• Intel showed off their upcoming DG1 discrete graphics card at CES.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's...  Not very good.
  
  
  
• The tech bubble that absolutely everyone knew was a bubble turned out to be a bubble.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Journalists hardest hit.
  
  
  
• ASRock's Jupiter A320 is a Ryzen-based mini-PC.  (WCCFTech)
  
  It's bigger than a NUC but smaller than mini-ITX.  It uses the extra space to allow for dual M.2 slots and up to a 65W Ryzen APU, just in time for....  Just in time for....
  
  Wait, there aren't any Ryzen 4000 desktop APUs.
  
  
• Celerity's neural accelerator packs 496 RISC-V cores into a 25mm² chip.  (Wikichip)
  
  And on a 16nm process at that.  So if your workload is well-suited to 1024 chickens, here they are.
  
  
  
• The PC era is over.  (ZDNet)
  
  For real, this time.  We swear.
  
  
  
• Wait, never mind.  (ZDNet)
  
  Guess overpriced toys are still overpriced toys and real men use PCs.
  
  
  
• ICANN is openly taking bribes now.  (The Register)

  Which is all entirely above board and not at all shady.

  Burn it to the ground.
  
  
  
• Razer showed off a desktop PC.  (Tech Report)
  
  It appears to take the same passive PCIe backplane approach as Intel's NUC 9.  It might even use the NUC 9 compute module, but I can't tell for sure because Razer's website is hosed right now.
  
  This approach might be interesting if they let you put two compute nodes in one chassis.  Paging the Burroughs B20.  Though I'm not sure that let you do that.  Paging the SGI Origin 200, which definitely did.
  
  

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