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Daily News Stuff 20 August 2020
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Tech News
- Intel's Tiger Lake will feature Xe graphics, USB 4, Thunderbolt 4, PCIe 4.0, LPDDR5X, and capacitors. (AnandTech)
When a CPU company spends more time at Hot Chips talking about their new capacitor design than their new CPU design, that probably means they don't have a new CPU design. And they don't - sort of.
Willow Cove in Tiger Lake is the same design as Sunny Cove in Ice Lake, but - and this is actually important - Ice Lake sucks. Clock speeds on Ice Lake are low enough to eat the substantial architectural improvements made over the decades-old Skylake core.
The promise of Tiger Lake, and the reason Intel is talking so much about transistors and capacitors, is not that it's a new design, but that they've finally got their 10nm process working smoothly.
Tiger Lake low-power parts will still only offer four cores, where AMD is already on eight, but should be a significant upgrade over Intel's current lineup.
- Intel also presented details of their upcoming Ice Lake server chips, which share the same now-working 10nm process. (AnandTech)
Still a maximum of 28 cores when AMD is already at 64, but with improved IPC and AVX512 they at least have a reason to exist.
- Melbourne has just unveiled a brand new 212-storey residential skyscraper.
In Microsoft Flight Simulator. An error in Open Streetmap produced this rather surprising building code violation in the Melbourne suburbs.
- With TypeScript 4, Microsoft celebrates eight years of putting band-aids on gangrene. (ZDNet)
Pass.
- With a week still to go on the Eiyuden Kickstarter, the project has unlocked thirty stretch goals. (Kickstarter)
This is a spiritual successor to Suikoden, a turn-based strategy RPG with about a squillion playable characters. By the people who wrote Suikoden. 25 years ago.
Disclaimer: The Z8000 only used about twice as many transistors as the Z80, and yet supported 64-bit operations. Impressive work. Not sure why it's appearing as a disclaimer.
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zaitcev.mee.nu and brickmuppet.mee.nu produce 502 Bad Gateway today. But wonderduck.nu.nu works fine (yes, our waterfowl friend has a different domain name).
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Friday, August 21 2020 01:02 PM (LZ7Bg)
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There was an odd issue with serving static files that seemed to be causing requests to back up.
Got two alerts from the monitoring app in the past hour, couldn't work out what was going on, restarted the process, and it seems to be fine now.
Got two alerts from the monitoring app in the past hour, couldn't work out what was going on, restarted the process, and it seems to be fine now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 21 2020 01:10 PM (PiXy!)
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This site and the mu.nu sites like Wonderduck's run on the same server and the same software, but different worker processes on different port numbers. So it was just some of the workers getting stuck. That's pretty rare; this stuff has been stable for years.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 21 2020 01:12 PM (PiXy!)
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Wow. I thought if static backs up, the worst that can happen is broken images. But apparently Meenuvia is not that simple. Thanks much!
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Friday, August 21 2020 01:13 PM (LZ7Bg)
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Yeah, I'm really not sure how that happened. I immediately suspected a failing SSD, but it seems to be perfectly fine.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 21 2020 01:22 PM (PiXy!)
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