Recent content by mrjhh

If Intel did kill 10nm, they would have to write off all their fab investment in 10nm. I would guess Intel will find some way to not do this, even if the fab utilization isn't as high as they predicted. Even that lower utilization would probably show up as an impairment.

At some point, people will lose or break their U2F key, and how does one authenticate the person asking for a replacement? Someone like Google can enforce requiring an employee come to the office to get a replacement, and match the picture taken when they joined Google to the person. This does...

INVALIDERROR - And you think a password is safe from a strong-arm approach? Passwords can also be captured from taking a video of you entering the password. This is why a strong authentication is recommended to have two factors from the three options of what you know, what you have, and...

Over-the-air updates have their own set of issues. At the minimum, the firmware needs to be signed, and the vehicle needs to verify the signature. Anti-reversion checks also need to be in place to prevent someone from taking an old, buggy, but signed firmware version and pushing that into the...

If your SSD was broken, do you really want to send all your data back to Samsung? Unless it's a self-encrypting drive, or you encrypt it in other manner, your data is likely all still in the flash device. Is the warranty going to be useful, or is it a disposable device?

Wonder how long it took to come up with Format in BFGD. I'm sure the first version of that acronym had something else as F, until the marketing people took over.

Power consumption and TDP are only marginally linked. Maximum power consumption relates to the maximum the chip could possibly use, while TDP is what a heat sink needs to be able to dissipate. The chip will thermally throttle if the maximum power consumption extends for long, but this condition...

My guess is that much of the capacity is going to cloud providers and related cloud-scale operations like Facebook for machine learning use cases, and that only the leftovers are making it into GPUs.

As the usage goes up, the ISP needs to increase bandwidth both from the cable head-end to customers, as well as to the internet (or support local CDN equipment such as available from Google and Netflix). The question is how one profitably pays for that infrastructure. I suspect that "sponsored...

My first 80386 build was done on the cheap. I had an old 8086 computer, and tried to use the original video card from that in the 80386, but the system wouldn't stay up long. I returned it to the place I bought it for repair, but they couldn't fix it. I eventually bit the bullet and upgraded the...

The law doesn't say the phone owner has to unlock the phone, I don't understand technically how a phone could be field tested. On top of this, my phone automatically reads text messages, and allows sending text messages via voice (as do many). It will be even harder to determine if a message was...

I remember FSP being an OEM for older computer vendors like DEC, so they definitely aren't a newcomer to the field. I'm glad to see they know how to build a modern supply.

Some other interesting information would be when Seagate started their testing process in the form it is today. There were some families of drives which were almost guaranteed to fail. I had a couple of the 1.5TB drives, both of which failed in less than one year. The warranty replacements have...

I doubt that the GPT limitation will last long. Secure boot isn't a panacea, the firmware can also be replaced with interesting code in the ACPI code running at the highest trust level, whether it's UEFI or BIOS. While UEFI is required for secure boot, there isn't much to prevent bad firmware...

For age 50+ people using bifocals, having a uniform distance from the screen to the eye is useful. I'm constantly trying to move my head to find the sweet spot in the bifocals, and would love lenses and monitors that would allow me to just move my eyes and not my entire head. However, until the...