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[Gamers Nexus] Noctua NH-D15 G2 Review & Benchmarks, HBC & LBC Comparison, & Best CPU Coolers
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YT - Electron Update - D-Link: ethernet over mains adaptor tear down & decap w/Flash $ binwalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervuwSwKu18
Nice example of real reverse engineering at a low level in a ten minute dense summary, including die level comments on structures. Also, why Broadcom sucks in engineering terms (NDA nonsense).
- 9to5mac.com iOS 18 brings AirPods setup experience to third-party accessories
When Apple introduced AirPods in 2016, the company also unveiled a new, easy and intuitive way to pair wireless accessories...
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[contested, see comments] Intel Isolates Root Cause of Raptor Lake Stability Issues to a Faulty eTVB Microcode Algorithm
Edit: link got fucked somehow, use this:
- www.nextplatform.com The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap
Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express
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An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems
> > > This week’s Stratechery Interview is with AMD CEO Lisa Su. Su began her career at Texas Instruments, after earning her PhD in electrical engineering at MIT, where she played a significant role in developing silicon-on-insulator transistor technology. Su then spent 12 years at IBM, where she led the development of copper interconnects for semiconductors, served as technical assistant to CEO Lou Gerstner, and led the team that created the Cell microprocessor used in the PlayStation 3. After a stint as the CTO of Freescale Semiconductor, Su joined AMD in 2012, before ascending to the CEO role in 2014. > > > > Su has led a remarkable run of success for AMD over the last decade. After decades of being an also-ran to Intel, AMD has developed the best x86 chips in the world, and continues to take significant share from Intel in datacenters in particular. AMD has also been a major player in console gaming, in addition to its traditional PC business and graphics chip business. That GPU business is now increasingly at center stage, as AMD takes on Nvidia in the market for datacenter GPUs. > > > > In this interview, conducted a day after Su’s Computex keynote, we talk about Su’s career path, including lessons she learned at her various stops to the top, before discussing why AMD has been able to achieve so much during her tenure. We discuss how the “ChatGPT” moment changed the industry, how AMD has responded, and why Su believes the long-run structure of the industry will ultimately work in the company’s favor. > >
If you get paywalled (I wasn't for this post, but idk how this site is set up?) TH has recapped a little bit of it here.
- www.nextplatform.com HPE Is Also Having Trouble Making Money With AI Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always been more interested in providing a choice of compute engines compared to Dell, which was the underdog in servers
- www.pcgamer.com AMD is 'working actively on really cool differentiators' to make the next generation of 3D V-cache 'even better'
X3D versions of Ryzen 9000-series chips won't be announced for a good while, though.
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MSI Shows New Range of QD-OLED Gaming Monitors at Computex
I am genuinely curious how this will work and how games will be supported
>The so-called AI engine is supposed to help gamers lose less with features like AI Skysight which scans the game's mini map in real time for threats and then points them out to the player.
Seems pretty wild to release $950/$900 (realistically will be over $1000 out of pocket) monitors with DP 1.4.
- www.cnbc.com Qualcomm-backed firm launches latest AI chips — posing a challenge to giants like Nvidia
Kneron, a Taiwanese firm also backed by iPhone assembler Foxconn, took the wraps off the KNEO 330, its second-generation "edge GPT" server.
The silver lining (if it even exists) seems to be that they are at least focused on more local "edge" scenarios for generative "AI".
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InWin Shows Off a 2500 W Power Supply, Plus AIO Coolers, Modular Fans and Cases at Computex
www.techpowerup.com /323246/inwin-shows-off-a-2500-w-power-supply-plus-aio-coolers-modular-fans-and-cases-at-computex2.5 KW PSU, that's a crazy power supply.
Not sure why fans needs USB-C, but what do I know?
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[Gamers Nexus] Noctua Finally Did It | NH-D15 G2 Launching, Thermosiphon, & Fans
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- arstechnica.com AMD intros Ryzen AI 300 chips with Zen 5, better GPU, and hugely improved NPU
High-end Ryzen laptop chips combine big and little Zen cores for the first time.
- www.chosun.com Samsung eyes major win with AMD’s chip order, challenging TSMC’s market lead
Samsung eyes major win with AMDs chip order, challenging TSMCs market lead
Relevant comment (yes, from reddit) from a Korean national regarding the source:
>Since the article is extensively quoting ChosunBiz though let me add two things as a Korean. Chosun Ilbo touts itself as a number one newspaper in Korea but you can think of it as a bastard child between Fox News and The Sun, absolute cesspool of alt right incubators that deserve zero respect. And then there’s Korean business newspapers which exist only to pump real estate price and be a mouthpiece to big companies to the editors’ gain, zero understandings about industries whatsoever.
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This is why GPU Drivers Might Not Matter [Hardware Canucks]
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This is a great look at a number of games over time from launch to months after launch benchmarking the patch releases as well as drivers. The end conclusion is the day 1 drivers that Nvidia/AMD/Intel produce are worth having and they improve performance and fix bugs but later drivers don't show as helping and the performance changes after that point are attributable to the game updates.
What is wild is Baldur's Gate loosing a tonne of performance in a patch and has never recover its prior performance and it can't utilise the GPU at all well now but there are other games showing not just increases but degradation of performance as well.
- www.trendforce.com [News] Samsung Expected to Unveil its 1nm Plan in June, Advancing it to 2026 | TrendForce Insights
Samsung’ Foundry Business Division is set to host a Foundry and SAFE Forum in Silicon Valley, U.S., on June 12-13. According to Business Korea, the te...
- www.macrumors.com Apple's Next-Gen Chip Technology on Track for 2025 Debut
Apple chip supplier TSMC is on track to deliver 2nm chip technology next year, BusinessKorea reports. Apple is expected to move its custom silicon...
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AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 Single Thread Performance at 5.80 GHz Found 19% Over Zen 4
www.techpowerup.com /322906/amd-ryzen-9000-zen-5-single-thread-performance-at-5-80-ghz-found-19-over-zen-4One should wait for independent reviews after the product is available, but this is an interesting reference point.
- www.tomshardware.com ASML sets new EUV chipmaking density record, proposes Hyper-NA tools and radical EUV speed boosts
Smaller, faster transistors at unprecedented speed.
- videocardz.com AMD Ryzen 9000 desktop series with 16, 12, 8 and 6 Zen5 core configs reportedly launches in July - VideoCardz.com
AMD to unveil the desktop Ryzen 9000 series next week, launch expected in July Chiphell leaker wjm47196 claims that there is no change to the core count for the new Ryzen desktop series. A new rumor comes from wjm47196, who left a cryptic message on the Chiphell forums. This leaker has provided firs...
- www.tomshardware.com Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution arrives to improve gaming performance — Auto SR serves as an upscaler similar to Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR
Auto SR is initially supported on only Copilot PCs with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X and its NPU.
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[Short rant] The most POS computer part in history (IMO)
You may be wondering "what could that be? Maybe an ancient CPU? GPU?" No & No. It's the fuckin scroll wheel!! More specifically. That tiny fuckin peg connecting the scroll wheel to the sensor.
Some photos of a broken mouse that's been taken apart for reference.
As you can see this little peg is no longer connected to the fucking scroll wheel at all, how lovely!! If this particular part is remotely cheap at all e.g. plastic. Any kinetic shock like dropping it or you know just general use of middle mouse click over a few short years, completely fucking annihilates it. I am so fucking sick of mouse manufacturers using shitty ass plastic for this specific piece. IT IS TOO FUCKING FRAGILE!! I hate this ridiculous bullshit. Please for love of fuckin God, use metal!!! Over the past about decade I've had a handful of mouses and done some mouse repair myself and nearly every goddamn time the scroll whell shits the bed before anything else and every single fuckin time it's that shitty peg.
Anyways, I hope you guys can relate to this pain, because Jesus Christ is this shit frustrating. Luckily this mouse isn't new or partially expensive, but could you imagine if you were to get a brand new mouse and accidentally dropped it or it got banged up in shipping. The pure amount of unbelievable fury.
- arstechnica.com The ROG Ally X leaks, with twice the battery of the original and way more RAM
This handheld has more RAM than my gaming PC, though the chip stays the same.