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this was reported 4 years ago and I remember reading this article awhile back:

https://www.eteknix.com/expert...

I trust Linux more than either government. ;)

How very Libertarian of you... But is that even a dichotomy, though? Linux has quite a bit of NSA-developed code...

Currently running crusty old X79 stuff, a PCIe -> M.2 adapter, running a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB. Pretty sure NVMe just implies a standardized controller interface stitched to PCIe; I've been under the impression that software support is the main issue with it, as it's basically just another PCIe card as far as the hardware is concerned. I see it suggested on the internet (probably old forum posts) that X79 stuff should not be able to use it as a boot device, but my system begs to differ.

The piddly PCIe provisions are a shame though... no improvement (in lane count) whatsoever since they pulled the controllers onto the CPU die (LGA1156, Nehlaem). Note that the addition of each lane requires no less than two additional pins on the socket, so they'd have to re-purpose some pins to do it, and there aren't really a lot to spare. I know there were a fair number (20+) on the 1155 that weren't marked RSVD or anything else, but I'm having some difficult finding data on 1151. From the images I have found, it appears that practically every pin is connected to something, and fewer than 20 RSVD pins remain at all.

Site I'm referencing

It looks like they ate about a dozen RSVD pins for more power...

Perhaps the bigger nuisance is that Coffee Lake breaks compatibility with the 100/200 series chipset motherboards.

The 8350 has 8 cores, does what I want, and most importantly doesn't have a back door!

Sign the petition and notify cpu vendors that any back door accessible to the NSA is also accessible to adversaries.

Close the N.S.A.'s Back Doors. (New York Times, Sept. 21, 2013)

NSA's own Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a "Problem from Hell". (MIT Technology Review, Oct. 8, 2013)

This 'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip. (Wired.com, June 1, 2016)

Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors. (Eteknix, 2014)

When spyware is detected, that particular vulnerability is fixed:

Red alert! Intel patches remote execution hole that's been hidden in chips since 2010. (The Register, May 1, 2017)

Intel Active Management Technology, Intel Small Business Technology, and Intel Standard Manageability Escalation of Privilege (Intel Corporation, May 5, 2017 ) Quote: "Severity rating: Critical"

Nvidia GM204 Maxwell GPUs May Jump From 28nm to 16nm, Skip 20nm http://www.eteknix.com/nvidia-... At 601 mm2 the Titan X will never be cheap because of the low yield. At 16nm this would be something.

http://www.eteknix.com/memory-...
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/0...

Can one calculate b/s simply from number of bits * clock?

17 GB/s for 2133 MHz DDR3?

The GTX 770 would put that at 224 GB/s ..

New AMD APUs are supposed to have "stacked memory" or something such though.