This year CES 2021 was a digital venue showed newest innovation in consumer electronics. It had some 1900 virtual booths, several peripheral product showcase.
Here are some links to reports on the event.
CES 2021 products you can actually buy this year
CES 2021: My Top 3 Gadgets of the Show—and 3 of the Weirdest
CES 2021: What Is Mini-LED TV?
CES 2021: A Countertop Chocolate Factory Could Be This Year’s Best Kitchen Gadget
Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO
AMD Opens Up Threadripper Pro: Three New WRX80 Motherboards
CES 2021: Consumer Electronics Makers Pivot to Everything Covid
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-milan-x-specifications-leak
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Tom Krazit / Protocol:
Cloudflare announces object storage service R2, running across its global network, and takes aim at AWS by forgoing data egress fees — Cloudflare is ready to launch a new cloud object storage service that promises to be cheaper than the established alternatives, a step the company believes …
Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince: ‘We’re aiming to be the fourth major public cloud’
https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloudflare-r2-storage-aws
With its new low-cost R2 cloud storage service, Cloudflare is jumping into direct competition with the AWS service that launched the cloud computing revolution.
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Why Amazon built a home robot
Available for $999, Astro is designed for home monitoring, eldercare and a portable Alexa experience
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/28/why-amazon-built-a-home-robot/?tpcc=ECFB2021
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft opens the Windows app store to third-party app stores; Amazon and Epic Games will add the first storefront apps in the coming months — Amazon and Epic Games Store will be the first to integrate into the Microsoft Store — Microsoft is opening up its own app store in Windows even further today …
Microsoft opens its Windows store up to third-party app stores
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/28/22698196/microsoft-store-third-party-app-stores-epic-games-amazon?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Amazon and Epic Games Store will be the first to integrate into the Microsoft Store
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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Amazon debuts Astro, a $1K short robot with an Echo Show-like 10″ display on top, meant to roam around the home; invite-only program is open for applications — In the fall of 1962, TV-watching audiences were invited to meet the Jetsons, a space-dwelling, flying-car-driving family from the future and their dog, Astro.
Say hello to Astro, Alexa on wheels
Amazon’s long-awaited home robot is here
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/28/22697244/amazon-astro-home-robot-hands-on-features-price?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Matthew Gault / VICE:
Internal docs detail Amazon’s Astro, including its use of facial recognition and “Sentry” mode; sources who worked on Astro say it is a “privacy nightmare” — Leaked meetings show the robot will heavily rely on facial recognition and user behavior, but sources who worked on Astro say the robot is flawed.
Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypp8/leaked-documents-amazon-astro-surveillance-robot-tracking
Leaked meetings show the robot will heavily rely on facial recognition and user behavior, but sources who worked on Astro say the robot is flawed.
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Amazon opens an invite-only program for its previously-announced $250 home surveillance drone, the Always Home Cam — Ring’s $250 Always Home Cam is real and ready to fly into your living room — First announced at last year’s Amazon hardware event, the Ring Always Home Cam is now ready for take-off.
Amazon is now accepting your applications for its home surveillance drone
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/28/22692048/ring-always-home-cam-drone-amazon-price-release-date-specs?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Ring’s $250 Always Home Cam is real and ready to fly into your living room
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Amazon’s Blink announces $50 Blink Video Doorbell, with Alexa integration, 1080p video, more, and a $130 solar-powered camera bundle and $140 flood light cam
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/28/22698612/amazon-blink-video-doorbell-outdoor-camera-floodlight-solar-panel?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Amazon announces the $60 Smart Thermostat in partnership with Honeywell, with preorders starting today
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/28/22692248/amazon-smart-thermostat-price-ambient-computer-alexa-preorder?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amazon unveils $250 Ring Alarm Pro with a built-in Eero network, package delivery alerts, and an optional Virtual Security Guard subscription
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/28/ring-debuts-virtual-security-guard-new-pro-alarm-system-and-smarter-motion-alerts-including-package-delivery/
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Amazon’s head of hardware Dave Limp underscores how Amazon’s new devices aid its push toward a future with “ambient intelligence”
Amazon’s race to create the disappearing computer
Ambient computing is here; now what?
https://www.theverge.com/22696187/amazon-alexa-ambient-disappearing-computer-limp-interview?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Here’s everything Amazon just announced: A home robot named Astro, a fitness band and more
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/amazon-event-2021-live-updates-amazons-set-to-announce-new-products.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
When a retail giant like #Amazon releases a home robot, of course, the robotics community should at least take notice. But this robot, #Astro, seems especially like a solution in search of a problem.
Amazon’s Astro Is a Mobile Alexa and Cup Holder that Costs $1k But what does it actually do?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-astro-robot
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Building a $50 DIY Synology NAS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M91zH9guFM
In this video we show you how to build your very own Synology NAS running DMS 6.1. This is a fairly simple process that will allow you to turn any old computer into a NAS running one of the best server operating systems around.
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https://www.linode.com/pricing/
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Valve is “not planning to disable downloading old builds” on Steam
https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/beta-rollback-update
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https://www.edn.com/building-three-pcs-power-formalities/
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Carolina Milanesi / Fast Company:
Amazon Astro review: impressive autonomous navigation skills, reasonable price for the tech, attractive design, but its daily utility is questionable
Life with Astro: What it’s like to use Amazon’s robot in your own home
In a two-week trial, Astro was surprisingly endearing and avoided hazards such as pets and stairs. But I still don’t know what I’d do with one.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90682103/amazon-astro-home-robot-hands-on
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PCIe6-standardi on teknisesti valmis
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12672-pcie6-standardi-on-teknisesti-valmis
PCI-SIG -järjestö on ilmoittanut, että tulevan PCIe 6.0 -standardin versio 0.9 on saatu valmiiksi. Kyse on ns. lopullisesta draftista eli tekniikka ei enää muutu ennen lopullista 1.0-määritystä. Lopullisen draftin mukaan liitännän nopeus kasvaa PCIe5:n 32 gigasiirrosta (gigatransfers per second) 64 gigasiirtoon eli kaksinkertaiseksi. X12-liitännän yli voidaan PCIe6-laitteissa siirtää dataa 128 gigatavua sekunnissa.
Standardin 0.9-version myötä yritykset voisivat periaatteessa tuoda markkinoille ”PCIe6-valmiita” laitteita. Tälle ei kuitenkaan ole kovin isoa kiirettä, sillä edeltävä PCIe5 on sekin vasta alkanut näkyä kaupallisissa laitteissa.
Esimerkiksi kuluttajien läppäreihin PCIe5 ei ole vielä ehtinyt, eikä ehdikään ennen kuin Intel ja AMD julkistavat omat PCIe5-tekniikkaan tukevat prosessorinsa.
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Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake K-series CPUs Arrive At Amazon Overseas
By Zhiye Liu 12 days ago
More pricing disparities
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-12th-gen-alder-lake-k-series-cpus-amazon-netherlands
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What to expect from Apple, Google and Samsung’s big events
Macs, Pixels and whatever Samsung is cooking up
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/16/what-to-expect-from-apple-google-and-samsungs-big-events/
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Alibaba unveils custom ARM-based server chip for cloud computing data centers
https://www.reuters.com/technology/alibaba-unveils-custom-arm-based-server-chip-cloud-computing-division-2021-10-19/
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Seuraavan polven grafiikkakortit ovat 600 watin hirmuja
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12738-seuraavan-polven-grafiikkakortit-ovat-600-watin-hirmuja
Tehokkaimmat erillisgrafiikkakortit ovat aina olleet todellisia tehosyöppöjä. Uuden PCIe 5.0-tuen myötä korttien maksimitehonkulutus nousee kuitenkin aivan uudelle tasolle. Tämä näkyy myös liittimissä, joiden täytyy tukea jopa 600 watin tehonsyöttöä grafiikkaa näytölle piirtäville GPU-prosessoreille.
Esimerkiksi Nvidian tämän hetken tehokkain kortti on RTX 3080. Sen tehonkulutus nousee parhaimmillaan – tai heikoimmillaan, miten vain – 350 wattiin. PCIe5-väylää pitkin pitää kuitenkin siirtää paljon enemmän sekä bittejä että energiaa.
Liitinvalmistaja Amphenol on jo esitellyt PCIe5-liittimen, jonka spekseistä tulevat vaatimukset käyvät ilmi. Jokainen nasta tukee valmistajan mukaan jopa 9,5 ampeerin siirtoa. Kun uudella Minitek-CEM5-liittimellä on 12 nastaa tehonsiirtoon nykyliittimien tavoin, nousee maksimivirtamäärä liittimessä 55,2 ampeeriin.
Liitin tukee näin 662,4 watin maksiminimellistehoa. Käytännössä puhutaan 600 watin tehonsyötöstä grafiikkakortille. CEM5-liittimessä on neljä uutta nastaa, jotka on varattu datanlinjoille.
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Will Python Kill VBA in 2021?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh6FLhgPxbc
Will Python Kill VBA in 2021?
Python has become very popular in the last few years. It is often used with Excel instead of VBA. In this video I take a look at Python and see how it compare to VBA. The videos cover the following:
* A Brief history of Python and VBA
* What are Python and VBA used for?
* Writing Code – Python vs VBA
* Filter data with a few lines of Python
* Running Python from Excel
* 3 Simple Pros of using Visual Studio to write Code
* Installing Python applications on other machines
* Pros and Cons of Python
* Will Python Kill VBA?
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Nyt tuli Intelin vastaus Applelle
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12760-nyt-tuli-intelin-vastaus-applelle
Intel on esitellyt kauan odotetut 12. sukupolven Core-prosessorinsa. Koodinimellä Alder Lake tunnetut piirit ovat monella tapaa uraauurtavia Intelin roadmapissa. Applen tuoreen prosessorijulkistuksen jälkeen piirejä verrataan väistämättä uusia Macbookien prosessoreihin.
Eilen illalla Intel julkisti kuusi ensimmäistä 12. polven Core-suoritinta. Niihin kuuluu ”maailman paras peliprosessori”, kuten Intel uutuuksien lippulaivaa eli i9-12900K-sirua kutsuu. Siinä on 16 ydintä ja se kykenee ajamaan 24 säiettä rinnakkain. Edeltäjään (i9-11900K) verrattuna Intel lupaa pelaajille 23-28 prosenttia enemmän kehyksiä sekunnissa (FPS) pelistä riippuen.
Prosessorit tukevat odotetusto sekä DDR5-muisteja että PCIe5-liitäntää oheislaitteille. Langattomia yhteyksiä on paranneltu WiFi6- ja 6E-tuella, jonka Intel on brändännyt nimellä Intel Killer Wi-Fi. Thunderbolt 4 -tukikin löytyy.
Intel Unveils 12th Gen Intel Core, Launches World’s Best Gaming Processor, i9-12900K
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/12th-gen-core-processors.html#gs.ew6mti
12th Gen Intel Core Family will include 60 processors and more than 500 designs, leading with enthusiast desktop.
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Ensimmäinen PCIe6-testipiiri pääsi piille
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12757-ensimmaeinen-pcie6-testipiiri-paeaesi-piille
Moni odottaa nyt vesi kielellä ensimmäisiä PCI Express 5.0 -tekniikkaa tukevia läppäreitä, mutta yritysten katse on jo seuraavassa PCIe-sukupolvessa. EDA-ja IP-yritys Cadence Design Systems kertoo, että sen PCIe6-liitännän PHY-osa on viety piille TSMC:n viiden nanometrin N5-prosessissa.
IP:n saaminen piille on aina tärkeä etappi, kun uutta tekniikkaa yritetään saada valmistettavaan kuntoon. Cadencen mukaan TSMC:n valmistama testipiiri on erittäin lupaava, sillä se vastaa uuden standardin vaatimuksiin.
Testipiiri koostu DSP-pohjaisesta PHY-osasta sekä ohjaimesta. Piirin sähköiset ominaisuudet toimivat erinomaisesti kaikilla PCIe-nopeuksilla. Signaloinnista huolehtiva PAM4/NRZ-lähetinosa tuotti eheää, symmetristä signaalia, jonka värinä oli erittäin alhainen.
Testipiirin PCIe6-linkki kesti häiriöitä ja kanavahäviöitä 35 desibelin verran, kun dataa siirrettiin 64 gigatavua sekunnissa. Cadencen ohjainpiirin tehtävä on huolehtia mahdollisimman suuresta datansiirtonopeudella mahdollisimman pienellä latenssilla.
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Dell spins off its 81% stake in VMware, creating a $64B independent software company; Dell’s remaining hardware operations have an implied value of $33B — Share sale completes eight-year saga that will unwind part of the 2018 deal for server and storage company EMC
https://www.ft.com/content/3ca808da-d0a7-4f42-98c4-b49745289616
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Politico:
Industry and government officials say Gaia-X, a project to reduce the EU’s cloud dependency on US tech giants, is clogged by infighting and bloated bureaucracy — The initiative, meant to boost Europe’s cloud services, is failing to fix the problems it was intended to solve.
Inside Gaia-X: How chaos and infighting are killing Europe’s grand cloud project
https://www.politico.eu/article/chaos-and-infighting-are-killing-europes-grand-cloud-project/
The initiative, meant to boost Europe’s cloud services, is failing to fix the problems it was intended to solve.
Just over a year ago, senior French and German ministers trumpeted the birth of Gaia-X — a cloud data project that they promised would help Europe regain its “digital sovereignty” in the face of dominant foreign players like Amazon and Google.
Gaia-X would be a key tool for allowing Europeans to “assert ourselves in the world,” German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said at the June 2020 unveiling, flanked by French counterpart Bruno Le Maire.
Yet sixteen months later, Gaia-X is turning into a cautionary tale about the EU’s tech ambitions, and how internal divisions can end up throttling high-profile projects even if they have the backing of the bloc’s most powerful countries.
In conversations with POLITICO, more than a dozen industry and government officials involved with the work of Gaia-X said the project was struggling to get off the ground amid infighting between corporate members, disagreement over its overall aims and a bloated bureaucratic structure that is delaying decisions. One industry official closely involved in the work of Gaia-X called it a “mess.”
Among the examples of dysfunction, insiders pointed to a successful attempt by a French board member to wrest control over a key function for Gaia-X — communicating with governments — from its chief executive, as well as a long delay in agreeing on ground rules on data storage due to disagreement between the project’s members about its basic rules.
“The pure intent of Gaia-X is unlikely to be achieved,” said Yann Lechelle, CEO of French cloud provider Scaleway, which is a member of Gaia-X.
The lack of progress for Europe’s cloud agenda has caused alarm at the highest level of government. French President Emmanuel Macron said in October that Europe was “very late” with its sovereign cloud plans. At a September summit for the French hub of Gaia-X, the country’s digital minister Cédric O told participants to “go faster” because they held “in [their] hands … no more no less than a part of France’s digital sovereignty.”
The bloc’s cloud industry is seen as a crucial element to regain control over Europe’s industrial and personal data. But with change being too slow, it will likely remain reliant on foreign companies and exposed to the reach of Washington through extraterritorial laws like the U.S. CLOUD Act, which allow the U.S. government to requisition European data held by U.S. companies.
Too many cooks
Gaia-X was initially hailed as a groundbreaking project that common rules to create European cloud services, and a marketplace to exchange data on conditions that “European values” on data protection, cybersecurity and data processing be respected.
Initially, the initiative made quick progress. In less than a year, the alliance, which was established as a nonprofit in 2021, elected a new board, mushroomed from two dozen to more than 320 member organizations, launched dozens of national hubs across Europe and kicked off work for several committees to write technical and policy rules. It’s making some progress in designing schemes that help cloud users in Europe understand cloud offerings and switch from providers.
But now critics say the alliance has lost its focus. It regularly postpones deadlines for important updates, creates new groups that many find superfluous and doesn’t keep members informed of the latest developments.
“There’s too many cooks in the kitchen,” said Frank Karlitschek, German entrepreneur and founder of NextCloud, which is a Gaia-X member. “It’s already become clear that it’s difficult to find a consensus between everybody.”
‘These guys were dominant’
Industry and governments believed that Gaia-X would give back control over Europe’s data and infrastructure to its firms and lawmakers.
But people involved with the project soon began to ask similar questions to those working on microchips, artificial intelligence and 5G: Can Europe limit foreign companies’ access to its market, research, talents and services? Should it?
The cloud alliance in April took in non-European firms including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Palantir, Huawei, and Alibaba as full members, triggering worries that these large American and Chinese companies could water down new rules or influence the initiative to benefit them rather than Europe’s own interests.
To keep Gaia-X broadly European, the group empowered its board members, who would have to have their headquarters in Europe. But U.S. cloud giants and other foreign firms still remain deeply involved in the group’s work on crucial issues like how providers should allow users to take their data to a competing service.
“There are limits to what American companies can do regarding voting rights, and the association, but these are just the small things. They’re still part of the working groups,” said Karlitschek, of NextCloud.
A Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that “GAIA-X is a project initiated by Europe for Europe but open to all” and that Microsoft had been encouraged to contribute by its European clients and others. “All contributions to GAIA-X, however, will also be evaluated by hundreds of community participants and must stand on their technical merits,”
Managing expectations
At the heart of Gaia-X’s troubles is the feeling that the project has failed its aim to overhaul the Continent’s cloud services and move Europe away from U.S. giants.
As a result, parallel initiatives are already being launched by the EU and the bloc’s own cloud companies to better achieve “tech sovereignty,” a decreased reliance on non-European tech companies.
The European Commission in July invited companies to sign up to an “industrial alliance” on cloud. But two industry and Commission people familiar with the process said it was struggling to get companies to sign on, and has not yet penned an official launch date.
The Commission together with national capitals is also developing a new Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) for cloud services, an industrial policy funding scheme that would allow governments to pour subsidies in the sector.
A group of European software and hardware firms launched an association called Euclidia, “for Europe to become a global leader without following the American or Asian models” in “cutting edge cloud technology,” the group said. It includes Nextcloud, Scaleway and others that feeling unsatisfied with Gaia-X’s progress. That project launched in July.
Meanwhile, companies lobbying against the U.S. cloud giants are shifting their focus to legislative initiatives like the Digital Markets Act, where hard law rather than soft industry standards could give European challengers a fighting chance to regain market share. Eyes have also turned toward the Commission’s upcoming Data Act in December, which could set new rules to better protect European data from foreign governments’ reach.
Some Gaia-X’s members believe the project will still end up delivering.
“It was going up and down, forward, backward, sometimes three steps back, one step forward. But we’re really moving forward.” said Rainer Sträter from German cloud services Ionos.
For others who still back the project, the criticism of Gaia-X is due to inflated expectations.
Whether it lives up to its promise or not “depends on the level of expectations you had when it launched,” said Alban Schmutz, vice president at OVHCloud. “You dream your baby will fly into space and in the end the kid prefers to go fishing instead.”
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Intel Unveils 12th Gen Intel Core, Launches World’s Best Gaming Processor, i9-12900K
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/12th-gen-core-processors.html#gs.f8yyti
12th Gen Intel Core Family will include 60 processors and more than 500 designs, leading with enthusiast desktop.
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LabVIEW NXG on kuollut, eläköön LabVIEW
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12790-labview-nxg-on-kuollut-elaekoeoen-labview
Vuonna 2017 National Instruments esitteli kokonaan uuden ohjelmointiympäristön, kun LabVIEW NXG näki päivänvalon NI Week -tapahtumassa Austinissa. Sen piti olla graafinen kehitysympäristö niille, jotka eivät halua ohjelmoida. Nyt viime vuonna vain NI:ksi muuttunut yritys on käytännössä kuopannut NXG-hankkeensa.
Jos lukee LabVIEW-käyttäjien foorumeita, NXG:n hylkääminen on odotettu uutinen. Sitä pidetään raskaana, edelleen beetavaiheessa olevana projektina, johon hyvin moni ei ollut vielä ehtinyt siirtyä. Nurinaa sen sijaan aiheuttaa se, ettei NI ole virallisesti kertonut uutista eikä esimerkiksi sitä, kuinka kauan NGX:llä suunnitteluja tehneitä tuetaan teknisesti.
Käytännössä klassinen LabVIEW ottaa nyt sille aina kuuluneen paikan.
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Instrumentointia verkon yli Python-koodilla
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12792-instrumentointia-verkon-yli-python-koodilla
Mittaaminen, testaaminen ja instrumentointi ovat viime vuosina kehittyneet merkittävästi sekä uuden tietotekniikan että mikropalvelujen avulla. NI hyödyntää sekä Thunderbolt-väylää että Googlen kehittämää gRPC-protokollaa helpottaakseen testaajan elämää.
PXI on kehittynyt edelleen. Ohjainkorteille on tuotu uusia prosessoreja, parempaa muistia, ja tehokkaampia muuntimia, joten instrumenttien suorituskyky on kasvanut selvästi. Se vaatii kuitenkin edelleen kehitystä ja NI onkin tuonut tarjolle edullisempia malleja, joilla asiakkaat pääsevät kiinni PXI-kehitykseen.
Yksi varsin uusia tekniikoita PXI-instrumentoinnissa on Thunderbolt-väylä.
Mittauksen ohjaus verkon yli on vanha tekniikka ja kaikenlaisia API-kutsuja voidaan lähettää http:n yli. Tämä on kuitenkin varsin hidasta eikä käytännössä mahdollista reaaliaikaista hallintaa. Tässä avuksi on tullut Googlen kehittämä gRPC-protokolla. Se on kieli- ja käyttöjärjestelmäriippumaton protokolla, jossa on erittäin alhainen latenssi.
Avoimen lähdekoodin gRPC (Remote Procedure Call) mahdollistaa instrumenttien hallinnan kevyellä client-ohjelmistolla, vaikka läppärillä ei olisi yhtään NI-ajuria. Käytännössä kyse on Python-koodista, joka lukee protokollan yli mittausohjelmistoa ja instrumenttiin liitettyjä kortteja. Nämä esittäytyvät arkkitehtuurissa palvelimina, joihin pääte eli client ottaa yhteyttä turvallisen HTTP2-protokollan yli.
Etämittaamisesta on monenlaisia hyötyjä. Siinä vältytään ajureiden päällekkäisiltä asennuksilta. Mittausjärjestelmä on heti valmis, kun päätteen liittää palvelimeen eli kortit sisältävään instrumenttiin. Useat tiimit voivat myös käyttää samaa rautaa projekteissaan.
Protokollana gRPC mahdollistaa tulevaisuudessa – ja oikeastaan jo nyt – testien ajamisen pilvessä tehokkaalla palvelinfarmilla, jolloin tuloksia voidaan monitoroida verkon yli kevyellä softalla.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://grpc.io/
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
AMD touts Meta as a data center chip customer, as it targets Nvidia with new chips like MI200, a family of server accelerators to boost ML and other workloads — Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) on Monday said it has won Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) as a data center chip customer …
AMD lands Meta as customer and takes on Nvidia, sending shares up 11%
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amd-lands-meta-customer-takes-aim-nvidia-with-new-supercomputing-chips-2021-11-08/
taken on November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Nov 8 (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) on Monday said it has won Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) as a data center chip customer, sending AMD shares up more than 11%as it cemented some of its gains against Intel Corp (INTC.O).
It also announced a range of new chips aimed at taking on larger rivals such as Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) in supercomputing markets, as well as smaller competitors, including Ampere Computing in the cloud computing market.
n taken on November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Nov 8 (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) on Monday said it has won Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) as a data center chip customer, sending AMD shares up more than 11%as it cemented some of its gains against Intel Corp (INTC.O).
It also announced a range of new chips aimed at taking on larger rivals such as Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) in supercomputing markets, as well as smaller competitors, including Ampere Computing in the cloud computing market.
After years of trailing the much larger Intel in the market for x86 processor chips, AMD has steadily gained market share since 2017, when a comeback plan spearheaded by Chief Executive Lisa Su put the company on a course to its present position of having faster chips than Intel’s.
AMD now has nearly a quarter of the market for x86 chips, according to Mercury Research.
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Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
AMD unveils Zen 4 CPU roadmap, including a 96-core Genoa chip in 2022 and a 128-core chip in 2023, both using a 5nm TSMC process that doubles power efficiency
AMD Unveils Zen 4 CPU Roadmap: 96-Core 5nm Genoa in 2022, 128-Core Bergamo in 2023
AMD drops the 128-core bomb
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-unveils-zen-4-cpu-roadmap-96-core-5nm-genoa-128-core-begamo
AMD CEO Lisa Su shared the company’s Zen 4 CPU roadmap today at its AMD Accelerated Data Center event, including a 96-core Genoa model and a 128-core Bergamo chip. That adds yet more excitement to the event after AMD unveiled the EPYC Milan-X chips with up to 768MB of L3 cache and the Instinct MI250X GPU. AMD also shared its first details of the 5nm TSMC process it will use for the new Genoa and Bergamo chips, claiming it provides twice the density and power efficiency along with 1.25X more performance than the 7nm process AMD uses for its current-gen chips.
The new roadmap covers the fourth-gen EYPC processors. The 96-core Genoa will come on the 5nm process in 2022, while the 128-core Bergamo, also on 5nm, will come to market in 2023. In addition, Bergamo comes with a new type of ‘Zen 4c’ core optimized for specific use cases, meaning that AMD’s Zen 4 chips will come with two types of cores, with the ‘c’ cores obviously being the smaller variants.
Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
AMD says chips with new 3D-stacked L3 cache tech, allowing up to 768MB of L3 cache per chip, will arrive in Q1 2022 and are in preview now on Azure
AMD’s EPYC Milan-X is Official: 3D V-Cache Brings Up To 768MB of L3 Cache, 64 Cores (Updated)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-epyc-milan-x-is-official-3d-v-cache-brings-up-to-768mb-of-l3-cache-64-cores
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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Profile of virtual events startup Hopin, which rode the pandemic-led videoconferencing wave to a $7.8B valuation in August and six acquisitions in the past year — Valued at roughly $8bn, the software start-up is one of Europe’s biggest success stories in the Covid era
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NVIDIA Embedded has unveiled its next-generation edge AI Jetson module and developer kit, the Jetson AGX Orin, promising “server-class” performance in the palm of your hand and a sixfold boost over its predecessor.
NVIDIA Unveils Jetson AGX Orin — and Boasts of Sixfold Performance Boost
https://www.hackster.io/news/nvidia-unveils-jetson-agx-orin-and-boasts-of-sixfold-performance-boost-ab5206f9793b
New module and developer kit due to hit shelves in Q1 2022, but the company isn’t sharing pricing just yet.
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Microsoftilta on tulossa kilpailija Chromebookeille eli Windows SE 11 for Education. Siinä on rajoitettu mm. vain 2 ikkunaa näkyviin vierekkäin ja ainoastaan ylläpito vai asentaa sovelluksia. Vakiona on Edge-selain, Office 365 ja 1 teratavu tallenustilaa OneDrivessa eli Microsoftin pilvessä. Ilmeisesti laitteiden hinnat asettuvat kilpailukykyiseksi Chromebookkien kanssa. Monella suomalaisella koululaisella on Chromebook käytössään koulussa.
Windows 11 SE for Education
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/windows-11-se
The new, cloud-first operating system— Windows 11 SE, built for Education. The affordable and simple way to help make learning accessible to every student.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Windows 11 SE, a Chrome OS rival aimed at schools, shipping exclusively on low-cost laptops built for K-8 classrooms later this year
Microsoft announces Windows 11 SE, a new Chrome OS competitor
Microsoft’s latest effort to beat Chromebooks is a little different
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/9/22771742/microsoft-windows-11-se-features-release-date?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft and Meta partner to integrate Workplace content into Teams and plan to integrate Teams video meetings into Workplace groups by early 2022 — Microsoft Teams is integrating into Workplace — Microsoft is partnering with Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook …
Microsoft partners with Meta to integrate Teams into its Facebook-like Workplace
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22774059/microsoft-teams-meta-facebook-workplace-integration?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Microsoft Teams is integrating into Workplace
Microsoft is partnering with Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, to integrate Microsoft Teams into Zuckerberg’s Workplace platform. Facebook Workplace, or Workplace by Meta as it’s now been rebranded, will soon integrate Microsoft Teams to livestream video into Workplace groups.
The Microsoft Teams integration into Workplace will also allow employees using Teams or Workplace to view, comment, and react to meetings in real time without having to switch between apps.
Microsoft is also integrating Workplace into Teams, which will enable Teams users to access Workplace content through an app within Teams. The app can be optionally pinned to the Teams navigation bar and will include a homepage of Workplace content. Microsoft Teams admins will also be able to mark content as important to showcase it in the Workplace app.
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Intel 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake-S” CPUs to support DDR4 memory
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-13th-gen-core-raptor-lake-s-cpus-to-support-ddr4-memory
Intel will not be removing DDR4 memory support with Alder Lake successor
According to Moore’s Law is Dead, Intel is retaining support for DDR4 memory with the (now) upcoming Raptor Lake series.
The YouTuber who has correctly revealed Intel confidential information in advance has now confirmed that Raptor Lake is to support DDR4 memory. This means that the Alder Lake successor which is to keep the LGA1700 socket is more than likely to be compatible with all existing Z690 and future H670/B660/H610 motherboards which already support DDR4 memory.
This is not exactly a surprising development, as Raptor Lake is simply a core bump over Alder Lake. The 13th Gen Core series is to offer twice as many Gracemont (small) cores over Alder Lake.
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AMD is pulling out all the stops to stop Intel’s counterattack, including chips with nearly 1GB of L3 cache.
AMD’s EPYC Milan-X is Official: 3D V-Cache Brings Up To 768MB of L3 Cache, 64 Cores (Updated)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-epyc-milan-x-is-official-3d-v-cache-brings-up-to-768mb-of-l3-cache-64-cores?utm_content=tomsguide&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow#xenforo-comments-3733276
AMD CEO Lisa Su unveiled the first details about the company’s EPYC Milan-X processors, which come with a 3D-stacked L3 cache called 3D V-Cache, during its Accelerated Data Center event today. AMD says that its new cache-stacking technology, which it will add to the existing Zen 3-powered EPYC Milan models to create the new Milan-X chips, will bring up to 768MB of total L3 cache per chip. That means there will soon be dual-socket servers with an eye-popping 1.5 GB of L3 cache in the system. AMD also shared a few examples of workloads that will benefit, and an impressive benchmark result that shows a 60% performance improvement.
The chips will come to market in Q1 2022, but they are available as a preview instance in Azure now.
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Seagate demosi PCIe-väyläistä HDD-kiintolevyä
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12809&via=n&datum=2021-11-11_15:33:17&mottagare=30929
Mekaaniset ja flash-piireihin ohjautuvat kiintolevyt eroavat tällä hetkellä tallennusmedian lisäksi sen suhteen, miten ne liitetään isäntäjärjestelmään. Seagate on nyt ensimmäistä kertaa demonnut HDD-levyä, joka toimii PCIe-väylän yli flash-levyjen NVMe-protokollalla.
Demon paikaksi valittiin San Josessa järjestetty OPC Global Summit. Tiettävästi demo on ensimmäinen, jossa NVMe-protokollatuki on natiivisti levyn ohjainpiirillä. Ohjain tukee näin kaikkia keskeisiä protokollia eli SATA-, SAS- ja NVMe-protokollaa ilman siltapiiriä.
Seagaten tavoitteena on tuoda yksi, yhtenäinen liitäntä eri tallennusmedioita käyttäville kiintolevyille. Erittäin nopea NVMe-protokolla olisi kaupallisesti tulossa mekaanisille HDD-levyille vuonna 2024.
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Seagate Unveils World’s First Native NVMe HDD Demo at OCP
https://blog.seagate.com/enterprises/seagate-unveils-worlds-first-native-nvme-hdd-demo-at-ocp/
Seagate is demonstrating the industry’s first native NVMe hard disk drive (HDD) at the OCP Global Summit this week, illustrating and confirming the viability of the NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) protocol on HDDs. The implementation provides integrated NVMe protocol support within the HDD controller itself and requires no bridge. The goal is to pave the way for a seamless consolidated NVMe interface across HDDs and SSDs.
Seagate’s leadership in implementing native NVMe HDD storage devices will help enable delivery of optimized access to data in support of streamlined storage composability. Its deployment will bring considerable benefits including reduced total cost of ownership (TCO); energy savings; streamlined feature development, performance enhancements, and minimized components required for infrastructure solutions; easier and more flexible scaling; the removal of proprietary code; and easing the path to innovation.
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Agam Shah / The Register:
Mercury Research: ARM’s market share in PC chips was about 8% in Q3 2021, up from 2% in Q3 2020 when Apple’s ARM-based M1 Macs weren’t on sale
Apple is beginning to undo decades of Intel, x86 dominance in PC market
What a difference a year makes?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/apple_arm_m1_intel_x86_market/
It took Apple less than a year to seemingly start undoing decades of x86 and Intel dominance in the traditional PC chip market.
The Cupertino-based iMonster provided the boost needed for Arm-compatible chips to take noticeable desktop and laptop processor market share away from x86, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research.
Arm’s market share in PC chips was about eight per cent during Q3 this year, climbing steadily from seven per cent in Q2, and up from only two per cent in Q3 2020, before Arm-compatible M1 Macs went on sale.
Apple is gradually dropping Intel’s processors from Macs in favor of its homegrown Arm-flavored processors. Arm’s PC market share growth was mostly powered by strong Macs sales, McCarron confirmed.
“Apple transitioned much more quickly than anyone expected,” McCarron said, adding the Arm share numbers also included shipments of Arm processors in Chromebooks.
Arm’s PC processor market share will continue to expand as consumers upgrade Intel-based Macs to ones with Apple’s chips, McCarron said. That market share growth may level off once the Mac upgrade cycle slows down, but that remains to be seen, he added.
Sales of Chromebooks with Arm chips have slowed, and Windows PC users are not switching over to Arm-based laptops with chips from Qualcomm. The numbers reinforce Apple’s strength as a silicon design powerhouse.
In another corner, Intel is being pecked away at by x86 rival AMD, which has been taking market share away since its Ryzen chips starting appearing in PCs, and Epyc microprocessors in servers, in 2017. Perhaps AMD undersold itself with its Buster Douglas analogy at the launch of its Zen family.
And in the background to this, there’s the ongoing popularity of Arm-powered single-board computers, primarily the Raspberry Pi, potentially providing alternative systems to traditional PCs.
AMD had a 24.6 per cent x86 processor market share – servers, PCs, and games consoles included – in Q3 this year, growing from 22.5 per cent a year ago, according to Mercury. Intel’s share declined to 75.4 per cent in Q3, compared to a 77.6 per cent share in the year-ago quarter.
“It’s not so much they are lagging; AMD went from a modestly competitive to a more significant competitive,” McCarron said.
Facebook, which wants to be known as Meta, recently announced it would use AMD chips in its data centers to power its latest and greatest microservers.
Intel’s newest Alder Lake x86 family, introduced last month, could slow down market-share loss to AMD.
During Q3, the supply-chain crunch led chipmakers to prioritize their more profitable, high-margin processor, and the CPU product mix for PCs leaned toward higher-end systems.
“That pretty much drives processor suppliers to focus on high-end products, like a Core i9 or i7 versus a Celeron,” McCarron said.
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AMD lisää ytimiä palvelinsiruille – ensi vuonna jo 96
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12822-amd-lisaeae-ytimiae-palvelinsiruille-ensi-vuonna-jo-96
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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Qualcomm says its next-gen PC CPUs will be designed by its recently acquired Nuvia team, hopes they will ship in devices in 2023 and be “M-series competitive” — Developed by the Nuvia team — Qualcomm is looking to seriously beef up its PC processors, with the company announcing plans …
Qualcomm’s next-gen CPU for PCs will take on Apple’s M-series chips in 2023
Developed by the Nuvia team
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/16/22785181/qualcomm-next-gen-cpu-pc-apple-m1-competitor-2023?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm expects to grow its entire chip business 12%+ by 2024, with IoT sales of $9B, up from $5B; automotive to grow to $8B in 10 years; stock rises 7%+
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/16/qualcomm-stock-hits-record-high-after-it-says-it-will-grow-without-apple.html
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Qualcomm CFO says the company expects to supply just 20% of Apple’s modem chips by 2023, supporting rumors that Apple’s modem chips are launching soon
Qualcomm Expecting to Supply Just 20% of 2023 iPhone Modems As Apple Prepares to Launch Its Own Chips
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/16/qualcomm-2023-modem-chips-iphone/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Qualcomm is preparing for the launch of Apple’s own modem chips, which will cut into Qualcomm’s modem business starting in 2023. At today’s Investor Day event, Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala said that Qualcomm expects to supply just 20 percent of Apple’s modem chips in 2023.
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AMD to Boost Server CPUs to 128 Cores in Battle for Cloud
Nov. 11, 2021
AMD said the family of server CPUs, code-named Bergamo, will have up to 128 cores based on a cloud-specific variant of the Zen 4 architecture called Zen 4C. The chips will leverage a 5-nm node from TSMC.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21180964/electronic-design-amd-to-boost-server-cpus-to-128-cores-in-battle-for-cloud?utm_source=EG%20ED%20Connected%20Solutions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS211110027&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
AMD is trying to keep up the pace in its effort to outmaneuver Intel in the market for data center silicon.
On Monday, the Santa Clara, California-based company said that it is on track to roll out its fourth generation of EPYC server CPUs, code-named Genoa, with up to 96 cores based on its future Zen 4 architecture and the 5-nm node by early 2022. It also added another family of server CPUs to its roadmap—Bergamo—designed explicitly for cloud giants that place premiums on power efficiency and core density. It is due out in 2023.
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Bloomberg:
Q&A with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on plans for sector-specific products, such as for healthcare or telecoms, a shift from Jassy’s one-size-fits-all approach — In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Adam Selipsky says a new push to build targeted cloud services for the healthcare …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-17/amazon-cloud-ceo-tweaks-strategy-amid-microsoft-google-rivalry
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The 8 Best Alternatives to Adobe Products That Run on Linux
BY WINI BHALLA
PUBLISHED SEP 07, 2021
Can’t find a way to run Adobe software on Linux? Don’t worry. You can install these eight open-source alternatives to Adobe products on your system.
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-linux-alternatives-to-adobe-products/amp/
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https://www.edn.com/a-holiday-shopping-guide-for-engineers-2021-edition/
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Microsoft now has one of the world’s fastest supercomputers (and no, it doesn’t run on Windows)
Microsoft makes it into the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-now-has-one-of-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers-and-no-it-doesnt-run-on-windows/
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Low code and no code may open more doors to artificial intelligence
The jury is still out on whether low and no code platforms can blaze a path to high-end application development — at least not yet.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/low-code-and-no-code-may-open-more-doors-to-artificial-intelligence/