Friday, August 19
Daily News Stuff 19 August 2022
Everything Is Going Swimmingly Edition
Everything Is Going Swimmingly Edition
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- Almost.
- Ow.
- Samsung will be launching 32Gb DDR5 memory in early 2023, with modules to follow in late 2023. (Tom's Hardware)
Not sure exactly why there's such a lead time between the chips and the modules, but it's pretty consistent with past launches.
This will mean 64GB DIMMs for desktops and laptops, so desktops (and servers based on desktop systems) will be able to go up to 256GB of RAM and laptops that use modules rather than soldered-in RAM will go to 128GB.
That assumes that the memory controllers in existing CPUs properly support the new capacity. They should - the DDR5 spec list chip sizes up to 64Gb - but it's a bit hard to test until the chips are actually out.
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- Gigabyte's new Aorus 10000 PCIe 5 SSDs deliver up to 12.5GBps transfer rates. (WCCFTech)
That's on reads - writes get 10GBps, hence the name. Or number. Whatever.
It will be interesting to see how pricing on these works out. The Aorus Gen 4 delivers 5GBps reads at a very competitive price, so the new drive will have to do better than just buying two of the existing drives and putting them in RAID-0.
- Comparing Apple's M2 vs. AMD's Ryzen 6850U under Linux. (Phoronix)
Interesting tradeoffs here. They run lots of benchmarks, and in one AMD will absolutely clobber Apple, and in the next the scores will be just as widely divergent but the other way 'round.
There are certain quibbles about the hardware being compared, but this is the hardware that is available now, which makes the benchmarks valid in the real world even if they don't meet some arbitrary ideal of like-against-like.
- Speaking of Apple, the company is looking to Vietnam to make MacBooks and Watches. (Nikkei Asia)
On the one hand, nominal commies. On the other hand, not China.
We'll see.
- Which Ubuntu desktop variant has the lowest resource usage? (The Register)
Honestly they're all the same within the margin of error. Just pick the one you like.
- Snap has cancelled Pixy. (Liliputing)
You bastards!
Oh, their Pixy camera drone.
Disclaimer: You bastards!
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