coreblocks

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by coreblocks 5y ago
I hope the square corners would go away
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by coreblocks 5y ago
A museum obviously
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by coreblocks 5y ago
Going over TSV will definitely incur at least one clock cycle.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
I’m sure they’re all having parties in fortnite
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by coreblocks 6y ago
This article gives the wrong impression. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a specific term where DRAM and main chip is packaged on a silicon interposer. This allows for a 1024-bit bus to be routed within the silicon interposer. This is not pos
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by coreblocks 6y ago
I think the beta version of native photoshop is already out?
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by coreblocks 6y ago
I do 90% of my work in coffee shops lol
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Well, they have a “thread ripper pro” line which supports more RAM and official support for ECC.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
As an FPGA dev, I tend to think of HDLs akin to HTML than “code”. It’s just a DSL to describe a graph. Actually pretty similar to how tensorflow is designed.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
On the Zynq family of devices, you can load bitstreams at runtime from Linux through a device file in /dev
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by coreblocks 6y ago
While is was probably a factor, I believe it's also because NVIDIA refuses to let Apple modify their drivers to push their Metal API.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Interestingly NVIDIA uses a RISC-V core in their GPUs.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, I've had it on my machines in many different flavors, ever since 2010. However for at least the past 3 desktops I've had, there were always some issues during installation or fiddling to do a
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Apple is worth 2 trillion if we are looking at market cap. They can literally buy out epic if they wanted to.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
If my workflow didn’t depend on proprietary tools from stubborn companies I would be looking to buy high end ARM like ampere for my workstation. But I’m stuck on x86 for now :/
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by coreblocks 6y ago
I have a feeling we will see a bunch of AMD vulnerabilities revealed in the coming years. Researchers haven’t really had time to study AMD’s micro architecture yet and it was not really a priority because of low penetration in the server ma
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Honestly I think it’s simpler than that. The Linux desktop experience is just terrible... I have never successfully installed a Linux distro without having to fiddle with some boot flag or some config file. Every major Linux desktop environ
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Businesses don’t make money by worrying about morality or worrying about hypocrisy.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
That assumes you are dealing with a trustworthy government / corporation. Look at Lebanon their entire government just resigned overnight, can the people really trust “proper access controls and maintenance” in such chaos? Would it not
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Time to put your eggs in Swift! :)
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by coreblocks 6y ago
I doubt anyone will ever catch up to Intel, look they are already producing 14nm!
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Except for their computers :)
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by coreblocks 6y ago
The Chinese economy is hardly communist at this stage, it's a mix of socialism and state sponsored capitalism.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
If a country loses access to state of the art tech, they might as well become a third world country within 5-10 years.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Yea, KFC has been extremely successful in Asia, even though their US home market has been shrinking.
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Actually the major problem for most fabs (Intel/GloFo/Samsung/etc) is not that they can't make 7nm chips, it's they can't make it cheap enough (in high enough yields) to compete with TSMC. However in this case,
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by coreblocks 6y ago
They are super valuable now but their value will decrease as the Chinese semiconductor industry catches up, so it's not like TSMC will have to pay 2x the salary forever. However I know many people (not at TSMC) who would take a lower s
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by coreblocks 6y ago
But there is real demand for cutting edge semiconductors in China... Do you think people will be satisfied with 14nm SMIC chips forever? Paying $140K salary is peanuts compared to what experienced software engineers at Facebook/Google
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Semiconductor technology are like the new nuclear weapons, of the upmost importance to national security. Not having access to this technology will greatly affect the economy of a nation. The sooner everyone plays nice, the better it is for
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by coreblocks 6y ago
Perhaps that has something to do with having lost millions during WW1, revolution and WW2. Eastern Europe and China were hit the hardest during WW2 and didn't have the massive US economy (which was unharmed in both WW1 and WW2) to help

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