Prediction articles:
2020: A consumer electronics forecast for the year(s) ahead
AI Chips: What Will 2020 Bring?
CEO Outlook: 2020 Vision: 5G, China and AI are prominent, but big changes are coming everywhere
Top 10 Tech Failures From 2019 That Hint At 2020 Trends – Last year’s tech failures often turn into next year’s leading trends
Trends:
AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPUs are here to take on Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake laptop chips
Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2020: From skills shortages to privacy concerns
From the oil rig to the lake: a shift in perspective on data
In December 2020, the new IEC/EN 62368-1 will replace the existing safety standards EN 60950-1 and EN 60065-1
Use of technology money outside company IT department is the new normal
Tech to try:
12 Alternative Operating Systems You Can Use In 2020
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION: WHAT IT IS AND WHY YOU NEED IT
Research:
Universal memory coming? New type of non-volatile general purpose memory on research, some call it UltraRAM.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Insights into 2020: Q&A with Storage Executives
Western Digital executives discuss what trends they expect to see in the storage arena in 2020.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/iot/article/21129671/insights-into-2020-qa-with-storage-executives
As we enter a new decade, the amount and diversity of data is growing at an unprecedented pace. The storage industry ecosystem is working together to support this influx of data and emerging workloads with new paradigms in infrastructure, architectures and devices.
Tomi Engdahl says:
PCs get work-from-home bump
Rather than using Intel chips, Apple will be making its own chips for its Mac computers, using Arm cores, Bloomberg reports. TSMC will manufacture the chips.
Apple Aims to Sell Macs With Its Own Chips Starting in 2021
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/apple-aims-to-sell-macs-with-its-own-chips-starting-in-2021
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intel, meanwhile, was up 14% quarter year-over-year its PC business, which it attributes to more people working from home and needed new equipment. Despite a strong quarter, however, the company pulled its 2020 forecast because the COVID-19 pandemic is generating too much uncertainty to be confident about the latter part of 2020.
https://www.intc.com/investor-relations/investor-education-and-news/investor-news/press-release-details/2020/Intel-Reports-First-Quarter-2020-Financial-Results/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Market research firm IC Insights warns that its latest forecast sees IC market growth contracting by 4% in 2020, with shipments declining by 3%. If the prediction is correct, it would be the only back-to-back annual IC unit shipment decline in the history of the IC industry, the firm says. Earlier this month, Gartner indicated a 0.9% decline in semiconductor revenue for 2020, buoyed somewhat by high memory revenue growth.
https://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/IC-Unit-Shipments-Forecast-To-Display-FirstEver-BacktoBack-Decline/
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-04-09-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-semiconductor-revenue-to-0
Tomi Engdahl says:
Select foundries are beginning to ramp up their new 5nm processes with 3nm in R&D. There are already signs that the foundries have pushed out their 3nm production schedules. So, expect 7nm and 5nm to become long-running nodes.
At 3nm, Samsung and TSMC are going in different directions. Samsung is developing a gate-all-around (GAA) technology called nanosheet FETs. TSMC will extend today’s finFETs to 3nm and will introduce gate-all-around later.
Both technologies were due out later this year or next.
https://semiengineering.com/5-3nm-wars-begin/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://semiengineering.com/week-in-review-manufacturing-test-94/
Select foundries are beginning to ramp up their new 5nm processes with 3nm in R&D. There are already signs that the foundries have pushed out their 3nm production schedules. So, expect 7nm and 5nm to become long-running nodes.
Meanwhile, work is well underway for the 2nm node and beyond, but there are numerous challenges as well as some uncertainty on the horizon.
https://semiengineering.com/making-chips-at-3nm-and-beyond/
Tomi Engdahl says:
GitHub is now free for teams
https://github.blog/2020-04-14-github-is-now-free-for-teams/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google said to be preparing its own chips for use in Pixel phones and Chromebooks
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/14/google-said-to-be-preparing-its-own-chips-for-use-in-pixel-phones-and-chromebooks/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pilvi on useimmille liian hajanainen ja monimutkainen
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/10708-pilvi-on-useimmille-liian-hajanainen-ja-monimutkainen
Yritykset ovat viime vuosina siirtyneet vauhdilla paikallisista it-järjestelmistä pilvipohjaisiin ratkaisuihin, mutta tarjolla on liian paljon erilaisia vaihtoehtoja ja arkkitehtuureita. Dell Technologiesin ja Intelin teettämässä globaalissa tutkimuksessa havaittiin, että monet organisaatiot eivät saa pilvipalveluista hyötyä, koska ne investoivat samaan aikaan sekä julkiseen pilveen että paikalliseen it-infrastruktuuriin.
Maailmanlaajuisen tutkimuksen mukaan vain 5 prosenttia organisaatioista on pystynyt merkittävästi yhdenmukaistamaan pilveen levittäytyvän it-infrastruktuurinsa hallintaa. Tutkimusyhtiö Enterprise Strategy Groupin toteuttaman tutkimuksen tulokset ovat huolestuttavia, kun otetaan huomioon, että lähes kaksi kolmasosaa (64 prosenttia) organisaatioista kertoi viime vuonna lisäävänsä investointejaan julkisiin pilvipalveluihin.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Cloud Complexity
Imperative
data comfiguration
Why Organizations Must Unify and Simplify
the Management of Their Sprawling
Multi-cloud Environments
https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/cloud/esg-cloud-complexity-imperative/index.htm
Tomi Engdahl says:
Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing
A growing suite of tools allows teams of researchers to work collectively to edit scientific documents.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00916-6?utm_source=fbk_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf232261823=1
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hiq.fi/ajankohtaista/mita-ovat-hyperautomaatio-ja-hyperautomaatioalusta/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=spons%20campaing&utm_campaign=hyperautomaatio
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tutkimuslaitos Gartner ennustaa hyperautomaation olevan teknologiatrendi numero yksi vuonna 2020. Mitä tuo termi hyperautomaatio sitten tarkoittaa?
Automaatiosta puhuttaessa viime aikoina on ohjelmistorobotiikka (RPA) ollut kovasti tapetilla ja me kokeneet integraattorit olemme hieman hämmästelleet vanhan kunnon automaation saamaa huomioarvoa ja hypeä. Onhan prosesseja automatisoitu jo yli 30 vuotta ja robotiikan tarjoamat nauhoitukset eivät ole se automaation ykkösteknologia, vaan enemmänkin laastari tapaukseen, missä järjestelmäintegraatio ei esimerkiksi kunnon rajapintojen puutteessa onnistu.
https://hiq.fi/ajankohtaista/mita-ovat-hyperautomaatio-ja-hyperautomaatioalusta/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=spons%20campaing&utm_campaign=hyperautomaatio
Tomi Engdahl says:
I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration
https://www.confluent.io/ebook/i-heart-logs-event-data-stream-processing-and-data-integration/?utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ch.paidsocial_tp.prs_tgt.arc-persona-fb_rgn.emea_lgn.eng_con.ihl&creative=ihl2
Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent and co-creator of Apache Kafka, shows you how logs work in distributed systems, and provide practical applications of these concepts in a variety of common use cases.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Send Notifications Directly to Your RGB Keyboard
https://www.hackster.io/news/send-notifications-directly-to-your-rgb-keyboard-89d1a565a3f0
This keyboard flashes a different color for alerts, which is done by using Windows VR, Wireshark, isolating LED commands, and HIDAPI.
Tomi Engdahl says:
A Node Too Far?
Planar scaling is running out of steam, even if it’s technologically possible.
https://semiengineering.com/a-node-too-far/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intel: Tiger Lake Client CPUs Coming Mid-Year
by Ryan Smith on April 24, 2020 10:00 AM EST
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15748/intel-tiger-lake-client-cpus-coming-midyear
Along with detailing the nuts and the bolts of their Q1 2020 earnings, as part of Intel’s financial presentation, the company also offered a quick update on their upcoming Tiger Lake client CPUs. In short, the company is now preparing for volume production of the chips, and expects to being shipping them to OEMs mid-year.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Khronos Announces OpenCL 3.0: Hitting the Reset Button on Compute Frameworks
by Ryan Smith on April 27, 2020 6:00 AM EST
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15746/opencl-30-announced-hitting-reset-on-compute-frameworks
Standing over this landscape for most of that last decade and a half as been OpenCL, Khronos’s open framework for programming GPUs and other compute accelerators. Originally birthed by Apple and broadly adopted by the industry as a whole, OpenCL was the first (and still most coherent) effort to create a common API for parallel programming. By taking lessons from the early vendor-proprietary efforts and assembling a broader standard that everyone could use, OpenCL has been adopted for everything from embedded processors and DSPs up to GPUs that push half a kilowatt in power consumption.
Tomi Engdahl says:
UEFI the right to cloud security: Google makes shielded VMs its default cloudy option
As Azure adds Intel’s much-probed SGX to its confidential zone
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/28/google_makes_shielded_vms_default/
Google’s decided UEFI the right to secure cloud VMs, by making its Shielded VMs the default option in its cloud.
The cloud dabbler introduced Shielded VMs as an option in mid-2018. The VMs use a virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) and UEFI firmware to make it hard to sneak in malicious firmware, dud drivers, rootkits and other nasties that could mess up a VM as it launches.
Now Google has made shielded VMs the default in its IaaS service, provided you’re running newer cuts of CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, RHEL, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu and Windows Server. Google has also put shielded VMs beneath Cloud SQL, GKE, Kaggle and its Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory.
Migration of UEFI-based VMs from your premises to o Shielded VMs in GCE has also been enabled.
Tomi Engdahl says:
IFTLE 448: Impact of Package Pitch on PCB Fabrication
https://www.3dincites.com/2020/04/iftle-448-impact-of-package-pitch-on-pcb-fabrication/
The April issue of PCB Circuit Design and Fab / Circuits Assembly contains an interesting article by Todd MacFaddan, of Bose, entitled “BGA Pitch Impact on Bare Board Fabrication Detailing the Impact of Package Complexity on PCB Complexity.”
We all know that high IO packaging has evolved from peripheral IO to area array, and from ball grid arrays (BGAs) to chip-scale package (CSPs), wafer-level CSP, and flip-chips, defined by a steady march toward smaller balls at a finer pitch
Array pitch has profound implications for the PCB industry, which must continually develop newer methods to route every coming generation of high-I/O packages with increasingly finer pitch. In fact, it is argued by the author that the pitch of array packages has been the most important driver in PCB technology developments, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. As area array package pitch continues to shrink to accommodate chip density, the number of PCB suppliers with the capability to fabricate PCBs to support these finer pitches decreases
Laser Drilling
With pitch < 0.4mm, it is generally not possible to route between pads. Therefore, via-in-pad is required to escape inner array pins to inner layers. A 0.3mm pitch array typically requires a 75µm via, which is often the lower limit of most conventional CO2 lasers. Below 0.3mm pitch, smaller holes are needed, which generally require UV lasers which, while more accurate and cleaner, are slower and thus more costly. In addition, there are reliability concerns with stacked µvias 75µm and smaller, particularly when stacked four or more high they are reportedly much more susceptible to pad lifting during reflow processing and suffer premature failure.
The non-homogeneity of standard PCB laminate materials yields rough, inconsistent laser-drilled holes with poor size and location accuracy. Resin-coated copper (RCC) which does not use fiberglass, was developed to solve this problem. While RCC materials dramatically improved laser drill quality they were expensive, difficult to handle, and had poor dimensional stability, thus they are no longer common. More recently alternate fiberglass materials with a flattened weave pattern have been developed to facilitate consistent hole shape and accuracy during laser drill, without changing the resin-glass ratio making the creation of small µvias possible
Stack-up
Because there is insufficient space to route conductors between interior pads of fine-pitch arrays, µvias must be used for routing these rows to inner layers
With traditional high-density interconnect (HDI) construction, the core layer is usually a fully cured rigid copper-clad laminate and forms structural support during fabrication. But with any layer technology, there is no traditional “core” layer for support, and the thin starting layers are fragile and not compatible with conventional processes. Any layer technology, therefore, requires suppliers to invest in specialized processes and equipment to fabricate coreless stack-ups and thin buildup layers, such as horizontal etching, vertical continuous plating, automated loading/unloading robots and other techniques to minimize processing and handling damage.
Patterning
<0.3mm pitch devices typically requires interconnect line widths below 60 to 75µm which in turn generally require laser direct imaging (LDI) because standard photo tools introduce too much variation due to alignment and resolution imperfections. Additive processes must be used for such ultra-fine lines. The most common type is modified semi-additive patterning. In this process, dry film is used to mask non-pattern areas, and the desired conductor pattern is exposed to electroplating. Thus, the pattern is built up rather than etched down.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78B in Q1, driven by “significant growth” in Google Cloud Platform and “ongoing strong growth” in G Suite — Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78 billion in the first quarter, helping Google parent Alphabet beat Wall …
Google Cloud revenue rises 52% as crisis forces tech giant to temper hiring and spending
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/google-cloud-revenue-rises-50-tech-giant-tempers-hiring-spending-plans-amid-crisis/
Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78 billion in the first quarter, helping Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations even as the company’s broader advertising business struggled amid the economic downturn.
The cloud division includes Google Cloud Platform as well as its G Suite productivity and collaboration tools and other cloud services for businesses, some of which have seen a surge in usage as people around the world work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Google’s Meet teleconferencing service now adding about 3 million users per day
That’s up from two million per day earlier this month
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21240434/google-meet-three-million-users-per-day-pichai-earnings
Google’s Meet teleconferencing service is now adding about 3 million users per day, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on the company’s first quarter earnings call. That’s up quite a bit from earlier this month — Google had said that more than 2 million new users were were connecting on the service every day as of April 9th. Meet’s significant growth is likely driven by increased usage of the service as schools and workplaces have had to host classes and meetings online while at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To encourage organizations to use Meet, which is part of Google’s G Suite productivity apps, Google rolled out free access to some advanced features of Meet on March 3rd and said it would be extending free access to those features until September 30th on April 9th. Google is also adding new features to Meet to help it better compete with rivals like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, including a Zoom-like gallery view and background noise cancelation. Meet’s 100 million daily users is lower than Zoom’s 300 million daily users, however.
Tomi Engdahl says:
15 Sensor Techs Turn Users into Superheroes
Tech enhancements to the 5 basic sensors give people superhero powers.
https://www.designnews.com/sensors/15-sensor-techs-turn-users-superheroes?ADTRK=InformaMarkets&elq_mid=13014&elq_cid=876648
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coders, Software Engineers Find Work with Right Skills
Not all markets have been crushed by coronavirus but it’s still important to pick the right skill set.
https://www.designnews.com/design-hardware-software/coders-software-engineers-find-work-right-skills/111929773962868?ADTRK=InformaMarkets&elq_mid=13014&elq_cid=876648
While the national economy has plummeted with over 22 million Americans filing for unemployment, certain job markets are still hiring. Software engineers and programmers are in demand, especially in Silicon Valley. During this time of national quarantine, now might be a good time to learn a new software language or brush up on your coding skills.
High-tech Silicon Valley favorites such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple are looking to hire thousands of software-skilled professionals, according to job listings on CareerBuilder, Linkedin and specific company sites. Job positions are open engineers, data scientists, software designers, and cybersecurity experts. In general, the next most popular listings are for specific language software developers and project managers, followed by systems engineers and IT help desk specialists.
13 Engineering Jobs in Top Demand
While plenty of engineering jobs have been slashed since the COVID-19 lockdown, many engineering jobs are even more in demand.
https://www.designnews.com/automation-motion-control/13-engineering-jobs-top-demand?ADTRK=InformaMarkets&elq_mid=13014&elq_cid=876648
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung’s Q1 operating profit up 3.4 pct on strong server chip demand
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200429001300320
Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its first-quarter operating profit rose 3.43 percent compared with a year ago as robust demand for chips offset a slump in home appliance and display panel sales amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Its sales rose 5.61 percent on-year to 55.3 trillion won in the first quarter, but net profit declined 3.15 percent to 4.8 trillion won over the cited period.
Samsung’s solid performance was led by its semiconductor business as increased demand for server chips used for data centers and steady rise of memory chip prices helped the company stay afloat amid the novel coronavirus crisis.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Long after Linux, Windows Server Containers finally arrive on Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service
Generally available, but will never reach parity with Linux on Kubernetes
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/29/windows_server_containers_azure_kubernetes/
Microsoft’s Windows Server Containers is now generally available on its Azure Kubernetes Service, three years after AKS’s launch.
AKS was introduced in 2017, as a replacement for the Azure Container Service for Kubernetes that was itself only launched the previous year. These services were for Linux containers only, even though Windows Server Containers have existed since the release of Windows Server 2016.
There have been other ways to run Windows containers on Azure, including Azure Container Instances and Web App for Containers, or for large-scale applications Service Fabric. Service Fabric is Microsoft’s home-grown microservices platform and is baked deeply into Azure, running foundational services like Azure Active Directory.
Kubernetes is the industry standard though, originally developed by Google and designed for Linux.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints
Who said open-source alternatives? Haha, no one here said it, you must have imagined it
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/29/arm_flexible_access_startups/
Arm hopes to entice early-stage chip-designing startups into licensing its blueprints – by slashing the cost of entry to zero.
If your organization has bagged less than $5m (£4m) in funding, Arm will let you pick CPU and GPU cores, and other technologies, from a selection of its blueprints and drop them into the homegrown chip you’re working on without paying any upfront costs – though you will have to pay a license fee once you’ve decided on the intellectual property you want to use, and then pay a per-chip royalty.
So, say you’re working on a system-on-chip for some product, and you’re a hard-up upstart with minimal funding. You contact Arm, you get access to the catalog of blueprints for free. You pick a CPU core to run your firmware code, some interconnects to join everything up, and some basic on-die peripherals because you’re too lazy or busy to define a UART and SPI in SystemVerilog. You drop the blocks into your system-on-chip around your custom logic and workload acceleration, and verify and prototype it ahead of production. When ready, you license the tech from Arm by getting your checkbook out. You tape out the chip, fabricate, test, and ship it, and pay royalties to Arm.
Arm Flexible Access for Startups: Fast, Cost-efficient Route to Market for New Innovators
https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/arm-flexible-access-for-startups
Arm champions success of early stage startups with zero-dollar access to the world’s most widely-deployed chip technology
Tomi Engdahl says:
Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink
World crosses fingers
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/28/hp_ink_officejet_drm/
One man’s effort to sue HP Inc for preventing his printers from working and forcing him to use its own branded, and more expensive, ink cartridges can move forward in California.
Florida man John Parziale was furious when he discovered in April last year that HP had automatically updated his two printers so they would no longer accept ink cartridges from third-party vendors – cartridges he had already bought and installed.
That month, HP emitted a remote firmware update, without alerting users, that changed the communication protocol between a printer’s chipset and the electronics in its inkjet cartridges so that only HP-branded kit was accepted. The result was that Parziale’s printer would no longer work with his third-party ink. He saw a series of error messages that said he needed to replace empty cartridges and that there was a “cartridge problem.”
Parziale sued the IT titan in its home state of California, arguing he would never have bought the HP printers if he knew they would only work with HP-branded ink cartridges. At the time, the cartridges he bought to go with the machine did in fact work and were printing merrily right up to the point the DRM-style update was sent.
HP asks customers to “please use genuine HP ink cartridges for best results,” though Parziale decided he would forego the “best results” to save money. He bought nine cartridges, none of which work any longer.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Past three months were a rollercoaster for Microsoft: Ad spending down, PCs and gaming flat, cloud climbing amid work-from-home demand
COVID-19 had ‘minimal net impact’ on sales, Windows giant claims
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/30/microsoft_2020_q3/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebook defers $3bn of infrastructure spend because it’s hard to build bit barns when you’re working from home
The Social Network™ is predictably busy but says that won’t last
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/30/facebook_q1_2020/
Facebook will defer $3bn of spending on infrastructure because it’s hard to build data centres while working from home.
The Social Network™ had planned to spend $17-$19bn on infrastructure – data centers, servers, office buildings and network infrastructure – during 2020. It now expects the bill will come in between $14bn and $16bn.
“This reduction reflects a significant decrease in our construction efforts related to shelter-in-place orders”, investors were told, told.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Lenovo Will Start Offering ThinkPads With Linux Pre-Installed (
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/04/29/1859228/lenovo-will-start-offering-thinkpads-with-linux-pre-installed?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29
The world’s biggest PC company (in terms of shipments) now offers select models with Linux pre-installed. In doing so, it joins the existing club that includes Dell and other smaller players like Purism, ZaReason, and System76.
https://www.techspot.com/news/85020-lenovo-start-offering-thinkpads-linux-pre-installed.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
In the cloud, who can hear your developers scream?
Snyk wants to keep your software engineering teams safe in off-prem environments
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/30/who_can_hear_developers_scream/
Like children flying the family nest, applications and services are leaving the on-premises corporate environment – and they’re not even coming back so you can do their washing.
One of the core features of the ever-topical “digital transformation” trend is business infrastructure that’s less about centralized servers and data centres, and more about endpoints typically managed remotely via a cloud provider.
It can be tricky to secure all these distributed systems and services. If your developers are working within a growing number of complex coding, testing, and operations environments, for instance, there’s a lot of moving parts to track and protect.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Big Blue: ‘We don’t participate in IBM’s culture. It’s that simple’
Paul Cormier talks hybrid cloud growth and independence with El Reg
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/30/red_hat_ceo_interview_ibm/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Interview Red Hat’s new CEO is feeling confident. It’s a pretty good time to be the head of a company whose entire business is virtual: virtual machines, hybrid cloud, operating system support, Kubernetes containers. These are boom times.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/30/red_hat_ceo_interview_ibm/
Tomi Engdahl says:
LabVIEW ilmaiseksi ei-kaupallisiin projekteihin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/10721-labview-ilmaiseksi-ei-kaupallisiin-projekteihin
NI:n LabVIEW on yksi käytetyimpiä automatisoitujen mittaus- ja testijärjestelmien graafisia kehitysympäristöjä.
Sekä LabVIEW´stä että LabVIEW NXG:stä on tuotu tarjolla omat Community Edition -versionsa. Ilmaisversiot tarjoavat samat ominaisuudet kuin lisenssiversiot. Ne sisältävät päivitetyn version LINX-työkalupakista, jonka avulla harrastelijatkin voivat liittää LabVIEW-projektinsa esimerkiksi suosituille Arduino-, Raspberry Pi- ja BeagleBoards-korteille.
LabVIEW-yhteisöversiot korvaavat myös keskiasteen oppilaitosten LabVIEW´n. LabVIEW NXG:n ilmaisversio sisältää myös LabVIEW NXG Web Module -sovelluksen, jonka avulla käyttäjät, joilla on vähän tai ei lainkaan web-kehitystyötä, voivat luoda web-sovelluksia. Hyödyntämällä ohjelmiston graafista ohjelmointikieltä he voivat luoda LabVIEW-sovelluksia, jotka toimivat kokonaan web-selaimessa ilman erillisiä ohjelmistoja.
Tomi Engdahl says:
In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars
https://tcrn.ch/3fbtPcz
As we look at the most recent quarter’s earnings reports for the main players in the market, it seems the pandemic and economic fall out has done little to slow that down. In fact, it may be contributing to its growth.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google and Microsoft are giving away enterprise conferencing tools due to coronavirus
Though the free access is for a limited time
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163744/google-microsoft-free-access-coronavirus-google-hangouts-meet-teams
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ohjelmistokehityksen kätevät työkalut – koodaaminen ja työpajat sujuvat nyt etänä
https://www.dna.fi/yrityksille/blogi/-/blogs/ohjelmistokehityksen-katevat-tyokalut-koodaaminen-ja-tyopajat-sujuvat-nyt-etana?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=linkad&utm_content=artikkeli_ohjelmistokehityksen_katevat_tyokalut_koodaaminen_ja_tyopajat_sujuvat_nyt_etana&utm_campaign=all_kampanja_teknologiateollisuus-toimialakampanja_20
Etätyö ei ole ohjelmistotalojen väelle uusi asia, mutta poikkeustilanne muutti etänä tehtäväksi myös säännölliset scrum-tilaisuudet sekä suunnittelutyön, joka normaalisti tehtäisiin lappuleikkinä asiakkaan ja muiden sidosryhmien kanssa.
1. Verkossa toimiva valkotaulu
Miro tuo postit-lappujen täyteiset valkotaulut virtuaaliseen ympäristöön.
2. Virtuaalinen työtila tiimille
Confluence on firman sisäinen wiki ja töiden seurannan väline samassa paketissa.
3. Etäkoodauksen pelastus
Pilvessä sijaitsevien työkalujen avulla koodaajat pääsevät edistämään samaa koodia yhdessä reaaliaikaisesti. Ohjelmistosta myös näkee, kuka on muuttanut mitäkin kohtaa. Tekniikka & Talous listasi hiljattain lukuisia etäkoodauksen mahdollistavia työkaluja: AWS Cloud9, Codeanywhere, CodeSandbox, Codeshare, Floobits, Teletype ja Microsoftin Visual Studio Live Share.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone
https://www.blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-meet-to-more-people/
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3 Ways Chiplets Are Remaking Processors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/3-ways-chiplets-are-remaking-processors
Want more computing power in your processor? Add more silicon. But complexity and cost are starting to erode that maxim.
“The absolute die size has been going up relentlessly over time and is trending to bump into” the limit of what chipmaking equipment can produce
The combined squeeze of rising costs and ever-larger chip sizes is leading to a solution in which processors are made up of collections of smaller, less-expensive-to-produce chiplets bound together by high-bandwidth connections within a single package. At ISSCC, AMD, Intel, and the French research organization CEA-Leti showed how far this scheme can go.
The CEA-Leti processor stacks six 16-core chiplets on top of an “active interposer,” made of a thin sliver of silicon, to create a 96-core processor.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Memories” – 256 byte MSDOS intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/digital-hoarders-our-terabytes-are-put-to-use-for-the-betterment-of-mankind/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Get a Minecraft Server and Metric Reporting Up on Your Raspberry Pi Cluster
With a 15-minute Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster at his disposal, Max Gabrielsson set up a Minecraft server — with full metric reporting.
https://www.hackster.io/news/get-a-minecraft-server-and-metric-reporting-up-on-your-raspberry-pi-cluster-2e4c929ad6af
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Perfect Code – Computerphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPoQfKQlOjg
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Forbidden C++
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_u26Vpb4w
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N0VdOy3c6Ro6TXBYv8yUn2PVjbiMZdR3aXI1BLi9Dr0/mobilebasic
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Novel Annealing Processor Is the Best Ever at Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/japanese-researchers-develop-a-novel-annealing-processor-thats-the-fastest-technology-yet-at-solving-combinatorial-optimization-problems
During the past two years, IEEE Spectrum has spotlighted several new approaches to solving combinatorial optimization problems, particularly Fujitsu’s Digital Annealer and more recently Toshiba’s Simulated Bifurcation Algorithm. Now, researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, with help from colleagues at Hitachi, Hokkaido University, and the University of Tokyo, have engineered a new annealer architecture to deal with this kind of task that has proven too taxing for conventional computers to deal with.
Dubbed STATICA (Stochastic Cellular Automata Annealer Architecture), the processor is designed to take on challenges such as portfolio, logistic, and traffic flow optimization when they are expressed in the form of Ising models.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Seitsemän digitaalisen hukan sudenkuoppaa
https://www.anders.com/fi/blogi/seitseman-digitaalisen-hukan-sudenkuoppaa/?utm_campaign=Digital%20sustainability%20kampanjat&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_term=remark-campaign
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Moving away from GMail
https://rolisz.ro/2020/04/11/moving-away-from-gmail/
Why leave GMail?
First and foremost, because it’s a single point of failure, which can fail due to many unrelated problems. Because my GMail address is my Google account basically, if for whatever reason I lose my GMail address, I lose all the things I have in my Google account: Google Drive, Google Photos, Play Store purchases, YouTube uploads and history, Google Calendar data and so on. While some of these can be backed up, such as Drive, Photos and YouTube, some cannot be, for example all the apps and movies I have purchased over the years.
But my GMail address can be lost for many reasons, many unrelated to GMail itself. I guess you can get the address suspended for spamming or doing other things, I’m not particularly worried about that. However, ToS violations of any kind, across other Google products, can lead to a ban on your account and implicitly, on your GMail address.
There are many examples: reselling Pixel phones, writing too many emojis in YouTube chat, for publishing “repetitive content” in the Play Store. If you search on DuckDuckGo, I’m sure you can find many other examples.
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AWS hits $10B for the quarter putting it on a $40B run rate
https://tcrn.ch/2yZUyIw
Still, most companies would take that for the entire business, but AWS, which started off as kind of a side hustle for Amazon back in 2006, has grown into a powerful business all on its own. With a growth rate of 33%, it’s still growing briskly, even if it’s slowing down a bit as the law of large numbers begins to work against it.
Even though Microsoft has grown more quickly — in yesterday’s report Microsoft reported that Azure was growing at a 59% clip — AWS had such a big head start and controls a big chunk of the market share.
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Microsoft shares rise after the tech giant posts 15% growth
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/29/microsoft-shares-rise-after-the-tech-giant-posts-15-growth/
Today Microsoft reported its third-quarter, fiscal 2020 quarter earnings, the period of time corresponding to Q1 2020 on the regular calendar.
The technology giant generated $35 billion in revenue, up 15% from the year-ago period. That top line led to $13 billion in operating income (+25% YoY), and $10.8 billion in net income (+22% YoY). Microsoft saw $1.40 in earnings per share in the quarter.