Recent content by Wirko

There are other limits like L3 size, which is costly and difficult to increase, and RAM bandwidth, which does go up over time, but slowly. 16 cores per CCD (up to 32 per processor) wouldn't make much sense in these circumstances. 12, hardly. 10 might be the optimum number - but AMD seems to...

Which is disappointing for one more reason: there won't be a Gen 5 chipset link in this generation.

There's only a couple letters separating innovation from ignition.

That excess soil isn't worthless, right? In my country, the construction site manager would call some friends who happen to know some farmers nearby. The problem would be gone the next Sunday afternoon or Sunday night, with no trace left behind.

Yes, that's the thing. The colours aren't there for nothing, they must have some purpose here (it might be defined by agreements or by law which party gets which colour, etc.) I remember banks used to have some coloured pre-printed forms, which they ran through very specific dot-matrix printers...

Um, I have never seen a dot matrix printer that could not print raster graphics. But let's see what happens if I install an Epson LX-300+, connected on LPT1: (do I have LPT1?) on my Windows 7 ... the driver lets me choose between 120x72 dpi, 120x144 dpi, and 240x144 dpi. What if I try a 24-pin...

Is GeIL considered a good brand? I have 2x 512MB DDR2-800 modules in my old Core 2 Duo PC, the orange anodized aluminium heatsinks are beatiful and OC was good too, but I very rarely see GeIL mentioned anywhere in the recent times. You'll have the choice of boring rectangular CAMM and...

They can print copies. The huge and heavy Epson DFX can print on a thick stack of one original and, I think, up to 9 copies! Bureaucrats must love that. For those who can afford that. Others buy ink. Don't ask me how you get ink into the ribbon, I just know I used to know. Perhaps some...

When all these chips start doing their work, AI datacenters will devour the entire world's electricity production at prices consumers won't be even able to pay anymore.

Both orientations are common but what about the third possible orientation, the one with connectors at the top or at the bottom? Is it considered safe for the HDD? Funny that you say 45 years. In 1980, Shugart started selling a "compact" all-in-one HDD, the first one that resembles today's...

Those are power amplifiers basically. A significant part of those 10 W will be dissipated in signal wires, not converted to heat in the (small) chips themselves.

The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine is also monolithic.

Is this really a press release? It's not written as such.

After some thinking, it's all clear. Two poor interns from Germany, who had never heard of "inches" before, were handed a ground radar provided by Intel and brought from the US. Forty, the machine said at the site. Of course the guys also had a spike and hammer and were told to double-check the...

I'll take care of that in no time! I"ll just let our roadmap designers draw a few new roadmaps first, so I don't get lost on the way.