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Tuesday, 30-August-2016 14:50:11 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Some more AMD Zen CPU info from Hot Chips, with coverage from PC Perspective and TechARP. AMD has embraced IPC while still focusing on multi-threaded capabilities. The rebalance of priorities here has allowed AMD to provide good potential performance across many applications. The scalable architecture in terms of both power efficiency and multiple “complexes” per die should allow AMD to apply this core technology from low end APUs up to high end server chips (four core/eight thread to 16 core/32 thread).
OCInside reported from Gamescom 2016 in Cologne, Germany. Of course we attend gamescom as well and published a gamescom report with more than 400 pictures of current games, latest gaming hardware, VR headsets, DCMM casemods, Cosplayer and a lot of more interesting stuff on 14 pages at OCinside.de. It is available in German only, but it is worth watching the pictures with or without a translation tool to discover the latest gaming and gaming hardware trends – you should not miss that.
Tweaktown meanwhile looked at Merged Reality Technologies from Intel at IDF 2016. Last week at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2016) in San Fransico, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled Intel's vision for the future of virtual and augmented reality; merged reality (MR). Virtual reality is, of course, a buzz word, but Intel's dedication to the VR/AR scene can't be overlooked. Throughout IDF 2016, multiple new and cutting edge technologies were displayed; half the time I couldn't help but realize that they are all small pieces to a much bigger puzzle.
PC World checked out some MU-MIMO WiFi routers. Old routers used to have one aerial and transmit slowly (it seemed fast at the time). Then MIMO routers appeared which had Multiple In and Multiple Out antennae. This has been the basis for routers based upon the 802.11n and subsequent 802.11ac WiFi standards for some time. The problem with both of these standards is that if there is a slow device on the network, in theory, everything on the network slows down. Enter MU-MIMO which caters for Multiple Users using different devices. As such different antennae can be focused at different users which, in theory, avoids any speed drop.
Something different from PC Perspective: a cartoon explanation of multi-GPU memory management. This pilot episode is about load-balancing and memory management in multi-GPU configurations. There seems to be a lot of confusion around what was (and was not) possible with DirectX 11 and OpenGL, and even more confusion about what DirectX 12, Mantle, and Vulkan allow developers to do. It highlights three different load-balancing algorithms, and even briefly mentions what LucidLogix was attempting to accomplish almost ten years ago.
They're hackin' errbody out there, with reports from mpot about Opera Sync users compromised, Infowars accounts breached and two US state election databases compromised. Meanwhile KPMG suggest that cyber security should be expanded to more than just IT. Cyber threats today are no longer restricted to a company’s communications and IT domains, calling for more than just technical controls to avert attacks and protect the business from future risks and breaches, a new report said. According to the joint report of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and KPMG, cyber security today embraces multiple units of an organization like human resource, supply chain, administration and infrastructure. It, therefore, requires governance at the highest levels.
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