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by skavi 6y ago
Huh, I should have done more reading.
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by skavi 6y ago
Intel had eDRAM (Crystal Well) for a while as the cache for their integrated Iris graphics.
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by skavi 6y ago
From the How Steno Works section of the link: > The dictionary is customizable. As the English language develops and new words are created, the stenographer can add them to their dictionary. This is critical for anyone writing jargon, co
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by skavi 6y ago
There's no logic to it. Some vendor or higher up convinced management that this was important, probably emphasizing data integrity or something. I doubt it was some super well researched decision.
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by skavi 6y ago
according to searchableguy, that’s happening right here: https://discord.gg/8kQhp6
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by skavi 6y ago
I was using AnandTech’s SPEC2006 benchmarks.
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by skavi 6y ago
Their own paper[0] shows it performing at similar levels to the A72, a four year old core. Those are obviously really impressive results for an open source core. The best ARM core is Apple’s Lightning, which has an IPC rate about 4X that of
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by skavi 6y ago
Yeah, I just checked and it appears to be a CUDA project, so neither the Intel nor AMD GPUs help here. Still, that could have been clarified in the article.
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by skavi 6y ago
Have you updated the webpage yet? I’m still seeing the same paragraph.
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by skavi 6y ago
I’m almost entirely sure Litwintschik is misinformed in regards to the GPUs in his laptop. Yes, he does have the Intel GPU he mentioned, but if he paid $200 to upgrade the GPU as he claims, he would also have a dedicated AMD Radeon Pro 5500
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by skavi 6y ago
differences in scale/societal impact.
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by skavi 6y ago
Per callumprentice, Second Life uses Dullahan[0]. [0]: https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/src/master/
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by skavi 6y ago
“vaccine research had not been hindered by the hackers.” The only thing that matters here.
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by skavi 6y ago
Intel chips still support older versions of x86. Apple only supports ARMv8.
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by skavi 6y ago
Gassée actually significantly understates the power consumption difference between the Intel chip in his MBP and an iPad Pro. MBP 13s sustain around 35 watts of power indefinitely. An 12X sustains only around 10 watts.
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by skavi 6y ago
They just aren't as good[0]. [0]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
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by skavi 6y ago
I've always wondered how independent µarchs are from ISAs. I mean people do say that Ryzen shares a lot of elements from AMD's ARM K12 project.
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by skavi 6y ago
ah, my bad. I was thinking of the 3700U.
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by skavi 6y ago
This review[0] has SPEC2006 scores for the A12X in the iPad Pro 2018. The same review estimates the per core power at around ~4W. This review[1] compares the SPEC2006 score of the A13 to high end modern desktop chips. The A13 is very close
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by skavi 6y ago
Your iPad doesn't have a T2 in it. That's the name for the ARM coprocessor inside of newer Macs (2018+), which IIRC shares some similarities with the A10, including (probably) the media block. The 3700X contains its own encoding b
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by skavi 6y ago
ARMv8 was a modern redesign. Macs aren't running anything close to the ARM ISA of the '80s.
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by skavi 6y ago
It’s already 64 bit, but it’s still ARMv8. ARMv9 is just about to ship, and Apple will undoubtably want to transition to that as well.
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by skavi 6y ago
I assume they are being facetious.
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by skavi 6y ago
Apple chips have one custom extension (AMX), but IIRC, they don't give third party developers access to this, so from a developer's perspective it's a standard ARMv8 chip.
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by skavi 6y ago
They seem to see Neoverse as more of a competitor than a component. https://twitter.com/jonmasters/status/1237879913245368321?s=... Jon Masters works at Nuvia.
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by skavi 6y ago
Are those people the way they are due to some innate characteristics or could they have turned out differently in a different system?
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by skavi 6y ago
Did anyone actually read the tweets? They appear to be referring not to the webapp product itself, but to the marketing/information pages.
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by skavi 6y ago
Apparently git’s usage of “master” originates with bitkeeper, which did actually use the term in a master/slave context.
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by skavi 6y ago
There’s a fairly heavy emphasis on graphics and UI throughout Fuchsia’s stack, so I doubt it’s meant to just sit on a server.
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by skavi 6y ago
this is so stylish. used to love stuff like this on the chrome experiments website.

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