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Friday, 13-November-2020 00:45:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Apple have unveiled their first laptops powered by their in-house M1 ARM processor. Without independent reviews we only have their word on how it performs, but their word is that it performs very well, and is also very power efficient. Coverage on TGheVerge and Anandtech, and a video by Marques Brownlee. Apple says the new processor will focus on combining power efficiency with performance. It has an eight-core CPU, which Apple says offers the world’s best performance per watt of a CPU. Apple says it delivers the same peak performance as a typical laptop CPU at a quarter of the power draw. It says this has four fast CPU cores, paired with four high-efficiency cores which by themselves offer comparable performance to an existing dual-core MacBook Air. Discussion in this thread.
Intel creep ever closer to a proper discrete GPU, with a laptop release and also a datacentre-specific offering. As far as we’re aware, Intel’s timeline for Xe-HP is to enable general availability sometime in 2021. The early silicon built on Intel’s 10nm Enhanced SuperFin process is in-house, working, and has been demonstrated to the press in a first-party video transcode benchmark. The top offering is a quad-tile solution, with a reported peak performance somewhere in the 42+ TFLOP (FP32) range in NEO/OpenCL-based video transcode. This would be more than twice as much as NVIDIA’s Ampere A100.
The Federal Government is looking into right to repair legislation for Australia. The right to repair electronic devices without fear of forfeiting the manufacturer warranties is another step closer, with the federal government this week announcing an inquiry into the issue. A Productivity Commission inquiry will focus on consumers' ability to repair good(s) and access repair services at competitive prices.
The Attorney-Genereal's office meanwhile is conducting a review of the Privacy Act which is currently dated from 1988 and presumably needs updating in this world of social media etc. The review was announced as part of the government's response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Digital Platforms Inquiry. We will draw on a range of sources for the review and invite submissions on matters for consideration. We will also meet with stakeholders on specific issues and consider research and reports on privacy issues.
TechSpot aim to tell you everything you need to know about small form-factor PCs. Small form factor (SFF) PCs are a niche corner of the PC market that’s becoming more accessible than ever before. It’s pretty appealing as many SFF PCs are similar in size to the latest gaming consoles, but of course, there’s more to do than just game on a PC. If space has ever been a concern, or if you’d like to fit a PC somewhere close to a TV for a full-fledged entertainment system, then you’ve probably considered a small form factor build.
OCClub meanwhile have a guide to overclocking the GeForce RTX 3080 which you haven't been able to buy yet. :) While I used the RTX 380 Founders Edition in writing this guide, any variation or model also can be used because they are all RTX 3080 (GA102) Ampere GPUs. Some of this does apply to other Ampere GPUs; 3090 (GA102) and 3070 (GA104). While each card will have different overall core offsets and temperatures, the principles of overclocking an NVIDIA RTX 3080 covered here in this guide are similar to all Ampere GPUs.
Here's a cheesy 80's video about an Australian submarine cable, partly to highlight a project to digitise many such old video tapes. In 2020, a new project called Future Proof signals our continuing efforts to save the nation’s significant audiovisual heritage so future generations can see and hear our history. We will be spending $3 million dollars to ensure that another 30,000 of our most critical recordings can be digitised.
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