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What's driving the practical limit in FALD array size? That looks like they could pack 4x as many in just by using the space between the wells each is sitting in, and maybe 2-3x more if the wells could be shrunk in size.

At first I thought it might have been a standard m.2 card, but after counting pins on the connector it doesn't appear to have enough of them; which means it's apparently something proprietary. In that case you'd need to find someone making an adapter just for it. IF you can find such a device...

I've never found those sort of adapters easy to use. I'd rather just get a set of small nut drivers. I'm not sure if the standoffs are metric or inch sizes, but suspect for screwing into sheet metal the 'wrong' next size up driver will work well enough. Cheap examples I found on amazon, but I...

Remember that HDDs have magnets inside that are much stronger than anything you might use to attack something to a steel case. It's fine.

What are the little display bars on top of your screens?

I wasn't really hopeful they would; but I keep seeing people claiming that burn in isn't a thing anymore and was curious if anything had actually changed or if there was still an unwritten "as long as you never show any static content on it" attached to the claims.

Please post back here whenever their burnin test has results. I'd be cautious about making the jump to OLED after only a single year of data since my main display would primarily be used for desktop too. My NEC 3090 was my primary display for over 7.5 years, my Acer Predator XB321HK is 6.5...

Only if you bought from a third party. If you bought it from them directly don't expect to actually get a refund. They're bankrupt in all but name.

When you're circling the bankruptcy drain - as implied by not paying anyone - it's a bit late to worry about anything like that. Not paying employees is the sort of thing that triggers swift govt action, if they're at that point I expect the news that they're being forcibly shut down to appear...

https://www.techspot.com/news/102684-zilog-discontinuing-z80-microprocessor-after-almost-50-years.html I wonder if it's due to demand falling below a threshold needed to sustain it, or the wafer maker retiring the ultra-legacy process it's being manufactured on.

While 1.8" HDDs had a decent run for a few years in early ipods, I don't think the 1" HHD form factor ever went beyond the prototype stage. The amount of NAND you could stuff into a CF form factor made it DOA and not having any significant influence beyond possibly constraining the size of the...

My first were 128 and 240 both for $200-250ish, after that I splurged $500+ on a 1TB one I'm still using. Whenever I get around to replacing this system (honestly past due at this point) it'll probably be a 4TB pcie5 drive. Probably overkill the way the 1TB one has been for most of it's life...

MSN Xbox Live Surface And probably time for at least one more half-baked branding to be born and die before it actually comes out.

Is that a horizontal Slocket? Everything old really is new again. 🤣

Updating the specs for higher tiers to align with what are premium specs today isn't a bad thing. I dislike them setting different refresh rates for laptop and desktop displays though, that's just going to add confusion. I do wish they'd added a basic tier at the bottom to capture variable...

Nothing new there. Creative XP drivers were so bad that MS moved the audio system out of the kernel in Vista to eliminate one of the biggest BSOD sources their telemetry was seeing. It was subsequently moved back in for power consumption (less user-kernel switch overhead I assume) as laptop...

No. Intel got into trouble trying to jam more than 2 years of upgrades into their every 2 year process update. Doing smaller upgrades once a year or so is how TSMC got where it is.

There's also VIA and a few other manufacturers that make x486/pentium class chips for embedded purposes. There the issue is that Intel owns a ton of IP on the base x86 instruction set and vector extensions (MMX, SSE, AVX), and AMD has the same on the 64 bit extensions to it. The old stuff was...

Apparently slightly off mark. More recent articles I've read are that Intel will continue making it's GPU tiles on TSMC for those generations of CPU. As long as they're using the same architecture for discrete and IGPs, fabbing them all on the same process makes sense.

Samsung perhaps, IBM sold its fabs to Global Foundries back when GloFo was still trying to keep up with cutting edge process nodes.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/ Display port just keeps looking better every day.

BS! You want a 24/7 construction project in US it's simple you hire 4 shifts. 3x 12s one week, 4x 12s the next.

There's a huge number of semi conductor companies that have dropped out of the leading edge rat-race over the decades and are still in business selling older nodes to companies who have no need/use for advanced processes. You can buy simple chips fabbed on >100nm processes today.

The potential exploits from HT attacks are more serious in server environments though. I'm wondering if it's about thermals. We can jam so many cores onto a chip that if all are at maximum speed/load the power and temperature levels go through the roof. Running more discrete cores might allow...

Intel's been decomposing x86 into RISCy micro-ops for execution since the 90s in order to be able to pipeline them. They could have exposed them as an alternate "core-x86" instruction set anytime in the last 30ish years if they wanted to.

My point is that's a really half-assed destruction. Some idiot could still try to use it. Hopefully it'd trip a fault sensor and power the system down instead of igniting.

That's a kinda stupid thing to do. If you're not worried about someone digging through your trash to steal electronics just throw it away as is. If you are worried about that you should make sure that the idiot can't try to use it at all. In that case, I recommend the 2 pliers technique to...

I think the idea is the other way around. The recess forces the first few inches of the cable to be roughly strait, then it gets a really hard bend far enough away from the plug that it's not putting significant torque on the wires going into the connector.

because Intel has a record of entering new markets not immediately becoming number 1, and then bailing the next time they need to trim costs.

With an old laptop I had about 15 years ago I was able to double the lifespan of the crappy fan Acer picked by adding a drop or two of sewing machine oil once or twice after it started getting noisy. The fans all died eventually because they were garbage, but it let me get 2 years between swaps...

I've had good luck finding replacement fans on ebay/amazon that were shipped from the US and would arrive within a week.

The mission deadlines are largely politics and budgeting driven. If you break before completing the mission you told Congress they were buying you get dragged into the capital for an ass chewing. With very rare exceptions there won't be money in the budget for a do-over if you fail, so you...

It's running into a power limit. As more of the Pu239 in the RTG decays it has less total power available. NASA has been stretching the system lifespan by incrementally turning off more onboard devices, but in a few years it won't have enough power to run the radio transmitter itself. Unless...

Emil has been looking at finding a second manufacturing partner in the US. A while ago they said they might end up eating the cost of transatlantic shipping for early orders if they're not able to get the US manufacturer started at the same time as the European one.

Updates from the last few months on the Caselabs Discord. Caselab's is currently working on converting the old 2d blueprints they got to 3d CAD models. Emil says they've got enough money to fund the initial production run. Current ETA for production starting is sometime in 2024.

From the same location or a different one? If the new owner is only buying the brand name, or wants to run out of a different warehouse a firesale to dump old inventory would either be necessary or potentially cheaper than shipping it all long distance.

I never said apple started on RISC, and called out intel in the part of my post you quoted.

With the exception of when they were using Intel CPUs Apple never left RISC. RISC is an CPU architecture/design philosophy that displaced the previous one. PowerPC is RISC. ARM is RISC. The people initially behind RISC-V just took the acronym for use in their branding. And for the last 25+...

Nope. Staging was figured out first by ICBMs, guidance good enough to eat the heart out of a city was figured out by Nazi's during ww2. The space program didn't need guidance good enough to vaporize a missile silo.

The cryogenic rocket technology used for Apollo was utterly useless for ICBM use because in addition to being enormously overpowered they can't be stored fueled and ready to launch. The only flow was the other direction with early IRBM/ICBMs being used for the Mercury and Gemini programs. Some...