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Comment #32558136
I would assume all linux GPU drivers would need to be adapted at least a little to support the larger page size (most linux AARCH64 kernel level code is writing assuming 4kb pages)…
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Comment #27022470
If apple were found to be in violation of Patent misuses the result would not be that apple is forced to open up the internals of how their products work but rather that patens app…
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Comment #27022439
The big issue with this is apple does not own all of the IP in a any of their hardware, much of it is a mixture of licenses from many vendors some of it owned by apple much of it j…
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Comment #26866557
As described in the article by not having fixed function units apple can put more regular floating point math units. These units can be used in many, for example when doing compute…
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Comment #26859614
Why should they support vulkan? what does apple get out of that apart from less well optimised compute and shader code, using more battery and producing more heat for the same outp…
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Comment #16258016
What I hope they do is use many instances of the system trained with slightly different sets of training data, otherwise, you just need to learn how to trick one version (and it wi…
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Comment #16257989
you could make indirect money by doing things like investing in some markets/betting on them to fail.
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Comment #16257960
I would love to see the message log between MS Apple and Intel on this.
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Comment #16257307
AMD have released patches (to reduce the near-zero risk of exploit to 0 risk) and they are not having any instability issues! so yes go with AMD for server, Epyic is now finally av…
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Comment #16257301
Reading over googles project0 page it reads as if they told AMD about the issues on 2017-06-01 why would they do this if it were meltdown only? also look at the exploit numbering: …
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Comment #16256344
Im really wanding they had more than 6months to do these patches and they did not bother testing on a good number of systems. Its not like MS + Intel dont have enough money to buy …
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Comment #16256253
i do see a lot of people believing the Alexas system is much better but int he end alaxa is just build up on regex. that is ok-ish for simple languages like English were the words …
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Comment #16255923
but a lot of this brain drain has gone to private security companies that then sell vulnerabilities to national bodies. (Like the one in Israel that sold a load of 0day exploits fo…
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Comment #16255899
intel want to be able to operate all around the world and not be forbidden form non US markets if it is seen that they directly pass an exploit to the US gov so that US gov can use…
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Comment #16255891
It's not about moral its about sales, if Intel were to start to tell the US gov directly about security loopholes in products they were still selling to other nations those nations…
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Comment #16255879
Yes through you may have left out the UK (with GCHQ) who do most of the spying for the NSA within the US, so as to ensure the NSA doesn't break any rules as they are permitted to t…
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Comment #15738907
> Enforce federation by splitting the middle "we actually host users and their walls and their data" company along state lines and international borders, so that they are more beho…
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Comment #15738902
The issue I see with adding gov level regulation to Facebook (or any other media) is it very quickly becomes a tool for oppressive regimes. If Facebook builds in the tools so gover…
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Comment #15738877
IM not sure its that much of bedfellows, with this they are not sharing their IP with Intel, these GPUs are discrete chips that AMD is just selling to Intel who is then selling the…
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Comment #15738866
The title is not quite true, intel will ship a package that has an AMD GPU+HBM combined with a CPU but they are not the same chip, basically, Intel is buying already fabricated GPU…
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Comment #14453029
also, apple do a really good job on compilers etc to make it easier to write code and systems that jump between systems quite well. Lots of people dev on windows without using the …