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Tobias Mann Oct 22, 2024

My latest for El Reg
https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/113351562552549213

The Register (@[email protected])

It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla? Opinion This week, Intel and AMD set their decades-old rivalry aside to ensure x86 remains relevant amid growing adoption of competing architectures.… #theregister #IT https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/intel_amd_x86/

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Tobias Mann Jul 1, 2024

If you've ever been curious about #AI image gen, there's a good chance you've got everything you need to try it out for yourself.

Check out my beginner friendly guide (all four pages of it) over on The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/29/image_gen_guide/?td=rt-3a

A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111

A picture is worth a 1,000 words... or was that a 1,000 TOPS

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Tobias Mann Jan 15, 2024

It’s -3F outside. I guess it’s fine for some transcodes.

Tobias Mann Jan 11, 2024

FCLC Jan 11, 2024

For the Floating Point nuts amongst us, BFloat16 and its invention* by google is being challenged in a patent dispute.

Ramifications could include sunsetting of Google TPUs, but also the use of Bfloat16 and Bfloat like types in other devices, including:
AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs,

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Qualcom, Samsung CPUs

General purpose AI accelerators (all of the above + AWS tranium and Inferentia, and dozens of other devices)

Article by @tobiaswrites here: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/01/10/google_tpu_patent_dispute/

Google's TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge

Singular alleges AI accelerators built from ripped-off blueprints

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Tobias Mann Jan 9, 2024

HPC Guru Jan 9, 2024

The fairytale continues in 2024

“With performance of 50 EF of FP64 and 8 ZF of AI training for large language models, the announced system has gained a lot of attention”

The keyword is announced

All that’s delivered is hot air

https://businesswire.com/news/home/20240109994678/en/Tachyum-Well-Positioned-for-an-Exceptional-2024

#HPC #AI

Tachyum Well Positioned for an Exceptional 2024

With volume production of Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, scheduled for 2024, Tachyum® officials expect to build off the momentum it

Tobias Mann Jan 6, 2024

The Register Jan 5, 2024

Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook SoC was made in Taiwan, not China

Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock! Did Huawei's domestic fab partners somehow develop the means to mass produce a 5nm laptop chip in spite of US sanctions designed to prevent just that? No, they most certainly did not.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/huawei_5nm_chip_tsmc/

Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook processor was made in Taiwan, not China

Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock!

The Register

Tobias Mann Jan 6, 2024

Jeff Geerling Jan 5, 2024

Reminder to all the scorned sysadmins: CentOS 7 EOL is June 30, 2024 — and after that CentOS will be dead and gone forever. RIP. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red-hat-enterprise-linux

Fastest road from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) will be reaching End of Maintenance (EOM). The good news is that these events won’t require a complete infrastructure overhaul. Tools are available to move from your current configuration to a place where you’ll have years of support.

Tobias Mann Jan 2, 2024

In the 5 years since I proposed, my fiancé and I moved to a new city, started new jobs, adopted a dog, and weathered a pandemic.

As we enter 2024, I’m excited to say we’re finally getting around to planning a #wedding, tentatively for the summer of 2025.

Happy #NewYear everybody

Tobias Mann Jan 2, 2024

The new year is already shaping up to be one of the most significant in terms of #datacenter silicon we've seen in a while.

Nvidia has a slew of new accelerators, #GPU architectures, and #networking kit planned for 2024. Intel will launch arguably its most compelling #Xeons in years alongside new #Habana Gaudi AI chips. Meanwhile #amd riding high on its MI300-series launch, is slated to bring its 5th-gen #Epyc processors to market.

#NewYear #tech

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/2024_dc_chip_preview/

2024 sure looks like an exciting year for datacenter silicon

Loads of chips from Nvidia, AMD, Intel on the way – and very probably some surprises along the way as well

The Register

Tobias Mann Jan 2, 2024

The Register Jan 2, 2024

Valve celebrates the New Year by snuffing out Steam support for Windows 7 and 8

Updates for the 1% of holdouts halt Valve rang in the New Year by dropping Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support on its Steam gaming platform, giving your gaming grandparets yet another reason to upgrade.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/steam_windows_eol/

Valve celebrates New Year by blowing off Steam support for Windows 7 and 8

Updates for the 1% of holdouts halt

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