Recent content by ejolson

Is this the beginning of the fire sale Jim Keller warned about that does not unlock share holder value? While it's important for Intel to be realistic, it's also important to not be undermined by powerful people making decisions that don't further their best interests. At this point Intel has...

What I see is the same memory used by gamers except without the RGB lighting and over-the-top aesthetics. For professional use I'd expect system-level ECC. Otherwise it's just cosmetic.

The way I see it integrated GPU with CPU devices are likely to disrupt the current profitability of mobile and desktop CPUs along with middle range GPUs. The idea that tighter integration wins both performance and cost isn't deep, however, given Intel's recently stated policy that projects not...

Years ago in the high-altitude deserts of the Sierra Nevada I ran a small computing cluster of about 50 nodes that would pause computations during the summer days and resume them at night when the outside temperatures were much cooler. Otherwise, the air-conditioning tended to fail. Although AI...

Geekbench is computation bound and depends very little on operating system. The reported results appear to encourage the sales of new hardware. While bundles with hardware is how most versions of Windows get sold, imagine if car manufacturers started encouraging new sales through software...

When Raspberry Pi started, they wanted the BBC Micro branding--a similar vintage to the C64. That didn't happen. Woohoo for resurrecting Commodore! Personally, I would like to see a computer with a licensed library of retro games and developer tools that is user programmable. I have no idea...

I don't know details of the contract that explains why the substation can't go online without Intel; however, more power could also be used by an AI datacenter and many of those are ready except for the power.

I think "but only Ryzen-based PCs" means the integrated GPUs on Ryzen processors are the only ones that work with ROCm 7. The need to say such an obvious thing makes more sense when one considers that HIP is cross-platform with backends to target both Nvidia and AMD accelerators. Note also...

One could imagine the Commodore brand would fit well with a fully US-designed and manufactured RISC-V based competitor to Raspberry Pi. However, rather than Python or Assembler, Basic, C and Pascal, how about Assembler, Go, Rust and Julia along with free built-in subscriptions to Copilot...

Since Windows 95 is much simpler than Windows 11, it is much easier to verify when it is working as intended. From my point of view air traffic control is a specialised enough application domain that compatibility with general-purpose Windows software is irrelevant. At the same time...

Although the focus is on accounting rather than technology, this strategy seems almost as practical as the previous CEO's race to zettascale by 2027 initiative.

That's right. Since the 6000 isn't designed as a toy for gaming, why is it being compared to a 5090 in the first place? On the other hand, the use case for a profession workstation does overlap with gaming at least enough that one can see how it works. For products designed for the data...

From what I can tell efficiency cores add latency to memory and cache access at the hardware level while at the software level complicate how the operating system schedules tasks. I suspect a performance-core-only design no efficiency cores would address the software scheduling and hardware...

Not offering blower coolers is for market segmentation. In China there is no need to protect profit margins on the data center parts since export restrictions mean those parts can't be sold in China anyway. It would help independent developers, home labs and AI enthusiasts to sell the 5090...

The way I see it AI has already become so smart that's it's impossible for people to assess how smart it really is. On the other hand, there has to be some form of storage that is better than either SSD or HDD. Since they're renewable and encourage growing more trees, maybe green washing...