Friday, November 11
Daily News Stuff 11 November 2022
Timing Is Everything Edition
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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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. "There’s a vast difference between feeling confident that we’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)
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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.
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)
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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!)
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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)
Posted by: normal at Saturday, November 12 2022 08:18 AM (obo9H)
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