy!)
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Reports are that the Ryzen 4800/4900H/HS/whatever have base clocks over 3GHz. Some people are saying that's because AMD skipped the chiplet approach and made the APUs monolithic. I have no idea if that's true but that's what I'm talking about. Of course, laptops with those processors are gonna be really expensive, probably, but at least it's an option. T&L is fine, as I said, for bursty stuff, but I guess there's a reason gaming laptops are mostly still pretty beefy.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, March 31 2020 12:04 AM (Iwkd4)
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Looks like it delivers everything you could ask for - worst case within 2% of an overclocked 9980HK pulling 90W.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, March 31 2020 09:11 AM (PiXy!)
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