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Yet another reason to take a pass on 2080. And 2060 doesn't even need another reason.

Then there is this. Probably, Radeon VII is the ideal platform because memory bandwidth is everything.

TL:DR; Cross Licensing

Intel cross licensed the x86 stuff (32-bit) to AMD.
AMD cross licensed the AMD64 stuff (64-bit) to Intel.

The longer version:

Intel and AMD got tired of suing each other over patents. They have a LONG history of cross licensing agreements. They renewed it in 2001 and again in 2009.; AMD clarifyied the deal in 2015

It is only natural AMD would use Intel's docs as part of the verification process for the 32-bit stuff.

You can search intel amd cross license agreement for more info. but the agreement are (usually?) confidential.

it means.

https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/anton-shilov/not-all-usb-type-c-ports-are-equal-nine-implementations-of-usb-c-incoming/

There weren't near to nine different variations of Thunderbolt or even SCSI ports!

Coincidentally, even at default settings, Threadripper is very very good at performance per watt.

Sorry but bullshit. I had half a dozen boxes at the shop I had to do a wipe and reinstall on because they had Nvidia NForce boards and Windows 10 Upgrade Advisor happily claims it is compatible...if you consider no video drivers, no sound, and no networking "compatible"? Then I have some swampland in FLA you might be interested in.

Oh BTW, if you try to do a rollback on a system with Nvidia NForce board? Welcome to endless reboot, it totally trashes the original OS. Luckily they were just boxes for sale and had nothing I gave a shit about on them but wasn't really thrilled about having to do OS reinstalls on what was perfectly working Win 7 boxes before MSFT got a hold of 'em.

And yes software can damage hardware, or did you not hear that both AMD and Nvidia have had bad drivers come out within the past year and Windows 10 has the nasty habit of forcing driver updates? In case you missed it here is a report on the Nvidia driver and here is the one for AMD. Nvidia is claiming theirs doesn't do actual hardware damage but that isn't what the users are reporting and after Bumpgate we all know how well we can trust Nvidia to be honest about hardware issues.

In general, the reviews are negative. We knew Ryzen would be behind in single-threaded performance, and it is. But it's also behind in multi-threaded performance in a lot of benchmarks for some reason. It beats out Intel's offerings in certain workloads (primarily video encoding), but it gets its ass handed to it in games.

On FP-heavy workloads it's toe-to-toe with Intel processors costing twice as much. On integer-heavy workloads Intel still has the better technology but on price/performance it's correctly priced between the i7-7700k and Intel's HEDT offering. On memory-heavy workloads the dual channel is no match for Intel's quad channel but the price/performance is still okay as far as I've seen.

Where it does fall short is single/few-threaded games if you game at low resolution/high frequency but since hardly any gamer would spend $1000 on an 8C Intel processor it's no surprise games don't really take any advantage of the last four cores, even hyper-threading 4C/8T doesn't do much for gaming. But if you move to 1440p the difference is less, at 4K you're GPU limited anyway.

Basically if you'll only be using it for gaming and have a Sandy Bridge or newer just save your money and use it for a 1080 Ti or Vega. I find the reviews are trying really trying to make games CPU bound when they're mostly not, at least the way I prefer to play them. Maybe the FPS addicts with 144Hz monitors see it differently, I prefer higher quality as long as frame rates are reasonably smooth.

Can we see some of this troubling new evidence before we go to war with Russia please?

I'm not counting out Trump losing for about the next 2 weeks. We have yet to see the following:

1) Wikileaks has said it has evidence that will get Hillary indicted. As yet, the Podesta E-mails haven't done that, so everyone is expecting a big drop sometime soon. Probably on Hillary's birthday, October 26th.

2) We haven't seen the last of the Podesta E-mails. A recent drop shows the democrats creating two organizations to infiltrate the Catholic religion, to create a "Catholic Spring" at some point of their choosing. (Yikes! WTF, Democrats?)

3) It seems that Hillary had a hand in Kim Dotcom's arrest (remember him?). In response, Kim has promised a surprise birthday present for Hillary. (Many people will be quick to point out that Kim is various flavors of asshole, but that's beside the point - he's tech savvy, has lots of contacts, an axe to grind against Hillary, and a ton of money.)

4) Someone over at Reddit/4chan has Clinton's deleted E-mails, and will be releasing them. These are apparently the ones deleted from her server before turning it over to the FBI.

5) One of the recent Podesta dumps included his iPhone account password, and someone hacked his account, post a screencap proving that they were in the account, and sent all the data to Wikieaks. This means that Wikileaks not only has Podesta's E-mails up to whenever, they've got more recent ones up to about 2 days ago.

6) ...and apparently remote-wiped his phone.

7) Hillary is not appearing in person *anywhere*. (Check her rallys and engagements: it's all Bill, Barak, Michelle, and Chelsea. Hillary appears in person once from now to the end of the month.) Conspiracy theorists think that this is because of some hidden illness, but that's probably not the case. The Podesta E-mails reveal that the reason she's not being seen is because she's perceived as untrustworthy in person. Her campaign is being run largely by remote control.

8) A couple of tapes of Clinton have yet to be released.

9) And weirdly, during the last debate a fly landed on Hillary's face. That's not a problem or even especially interesting, but the fact that it landed, walked around and she never flinched or even notices is creeping out a lot of people.

I'm not giving up on Trump just yet, and I've still got lots of popcorn.

Plus since Cellebrite is a non-US company, they can't be "legally compelled" by anyone to reproduce this method for all the other iPhones that have been discussed by various District Attorneys.

You can? Where? Biggest I can find in 2.5" is 2TB, so where are you finding 16TB SSD drives?

Toshiba has a 3TB drive for laptops.
http://www.kitguru.net/compone...
This comment makes Google's point: "..Since the hard drive employs so many platters, it is 15mm thick, which means that it will not fit into the vast majority of laptops. According to Toshiba, the hard drive is designed for “personal external storage and space-constrained needs”....

In a custom machine room today a "machine" is a thin'ish PWB + processor and memory
where the limits of thickness are bound by the cooling system on the CPU and the stack
of RAM.
This tells me that the drive could be thicker by a lot and still run cool enough.
Once spinning the power of a drive is almost unaffected by the number of platters.
A smaller diameter could spin up quicker with less power.

The SSD flash based form factor is cooling limited but is "simply" chips on PWB
and a Google sized farm could justify an in house build to match space and cooling
needs.
On the cooling side constant airflow with no paths that are "too easy" is important
and it makes sense to replace air dams with functionality. Thus thicker devices
where thin is the current choice makes sense. Spinning media has thermal qualities
that packed Flash, DRAM and friends to not.

My thought on laptops is that thin and light is no longer an interesting feature to me.
Keyboards have suffered to no end. Internal volume for a second drive or additional
battery has approached ridiculous. Hanging an external "thing" on laptops seems
way too common and is simply lame. Heck some twit just patented a computer
that is reconfigurable and made up of parts. The industry has moved this direction
on and off for +40 years. One 40 year old cartoon had a tiny modern like laptop and near invisible
wire to a 3 ton lump of hardware and battery. How is this different from some cell phone
designs.

But laptops are a digression to the needs of Google. Me I would be happy with a laptop that could accommodate
a 15 mm. drive. As long as the screen is not so heavy that the whole thing needs a tripod to stand up like the convertible
touchscreen things that might appear to be popular because they are so strongly marketed.

Apple continues to reiterate the difference but apparently you aren't getting those memos

http://www.kitguru.net/apple/a...

“We don’t believe in having one operating system for PC and mobile.”
“We think it subtracts from both, and you don’t get the best experience from either. We are very much focused on two.”
“We don’t think [touch] the right interface [for PCs], honestly, Mac is sort of a sit-down experience.”
- Tim Cook

You were saying about the memo??

As a rule of thumb, the colder electronic components are, the cleaner their signals are, the faster they can run, etc. All the fastest overclocking gets done via subzero temperatures (though this is dangerous as condensation of water from the atmosphere can cause catastrophic short-circuits).

I myself can't even stand lugging one from the living room to the bedroom! Can't wait till there's a decent one of these:

http://www.kitguru.net/compone...

http://hexus.net/tech/news/per...

I'd love to have it connected to the monitor of my desk and connect my slim-and-light laptop to it for gaming. Even more awesome would be the fact that one could have an enclosure and be able to even swap out the graphics card!

TFA was very short on detail, so I went looking for more. Unfortunately, there seems not to be much more out there - everyone is reporting on the same short-on-detail presentation. Here's a few which seemed to me to have something to add:
kitguru has more pictures
pcworld has pictures of actual silicon (not that it has any visible detail)
digitaltrends has some interesting commentary (last two paragraphs).

AMD knows that their hardware can't withstand scrutiny.

On the 11th June AMD informed us via email that the upcoming FIJI hardware was reserved for KitGuru, as would normally be the case. We subsequently set a plan in motion to analyse the hardware for launch and were awaiting the arrival of the sample. Earlier this week I had a call from Christine Brown, Senior Manager, EMEA Communications at AMD to let me know that the company had withdrawn their sample from KitGuru labs and that we would now not be involved at all in the launch next week.

Christine Browne informed me directly on the phone that the reason for withdrawing the sample was based on "KitGuru's negative stance towards AMD".

They're not even embarrassed. They know their hardware is junk, and they're relying on the emperor's new clothes model to keep people excited about it.

Just ignore the working prototype.....

http://www.kitguru.net/apple/jules/shots-that-challenge-apples-ability-to-beat-samsung/

Apart from the fact that it wasn't a working prototype. Which the professor says himself. Oooops.

Just ignore the working prototype.....

http://www.kitguru.net/apple/jules/shots-that-challenge-apples-ability-to-beat-samsung/

...but Dell's shipping at least 10 times more computers than Apple.

Not so. Gartner estimates that Dell shipped a little less than double the number of computers as Apple in 4Q11.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/01/12/apple-remains-in-third-place-with-116-us-computer-market/

It's more that Apple's profit margins are multiples of that of other manufacturers:

http://www.kitguru.net/apple/benjamin/apple-pc-profits-are-seven-times-higher-than-hps/

You see an advertisement every time you start a game of Crysis 2. Guess whose it is? (Hint: it's not AMD).

Heavy, unnecessary tessellation in Crysis 2 was predicted months before release. Lo and behold, those nasty rumors have now been proven accurate. Nvidia has become a very predictable abuser of its market position.

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