Friday, July 20
Daily News Stuff 20 July 2018
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Tech News
- Huawei moves to the Cortex A73 for its mid-range Kirin 710 SoC. The A73 is close to twice as fast as the ubiquitous A53, so this is good news for cheaper phones and tablets. (Fudzilla)
- Google Cloud fell down. More specifically, their load balancers fell down. One of the key apps at my day job - with a ton of active users - is on Google Cloud and didn't so much as hiccup, because we just use DNS for load balancing and none of this fancy stuff.
Of course, the people using Google's load balancers are precisely the people most concerned about keeping their sites up and running. (via Hacker News)
- Western Digital is shipping ship shipping ships shipping shipping ships... Sorry. Is shipping 1.33 terabit QLC flash chips. Most SSDs are MLC (2 bits per cell) or TLC (3 bits per cell), with an SLC (one bit per cell) cache for performance. QLC is 4 bits for cell - hence the odd capacity; they've taken an existing 1Tb TLC design and updated it with a QLC controller.
Upside is it's cheaper, downside is it's somewhat slower and has a shorter lifespan. The long term plan is for QLC to largely replace spinning media. (Guru3d)
- Why won't the Parker Solar Probe melt? It's landing at night, obviously. (Phys.Org)
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