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  1. Look at the connector density between a socketed chip (lands for Intel) and a BGA chip ((solder)balls) and be enlightened. Apple have some obsession to make things smaller, going with a soldered BGA reduces build height and area. It also reduces build costs and can reduce some forms of malfunctions.

  2. Re:This is new? on To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    They already did the same thing basically to create quad-core processors -> two 2 core processors on one MCM.

  3. Re:What's old is new again on To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    No, MCMs have been used for x86 for a long time. The Pentium Pro used a MCM with a separate SRAM chip, later Core i7 chips have used external iGPU memory chips etc.
    The new thing isn't using MCMs or even placing several processor chips together on one MCM but the change in systems design to a more modular approach.

  4. Re:This is a good thing on To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    3 pursuing or manufacturing 7nm+: Intel, TSMC, Samsung.

  5. Re:Bicycle reinvented on To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Absolutely not! These aren't co-processors, they are processors in a modular system design - completely different. Using a modular system means that one can mix and match chips easier which means less chip masks are needed, it means bad/slow chips can be binned more efficiently and put together in the configuration wanted. It also means processors can be mixed and matched using different manufacturing processes as exemplified by the recently announced AMD EPYC2.

  6. Re:Next up: Corporations printing their own cash on EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That _could_ be a good idea actually given the right system. If the system ensured _by_law_ that all transfers are comparable with physical money, that any attempts to track the money between point A and point B is impossible to do automatically (no identifiers in transactions). IOW keep a per "coin" identifier to be able to detect some thefts but don't keep a bitcoin-style database.

    Doing that in Hungary? Don't trust them enough.

  7. Re:Contradictory Reports on United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you genuinely don't understand how that both reports can be accurate at the same time IF they said what you just wrote?
    Not that they DID say what you wrote, in fact what was said even in the layman article isn't what you wrote.

    The expected rate of CFC decrease changed, the effects of that are known. The level of CFCs are still decreasing but at a lower rate than expected meaning slower recovery of the ozone layer. That's it, how exactly doesn't it fit this report?

    Even stranger is your claim that "seems to make no reference of the concerns raised earlier this year" when the report contains this:

    There has been an unexpected increase in global total emissions of CFC-11. Global CFC-11 emissions derived from
    measurements by two independent networks increased after 2012, thereby slowing the steady decrease in atmospheric
    concentrations reported in previous Assessments. The global concentration decline over 2014 to 2016 was only twothirds
    as fast as it was from 2002 to 2012. While the emissions of CFC-11 from eastern Asia have increased since 2012,
    the contribution of this region to the global emission rise is not well known. The country or countries in which emissions
    have increased have not been identified

  8. Re: but ...... on United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Global things can have regional variance. Fascinating that you apparently listened enough to hear that it's global but not that the polar regions are more affected, it's not like that have ever been a secret.

  9. Re:Too late to vote tem out, too early to start sh on Edward Snowden Says a Report Critical To an NSA Lawsuit Is Authentic (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why democracy is the best system we know for the long term. It surely isn't perfect, far from it, but it allows moderation of the corruption as long as the system is balanced.

  10. Re:Translation-Re:How quantum computers... on Google Has Enlisted NASA To Help it Prove Quantum Supremacy Within Months (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe Googlers are adherents to the quantum brain hypothesis?
    Most likely they like including an extra buzzword whenever possible.

  11. So you are unscientific. You take the dogma and rituals as true instead of examining possible flaws in our understanding of the universe, you dismiss even the slightest possibility of the holy laws not being perfect and dismiss everyone else as heretics.

    And then there's the dismissal of a group because you dislike one of its members...

  12. That's the thing - this machine will not factor very large numbers. We already know that a theoretical quantum computer can crack RSA quickly using Shor's algorithm but a practical quantum computer would require a lot more qubits, thousands of them, with each being close to a theoretical perfect qubit which means each logical qubit is comprised of several physical qubits for error correction.
    So when we start having true quantum computers with over 10k qubits some people should change to something more secure.

  13. This will not break anything in actual use.

  14. Re: "Supercomputer"... on SpiNNaker Powers Up World's Largest Supercomputer That Emulates a Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Clusters using standard processors, standard memory, standard design with the addition of faster network cards. How is that wrong?

  15. Re:Luckily Amazon sells body bags... on Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes? Joking about a situation even if oneself is closely involved is a way for humans to feel better.
    Note that this is actually more of a joke about Amazon rather than the deaths themselves. Not caring about the workers, efficiency über alles etc.

  16. Re:Once again on Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They turn computers from complicated tools to limited appliances. They care about details and looks over usability, usability over adaptability.

  17. Re:The scientific method on 1 In 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked To Commit Scientific Fraud (acsh.org) · · Score: 1

    This is a good example of the problem: https://www.statnews.com/2018/...

  18. Re:The scientific method on 1 In 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked To Commit Scientific Fraud (acsh.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://retractionwatch.com/

    Notice that papers that have been used to direct research and being used as supporting data often have been detected as frauds long after the publication. That means that the falsified data have already escaped most scrutiny and have already wasted time, money and effort.

  19. Re:"executed simultaneously on a CPU core"? on Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes it does, that's the whole idea. Hyper-Threading is the Intel implementation of SMT or Simultaneous Multithreading. The idea is to make use of execution resources that would otherwise be wasted to run an extra thread of execution (or more). This is what make it different to other designs like for example switch-on-stall threaded processors which run a thread until it have to wait for something and then switches to another thread.
    Haven't looked at it but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Then I think you should actually learn biology, it's fucking complicated.

  21. So you make up rules to fuck with the 0.01% without gaining anything in the process, in fact probably get a lot of extra problems? You sir is probably a psychopath.

    If you had a daughter would you like a 6' muscular, tattooed bald guy liking to fuck women to be using the same bathroom as her? Because that's what you propose.

  22. Objective? Learn about intersex people and then try to talk about being objective. Or you perhaps agree with the position I've seen from some nice people, that intersex is an abomination and they should (if allowed to live) not be seen as humans?

  23. Unless when it isn't.

  24. Re:Who gives a crap about stinking apple on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Free speech version of twitter - is that correct? Is stormfront the free speech version of slashdot? No.
    Attacked because some guy posted something? Not exactly correct given the attitude against Gab before that.
        But (not stated by the AC) is Gab "attacked" now because some guy not only posted something but also did something? It sure accelerated the banning.
    Was that posted "very conveniently"? No, that type of messages are posted all the time. The weak implication/hint of conspiracy is laughable.
    Are "jihadis" openly swarming all over twitter? Not exactly, depends on how it is defined though.
    Are the "jihadis" part of the "left"? Only in a very uneducated and/or confused brain. Neither left or right (politics) are synonyms with "everything I hate".

    All in all I think my assessment of the AC is correct.

  25. Re:Who gives a crap about stinking apple on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Idiot.