PCHardCores: November 2017

Thursday 30 November 2017

Computing and Graphics: AMD's Growth Driver in Fiscal 2017

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In 3Q17, AMD launched its Ryzen 3 desktop CPUs for the mainstream market, Ryzen Threadripper CPUs for the high-end desktop market, and ... In 3Q17, AMD's CG revenues rose 74% YoY (year-over-year) to $819.0 million, driven by higher ASPs (average selling prices) of Ryzen processors and ...

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AMD Eyes Data Center to Boost Future Growth

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However, the company is now making a comeback in the high-end server CPU market with its EPYC product line launched in June 2017. AMD claims that EPYC processors are competitive with Intel's server CPUs. Initially, AMD expected EPYC to have a four- to six-quarter ramp-up. However, it has ...

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WDC to move all its stuff to RISC-V processors, build some kind of super data-wrangling stack

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It is highly likely WDC uses Arm-compatible processors – such as Arm9 and Cortex-M3 parts – for the in-drive controllers in its disk and flash drives, and also uses Intel CPUs with its ActiveScale archive systems and Tegile all-flash and hybrid arrays. Hardly anybody cares about what embedded ...

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How Intel's Partnership Could Benefit AMD's Semi-Custom Business

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As Intel is a leader in the PC processor market, this deal opens up a whole new market for AMD. Intel commands more than 75% of the PC CPU market and earns up to $34 billion in annual revenues from PC. According to IDC (International Data Corporation), laptops and notebooks account for 36% of ...

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Could Competition Hurt AMD's Growth Trajectory?

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Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) growth is reviving thanks to Ryzen CPUs (central processing units), which competes with Intel (INTC) in the high-end computing space. Looking at the performance of all Ryzen desktop series—Ryzen 7, 5, 3, and Threadripper—they outperform Intel's Core processors in ...

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A Look at AMD's Fiscal 4Q17 Revenue Guidance

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During its 3Q17 earnings call, AMD's management confirmed that none of its upcoming high-end products—EPYC server CPU (central processing unit), ... AMD has secured design wins for its EPYC server processor from Baidu (BIDU) and Microsoft (MSFT), but it would take time to convert into sales.

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Why Some Analysts Are Questioning the Success of AMD's New Products

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Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore is skeptical about whether Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) Ryzen CPU (central processing unit) can gain a significant share in the high-performance PC (personal computer) processor market. Specifically, Moore admits that AMD's Ryzen CPU outperforms Intel's ...

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How AMD's Ryzen Mobile Stands up to Intel's Core

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has become strong competition for Intel (INTC) in the desktop processor space, having now entered the mobile PC (personal computer) space with its Ryzen Mobile. The company has so far launched two processors for ultra-thin laptops: the Ryzen 5 2500U and the ...

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How AMD Plans to Regain PC Market Share through Ryzen

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AMD has launched its first two Ryzen Mobile processors for ultra-thin laptops, and Ryzen Mobile processors feature AMD's Zen CPU cores and Vega GPU (graphics processing unit) cores. PC OEMs (original equipment manufacturer) Acer, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and Lenovo plan to launch their initial ...

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Why Citi Research Is Bearish on AMD

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AMD's EPYC server processor is also currently securing design wins from big cloud companies like Amazon.com (AMZN) and Baidu (BIDU). These design wins could increase its market share in the server CPU market in 2018. AMD has meanwhile partnered with Intel to supply integrated GPUs for the ...

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Can AMD Catch Up with Intel and NVIDIA in Process Technology?

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AMD announced that it will build its Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs on the 12 nm node. The company did not mention its EPYC, which leaves uncertainty as to whether the server processor will also get an upgrade in process node. Although AMD's original technology roadmap does not include a transition ...

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How AMD's New Products Have Fared against Intel and NVIDIA

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) launched a suite of processors ranging from desktop CPUs (central processing units) and GPUs (graphics processing units) to server CPUs in 2017. AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs have been received well by consumers, especially by enthusiast and do-it-yourself ...

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HP Omen Desktop (880-025se)

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The Omen is eminently customizable, with a wide range of processor, storage, and memory combinations. Although the unit I tested includes a seventh-generation Intel Core i7 processor, you can also choose one of the latest eighth-generation Intel CPUs or AMD's new Ryzen processors. The graphics ...

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Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel

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For several years, GPU acceleration matched with Intel Xeon processors were the dominating news items in hardware at the annual Supercomputing Conference. However, this ... But in just each one of our datacenters there are between 20,000 and 100,000 dual socket machines with giant Xeon CPUs.

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GIGABYTE X299 AORUS Gaming 7 PRO Motherboard Review

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GIGABYTE's X299 AORUS Gaming 7 PRO motherboard for Socket 2066 Intel processors is under our spotlight today. By: Steven ... The new CPUs, which were released months after Intel's ten core and below X299 HEDT processors, have much higher power requirements than their predecessors.

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Eve V Review: dreams can come true

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Again like the Surface Pro, the Eve V comes in quite a number of configurations, five in total, differing only in the processor, RAM size, and storage size. So it's a choice between a Core m3 or i5 or i7 for the CPU, 8 or 16 GB of LPDDR3 RAM, and 128 GB to 1 TB of PCIe SSD storage. All Core CPUs from ...

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Principled Technologies Conducts Proof-of-Concept Study of AMD EPYC Processor-Powered ...

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Principled Technologies Conducts Proof-of-Concept Study of AMD EPYC Processor-Powered Servers Running Apache Spark for Big Data Analysis ... the Azure P15 Premium Managed Disk, while keeping average host CPU utilization under 24 percent and average read latency under 0.4 milliseconds.

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MSI Infinite X Desktop US Launch: Core i7-8700K, GTX 1070 & More

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MSI has started to sell its latest Infinite X desktops in the US. The new systems are based on Intel's six-core Core i7 (Coffee Lake) processors, as well as custom Intel Z370-powered motherboards that support CPU overclocking. The most advanced configurations of the Infinite X come with Intel's unlocked ...

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One-On-One: Mike Muller

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Microcontroller prices were down about 15% last year, and processor prices are going down too. There's so much processing power .... With remarkably inefficient, badly stitched together machine learning algorithms and a few CPU cycles, you can transform how we do this. I am surprised you can do an ...

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MSI Infinite X Desktop US Launch: Core i7-8700K, GTX 1070 & More

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MSI has started to sell its latest Infinite X desktops in the US. The new systems are based on Intel’s six-core Core i7 (Coffee Lake) processors, as well as custom Intel Z370-powered motherboards that support CPU overclocking. The most advanced configurations of the Infinite X come with Intel’s unlocked Core i7-8700K chips as well as MSI’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards. Also, MSI is set to allow some of its system integrator partners to build custom configurations of the Infinite X to address the needs of their customers.

Read AnandTech's reviews of the Core i7-8700K and the GTX 1080 Ti here!

As reported earlier, the MSI Infinite X will be the company’s most powerful desktop computer and an advancement for the whole series in general. The new PCs are not only based on six-core Core i7-8700K CPUs, and therefore offer better multitasking performance than predecessors do, but they support CPU overclocking. The custom Micro-ATX Intel Z370 motherboard that MSI uses for the Infinite X PCs offers a rather general overclocking functionality supported by the company's Command Center software (allows to adjust per-core frequency, increase CPU/DRAM voltages, improve cooling, etc.).

When it comes to cooling overclocked CPUs and GPUs, MSI’s new system is prepared very well. The Infinite X chassis uses a triple-chamber design with separate chambers for the CPU (this one also hosts RAM, SSD, PCH and some other components), the GPU, and the PSU (this one also hosts 2.5”/3.5” storage devices), isolating the hottest components from each other. Secondly, the graphics and the processor chambers are cooled down using MSI’s Silent Storm Cooling 3 Pro coolers that suck cool air from the outside of the case and then exhaust the warmer air in another direction. Thirdly, the CPU itself is cooled down using MSI’s custom Dragon liquid cooling system to ensure stable operation even when overclocked significantly beyond stock frequencies. According to MSI, cooling systems inside the Infinite X produce around 25 dB of noise in idle and less than 36 dB when operating at their full performance.

The custom micro-ATX motherboard has four DDR4 slots supporting up to 64 GB of memory, one PCIe x16 slot for a graphics card (MSI offers GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti options) and two M.2 slots for SSDs. As for connectivity, the Infinite X motherboard has a GbE port powered by Intel's I219V controller, Intel’s 1x1 Wireless-AC 3168 802.11ac Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 4.2 module, a 7.1-channel audio sub-system with MSI’s AudioBoost and Nahimic 2+ enhancements, USB Type-A and Type-C ports, DP and HDMI display outputs (in case iGPU is used for some reason) and so on.

Specifications of MSI Infinite X Desktops for the U.S. Market
		Infinite X VR8RD-007US	Infinite X VR8RF-008US
CPU		Intel Core i7-8700K 6C/12T 3.7 - 4.7 GHz 12 MB LLC UHD Graphics 630 95 W
PCH		Intel Z370
Graphics		NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Memory		16 GB dual-channel DDR4-2400
Storage	SSD	256 GB PCIe NVMe	512GB PCIe NVMe
	HDD	2 TB HDD with 7200 RPM spindle speed
	ODD	DVD SuperMulti
	Bays	Two M.2 slot for SSDs (PCIe or SATA) 1 × 2.5" 2 × 3.5"
Wi-Fi		Intel Wireless-AC 3168 802.11ac + BT 4.2
Ethernet		1 × Realtek 8111H
Display Outputs	MB	1 × HDMI 1 × DisplayPort
	GPU	2 × HDMI 2 × DisplayPort 1 × DVI-D DL may vary depending on SKU
	Front	HDMI for VR headsets
Audio	Front	3.5 mm jacks for headset with microphone
	Back	5 × 3.5 mm jacks 1 × S/PDIF
USB	Front	1 × USB 3.0 Type-A 1 × USB 2.0 Type-A 1 × USB 3.0 Type-C
	Back	3 × USB 3.0 Type-A 2 × USB 2.0 Type-A 1 × USB 3.0 Type-C
Other I/O	Front	-
	Back	1 × PS/2 combo port
Dimensions		210 × 450 × 488 mm \| 8.27" × 17.72" × 19.22"
Color		Black with Customizable RGB LEDs
PSU		550 W 80 Plus Bronze
Additional Information		Link	Link

It is hard to imagine a 2017 gaming PC without custom RGB lighting and other style enhancements. The Infinite-series desktops feature MSI’s Mystic Light functionality, which offers customizable RGB LED presentations. When buying from MSI’s direct partners, it is possible to choose a classic all black side panel or a transparent side panel.

Officially, MSI offers two Infinite X SKUs in the US. The entry-level one is equipped with MSI’s GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, a 256 GB NVMe SSD, a 2 TB HDD, and starts at $1699.99. The higher-end model comes with MSI’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, a 512 GB NVMe SSD, and a 2 TB hard drive. Amazon and Newegg are currently offering versions of the Infinite X with discounts that cost starting from $1,599 or even $1,449 (after a $100 rebate) and feature various configurations.

Buy MSI Infinite X: i7-8700K, GTX 1070, 16GB, 500GB SSD, 2TB HDD on Amazon.com

Huawei nova 2S coming soon with 6-inch display, 20MP dual-camera and Kirin 960 CPU

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Although we're just one month away from the end of the year, there might be just enough time for some companies to release their last smartphones for 2018. Huawei recently launched its second flagship of the year, the Mate 10 Pro, but the Chinese handset maker may have a few more aces up its ...

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MediaTek Reveals MT2621 SoC for IoT: Arm v7 MCU, Integrated GPRS/NB-IoT Modem

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MediaTek this week announced a new SoC designed for ultra-low-power autonomous IoT applications such as wearables, security sensors, and similar devices. The MT2621 SoC integrates basic computational capabilities, a modem that supports GSM/GPRS and NB-IoT, and a number of input/output interfaces.

The MediaTek MT2621 features an Arm v7 MCU featuring one core running at 260 MHz, 4 MB of embedded Flash, and 160 KB of PSRAM for microcontroller applications that do not require substantial computational resources or memory. To connect to the outside world, the MT2621 integrates a modem DSP, a wideband module (that supports ultra-low/low/mid bands defined by the 3GPP Rel-14), RF capabilities, and even an antenna that can work over existing GSM/GPRS (as well as upcoming NB-IoT networks). The SoC supports dual standby functionality and can work over both networks simultaneously. To connect to local wireless peripherals, the MT2621 can use Bluetooth 4.2. The chip also has an LCM interface to attach LCDs, an interface for a camera, and audio interfaces to connect a speaker and a microphone.

The highly integrated design of the MT2621 allows device manufacturers to reduce the number of additional components to a minimum, which simplifies development cycles and lowers BOM costs. Furthermore, the MCU is being promoted as being power-efficient, which would enable a long battery life, which is crucial for battery-driven applications, including health/fitness trackers, IoT security sensors, smart meters and industrial equipment. Device manufacturers will also have to write their software for the MT2621 that can run a customized MCU-variant of Linux, but naturally not Android or similar operating systems.

MediaTek did not disclose which manufacturing technology it plans to use to produce the MT2621 on, but given rather modest compute capabilities of the chip (as well as target applications), the SoC will likely be made using an inexpensive low-power planar fabrication process. As for the availability timeframe, it depends on the developers of actual hardware. Typically, the development of low-power devices does not take too long, but then it can take months to validate these products and ensure everything works properly. Interested parties will need to contact their local Mediatek representatives for more information.

Fujifilm X RAW Studio makes conversions a snap using gear you already own

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Fujifilm photographers can now convert RAW files almost just as quickly as the camera can take a single photo. On Wednesday, November 29, Fujifilm launched the Fujifilm X RAW Studio, a conversion software that uses the camera's processor instead of the computer's, alongside new firmware for the ...

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AMD Ryzen 5 2500U Raven Ridge Benchmarks Revisited: HP Envy x360 SSD Update

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Cinebench is a test that works both the CPU and GPU engines of the processors. It's developed by Maxon, which is better known for its Cinema 4D software employed in professional 3D rendering and animation. Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark that pushes simulated workloads designed to ...

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Samsung has begun production of its 2nd generation 10nm FinFET CPU technology

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Samsung has begun production of its 2nd generation 10nm FinFET CPU ... CPUs are a vital part of any technology, especially in our smartphones ... to roll out more efficient processors and other ICs for next generation products.

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Intel and AMD Working on Second Chip Collaboration?

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... secret successor to the processor. What comprises the new chip, though, is open to speculation: will it contain an Intel Ice Lake CPU and AMD Navi ...

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What You Need to Know About Laptop Specs

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Clock speed on a CPU refers to the number of pulses per second the processor runs. It's usually measured in megahertz (MHz) or gigahertz (GHz). Clock speed tends to double every year. The higher the number, the more power a CPU has, but that doesn't necessarily mean faster performance.

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AMD's Ryzen Mobile Faces an Uphill Battle

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Following the launch earlier this year of the desktop variants of Ryzen, Advanced Micro Devices' (NASDAQ: AMD) latest generation of CPUs, the first ... AMD's Vega graphics, providing substantially improved graphics performance compared to the company's previous generation of mobile processors.

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New drive-by cryptocurrency miners keep running even after you close your browser

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The price of Bitcoin may have suddenly dropped by almost $2000 after passing the $11,000 milestone yesterday, but it’s since regained some ground and is currently worth just under $10,500. These high prices are partly why drive-by cryptomining—a practice that uses the CPUs of website visitors to mine crytpocurrencies—is becoming...

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Lenovo Yoga 920 review

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It scores 3976 points, up from around 3280 from a last-generation CPU. ... A combination of the new Intel Core processor and a large 70Wh battery ...

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Western Digital announces planned RISC-V data-processing products

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SiFive already has embedded-targeted implementations shipping and has recently released a microprocessor implementation capable of booting the Linux kernel, building on the upstreaming of a RISC-V port in the latest release, while the Shakti Processor Project is working on implementations which ...

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Intel 10nm is better than everyone thinks

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Some might remember that Intel has many fabs and that one of the main reason why Intel got so successful in the CPU business. ... Intel already refreshed its Kaby Lake R 8th generation notebook core processors with 15 to 25W configurable TDP that managed to get better battery life and significant ...

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Minima Processor Reduces SoC Energy Consumption for Near-Threshold Voltage Design

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OULU, FINLAND –– November 28, 2017 –– Minima Processor today ... with a designer's CPU or DSP processor of choice, providing hardware and ...

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Intel Xeon E5-2620V3 / 2.4 GHz processor

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Buy a Intel Xeon E5-2620V3 / 2.4 GHz processor or other Add-In Processors (CPUs) at CDW.com.

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Wednesday 29 November 2017

MSI WS63 Mobile Workstation Review

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Equipped as we reviewed it with a 1080p display, an Intel Core i7-7700HQ quad-core processor, 32GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD storage, and a 2TB hard drive, ... The HP ZBook Studio hasn't been updated in some time, and on the Lenovo side of things, the ThinkPad P51S doesn't offer a quad-core CPU, ...

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Intel Compute Card CD1M3128MK + DK132EPJ Dock SFF PC Review

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For starters, the CPU is an Intel Core m3-7Y30 mobile processor (Kaby Lake-Y) based on 14nm technology with a 4.5W TDP (configurable up and ...

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Intel Reportedly Working on Core i9 and Coffee Lake Mobile Processors

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The company has several new laptop chips in the works including a mobile I9 processor. The Core i9-8950HK will be a six-core CPU with Hyper Thread support, a 12MB L3 cache, and 45W TDP. Beyond that, Intel is working on revamped versions of its Coffee Lake processors for mobile devices. Two of ...

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Principled Technologies Proof-of-Concept Study Measured VM Density on a Microsoft Storage ...

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In hands-on testing, a Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct cluster featuring the AMD EPYC 7601 processor supported 192 VMs in 6U. Each VM processed the same amount of IOPS as the Microsoft Azure P15 Premium Managed Disk while keeping average host CPU utilization low. Durham, NC, November ...

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Adesto's EcoXiP™ Solution Improves XiP Performance, Reduces Power and Cost for NXP's New ...

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EcoXiP, eXecute-in-Place (XiP) memory, more than doubles processor performance, lowers system power consumption and reduces system cost ... reduces the effective latency dramatically and delivers superior CPU performance– Concurrent Read/Write capability: designers can reduce system cost ...

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Drive-By Cryptocurrency Miners Get More Persistent

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But, once you close the browser window, the CPU thieves lost access to your processor and associated resources. Malwarebytes has found that some ...

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The Battle Of The InfiniBands

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... for HPC is shifted to the network, freeing up CPU cycles to do HPC work. ... The processors in the two socket servers were Intel's “Broadwell” Xeon ...

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EcoXiP, eXecute-in-Place (XiP) memory, more than doubles processor performance, ... The new crossover embedded processors are aimed at consumer, ... performance: EcoXiP delivers 2.4X CPU performance compared to existing ...

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The MSI X299 SLI Plus Motherboard Review: $232 with U.2

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Overall, the CPU performance on the X299 SLI Plus was above average, ... On non-CPU performance, startup times were in the middle of the pack, while .... and the ability to cool these processors down given the power consumption.

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Principled Technologies Proof-of-Concept Study Measured VM Density on a Microsoft Storage ...

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Samsung starts mass producing 2nd-gen 10nm processors, may power Galaxy S9

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One of the important factors of the handset is the processor and the ... However, it did reveal that the SoC has 3rd-generation custom CPU cores.

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EKWB Announces EK-MLC Phoenix AIO: Modular and Expandable Liquid Cooling Family

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This week EKWB has taken the wraps off of a new lineup of pre-filled products for liquid cooling, which the company is naming the MLC Phoenix family. The Phoenix lineup was created to cater to customers who may be unwilling to assemble a full custom loop, or simply do not have time to maintain a custom loop but still would like a premium cooling solution. Its modular design allows for ease of expansion for using any one of several of its pre-filled water blocks. All of the Phoenix products utilize zero-drop quick disconnect couplings between parts to allow for quick and spill-free changes of the water-cooling loop.

The loop will consist of at least two parts. First is the radiator core module containing the pump and radiator, then your cooling modules of choice, either CPU or Video Card modules, or, both. The radiator core module, a high-fin density EK-CoolStream radiator, comes pre-filled and includes the pump, as well as high-static pressure EK-Varder EVO fans. Unique to this setup, the radiator core modules include an integrated fan splitter hub to help reduce cable clutter. The pump and fans plug into the hub with only one PWM cable need to be plugged into the CPU fan header and one SATA Molex power cable. The radiator core modules have five options: 120mm, 240mm, 360mm, 140mm, and 280mm so there is to fit most cooling and space needs.

The CPU Cooling modules come in two flavors, one made for Intel and AM4 systems, and another designed specifically for the large AMD Threadripper CPUs. The Intel/AM4 solution supports Intel LGA1150/1151/1155/1156/2011-3/2066 sockets while the sTR4 model is compatible with AMD SocketTR4 (Socket SP3r2) and AMD Socket SP3 based motherboards. EK states the pre-filled CPU cooling module is based on the EK-Supremacy series of water blocks, comes with an error-preventing mounting mechanism for an easier installation, have low hydraulic restriction, and of course mates perfectly with all EK-MLC Phoenix radiator core modules.

As for the EK-MLC GPU cooling modules, there are 23 to choose from with more being added. These are designed to fit NVIDIA and AMD cards from the Geforce GTX 1070 to the TitanX Pascal on the NVIDIA side, Radeon RX Vega cards on the AMD side. The blocks are made from high-purity copper and directly cool the GPU, RAM (HBM2), and well as the VRM. It has a central inlet split-flow cooling engine designed for good hydraulic performance for use with its other MLC Phoenix parts. All blocks are equipped with a rotary terminal allowing the integrated tubing to rotate on their mount point for more flexibility when routing the loop. Most all EK-MLC GPU cooling module full cover blocks are available in Nickel Plexi and Nickel Acetal versions with the base of the blocks made of nickel plated electrolytic copper. The plexi variants also have two pre-drilled slots for 3mm LED diodes. All EK-MLC parts will come with a two-year warranty.

All EK-MLC products are currently available for pre-order through the EK-MLC configurator with shipping to start Monday, December 4^th.

EKWB Phoenix MLC AIO Family
CPU Cooling Modules	MSRP (incl. VAT) / USD
EK-MLC Phoenix CPU Module - Intel/AM4	66.90€ / $79.99
EK-CoolStream SE 560	59.90€ / $69.90

Radiator Core Modules
EK-MLC Phoenix 120 Radiator Core Module	139.90€ / $149.90
EK-MLC Phoenix 240 Radiator Core Module	169.90€ / $179.99
EK-MLC Phoenix 360 Radiator Core Module	189.90€ / $194.99
EK-MLC Phoenix 140 Radiator Core Module	139.90€ / $149.90
EK-MLC Phoenix 280 Radiator Core Module	139.90€ / $149.90
GPU Cooling Modules
EK-MLC GPU Module FC Titan X Pascal - Nickel	134.90€ / $144.99
EK-MLC GPU Module FC 1080 GTX Ti - Nickel	134.90€ / $144.99
EK-MLC GPU Module FC 1080 GTX Ti Strix - Nickel	145.90€ / $155.99
EK-MLC GPU Module FC Geforce GTX FE - Nickel	124.90€ / $135.99
EK-MLC GPU Module FC Radeon Vega - Nickel	134.90€ / $144.99
EK-MLC GPU Module FC 1080 GTX Ti FTW3 - Nickel	134.90€ / $144.99
EK-MLC GPU Module FC 1080 GTX Ti Aorus - Nickel	129.90€ / $139.99
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Intel Compute Card CD1M3128MK + DK132EPJ Dock SFF PC Review

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For starters, the CPU is an Intel Core m3-7Y30 mobile processor (Kaby Lake-Y) based on 14nm technology with a 4.5W TDP (configurable up and down to 7W and 3.5W). Maximum Turbo is 2.6GHz with a base frequency of 1.00GHz. The CPU has two core and four threads, 1MB of SmartCache, and a ...

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SiFive Advances Custom Silicon Industry with New Partnerships, Products at 7th RISC-V Workshop

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The news comes on the heels of SiFive's recent release of the industry's first RISC-V based Linux core: U54-MC Coreplex IP, a 64-bit, quadcore real-time capable application processor with support for full featured operating systems. The standard U54-MC Coreplex contains four U54 CPUs along with a ...

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Samsung Starts Mass Production of Chips Using 10nm Low Power Plus (10LPP) Process Tech

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Samsung Foundry on Wednesday revealed that it has started mass production of SoC products using its second generation 10 nm Low Power Plus (10LPP) fabrication technology. The new manufacturing process will enable developers of chips to reduce power consumption or increase performance of their products compared to the first-gen 10 nm tech (10LPE).

Like previous node updates from Samsung, the new 10LPP fabrication process promises a range of improvements depending on what a customer is looking for. On the performance front the process is said to offer 10% higher performance at the same complexity and power, or alternatively, customers can design for an up to 15% reduction in power consumption at the same frequency and complexity. Samsung Foundry does not disclose how it managed to improve the 10LPP vs. the 10LPE, but it is logical to assume that the company had to optimize the transistor structure somehow. Samsung’s 10LPP and 10LPE technologies are still very similar from design rules and manufacturing points of view, so experience obtained with the former will be applicable to the latter.

Advertised PPA Improvements of New Process Technologies Data announced by companies during conference calls, press briefings and in press releases
	14LPP vs 28LPP	10LPE vs 14LPE	10LPE vs 14LPP	10LPP vs 10LPE	10LPU vs 10LPE	8LPP vs 10LPP
Power	60%	40%	30%	~15%	?	10%
Performance	40%	27%	>10%	~10%	?	?
Area Reduction	50%	30%	30%	none	?	10%

Samsung Foundry says that SoCs made using the 10LPP process technology will be used in devices to be launched early next year and onwards. The contract maker of semiconductors does not officially disclose which chips it is producing using the 10LPP process technology, but since it uses plural (“SoC products”), it all but given that there are more than one 10LPP SoC model in production. One of the candidates to be produced using the 10LPP is Samsung’s own Exynos 9 Series 9810 SoC that is expected to power the company’s 2018 flagship Galaxy S smartphones. Typically, Qualcomm also adopts Samsung’s latest process technologies along with the South Korean giant itself (to a large degree because its chips are used inside flagship Galaxy handsets too), but so far, Qualcomm has not made any announcements concerning the 10LPP.

Keeping in mind that while Samsung Foundry’s LPE process technologies are used primarily by Samsung itself and a very limited number of its customers, the LPP processes are adopted by a considerably larger group of clients. So the launch of the 10LPP means expanded usage of the company’s 10 nm node in general. In order to meet demand, Samsung will start to make SoCs using the 10LPP in its new S3 fab located in Hwaseong, Korea.

Meanwhile, the evolution of Samsung’s 10 nm node is not going to stop with the formal introduction of the 10LPP. Going forward, Samsung plans to introduce the 10LPU fabrication technology for ultra-low-power SoCs as well as the 8LPP manufacturing process for advanced SoCs. Samsung yet has to detail the 10LPU, but with the 8LPP it promises a 10% area reduction (at the same complexity) as well as a 10% lower power consumption (at the same frequency and complexity) compared to the 10LPP process due to narrower metal pitches and other optimizations.

“We will be able to better serve our customers through the migration from 10LPE to 10LPP with improved performance and higher initial yield,” said Ryan Lee, vice president of foundry marketing at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung with its long-living 10nm process strategy will continue to work on the evolution of 10nm technology down to 8LPP to offer customers distinct competitive advantages for a wide range of applications.”

Rugged 10GbE- and PCIe-rich module runs Linux on Xeon-D

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The other supported CPUs include the quad-core, 1.6GHz/2.2GHz Pentium D1517 with 25W TDP, the quad-core, 1.3GHz Xeon D-1529 with 20W TDP, the octa-core, 1.6GHz Xeon D-1539 with 35W TDP, and the 12-core, 1.5GHz Xeon-D1559 with 45W TDP. Three of the processor options support a -40 ...

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How to find the best possible laptop on any budget

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The processor (CPU) is the "brain" of your PC, so you want something that can handle the rest of the hardware and that can handle whatever tasks you throw at it. There are two brands of CPU you'll usually find in a laptop: Intel and AMD. These two manufacturers produce a lot of different CPUs, but here ...

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Intel Counters EPYC Claims

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Following the announcement by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that its EPYC server processor had set some benchmark records, Intel (INTC) ... De Gelas points out, however, that in most cases, GPUs perform many times faster for these workloads than CPUs, making the competition more or less ...

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The future of storage: Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo shares his predictions

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With advanced Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU-based applications, the goal should be to keep the massively parallel CPU busy so there are no idle cycles. Being able to keep the parallel processors fed means having an active data store that allows multiple groups to access the data at the same time.

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Samsung Galaxy S9 Exynos 9810 CPU Begins Mass Production

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The firm announced that it has begun mass production of its Exynos 9810 processor, the one that's pegged to power the Galaxy S9 series. It's based on Samsung's second-gen 10nm FinFET LPP (low power plus) semiconductor architecture - the same stuff used in Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 that will ...

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ASRock X299E-ITX/ac Skylake-X Motherboard Review

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By supporting only Skylake-X processors, ASRock assures that the X299E-ITX/ac would always have access to at least 28 CPU-based lanes, and ASRock wants to make sure everyone knows that its single PCIe x16 slot can alternatively feed two x16 graphics cards at x8-mode via a two-slot riser.

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RISC-V Processor Developer Suite Announced by Imperas

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Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in high-performance software simulation and virtual platforms, today announced the release of its new RISC-V Processor Developer Suite™. The RISC-V Processor Developer Suite contains the models and tools necessary to validate and verify the functionality of a ...

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OnlineKhabar Reportedly Found Mining Cryptocurrency Using its Readers CPU

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According to ThreatNix, OnlineKhabar had a script in its website that was mining Monero currency. The script was using a mining operation called CPU mining. Cryptocurrency mining requires a processor to perform calculations called hashes. These calculations can be performed by a regular general ...

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Seasonal Strength Approaches for Advanced Micro Devices

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AMD launched Ryzen 3, a budget-friendly CPU that will lead to market share gains against its rival, Intel (INTC). Ryzen 5, a mainstream processor that was launched in April, should gain momentum as a preferred choice for consumers. The chip has a favorable cost/performance that strikes the right ...

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Supercomputing poised for a massive speed boost

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The machine took the top spot with home-grown processors not long after the United States imposed a trade embargo (in 2015) on selling chips to supercomputing centres in China. The lightweight Sunway processors are not radically different from garden-variety CPUs, says Depei Qian, a computer ...

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Intel i5 6600k Processor 3.5GHz LGA 1151 CPU

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Intel Core i5-6600K Processor Skylake Quad-Core 3.5GHz 91W LGA 1151 CPU . It comes in the original.

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Tuesday 28 November 2017

US Angles to Retake Supercomputer Lead

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IBM's silicon contribution will be its Power9 processor (see photo), housing up to 24 cores with up to 8 billion FinFET transistors cast in 14-nanometer ...

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18 X299 motherboards review: battle for first

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Especially now that after the release of the 8 generation 'Coffee Lake' Core-processors a 6-core cpu is available at a relatively low price, the target ...

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Intel Pits Xeon Scalable Against AMD EPYC In Server Processor Benchmark Showdown

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... dual CPU Xeon E5026xx v4 (Broadwell-EP) and the dual socket AMD EPYC 7601 processor systems. Intel is also clear that these benchmarks are ...

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Intel Kaby Lake R Shows Massive Performance And Efficiency Gains In Rare Apples-To-Apples ...

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The fundamental processor and graphic architectures are mostly unchanged over last year's Kaby Lake, and they are produced using a similar 14nm process, but Kaby Lake R features more CPU cores and cache, supports faster memory, and clocks and voltages have been tuned to optimize efficiency.

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Minima Processor Reduces SoC Energy Consumption for Near-Threshold Voltage Design

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Lenovo Yoga 720 (12-inch) Review

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With an integrated Intel HD Graphics 620 processor, the Yoga 720 scored ... with an Intel Core i3-7100U CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB PCle SSD.

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Spotted: Ryzen 3 1200 CPU with Eight Active CPU Cores Enabled

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There is a video floating on the web of a Russia based guy who purchased a Ryzen 3 1200, a four core sub 100 USD processor. The user, however ...

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Intel's 9th Gen HyperThreaded i5s could steal the show from 8-core i7 chips

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Here are the best gaming CPUs up for grabs. ... If this all comes to pass, then the Core i5 range may have a six-core/12-thread processor in its midst, ...

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How to Enable CPU Virtualization in Your Computer's BIOS

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CPU Virtualization is a hardware feature found in all current AMD & Intel CPUs that allows a single processor to act as if it was multiple individual CPUs. This allows an operating system to more effectively & efficiently utilize the CPU power in the computer so that it runs faster. This feature is also a ...

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Intel Pits Xeon Scalable Against AMD EPYC In Server Processor Benchmark Showdown

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Intel has gone through the trouble to set up some benchmarks comparing its Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Skylake-SP) in a two-socket configuration to the performance of the dual CPU Xeon E5026xx v4 (Broadwell-EP) and the dual socket AMD EPYC 7601 processor systems. Intel is also clear that ...

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The Ecosystem Expands For AMD Epyc Servers

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The “Naples” Epyc server processors do not exactly present a new architecture from a new processor maker, but given the difficulties that AMD had at ... The most important news coming out of AMD during SC17 was not just that it had some SPEC CPU benchmark test results to show off for integer and ...

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Mobile gaming on Ryzen 5

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"AMD's Ryzen 5 2500U pairs the competitive performance of four Zen CPU cores with eight compute units of Vega graphics power in a notebook-friendly power envelope. We put the Ryzen 5 2500U to the test aboard HP's Envy x360 laptop to see whether the fusion of Zen and Vega results in the best ...

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Crucial 128GB DDR4 LRDIMM Server Memory Now Available

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Boise, ID and Glasgow, UK – November 28, 2017 – Crucial, a leading global brand of memory and storage upgrades, today announced the immediate availability of 128GB DDR4 LRDIMMs, a new offering in its server memory product portfolio. The 128GB DDR4 LRDIMM is the highest density server ...

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Dell New XPS 13 Touch (Intel 8th Gen Core) Laptop Review

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... mobile CPU segment. Dell has renamed their award-winning XPS 13 to New XPS 13. While the original XPS 13 uses a dual-core 7th generation mobile processor with a maximum Turbo of 3.1GHz and base of 2.5GHz, the New XPS 13 uses a quad-core 8th generation mobile processor with a Turbo of ...

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Motherboard manufacturers Release AM4 BIOS With Raven Ridge APU Support

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Matched up, that's close to a comparable quad-core Ryzen 5 processor but now with, let's say a Radeon RX 550 video card. The news ... In addition, to support for the CPU part (ie AGESA), the respective video BIOS is included (BRISTOL AM4 Generic VBIOS and Raven Generic VBIOS). The fact that ...

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Intel Xeon E3-1200 v7 Will Become Xeon Entry (Xeon E), Possible Intel with Radeon Graphics Launch

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The last 12 months have seen an upheaval of Intel’s enterprise processor naming scheme, with a distinct mix of positive and negative responses. In previous years, Intel followed a naming scheme that provided the processor positioning, some of the features, the generation, and if it was a special sub-type all in one number, which scaled from the bottom of the stack to the top. This scheme had been in place for five or six generations, but was then flipped on its head when Intel announced the change of the Xeon E5 and E7 processor lines to the Xeon Scalable Platform, Xeon-SP, using heavy metals as the naming. More recently, the workstation-focused Xeon E5-1600 line was also renamed to Xeon W, for workstation. We have learned from separate sources that in the early part of next year, the next generation of entry-level Xeon E3-1200 processors will also be renamed to Xeon E, with E for entry.

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iPad 2018 rumors: Thinner bezels, Face ID, and a faster processor

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For example, the A10 found in the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus has two high-performance CPU cores and two high-efficiency cores, a six-core graphics processor, and up to 3GB of RAM. The A10X found in the iPad Pro has three high-performance and three high-efficiency cores of the same architecture, a 12 ...

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Intel's 9th-Generation Core i7 to Will Get Bump to 8 Cores and 16 Threads

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Reports suggest the 9^th generation Core i7 CPU will get 8-cores and 16-threads. The processor will be called the Core i7-9700K and will boost the number of cores from 6 in the 8^th-gen. Intel's latest available chips deliver 40% more performance compared to 7^th-gen, so expect the future silicon to ...

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Dell New XPS 13 Touch (Intel 8th Gen Core) Laptop Review

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Kaby Lake-R has arrived to replace Kaby Lake in the mobile CPU segment. Dell has renamed their award-winning XPS 13 to New XPS 13. While the original XPS 13 uses a dual-core 7th generation mobile processor with a maximum Turbo of 3.1GHz and base of 2.5GHz, the New XPS 13 uses a ...

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Spotted: Ryzen 3 1200 CPU with Eight Active SPU Cores Enabled

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It is not the first time we see hear about something like this happening. But thus far we haven't seen it happening with a Ryzen 3 1200. There is a video floating on the web of a Russia based guy who purchased a Ryzen 3 1200, a four core sub 100 USD processor. The user, however, found his PC rather ...

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Debating The Role Of Commodity Chips In Exascale

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For some of the planned exascale systems, the CPUs are going beyond the traditional processors from Intel and IBM and GPU accelerators from Nvidia and AMD. China's massive Sunway TaihuLIght system, which sits at the top of the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers with a speed of 93 ...

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Minima Processor Reduces SoC Energy Consumption for Near-Threshold Voltage Design

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The Minima dynamic-margining technology works with a designer's CPU or DSP processor of choice, providing hardware and software IP to enable the device to modify power usage in real time during operation in response to performance needs, process variation or environmental conditions.

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AMD Raven Ridge APU Support Arrives For Existing AM4 Motherboards Via BIOS Updates

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This highlights one of the benefits of the AM4 platform, in that AMD is committed to supporting future processor releases through at least 2019, based on previous ... Raven Ridge APUs are based on AMD's Zen architecture, combining up to 4 Zen-based CPU cores with integrated Vega graphics.

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Intel Prepares Cannonlake i7-9700K 8C/16T CPU for 2H 2018

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Even though Intel's 8th generation Coffee Lake processors just recently launched, rumours are already floating around regarding the upcoming 9th generation Cannonlake CPUs. The news comes from Hong Kong-based HKEPC hardware who learned of the news from a motherboard vendor source.

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Dissecting Intel's EPYC Benchmarks: Performance Through the Lens of Competitive Analysis

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Although the AMD EPYC is definitely a worthy contender in the server space, AMD's technical marketing of the new CPU has been surprisingly absent, as the company not published any real server benchmarks. The only benchmarks published were SPEC CPU and Stream, with AMD preferring for its ...

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Dissecting Intel's EPYC Benchmarks: Performance Through the Lens of Competitive Analysis

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Although the AMD EPYC is definitely a worthy contender in the server space, AMD's technical marketing of the new CPU has been surprisingly absent, as the company not published any real server benchmarks. The only benchmarks published were SPEC CPU and Stream, with AMD preferring for its partners and third parties to promote performance. And, as our long-time readers know, while the SPEC CPU benchmarks have their merits and many people value them, they are a very poor proxy of most server workloads.

In every launch, we expect companies to offer an element of competitive analysis, often to show how their platform is good or better than the rest. At the launch of Intel's latest Xeon-SP platform, analysis to EPYC was limited to a high-level, as the systems were not as freely available as expected. However now, Intel's data center engineering group has been able to obtain a few EPYC systems and has started benchmarking, and finding ways to prove Xeon-SP dominance over the competition. This benchmarking, along with justifications of third-party verification, was distributed to the small set of Xeon-SP launch reviewers as a guide, to follow up on that high-level discussion some time ago. The Intel benchmarking document we received had a good amount of detail however, and the conference call we had relating to it was filled with some good technical tidbits.

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NVIDIA Releases Maxwell-based GeForce MX130 & MX110 Mobile GPUs

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Earlier this month, NVIDIA quietly released the Maxwell-based entry-level GeForce MX130 and MX110, joining the earlier Pascal-based MX150. The MX130 and MX110 product pages were later updated to specify that they were Maxwell-based parts. These discrete mobile GPUs are OEM-focused, and fill out the very bottom of NVIDIA’s mobile GPU product stack.

Officially, as with previous low-end GPU launches, NVIDIA is remaining tight-lipped on formal GPU specifications. In lieu of hard numbers on CUDA cores and clocks – the latter of which is variable among laptop designs due to power and cooling – NVIDIA is citing performance relative to the Intel UHD 620, the iGPU featured in the i5-7200U (and most other Intel 8th Gen Core CPUs). There the company has the MX110 listed as 1.5x faster in games than the UHD 620, while the MX130 is cited as 2.5x faster. In comparison, the MX150 was cited at 4x faster than the Intel's iGPU.

Best Guess: NVIDIA Laptop Video Card Specification Comparison
	MX150	MX130	MX110
CUDA Cores	384	384	256
ROPs	16	8	8
Boost Clock	Variable	Variable	Variable
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5/DDR3	GDDR5/DDR3
Memory Bus Width	64-bit	64-bit	64-bit
VRAM	<=2GB	<=2GB	<=2GB
GPU	GP108	GM108	GM108
Manufacturing Process	Samsung 14nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm
Launch Date	05/26/2017	11/2017	11/2017

Presumably, these parts are GM108-based 940MX and 920MX rebrands, a common occurrence in mobile GPUs. A SiSoftware entry for a Dell Latitude 5591, mentioned on a Dell Accessories product page, details the MX130 as a 384 CUDA core configuration at 1189 MHz, which again suggests a rebranded GeForce 940MX. Based on the performance difference between the MX130 and MX110, it is likely that the MX110 is a rebrand of the 256 CUDA core 920MX, as opposed to the 384 CUDA core 930MX. As the MX130 and MX110 features both DDR3 and GDDR5 interfaces, OEMs may outfit video memory as they see fit.

Both Maxwell parts support Optimus and Turbo Boost 2.0. As is typical with their low-end mobile product launches, NVIDIA had no further details or information to provide.

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Intel's 9th Gen HyperThreaded i5s could steal the show from 8-core i7 chips

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Even more information surrounding Intel's ninth generation has leaked just one day after the massive leak of processors we saw yesterday. Chinese website HKEPC report that they have spoken with an unnamed Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer who has subsequently spilled the beans on the ...

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Near threshold specialist developing low power Cortex-M3 core

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Minima's approach is the only way that minimises energy across a broad range of processor solutions.” Minima's dynamic-margining technology works with a designer's CPU or DSP of choice, providing hardware and software IP to enable the device to modify power usage in real time during operation in ...

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Intel's next Core i7 flagship could bring 8-cores to mainstream processors

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Intel's next-generation mainstream flagship processor will be a Core i7 CPU that sports no less than 8-cores with 16-threads, according to the latest from the rumor mill. According to recent leaks, as reported by Wccftech.com, the 9th-generation flagship processor will be the Core i7-9700K which will up ...

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Intel shares comparative AMD Epyc server test results

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Intel has published a raft of internal server benchmark results comparing its Broadwell-EP, Skylake-SP, and AMD's EPYC processors. This may well be Intel's reaction to AMD's publicity last week which boasted of the performance and efficiency of the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 server, powered by ...

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AMD FX-8370 4GHz Socket AM3+ Processor CPU Unlocked Multiplier

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Intel’s next Core i7 flagship could bring 8-cores to mainstream processors

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Intel’s next-generation mainstream flagship processor will be a Core i7 CPU that sports no less than 8-cores with 16-threads, according to the latest from the rumor mill.

According to recent leaks, as reported by Wccftech.com, the 9th-generation flagship processor will be the Core i7-9700K which will up the ante to 8-cores from 6-cores (as seen in the current Coffee Lake flagship Core i7-8700K).

There isn’t any speculation regarding the other specs such as clock speeds or TDP, although Wccftech.com speculates that the 9th-gen processors will use a honed version of the current 14nm++ process. So it’ll be a Coffee Lake Refresh, effectively, not Cannon Lake which will drop down to an entirely new process (10nm).

Although even if architectural efficiency gains aren’t massive, sticking on an extra pair of cores for these top-end processors will obviously help Intel stay competitive when it comes to Ryzen’s large core counts.

Threads aplenty

There’s also further speculation that while the 9th-gen Core i5 and i3 ranges will keep the same core count as the current models, they will double up on the thread count (so Core i5 will be 6-cores, 12-threads, and Core i3 will be quad-core, 8-threads).

Take all this with a liberal sprinkling of salt as ever.

When might we see such processors, if they are indeed in the pipeline? They will apparently be launching at some point in 2018, although the report doesn’t hint at any rough timeline next year.

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Intel might release a eight-core mainstream processor

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The new generation of CPUs should compete with AMD's socket AM4 offerings in terms of raw CPU performance and core count, while the Intel X299 should fight against AMD Threadripper. According to HKEPC, Intel's upcoming Coffee Lake Refresh series of CPUs is going to be released in 2018, ...

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First Intel Core i9 Laptop Processor On Its Way For Early 2018, Leaked Details Reveal

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First Intel Core i9 Laptop Processor On Its Way For Early 2018, Leaked Details Reveal. November 28, 2017. SHARE ... It's believed that a mobile version of the Intel Core i9 CPU might release sometime in early 2018 for devices such as workstation laptops. The high-end overclockable Intel chip is ...

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Monday 27 November 2017

9th-gen Intel Core i CPUs to feature up to eight cores

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What do we know about Intel's 9th gen processors? Well, not much, but if the report from Guru3D, based on a rather hard to translate Chinese article, ...

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Can Qualcomm Do In The Datacenter What It Has Done In Smartphones?

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But it remained for a company to step up to the challenge of designing a purpose-built ARM architecture server processor on a competitive node and ... Performance was measured in web server processed requests/second and CPU power consumption was monitored using on-board server diagnostics.

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Intel Presents Its AMD EPYC Server Test Results

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Intel provided performance comparisons between its Broadwell-EP, Skylake-SP, and AMD's EPYC processors. These results all come from publicly .... As we can see, Intel claims it leads the EPYC server in nearly every one of the CPU-bound tests (one test is a tie). Other tests are network and storage ...

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EK-MLC Phoenix parts offer an easy path to liquid-cooling nirvana

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Builders can then add the combination of CPU and graphics-card water ... will also work with AMD Socket SP3 processors like Epyc server CPUs.

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Rumor: Intel Core i7-9700k Could Have 8 Cores (16 Threads)

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WWCFTech has collected a few rumors, based on AIDA64 release notes and HKEPC, about Intel's CPU launches for the upcoming year. There are some ... The big news, if true, would be that Intel is planning on elevating their top-end mainstream processor to eight cores (sixteen threads). This one-ups ...

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Benchmark spills the Intel Coffee Lake beans, including a Core i9 laptop CPU

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The latest beta lists the names of eighth-generation processors that may possibly launch in early 2018, and even lists a Core i9 chip built for laptops.

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Scale Down Rugged Mission Computers…and Still Boost Performance?

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The Xeon-D SoC has more cores and threads per CPU (up to 16 cores/32 threads), helping designers upgrade ... For some time now, designers of Intel processor-based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded systems have ...

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AMD's Ryzen 5 2500U APU reviewed

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Most PCs sold these days are laptops of some kind, and AMD's Ryzen Mobile chips are its latest in a long line of "accelerated processing units": CPU cores with a powerful on-die Radeon graphics processor. For the first time since the advent of the APU, AMD has both competitive CPU cores and a ...

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G.Skill Shrinks Latencies of DDR4-4000+ Kits for Coffee Lake: DDR4-4266 CL17 Announced

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The new Trident Z RGB modules require a high-quality Intel Z370-based motherboard that can deliver “clean” power to them as well as a processor that can handle both high frequencies and relatively low latencies. G.Skill's low-latency Trident Z RGB dual-channel kits for Coffee Lake CPUs are rated for ...

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G.Skill Shrinks Latencies of DDR4-4000+ Kits for Coffee Lake: DDR4-4266 CL17 Announced

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G.Skill has announced a new series of high-end 16 and 32 GB DDR4 kits for Intel’s Coffee Lake processors. Following in the footsteps of other vendors who have announced similar highly clocked 32 GB kits, the new G.Skill DDR4-4000+ kits offer 2 and 4 matched DIMM sets with high frequencies and CL17 timings. The new Trident Z RGB modules require a high-quality Intel Z370-based motherboard that can deliver “clean” power to them as well as a processor that can handle both high frequencies and relatively low latencies.

G.Skill’s low-latency Trident Z RGB dual-channel kits for Coffee Lake CPUs are rated for DDR4-4000 CL17 17-17-37 at 1.35 V, DDR4-4133 CL17 17-17-37 at 1.4 V and DDR4-4266 CL17 18-18-38 at 1.45 V. The kits consist of 8 GB modules based on pre-binned Samsung’s B-die 8 Gb ICs made using the company’s 20 nm process for DRAMs, just like all the other high-end DDR4 modules today. The new DIMMs come with XMP 2.0 SPD profiles to simplify their installation on supporting platforms.

G.Skill's Low-Latency Trident Z RGB Kits for Coffee Lake/Z370 Platform
Speed	CL Timing	Voltage	Kit Config.	Kit Capacity	Family	PN
DDR4-4000	CL17 17-17-37	1.35 V	2×8 GB	16 GB	Trident Z RGB	F4-4000C17D-16GTZR
DDR4-4000		1.35 V	4×8 GB	32 GB		F4-4000C17Q-32GTZR
DDR4-4133		1.4 V	2×8 GB	16 GB		F4-4133C17D-16GTZR
DDR4-4133		1.4 V	4×8 GB	32 GB		F4-4133C17Q-32GTZR
DDR4-4266	CL17 18-18-38	1.45 V	4×8 GB	32 GB		F4-4266C17Q-32GTZR

When we first encountered G.Skill’s Trident Z memory kits for Intel’s Coffee Lake/Z370 platform earlier this year, we noticed that the company relaxed their tRAS sub-timings when compared to DIMMs designed for Intel’s X299 platform. Much to our surprise, the new low-latency Trident Z RGB DDR4-4000+ 32 GB kits shrink all the timings rather considerably compared to the company's other high-speed DDR4 kits. In fact, the new Trident Z RGB modules offer the lowest latencies among all DDR4-4000+ kits announced to date. Apparently, at least some of Intel’s latest desktop CPUs can handle not only extreme data transfer rates well beyond DDR4 specs, but also can do so with CL17 timings, albeit with a 12.5% –20% overvoltage and G.Skill’s tinkering.

To validate its Trident Z RGB DDR4-4000+ CL17 kits, G.Skill uses Intel’s Core i7-8700K CPUs as well as ASUS’ ROG Maximus Hero motherboards. Like other highly clocked 4 DIMM kits announced this fall, this comes with the caveat that not all Coffee Lake processors can handle ultra-fast memory modules in a 2 DPC configuration. Therefore, to take advantage of G.Skill's DDR4-4266 CL17 kit one is going to need some luck. At the same time, the company claims that hitting 4000 – 4266 MT/s is not very difficult on modern platforms and processors that can handle such speeds are not too rare (but a good cooling system is a must due to DRAM overvoltage).

In addition to its low-latency DDR4-4000+ CL17 kits for Intel’s Coffee Lake/Z370 platform, G.Skill has also introduced the absolutely fastest 32 GB DDR4 kit to date that is rated to run at 4400 MT/s with CL19 19-19-39 timings and 1.5 V. The kit naturally requires a high-end Z370 motherboard and a pre-binned CPU with a memory controller that can support such data transfer rates.

With the addition of all the latest kits that G.Skill introduced in the recent weeks, the company’s lineup of modules for Coffee Lake/Z370 platform now looks as follows:

G.Skill's Trident Z Memory for Intel's Coffee Lake/Z370 Platform
Speed	CL Timing	Voltage	Kit Config.	Kit Capacity	Family	PN
DDR4-3733	CL17 19-19-39	1.35 V	4×16 GB	64 GB	Trident Z RGB	F4-3733C17Q-64GTZR
DDR4-4000	CL17 17-17-37		2×8 GB	16 GB		F4-4000C17D-16GTZR
	CL17 17-17-37		4×8 GB	32 GB		F4-4000C17Q-32GTZR
	CL18 19-19-39		4×8 GB			F4-4000C18Q-32GTZR
	CL19 19-19-39		2×16 GB		Trident Z	F4-4000C19D-32GTZKK
DDR4-4133	CL17 17-17-37	1.4 V	2×8 GB	16 GB	Trident Z RGB	F4-4133C17D-16GTZR
DDR4-4133	CL17 17-17-37		4×8 GB		Trident Z RGB	F4-4133C17Q-32GTZR
DDR4-4200	CL19 21-21-41		4×8 GB		Trident Z	F4-4200C19Q-32GTZKK
DDR4-4266	CL17 18-18-38	1.45 V	4×8 GB	32 GB	Trident Z RGB	F4-4266C17Q-32GTZR
DDR4-4266	CL19 23-23-43	1.4 V	4×8 GB	32 GB	Trident Z RGB	F4-4266C19Q-32GTZR
DDR4-4400	CL19 19-19-39	1.4 V	2×8 GB	16 GB	Trident Z	F4-4400C19D-16GTZKK
DDR4-4400	CL19 19-19-39	1.5 V	4×8 GB	32 GB		F4-4400C19Q-32GTZKK
DDR4-4500	CL19 19-19-39	1.45 V	2×8 GB	16 GB		F4-4500C19D-16GTZKK
DDR4-4600	CL19 25-25-45	1.5 V	2×8 GB	16 GB		F4-4600C19D-16GTZKK

G.Skill plans to start sales of its Trident Z RGB DDR4-4000+ CL17 kits for Intel’s latest platform in January 2018. The manufacturer never touches upon MSRP of its high-end modules in press releases, but expect the new products to be priced well above average dual-channel kits. In the meantime, the fastest Trident Z RGB 32 GB dual-channel kit that can be ordered now is rated for DDR4-4000 CL18 and costs $649.99 (at press time, it was out of stock at Newegg).

Buy G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-4000 CL18 on Newegg

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