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by williadc 10y ago
John Gruber from Daring Fireball has already written his review: > “Next year it will work great” should be Bluetooth’s slogan. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/06/10/bluetooth-5
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by williadc 10y ago
tl;dr - Greene convinced Google to get serious about providing cloud services to enterprise.
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by williadc 10y ago
Not really: http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/s...
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by williadc 10y ago
> the amount of power leakage (heat) is proportional to the size of the transistors Small correction: leakage actually increases as transistors shrink. This is why high-k dialectric and fin-fets were such important developments. They pus
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by williadc 10y ago
Nehalem is the oldest chip I ever saw a floorplan for, and it had a logic block called "misfit" that had special logic requested by a company whose stock ticker you might be able to guess from the block name.
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by williadc 10y ago
There's still an ARM core on that phone, in the modem.
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by williadc 10y ago
> if you build your own PC instead of following Jeff Atwood's affiliate codes, you can easily put something together for half that price that absolutely smokes all the current gen consoles, has a 20+ year library, and is useful for
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by williadc 10y ago
Yes, but a NUC is not the only option for living-room PC gaming, and doesn't really seem like the best one.
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by williadc 10y ago
Yes, but a $600-700 mini-ITX/micro-ATX would have that advantage and not have to hook-up an external GPU in two years.
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by williadc 10y ago
It'd have to be an external GPU though, and the harness alone looks like it's $500. That's likely to get cheaper with time, but even if it were free, an external GPU takes away the primary advantages of a NUC over a mini-ITX
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by williadc 10y ago
42' tall is quite excessive for a car.
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by williadc 10y ago
These two statements from the article seem to argue against his point. > The CPU and disk performance on offer here [in the latest NUC] are hilariously far beyond what's available on current consoles ... But most importantly, its GP
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by williadc 10y ago
Is that wrong-way poly? I haven't seen that in years !
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by williadc 10y ago
The tools improve steadily, but the complexity of the designs themselves, and the process design rules are also increasing. Cadence and Synopsys (the two biggest EDA vendors) have both released major new versions of their automated place an
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by williadc 10y ago
Others mention SoC back-end as being separate from custom design, which is definitely true, but process has an impact on both. For custom digital design and SoC, you start with RTL. In custom design, you read the RTL and create a schematic
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by williadc 10y ago
Your mental model only covers the front-end of design. The back-end, where I work, is very dependant on process. You must update the design to take advantage of process improvements (otherwise why bother moving?), and the new process comes
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by williadc 10y ago
I've never worked on a successful smartphone SoC, so I couldn't tell you. I have worked on successful client parts (Haswell, Broadwell, Apollo Lake) that were similarly separate and we were able to divide the work sufficiently to
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by williadc 10y ago
Path 2 is exactly what happened on Broxton. Source: I worked on it.
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by williadc 10y ago
In the article it mentions Intel is investing in 5G wireless, so the modem team will have plenty of work.
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by williadc 10y ago
Sofia was primarily done by the formerly-Infineon team in Germany, though the Austin team was merged with that group. Broxton was designed in Oregon and Malaysia.
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by williadc 10y ago
I haven't gotten a response in more than a week now, so I'm going to assume that info can't be shared. Sorry!
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by williadc 10y ago
They're on it. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Speeches/2013/03...
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by williadc 10y ago
What is the threshold you're looking for? I know the principle engineer of this project and may be able to give a yes/no answer on whether the part is at/below.
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by williadc 11y ago
Yes it will. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887275/intel-moores-law-will...
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by williadc 11y ago
Because Tcl allows things like this: set foo set $foo bar baz
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by williadc 11y ago
It does not surprise me that a Broadwell CoreM can have faster graphics than a Haswell Core i5. There was significantly more die area allotted to graphics in the Broadwell generation. It's also my understanding that significant effor
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by williadc 11y ago
I put in an order for a Jolla tablet. With the layoffs it doesn't seem as if the order will be fulfilled.
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by williadc 11y ago
For those that don't know, Alfred Aho is the "a" in awk (Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan).
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by williadc 11y ago
Twin girls will keep her hands full, for sure.
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by williadc 11y ago
What Itanium team? They haven't released a new chip since Poulson, which came out in 2012. Kittson was supposed to be released this year (and last year, and the year before), on the same process as Poulson, in a package that's s

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