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How many times have you had to replace a PC because you dropped it, left it in a cab, etc.? I haven't broken a phone yet, but I doubt I could keep using a phone for 10 years anytime soon.
With the new anti-theft systems on smart phones I can imagine laptops experience theft more frequently than smartphones.
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most non-compute intensive programs still are compiled for 32-bit, or have 32 bit versions available. also, visual studio still defaults to 32 bit when creating a new c++ project.
Almost anything compiled for 32bit windows would work just as well on a beefy tablet. Laptops and Desktops are, more and more, being reserved for power users and computationally heavy tasks.
I'm not seeing this in the business world. Yes, there are some tablets in use, but their numbers are still very small in comparison to desktop and laptop computers. And a huge majority of these users are definitely not what I would call "power users".
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Even today I see an increasing number of friends moving from 2 years cycles to 3 year cycles. The "killer app" for smartphone refresh rates staying low are (1) battery degradation and (2) forced OS updates for app updates, which in turn slows the phone down to compel an update[1]. [1] I'm actually curious if OS updates slow down older phones these days. This was the case 5 years ago but perhaps things have changed/
I have a Nexus 5X that was 2 years old late last year. At that time I git it's last major OS upgrade. (It will continue to get security updates for another year or so.) This is as good as it gets in the Android world. It was hobbled at the outset with 2GB RAM. At introduction performance was adequate. It has degraded since then. There are times when I exit an app and it takes several seconds before the home screen is…
> By declining Steve Jobs’ proposal to make the original iPhone CPU in 2005, Intel missed a huge opportunity. I'm really intrigued by stories of missed opportunities. Certain companies have all of the power then make a minor miscalculation on the future of technology. Does anyone have similar personal experiences that echo this type of missed opportunity deal?
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Here's a list of Ryzen motherboards that people have tried and succeeded in using ECC with: http://www.overclock.net/forum/11-amd-motherboards/1629642-r... Additionally, you can check the QVL for each motherboard, and then test it by hand.
Thanks! *Edit - $750 is a lot for the cheapest threadripper + mobo. I'd be happy with 48 PCI-E lanes around $400 (CPU+Mobo).
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You do realize that David Patterson is heading up Google's hardware efforts, right? Hardly clueless and inexperienced... And what Chinese fabless was that?
To clarify, Dave doesn't head the hardware efforts (I doubt he wants the management headache!). Norm Jouppi was the lead of the TPU efforts. But Dave absolutely is part of it, he just doesn't have to herd the cats. :p To the previous parent, the TPU didn't take five years - I don't know where you got that. But, in any event, I'd argue the key innovation in TPUv1 wasn't actually the design of a specific optimized proc…
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You seem to be pretty knowledgeable in the subject. Are you someone working in the field? IC designer?
psst, click their username: "Founder of a deep learning chip startup called Vathys.ai (YC Winter 2018)." :) (Edited to answer the below question: Dave Andersen - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/ I'm back at CMU full time, but was having too much fun at Google to quit entirely.)
EDIT: Question answered :)
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> A few months back Microsoft launched windows 10 on ARM -- that's an inflection point. Microsoft has launched Windows for various non-x86 platforms over the years, including ARM, and it has always petered out. Maybe it will take off this time, but I wouldn't bet too much on it.
But this time it's (almost) full windows, and it can run x86 application.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2008.08.windowsc...
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Here's a list of Ryzen motherboards that people have tried and succeeded in using ECC with: http://www.overclock.net/forum/11-amd-motherboards/1629642-r... Additionally, you can check the QVL for each motherboard, and then test it by hand.
Thanks! *Edit - $750 is a lot for the cheapest threadripper + mobo. I'd be happy with 48 PCI-E lanes around $400 (CPU+Mobo).
$400 is really cheap even by consumer standards.