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Just ordered a Gaming Laptop with i7-8750. Amazing amount of compute horsepower you can get these days.
Why a Xeon and not a desktop?
"but has issues admitting it's screw ups, ie: get rid of the silly oled taskbar which no body actually uses."
Are you referring to the TouchBar? I actually played with it on the new MacBook Pro yesterday and found it quite useful.
MacBook Pros may be moving out of the range of joe 6pack. There are rumors that they are coming out with a cheaper model.
Apple just announced some new MacBook Pros that are worth buying. 6 core Intel processors, up to 32 GB RAM, up to 4 TB SSD. Huge pent-up demand for a decent MBP with a good performance boost and it's here now.
More than a rumor. The evidence was that other phones (Samsung I think) had higher performance with the same chip.
Maybe QCOM made a deal that they couldn't refuse.
It's clear why it stopped where it did yesterday because of trendline support. Fibonacci support levels are shown as is the 200 Day Moving Average.
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Every hand's a winner, and every hands a loser ...
You could always sell covered calls.
There are three Skylake-SP dies, called LCC, HCC, and XCC (for low, high, and extreme core counts), with 10, 18, and 28 cores, respectively. Currently, there are Xeon-SP processors using all three variants. Skylake-X processors are presently only LCC and HCC. The new chip looks like it's going to be an XCC Skylake-X.
There's a possibility, however, that it won't be Skylake-X at all, but rather Cascade Lake-X. Cascade Lake is an incremental revision to the Skylake-SP/X platform: it adds some extra AVX512 instructions, it should include hardware fixes for Spectre and Meltdown attacks, and it should support faster memory. It will be built on Intel's "14nm++" process, compared to the "14nm+" process used for Skylake-SP/X, which should offer reduced power consumption.
Either way, this kind of chip won't come cheap. The 28-core Xeons start at about $8,700. An X series version will likely cost less (because Intel can use ECC support to protect its Xeon margins) but will still slot in comfortably above the $2,000 mark for the top-end HCC Skylake-X. Who would buy such a thing? Some will likely go to the rich kids who just have to have the latest and greatest; others will be snapped up by high frequency traders running custom-built, overclocked, liquid-cooled machines for the very fastest single system performance they can get.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/intel-is-launching-a-28-core-enthusiast-chip-but-probably-not-at-5ghz/
I was working out on a new elliptical machine last week and noticed the Intel Inside sticker below the display. This machine is now one of my favorites for ellipticals because the motion is very close to running without the impact. As you can imagine, it has a ton of programmable workouts, and interfaces with a variety of devices. The brand is Octane. They also make bicycle and angular steppers (those are at my gym) and I assume that they use similar hardware and software.
Buying an ARM Mac makes as much sense as buying an ARM Windows machine.
The ARM rumor comes out every year and it hasn't happened yet.
Apple's going to be hurting in PCs if they don't add the Core i9 mobile chips to their MacBook Pros. Dell is going to start shipping them in May and Apple usually refreshes their laptops in the fall.
For those unfamiliar, the Core-i9 tops out at 4.8 Ghz, has six cores, 12 MB cache and 45 Watt TDP.
Costco is selling a Core i9 desktop: 16 cores, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 4 TB HDD. Apple has been ignoring the PC market as their stuff is old hardware. They can't coast forever.
Question for the hardware guys: is getting a faster processor mean better battery efficiency. That is: the processors are binned so you're getting more efficient processors that can get more work done for the same power.
Is this true or not?
I talked to a guy building out a cloud center and he told me that they have 72-core rack systems at 300 watts which blew my mind.
I think that they got right the areas that he works on - mostly the pipelines. They are doing some work in the AI space with imaging but it sounds like there won't be payback in that space for some time.
Pathology is a knowledge-heavy person and converting a doctor's experience into something that can be interpreted automatically is a pretty hard problem. Take a look at the size of pathology staff at major hospitals and I think that most would be surprised at the number of people in the pathology department.
Read a path report as well to get an idea as to what they do. It's not easy work.
The hardware available for Genomic work definitely meets current needs. It would benefit from lower costs, of course, but it's not outrageously expensive and I think that the pipeline software is likely getting more efficient.
We had a post collision. A friend that works at one of the companies in buyout discussions asked why QCOM was down despite Broadcom sweetening their bid to $85/share over the weekend and this story is the reason why. I wonder what kinds of profits this would be worth to Intel. I could see other companies switching to Intel if the price were right too.
Apple reportedly ditching Qualcomm chips for future iPhones.
Apple is set to ditch Qualcomm as a baseband chip supplier and to exclusively use Intel chips in future iPhone models, according to a report published Monday.
At the moment, Apple uses a mixture of Qualcomm and Intel baseband chips, which power all the iPhone's antenna functions. It has done so since the iPhone 7, but is set to part ways with Qualcomm amid tensions between the two companies, according to KGI analysts (via 9to5Mac).
Intel can meet Apple's technical requirements for chips, which will include improved 4G transmission speeds, as well as offer more competitive prices than Qualcomm, said the report.
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-reportedly-ditching-qualcomm-modems-chips-for-future-iphones/
I'm perfectly happy with the Qualcomm chips but will be interested to see how Intel does in adding support for Verizon.
Get A Mac,.
Do you have a similar paper for Spectre?
Thanks for the link. I downloaded it to my laptop and will read it on the train.
From the article: Authors Note 1: For the technical readers we are simplifying a lot, sorry we know this hurts. The full disclosure docs are linked, read them for the details.)
What I'd like to see is a sequence of assembler instructions, register diagrams and what the vulnerability reveals.
We're talking about exploiting speculative execution and that has to be beyond the capabilities of 99% of the hackers out there. Maybe someone could explain how one would do that as I haven't seen any kind of description as to how it could be exploited.
I think that it's going to pull forward a major IT refresh cycle. Not necessarily for technical reasons but for companies and individuals to feel better about their equipment. Also, folks running unsupported operating systems might finally upgrade.
Drunk driving has been declining for a while. The biggest problem today is distracted driving. It's not too hard to find videos of tractor trailers driving into a column of cars killing people. There's one with video showing the driver changing the music on his phone while plowing through a column of cars.
We have had distracted driver laws in my state for many years. But they aren't enforced. How about a requirement that all cars have hands-free devices? I can't imagine driving a car without a good hands-free device system.
Money has flowed out of the techs into the industrials and some other sectors I think. I don't know if it flows back into tech now.
Shutting down tractor trailers in a snowstorm is best left to drivers - they actually need a place to park in such weather and they're probably better at figuring out where to do that than an automated system.
Just shutting them down in the middle of the highway is a recipe for a big mess.
We had a snowstorm followed by rain and then freezing temperatures. So the DoTs of the local states carpet-bombed the roads with salt. I turned off the Lane Departure Assistant feature on my car because the salt on the roads was confusing the system. And that's even without snow on the ground!
I saw lots of spinouts in the median and exit ramp areas too. I don't think that self-driving cars would do any better.
I thought that the big news was WARM part 2.
I have a 2018 Camry and the base model of this car comes with what's called Radar cruise control. There's a radar unit on the front of the car and cameras in the windshield. The camera is used to watch the lane lines in the road to keep you in the right lane and the radar is used to maintain a fixed and/or safe distance to the car in front of you. I thought that it was a cool idea but am too chicken to actually use this. You have to do something non-intuitive to use conventional cruse control (hold down the button for two seconds).
Then I went through the Owner's Manual on the Radar cruise control along with some of the passive (and maybe active) safety features using the car sensors. There was a huge list of cases which it listed as not being properly handled by the automated systems. Passing another car was an example. What annoys me is that some of this automated stuff is on by default whereas I'd prefer it off by default.
I have a friend that's a high-level manager of a company that makes automotive electronics and he thinks that the automated car stuff is moving too quickly. Most other tech folks that I know agree.
Industry knowledge? My area is software. I ask the hardware/semi folks when I need an opinion in those areas unless I have direct experience with it.
There's SOXL which very likely includes INTC.
Much better charts out there than INTC right now.
I've made well into six figures on Apple stock. No problems paying for their gear. This is an investing/trading board after all.
> but why toss it out when it is working
Performance
Efficiency
Form factor
Storage
Bus performance
There are lots of reasons to upgrade. If your desktop means that you have to run your AC in the summer, then that might be a reason to get something a lot more efficient.
My wife's iMac just died and I'm somewhat glad that it did as it's old, slow, won't run current OS and generates a lot of heat despite the incredible screen. I wish that Apple would update the Mac Mini as that would be perfect. I'm going to instead give her a 2007-era Nehalem Quad-Core i7 system that should be overkill for her needs. I built a system in the past and have done maintenance on probably over 100 systems.
I'd rather just buy them and use them these days.
Too busy doing other things to hack stuff. I'd just rather get something that just works so that I don't have to deal with tech issues.
Apple really isn't spending a lot of R&D money on its PCs so I don't think that they're going to bother with switching to AMD, even if it did make economic sense.
Lots of people do Hackintosh but I've read that the updates are a headache and you have to be able to trust the publisher of the distribution that you get. And an update from Apple can brick your machine until the community figures a way around it. It's not worthwhile to me to bother with this approach. My workplace provides me with a properly licensed Mac and I have my own.