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Just going to put ASRock's Statement down here and people can take it as is (with or without salt)...
QuoteAIPEI, Taiwan, May 8, 2018 – A leading global motherboard and graphics card manufacturer, ASRock, announced entering the graphics card market with the Phantom Gaming range – a strong line up of AMD Radeon™ RX500 series graphics card in April 2018. Initially, ASRock will roll out graphics card business in various regions based on internal planning. Regions with first priorities are APEC and Latin America. Then ASRock will gradually launch the business in other regions. Thanks for all media friends recently putting attention on our Phantom Gaming graphic card business and giving them massive coverages.
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1 hour ago, GoodBytes said:
No, because if you have Windows 10 Mobile device you could send/receive SMS and notifications on your Windows 10 PC via the Messaging app, and later Skype. Microsoft used Cortana at first and later Skype to sync all that. For Android users, which you can enjoy now, you can reply (only via the pop-up notification) to SMSs received and get some notifications to show up on your PC, like low battery warning. All this is done via Cortana. (No SMS sync support for the iPhone due to OS restrictions).
All this was done without any phone APIs, or cable. You just need internet on your phone.
As for phone calls on your PC. That would still not need the API assuming Android allows it. The API added is really for SIM + 3G/LTE enabled devices. So on your desktop would need a USB LTE/3G dongle, which you insert its own SIM card, which will then have its own plan and phone number, like a separate smartphone.
Fairly sure that all of this is actually related to the 'Your Phone' application that MS announced at their Build Developers conference.
https://www.techspot.com/news/74497-microsoft-upcoming-phone-app-you-mirror-smartphone-display.html
Depending on how it integrates Android access into Windows, it may be a neat application. Especially having basically a mirror of my phone basically in a small corner of my work space/background.
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3 minutes ago, Razor01 said:
Something doesn't add up, mining has been on a down turn, if they are only making mining cards, where Europe is the biggest buyer lol. Yeah 1+1 != 2
So Asrock is actively pursuing a market (mining) in the smaller segmented regions? Does that make sense?
Not going to say that this is the case, but it may be that they have a limited supply of silicon and they want to dedicate the majority of that to mining GPUs, with a minority segment going to gaming and instead of having extremely limited supply in all markets focus that limited supply in a single market... It might even be that the gaming GPUs are a part of a longer term strategy to have a product to phase into place should the mining cards suddenly severly drop off.
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I'm wondering if it might have to do with card quantities and that AsRock wants to focus more on selling mining GPUs...
QuoteHere are the facts that I have, based on a conversation today with a representative handling ASRock's global PR activities. Bear in mind I can only speak for ASRock's intentions in Europe and can't confirm their plans for North America, Asia or elsewhere:
ASRock got into the GPU game with cryptocurrency mining in mind. Indeed, it was initially reported that they were launching mining-based SKUs. What I've been told -- and I confirmed this twice over the phone and again via email -- is that in Europe, ASRock has decided not to sell Phantom Gaming graphics cards commercially. They won't appear in online or brick-and-mortal PC retail shops. They are only intended for miners and industrial use. Furthermore, the minimum order quantity for these customers is 500 pieces.
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1 minute ago, Razor01 said:
The laws are created by the executive branch, based on previous precedence created by the judicial branch
I think you mean legislative branch... The executive branch is more in line with administering the laws that are passed and the judicial branch interprets those laws. Thing is, the executive branch can propose new laws to the legislative branch to pass, however, the legislative branch can rewrite what is proposed and so long as there is a veto proof majority approval from the legislators, the law is passed as the legislators write it.
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1 minute ago, App4that said:
You're talking about case law rather than Nvidia getting their dick slammed in a door. So.
muahahahahahaah
I find it kind of funny that GPP was supposed to be all about being beneficial to the gamer (at least on their public perception) however instead of working to clarify how GPP was going to do that they decided to drop the whole program that they would have supposedly spent money and investment on establishing.
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In a blog post today, nVidia has announced that they are ending the GeForce Partners Program (GPP) and 'leaning into GeForce'. Essentially, nVidia is sticking with what they stated was the original goal of GPP as having been correct, however have recognized all of the 'rumors, conjecture and mistruths' about the program and decided to end it. I have a feeling that this is their personal PR spin on the controversy and they may have also had some lawyers come back and say they were skirting too close to a grey legal area.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/05/04/gpp/
QuoteA lot has been said recently about our GeForce Partner Program. The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program.
GPP had a simple goal – ensuring that gamers know what they are buying and can make a clear choice.
NVIDIA creates cutting-edge technologies for gamers. We have dedicated our lives to it. We do our work at a crazy intense level – investing billions to invent the future and ensure that amazing NVIDIA tech keeps coming. We do this work because we know gamers love it and appreciate it. Gamers want the best GPU tech. GPP was about making sure gamers who want NVIDIA tech get NVIDIA tech.
With GPP, we asked our partners to brand their products in a way that would be crystal clear. The choice of GPU greatly defines a gaming platform. So, the GPU brand should be clearly transparent – no substitute GPUs hidden behind a pile of techno-jargon.
Most partners agreed. They own their brands and GPP didn’t change that. They decide how they want to convey their product promise to gamers. Still, today we are pulling the plug on GPP to avoid any distraction from the super exciting work we’re doing to bring amazing advances to PC gaming.
This is a great time to be a GeForce partner and be part of the fastest growing gaming platform in the world. The GeForce gaming platform is rich with the most advanced technology. And with GeForce Experience, it is “the way it’s meant to be played.”
Hot Hardware Article: https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-ends-geforce-partner-program
I'm guessing that Kyle over at HardOCP will not be on nVidia's Christmas list anytime soon
... Now the question will be whether some of the AIB card partners that were beginning to create AMD specific brands pull those back to add AMD cards back into their main gaming brands or whether they are kept separate.
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2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:
How would heat dissipation work here? Intuitively it looks to me as if the bottom chip would just get cooked.
I think that is why they are looking at this primarily for low power chips or to have the low power silicon be the lower wafer on the setup...
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11 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:
I mean the memory on gpu would be too hot based in what they are saying. Also if they could do this wouldn't they also be able to do something similar with cpus making them have a L4 cache of sorts? That would be interesting to see if this could allow for something like that.
They might be able to... I've been reading EETimes write-up of the TSMC roadmap and it seems like the WoW is being added to supplement some of the other options they offer currently, such as the Chip on Wafer on Substrate (CoWoS).
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333244&page_number=3
QuoteBut that’s not all. TSMC introduced two wholly new packaging options.
A wafer-on-wafer pack (WoW) directly bonds up to three dice. It was released last week, but users need to ensure that their EDA flows support the bonding technique. It will get EMI support in June.
Finally, the foundry roughly described something that it called system-on-integrated-chips (SoICs) using less than 10-micron interconnects to link two dice. Details of the process and its target apps were sketchy for the capability that will be released sometime next year.
Although I have to admit that the rest of their roadmap is fairly interesting as TSMC is planning on producing 1.1 million wafers/year using the 10/7-nm nodes and begin production using 5 nm EUV machines sometime in 2020.
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During TSMC's tech symposium, TSMC unveiled their new Wafer on Wafer silicon stacking technology which, if implemented, will allow for the stacking of two silicon wafers on top of each other to connect chips as opposed to having the multiple dies sitting side by side and using an interposer. According to the Overclock3d article, the ideal situation to use this would be on wafers with chip yields greater than 90% and to decrease thermal risks, the tech is better suited for low-power parts.
QuoteAt the TSMC Technology Symposium, the company has unveiled their new Wafer-on-Wafer (WOW) technology, a form of 3D stacking for silicon wafers. The new technique can connect chips on two silicon wafers using through-silicon via (TSV) connections, acting similarly to today's 3D NAND technology.
This technique is different to what we see today with some multi-die silicon, which has multiple dies sit side-by-side wither on top of an interposer or using Intel's EMIB technology. TSMC's WoW technology can connect two dies directly and with minimal data transfer times thanks to the small distance between chips, creating silicon which offers high levels of performance and a smaller overall footprint.
Notice that this new tech is called Wafer-on-Wafer and not die-on-die, this technique stacks silicon while it is still within its original wafer, offering advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage here is that this tech can connect two wafers of dies at once. Imagine an alternative method where we connect individual dies in the same way, offering a lot less parallelisation within the manufacturing process and the possibility of higher end costs.With Wafer-on-Wafer technology, the problem comes when faulty dies on each layer merge to working chips on the second layer, lowering overall yields. This issue prevents this technology from being viable for silicon that doesn't already offer high-yields on a wafer-by-wafer basis. Ideally, chip yields should be 90% or higher to use TSMC's Wafer-on-Wafer technology.
Another potential issue comes when two heat producing pieces of silicon are stacked on top of each other, creating a situation where heat density could become a limiting factor for stacked silicon. This thermal concern makes WoW connected chips most suitable for low-power silicon, where heat is less of an issue.
TSMC currently manufactures graphics cards for both AMD and Nvidia as well as the silicon used for all major games consoles, giving this technology the potential to improve a wide range of future products. The one remaining question is this process' viability when used with high-powered components.
The direct die-to-die connectivity of WoW technology allows silicon to communicate exceptionally quickly and with minimal latencies, opening up the possibility of chip creation where two dies can be interconnected with few downsides.It might be interesting to see if AMD &/or nVidia might use this to interconnect their GPUs directly to the memory. Basically stick the low power/heat silicon on the bottom and have a direct connection to the high power/heat silicon that's on the top... Might also be fairly useful for something like image processors and/or upcoming phones. I doubt that we'll see full GPU dies directly connected to CPU dies anytime soon due to heat/power constraints (although that could be interesting
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I was thinking that I needed to upgrade from my S6 this year, but so far the options I'm seeing are a bit underwhelming... This might have been a good option if they didn't include the notch and gave it a bit of a bigger battery. Maybe I'll see if I can wait to see what the next Note looks like.
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3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:
I used to offer proofreading and style advice while I was at SCF and USF for a modest fee of $1 per assignment (I did it b/c I had two hours to kill between classes at the time). I had quite a few teachers approvals including the head of the dept.
But this? Writing TWO whole essays and bombing BOTH with average scores!? How the flying sh#t do you pay for that?
I've also offered style advice and proofread several papers for friends in college (usually scientific geology papers) to try and help them get their thoughts in order (huzzah for dyslexia?), however I'm not the one writing it. It kind of destroys the whole premise of learning material and showing that you've learned it if you pay someone to write the whole essay.
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A BBC Trending investigation has unveiled 1400 videos, accounting for more than 700 million views that has advertising for Edubirdie, which is a Ukranian based service that sells essay writing services. According to the report, while essay writing services are not illegal, students that submit work they have paid someone else to write may suffer severe penalties. It is a bit harder for YouTube to monitor for these videos in that they are not ads paid to be played on YouTube directly, but more content creator ad spots contained within videos. YouTube's response so far has been to say that:
QuoteCreators may include paid endorsements as part of their content only if the product or service they are endorsing complies with our advertising policies.
and that:
QuoteWe will be working with creators going forward so they better understand that in video promotions must not promote dishonest activity.
As for Edubirdie, they state:
QuoteWe cannot be held responsible for what social influencers say on their channels.
We give influencers total freedom on how they prefer to present the EduBirdie platform to their audience in a way they feel would be most relevant to their viewers.
We do admit that many tend to copy and paste each others' shout-outs with a focus on 'get someone to do your homework for you', but this is their creative choice.BBC Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-43956001
What is really disturbing to me on this is that there appear to be YouTube channels run be minors who are promoting this service and some of the YouTuber's are promoting the service as a way to
Quotefree up time to play video games or take drugs.
Of course, the one funny thing is that the BBC ordered two essays through this service, opting for the written from scratch:
QuoteOne was an English Literature GCSE coursework essay, the other a first-year degree course assignment.
Both were delivered with only the students' names left blank to be filled in.
The GCSE essay was given a C or 4/5 and the university assignment 60% - not quite the guaranteed A+ grade promised by EduBirdie.Still, I find the advertising of these kind of services disturbing and am not really sure on the best way for YouTube to address this as an issue... If YouTube takes a heavy handed approach, they might revise their guidelines to begin banning third party ads within videos as the 'easiest solution'. My personal preference would be to give these content creators who post videos with these ads a three strike policy, where if they receive three warnings on these kind of ads being within their videos, then they're banned. I have a feeling that this is a bit more complicated though, considering that, for minors at least, the parents should be paying more attention to what their kids are doing online, especially if they are paying for a service...
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2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:
he did not like x299 one bit
Have to admit that X299 does feel a bit out of place for Intel on the HEDT space in that Intel about 3 years to go from X79 to X99, another 3 to go to X299 and now it feels like they will be going directly to X399 only about year after X299 was released.
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Sad thing is that now I actually do want a Sky-Lake X and X299 board just for the collectors value this may gain in about 15 to 20 years...
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It's been a hard time on memory makers with selling as much memory as they can produce, however a new class action lawsuit out of the US District Court for Northern California is asserting that Samsung, Hynix & Micron have been price-fixing DRAM prices. According to the lawsuit, the companies actions have resulted in 4 GB DRAM prices increasing 130% from July 2016 thru February 2018, while the companies more than doubles their revenue between Q1 '16 and Q3 '17. It is also alleged that even though DRAM prices more than doubled during that time period, the production costs did not increase and there have been no process changes to justify the price increases.
https://hothardware.com/news/samsung-hynix-and-micron-dram-class-action-suit-collusion
QuotePrice fixing in the DRAM space is nothing new; as recently as January, a Chinese regulator accused Samsung other chip manufacturers of artificially increasing prices to pad their margins. Samsung is also no stranger to price fixing, as a $300 million judgement against it and Hynix was handed down in 2006 here in the United States.
Today, however, Samsung and other DRAM manufacturers are facing another legal fight in the U.S., and it comes courtesy of the law firm Hagens Berman. The class action lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges that Samsung along with Micron and Hynix conspired to artificially limit the supply of DRAM chips in an effort to keep prices high. As a result, device manufacturers that rely on DRAM chips had to pay inflated prices, and those costs were of course passed on to you, the consumer. This has especially been true as higher DRAM costs have also resulted in inflated prices for graphics cards that PC gamers have been clamoring for, and paying dearly for recently, versus cryptocurrency miners....
The lawsuit outlines the behavior, stating:QuoteDefendants each made public statements affirming their commitment to the common plan to curtail supply, and to not compete for each other’s market share by supply expansion. For example, Defendants informed the other Defendants through public statements, that they would keep total wafer capacity flat in order to constrain DRAM supply growth, they would only grow DRAM supply between 15-20% in 2017, even as DRAM demand grew 20-25%, and that they would refrain from taking each other’s market share.
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If the Hagens Berman name sounds familiar, it’s because it was the firm responsible for securing the aforementioned $300 million settlement against Samsung and Hynix. So, it has the experience in this type of litigation and the investigative know-how to see this case through to its eventual resolution.
“What we’ve uncovered in the DRAM market is a classic antitrust, price-fixing scheme in which a small number of kingpin corporations hold the lion’s share of the market,” said Steve Berman, who serves as managing partner at Hagens Berman. “Instead of playing by the rules, Samsung, Micron and Hynix chose to put consumers in a chokehold, wringing the market for more profit.”
While I think there may be a grain of truth behind the case, I'm not sure how much traction it will get since memory is definitely in high demand and iirc these companies have also been working to open up new Fabs which have associated costs that might not be accounted for in this lawsuit. Either way, it should be interesting and maybe we'll see DRAM prices drop a small bit.
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8 hours ago, asus killer said:
back in February GN had already called this, so it's stupid to be falling for this in April.
55 minutes ago, App4that said:Since Steve covered the issue before
I'm fairly sure that the Windows Sleep bug and this are separate issues (that may have a tangential relation) since the Sleep Bug was showing increased performance on AMD systems whereas this bug is showing both AMD and Intel having decreased performance with a markedly larger performance decrease on Intel vs AMD.
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2 hours ago, Jtalk4456 said:
I don't really know what to think of this except that if he makes a cyborg dragon...I want to pet it.
I'm just wondering how will it be organic... Is he going all Dr. Moreau on us now?
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I'm going to go speculation here, but my guess is that with the troubles associated with shrinking dies and the increase in cores on newer CPUs that Intel is probably going to be using this as a part of their own MCM processors...
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7 hours ago, Trixanity said:
The facts are there and they disprove what you say. Obviously. They made a major mistake because they've used HPET because the reviewer has an overclocking background requiring him to use HPET to post valid results and besides that allowed consistent results. When cornered they said it might be the patches. At the time new patches had been released. And it seems the patches may affect HPET because of alleged increased IO load and it also showcased Intel having an impractically strict HPET implementation. In the future we'll have a full suite of non-HPET tests and it will be that way from here on out. HPET had up until that point not really been a factor. Intel was unaware because if they were they'd obviously inform each and every reviewer to stop using HPET.
Anandtech has an update to the article where they received a tool from Overclockers.at called TimerBench since Overclockers.at had noticed that there was an HPET bug in X299 systems... It would appear that this HPET bug has been around since Sky Lake processors and Intel may have received information about it.
QuoteMatthias from Overclockers.at reached out to me and linked me to his article on how they have previously encountered the issue. The article is a nice read, and well worth clicking through:
Matthais explains how during their X299 testing, they were experiencing slowdown in their game benchmarks, and pin-pointing the problem with HPET. (We also had similar issues, and didn’t post results, but never got to the bottom of the issue.) As a result, the team over at Overclockers.at developed a tool called TimerBench in order to determine the effect of HPET. As noted, HPET has a much longer latency, but is more accurate.
In the results from overclockers.at one metric stood out: moving from Broadwell-E to Skylake-X meant that the number of theoretical peak HPET calls per second reduced from 1.4 million to 0.2 million – the latency to make a HPET call suddenly became 7x longer with Skylake-X. TimerBench, the tool developed, provides an Unreal 4.7.2 scene and measures timer calls between a system running a game, and one without
Overclockers.at Article: https://www.overclockers.at/articles/the-hpet-bug-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt
QuoteWe named it the "X299 HPET bug" as the anomaly only occured on CPUs using the X299 chipset back then. Other CPUs were not affected at the time. We contacted Intel and they didn't even bother to comment on this. When approaching an Intel engineer at a press workshop, they even knew about our bug report but denied us to show further proof. Anyway, soon after Coffee Lake S came along it became clear that all new Intel platforms are affected by the bug. We were pretty sure now that this will blow up into Intel's face at some point in the future.
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In summary the problem is a very slow timer implementation of the High Precision Event Timer on modern platforms, that is used without care by the developers. Badly affected are Skylake X and Kaby Lake X. Impacts can also be shown on Threadripper, Coffee Lake and in some degree on Ryzen as well. It could be discussed if a slow functionality is a bug, but honestly let's just call it the "HPET bug"
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31 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:
Well whatever, whether I say bad wording or terrible practices it makes no difference its just semantics, regardless we can both agree it should have never been written in that manner.
I'm sure that their legal department watched some of LTTs cooling solution videos and just didn't want to have to replace a CPU from someone that tried to cool it with a homemade chunk of Aluminum.
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