WAN Show June.1 2018 - Wan show document

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Intel Launches Optane DIMMS

Source 1: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12828/intel-launches-optane-dimms-up-to-512gb-apache-pass-is-here

Source 2: imrazor https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932636-dell-marketing-optane-as-ram-replacement/?tab=comments#comment-11396103

 

• Intel has announced the availability of their Optane DIMMs, bringing 3D XPoint memory onto the DDR4 memory bus.

  • will be branded as Optane DC Persistent Memory, in contrast with Optane DC SSDs, and not to be confused with the consumer-oriented Optane Memory caching SSDs.

• Initially available in three capacities: 128GB, 256GB and 512GB per module.

  • This implies that they are probably still based on the same 128Gb 3D XPoint memory dies used in all other Optane products so far.

• The modules are pin-compatible with standard DDR4 DIMMs and will be supported by the next generation of Intel's Xeon server platforms.

• Currently sampling and will be shipping for revenue later this year, but only to select customers.

  • Broad availability is planned for 2019.

• Intel is not officially disclosing whether it will be possible to mix and match DRAM and Optane Persistent Memory on the same memory controller channel

  • the 192GB DRAM capacity for the development preview systems indicates that they are equipped with a 16GB DRAM DIMM on every memory channel.

• Also not disclosed: power consumption, clock speeds, specific endurance ratings, and whether it will be supported across the Xeon product line or only on certain SKUs.

 

AMD is preparing new CPUs

Source 1: AluminiumTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/933147-amd-is-preparing-new-45w-6-and-8-core-ryzen-cpus-as-well-as-possible-r3-2300x-and-r5-2500x/

Source 2: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12841/amd-preps-new-ryzen-2000series-cpus-45w-ryzen-7-2700e-ryzen-5-2600e

 

• AMD is gearing up to release four new Ryzen 2000-series processors based on a listing in ASRock’s CPU compatibility chart.

  • The new Ryzen 5 2600E and Ryzen 7 2700E products feature reduced, 45W TDP and are aimed at SFF and fanless systems

    • These are the first Ryzen CPUs with a locked in 45W TDP

      • Previously chips had configurable 45 – 65 W TDP that required users to activate the 45W profile. This could mean unpredictable performance.

  • Ryzen 3 2300X and Ryzen 5 2500X parts are designed for enthusiasts and overclockers on a budget.

 

Arm introducing their new processors with INSANE perf.

Source 1: WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932903-arm-introducing-their-new-a76-g76-v76-processors/

Source 2: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12785/arm-announces-cortexa76

 

• At their annual Tech Day conference, ARM announced their new flagship CPU microarchitecture: the A76

• In Arm’s words, it’s a “laptop-class” performance processor with mobile efficiency.

  • This helps them serve new markets like ‘always-connected PCs’

• ARMs claiming:

  • 35% more performance

  • 40% better power efficiency

  • 4x improvements in machine learning workloads

    • Figures use A75 configurations running at 2.8GHz on 10nm processes as a baseline.

    • The A76 is projected by Arm to come in at 3GHz on 7nm TSMC based products.

 

What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week.

Rapid Fire

Rumor: One iPhone model will have triple rear cameras in 2019

Source 1: captain_to_fire https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932756-rumor-one-iphone-model-will-have-triple-rear-cameras-in-2019/

Source 2: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/28/triple-lens-iphone-2019-stereo-vision-rumor/

 

• Apple will launch at least one new iPhone model with a triple-lens rear camera in 2019, according to a research note from Deutsche Securities analyst Jialin Lu

• Lu believes the triple-lens camera system will enable advanced 3D sensing via stereoscopic vision

  • A triangulation method would then be used to obtain the distance between the iPhone and the object.

• the report suggests that the rear 3D sensing will be used for augmented reality purposes.

• the third lens would likely have a longer focal length, enabling 3x optical zoom for the first time on an iPhone

• Huawei's new P20 Pro is the first with a triple-lens rear camera system, including

  • a 40-megapixel lens,

  • a 20-megapixel monochrome lens,

  • an eight-megapixel telephoto lens with up to 3x optical zoom.

 

Intel Core i7 8086K confirmed

Source 1: NumLock 21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932971-intel-core-i7-8086k-confirmed/

Source 2: https://videocardz.com/76355/intel-core-i7-8086k-arrives-june-8th-for-under-400-gbp

 

• The Intel Core i7-8086K processor will be an anniversary model to mark 40 years since the release of Intel’s iconic 8086 microprocessor.

  • This will be the second-anniversary edition mode that Intel has released: the Pentium G3258 marked the 20th anniversary of Intel’s first Pentium chip.

• The 8086K will be the fastest 6 core processor that Intel has to offer while being similar in core configuration as the Core i7-8700K.

• It will feature

  • 6 cores, 12 threads

  • 12 MB of L3 cache

  • TDP of 95 Watts (same as the Core i7-8700K).

  • base clock of 4.00 GHz which boosts to 5.0 GHz.(single core, multi core boost is 4.4)

    • currently the fastest clock speed for an Intel 6 core processor.

  • Runs on 300 series socket 1151

• Pre order time June 8th

 

Rumour: Dell working on dual-screen running Windows 10

Source 1: GoodBytes https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932741-dell-is-said-to-be-working-on-a-dual-screen-phone-powered-by-snapdragon-850-and-running-full-windows-10/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/31/17412550/dell-januss-dual-screen-windows-10-arm-device-rumors

 

• Dell is  reportedly working on a dual-screen device that runs Windows 10 and an unreleased Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 ARM processor.

  • Microsoft has long been rumored to be working on a foldable dual-screen device but there are now signs that Microsoft’s OEM partners are working on similar devices.

• Dell’s device is reportedly codenamed “Januss,” and has been under development since last summer, but it’s not clear whether the device will ever come to market.

  • The documents the rumour is based on are old, and that Dell could have altered its product plans by now.

 

Rumour: Intel discontinuing production of H310 Chipset to push consumers to more expensive chipsets

Source 1: AluminiumTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/933132-intel-reportedly-discontinuing-production-of-h310-chipset-to-push-consumers-to-more-expensive-motherboards/

Source 2: https://www.techpowerup.com/244021/a-push-for-the-higher-margin-intel-reportedly-discontinues-production-of-its-h310-chipset

 

• Intel has reportedly discontinued production of its H310 chipset due to lower than expected production capacity for chipsets on the 14 nm process.

• Intel hopes that the absence of H310 will funnel consumers toward the B360 and Z370 chipsets.

  • These chipsets have higher margins

• After a single month of tight supply for the H310 chipset, motherboard makers are now forced to use Intel's B360 chipset in their more cost-conscious options - a part which carries higher cost, and thus precludes manufacturers from hitting all the price points they usually would with a fully vertical Intel chipset lineup.

• Speculation has emerged claiming Intel suspended the supply of H310 because they have chosen to conduct a manufacturing process change from the tight-supply 14 nm to a 22nm fabrication technology.

  • Further speculation says the 14 nm supply is constrained because of the delay in advancing to 10 nm

 

School Shooting game on steam removed from Steam

Source 1: spartaman64 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/931044-school-shooting-game-on-steam/

Source 2: https://www.pcgamer.com/active-shooter-and-its-developer-have-been-removed-from-steam/

 

• Active Shooter, an unreleased Steam game in which you play as a school shooter, a S.W.A.T. team member trying to neutralize them, or a civilian, has been removed from the platform, and both the developer and publisher—Revived Games and Acid, respectively—responsible for the game have been banned from the platform.

  • The game’s trailer depicts a player running down school halls and through classrooms, indiscriminately murdering teachers until a S.W.A.T. team shows up.

• The Steam forums were dominated by threads calling for Valve to do something about the game, as well as people criticizing Valve for the fact that it gives the boot to many games containing nudity while letting the likes of Active Shooter stay.

  • “I love offensive humor as much as the next guy, but you’re dense as hell if you can’t see why a pay-to-play school shooting simulation game might be taking it a step too far,” said one user.

• The developer and publisher, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, has a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation

 

Facebook to remove Trending Topics section

Source 1: Eduard the weeb https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/933237-facebook-to-remove-trending-topics-section/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/1/17417428/facebook-trending-topics-being-removed

 

• After 4 years, next week Facebook will be removing the Trending Topics section of the News Feed page.

  • The removal comes after years of criticism around how Facebook picked stories to sit in the Trending box

• Facebook says it was active in five countries and accounted for “less than 1.5 percent of clicks to news publishers on average.”

• Facebook says the removal of Trending will “make way” for future news products.

  • The company is currently testing other ways to deliver news, including breaking news labels and a section that collects local stories.

 

Apple hires Intel engineers for New chip research facility

Source 1: captain_to_fire https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932775-apple-has-reportedly-hired-multiple-intel-engineers-for-a-chip-research-facility-in-washington-county-or/

Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/31/apple-intel-chip-engineers/

 

• Apple has reportedly poached multiple engineers and research staff from Intel for a new facility in Washington County, Oregon.

  • Hiring appears to have started last november

• This news is fanning the flames of rumours that Apple intends to release an ARM-powered Macbook and/or an ARM-based touchscreen iPad/Mac hybrid.

 

Every item in the game for $27,000: Star Citizen Legatus Pack

Source 1: Master Disaster https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/931970-star-citizen-legatus-pack-every-item-in-the-game-for-27000/

Source 2: https://wccftech.com/star-citizen-legatus-pack-27000/

 

• A new Legatus Pack is available for purchase in Star Citizen via the game’s official website -but only if you’ve already spent more than $1,000, earning “concierge member” status.

• The Legatus Pack is being sold at $27,000 and includes every item in the game. You’ll get:

  • 117 ships

  • 163 extras

• The game isn’t even out yet.

• A clever way to get Whales to drop their cash and finance game dev, or a bad omen for the future of gaming?

 

Google Won't Renew Pentagon AI Drone Deal After Staff Backlash

Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/google-won-t-renew-pentagon-ai-drone-deal-after-staff-backlash

Source 2:

 

• Google decided not to renew its contract with a Pentagon drone program once it expires, after extensive protests from employees

  • The contract ends in March 2019

• the contract lets the Defense Department use Google artificial intelligence tools to analyze drone footage for an initiative called Project Maven.

  • It was part of a major push to break into the lucrative business of selling cloud services to the government, where Amazon and Microsoft dominate.

• More than 4,000 employees signed a letter asking to cancel the contract and demanded that Google and its AI technology should not be in the business of war.

  • At least a dozen staff resigned over the issue.

 

Waymo is way ahead

Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/as-uber-and-tesla-struggle-with-driverless-cars-waymo-moves-forward/

Source 2:

 

• Waymo announced on Thursday that it was ordering 62,000 Pacifica minivans from Fiat Chrysler.

• In March, the company announced a deal with Jaguar Land Rover to build 20,000 fully self-driving I-PACE cars.

• Meanwhile, Uber, Nvidia, and Toyota all suspended self-driving car testing in the wake of the March Uber crash, and a Tesla customer died in a crash in Mountain View the very same month.

• In October 2015, Google was already confident enough in its technology to let a blind man take an unaccompanied test drive on Austin streets. Almost three years later, it's not clear if anyone else has managed to build technology as sophisticated as Waymo had back then.

• Waymo has already shifted from technology development to commercialization

  • In April 2017, Waymo announced its early rider program, giving handpicked families a chance to take rides in Waymo's prototype Chrysler Pacifica minivans.

  • The move allowed Waymo to start thinking about customer-facing issues, like the user interface for self-driving cars and how the car's driving style affects passenger comfort.

 

ASUS mining motherboard supports 20 GPUs via USB

Source 1: FieldGenEJ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932641-asus-made-a-mining-motherboard-that-supports-up-to-20-gpus/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17408610/asus-crypto-mining-motherboard-gpus

 

• Asus has announced the H370 Mining Master motherboard, which supports up to 20 graphics cards via USB riser cables that plug directly into the PCB over PCIe.

• Asus’ approach here is going to make maintenance easier, ensure fewer PCIe disconnects, and more accurate diagnostics.

• becomes available in North America starting in Q3 2018.

 

SpaceX Satellite Internet Good Enough to Game On

Source 1: https://www.inverse.com/article/45270-elon-musk-says-spacex-satellites-will-be-better-for-gaming

Source 2:

 

• A recent update from Elon Musk indicates that SpaceX’ Starlink satellite internet prototypes are not only working, but they’re providing a fast enough speed to play video games online.

• the two prototypes – TinTin A and B that were sent up back in February – are providing high speeds with 25ms latency

  • Gamers typically need less than 50 milliseconds, with some players getting as low as 15 to 20 ms on the fastest broadband

• Starlink will send 4,425 satellites into orbit to deliver broadband connectivity to parts of the world with no internet.

[Daniel644]

#WaitingOnVideo

[rrps700]

Gonna be honest I was wondering why you guys were saying Welsh spent so much money on casual game.

 

"The biggest percentage of your money comes from whales," not Wales. I am clearly not the sharpest bulb in the bunch.

[JoostinOnline]

@LinusTech You posted the wrong link on Facebook.

 

You also never talked about the AMD CPU's (other than to say it's good to put pressure on Intel) so that was a weird thumbnail choice.

[pkillboredom]

They sat that way from the very beginning until getting the warehouse 

 

[JoostinOnline]

8 minutes ago, pkillboredom said:

They sat that way from the very beginning until getting the warehouse 

 

They realized that and laughed about it. Did you watch the whole thing, or comment after knmh watching a few minutes?

[pkillboredom]

11 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

They realized that and laughed about it. Did you watch the whole thing, or comment after knmh watching a few minutes?

Oh totally the second thing.

Additionally, this is the first time they ever switched for a whole episode: 

Which would not occur again until: 

 

I spent.... a long time scrolling. And they've been talking about Star Citizen for like six years or something.

[TechyBen]

8 hours ago, rrps700 said:

Gonna be honest I was wondering why you guys were saying Welsh spent so much money on casual game.

 

"The biggest percentage of your money comes from whales," not Wales. I am clearly not the sharpest bulb in the bunch.

Hahahahahahaha.

 

Also, lots of games feature children and unsavoury events.  It really should be a universal standard, and set much higher than it currently is.

[Ringthane]

11 hours ago, JoostinOnline said:

@LinusTech You posted the wrong link on Facebook.

 

You also never talked about the AMD CPU's (other than to say it's good to put pressure on Intel) so that was a weird thumbnail choice.

They did also call them "uninteresting", after licking Intel's taint both before and after about some stupid DIMMs that no one but them care about.  Because the one computer tech that's been lighting the world on fire for the last little while is Optane, amirite?  

 

Yeah, didn't think so.  

 

Just another clickbait title from a channel that's become more and more reliant on spectacle over substance.  

[Murasaki]

They switched seats. I DONT LIKE CHANGE.

[Tcrumpen]

The whole "Video Games cause violence" debate has been going on for years. for me i'll say what i always say it's not the game that's the problem it's the parenting (or lack of it). It's not a games job to teach someone morals and how to do things right, that's the parents job; stop being lazy ass parents. Granted there are games which make you think twice about your morals (Like the Mass Effect games) but even these don't teach you morals they just build on what you already learnt