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Intel's SIMD autovectorizer against NV's SIMT was like bringing a sword to a machine-gun war. The fact Intel's own ispc beat that too should have shown them there was an entirely d…

That's my understanding as well. Software-wise, I, for one, have not had issues with reading or writing code with branch delay slots -- automatic nops, at worst. I guess it all dep…

FWIW, all my laptops are currently arm-based (chromebooks), for the simple reason of price + battery performance.

Unfortunately trade wars are as real as any other kind of war, where 'no holds barred' is the norm. I'm still amazed how many people fell for the 'concerns of espionage' pretext. I…

Do you mean at 14nm? I guess once they successfully migrate their actual production line to 10/7nm, whenever that might be..

Re AVX-512 and throttling, may I suggest this post instead https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-us... , again by Daniel.

It's about time societies started processing their own trash. If the economics of processing some kinds trash does not turn out great then maybe we should stop/minimize generating …

The datacentre (AKA 'Neoverse') CA76 variant.

One guess re the second CA76 datapoint would be N1.

Propeller-based airplanes are not that much faster than this train -- current propeller world record stands at 855 km/h. For higher speeds jet/turbofan engines would be the choice,…

It's ok, the oval office might eventually back them on the international markets..

Come to think of it, I believe I might have found a couple of "back doors" in Win 10. Shall I call my EU parliament representative now about trade sanctions against MS, or shall I …

Buffer management is in kernel space, but that's about all that happens in kernel space GPU-wise. Indeed, most interesting things happen in user space.

I have a RK3399-based (same chip as in the PBP) chromebook -- ASUS Chromebook Flip CA101P -- as one of my daily rides. It has no issue playing 1080@60fps & 4K@30 youtubes (I cannot…

Doh, my reading balked at the embedded add. Yes, p being a prime actually inverts the statement successfully. My bad.

"Whenever a product m×n is divisible by p, then m or n must be divisible by p." Actually it's the other way around: 'Whenever m or n are divisible by p, then their product m×n must…

If Intel are stockpiling 10nm parts now (Q2) so they'd have something on the shelves for Q4 then I don't see how their 10nm facilities are in a good shape. Furthermore, when everyb…

Nope, I'm seeing clasp for the first time -- Christian Schafmeister's talk was extremely nice to listen to! I did come across some small LISP implementations at the early stages, b…

Ha! If I only knew about 'Build Your Own Lisp' three months ago! I needed a simple language as a vehicle for a compiler talk I'm preparing for this summer, so I hacked along an ext…

Salut! I've finally decided to register for writing, after years of mute reading ; )

Props to the author for the objective article. Re CA53 throughput and latencies, no -- I don't have the tables, but I've done my fair share of tbl/tbx mesurements: https://www.cnx-…