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Friday, November 11

Daily News Stuff 11 November 2022

Timing Is Everything Edition

Top Story

Intel has pre-announced its Sapphire Rapids server CPUs with the high-end 56 core models priced at $12,980. (WCCFTech)

Available some time next year.
AMD has announced its Epyc Genoa server CPUs with the high-end 96 core models priced at $11,805. (Tom's Hardware)

Available now.
And AMD's new 64 core chip is faster than two of Intel's current top-of-the-line 40 core chips. (Phoronix)

And 64% faster on average than AMD's own previous 64 core model, which is even more impressive. A substantial part of that comes from the inclusion of AVX512, so check the individual benchmarks if you're not running number crunchy workloads.

Tech News

The Raspberry Pi shortage is coming to an end. (Tom's Hardware)

Probably within a year.
Investors are preparing a $9.4 billion bailout for money pit FTX. (WCCFTech)

Idiots.
The FBI pulled a no-knock raid on the operator of an Area 51 conspiracy nut website.

This is totally normal behaviour from a completely trustworthy agency.
In a shocking turn of events, WeWork is closing 40 unprofitable locations. (New York Times)

I thought they went belly up last year.
When Netflix announced four more seasons of Rick and Morty all at once I was - let's just say, dubious. I had enjoyed it right up until the last episode of season 3, which wasn't a great ending.

But I've been catching up, and they have not ruined it. Couple of weak episodes, bunch of great ones. Recommended.

Disclaimer: There is no I in FBI.

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1 Tom's updated the RPi story: "A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Upton expects the current shortages to continue for a year, rather than that he expects all stock issues to have been resolved by this time next year. "Thereâ€™s a vast difference between feeling confident that weâ€™ll be free of shortages in a year and feeling that there will be a year of shortages," Upton told us. To be clearer, this means that he expects the situation to improve over time and to be completely resolved within 12 months."

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, November 12 2022 01:09 AM (BMUHC)

2 Intel: Let's add a feature with very few uses!
AMD: Okay, but we'll do it janky and half-assed.
Also AMD: Guess what! Turns out that a janky, half-assed implementation works better.

Posted by: normal at Saturday, November 12 2022 05:33 AM (obo9H)

3 Yeah, a full AVX512 implementation seems like a thermal bridge too far for general-purpose server CPUs, but AMD's two-cycle version works surprisingly well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, November 12 2022 05:42 AM (PiXy!)

4 Also, from the rumours, AMD is finally going to make something that I really want: high core-count, low TDP processors. For my purposes, I'd love to have a 16 or 32 core machine that would max out around 20W, but would run less than 1.0W when not being used to build world or play 4k video. I mean, web browsers 25 years ago could display html just fine running on a 80486. (And don't tell me that I want an interactive, web 2.0 experience, because I hate that)

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