Pincount Podcast

Doug recorded using the wrong microphone, that’s why he sounds like he’s in another room this week. Sorry about that. Followup! Rick Branson’s tweet about Amazon EC2 R4 instance network performance ENA - Ethernet Network Adaptor PPS - Packets Per Second “R4 instances are optimized for memory-intensive applications and offer better price per GiB of RAM than R3.” Joe Domato’s Linux Kernel Receive Tuning Guide Amazon EC2 F1 instances Power8 Performance Numbers Calculating time remaining on Mac OS 10.12.2 Leaked AMD Ryzen Benchmarks Anandtech Intel i7-7700k “Kaby Lake” Review Grumpy HN Discussion Razer Project Valerie Reports of prototype thefts Dell 8k Monitor Benedict Evans tweet with picture of Ford’s self-driving-car computer Alexa, order me a dollhouse Paper - Hidden Voice Commands Dazzle Camouflage 99 Percent Invisible on Dazzle Camouflage

AMD Deep Learning Announcements Instinct announcement Anandtech coverage Hacker News Discussion Linux kernel refusing AMD patches Intel GPU Internals Intel gpu design Expiring Intel-Nvidia patent cross-licensing to expire in 2017 - Ryan Smith Agner’s CPU Blog - Knights Landing Kola Superdeep Borehole Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors Unlocked Intel i3 Processor: i3-7350k Intel self driving cars Emulated Intel on arm Bluetooth 5 now available “Next year it will work great” - John Gruber AWS re:Invent 2016 James Hamilton Talk ASICS for their own switches. @0:23:00 7B transistors 128 ports of 25Gbe = 3.2Tbps (!!!!) Own silicon for NICs. @0:30:20 Dropping networking to hardware rather than kernel St

SuperComputing ‘16 Nvidia DGX -1 Cluster Stacks Intel Xeon E5-2600v4 Deep Dive Deeper on Apple MacBook Pro 16GB RAM limit X86 gaming onsoles vs gaming PCs PS4 specs Nice comparison of all consoles Linus Tech Tips Holiday Buyer’s Guide The Steambone On-air PC Parts list Steam Sale Hard Truths SteamOS Intel Skull Canyon NUC Aftershow Screenshot of another of Doug’s projects, which has 26,303 dependent files Yarn Javascript Package Manager Leftpad package deleted from NPM, chaos ensues The left-pad string package

Followup iPhone 7 Plus sensor sizes round 3. The two sensors are different sizes. This time. Really. Intel Announcements and Rumours Intel E3900 Atom Industrial IOT CPUs Intel Braswell Intel Enterprise M.2 SSDs Microsoft’s future Open-compute servers Kaby Lake leaks I3-6300 New Macbook Pros USB-C cable nightmares Macbook Pro Thunderbolt 3 asymettric port speeds BizonBOX No more startup chime Restoring the startup chime 16GB RAM ceiling due to power concerns More on the RAM ceiling Rumours on 2017 Macbook Pros ATP on the new Macbook Pro: 1, 2, 3. Penny Arcade on the Microsoft Surface Studio Aftershow THE worst brand and product name ever

AMD AM4 Socket John Gruber on big.LITTLE 2Tb NVMe SSDs from Samsung FPGA in Microsoft servers Image compression with Neural Networks High Definition displays Sharp 8k 120hz Monitor IBM medical imaging displays (22” 4k, not 17” 2k as Doug guessed) Intel i7-7700k “Kaby Lake” Desktop benchmark Training TensorFlow models for use with iOS Apple hiring Nvidia driver engineers GTC Europe Nvidia announced Volta architecture with Xavier “AI Supercomputer” Ultra-Wide Curved Dell monitors New unannounced Quadros So much compute VR DGX-1? How mainstream. IBM Power 8 Bull Sequoa Aftershow Erlang the movie Sony Z3 Compact

Followup Why DIDN’t Larrabee fail? AVX-512 support in Xeon Phi, Knights Landing CPUs supporting AVX-512 New Nvidia GPUS Laptop GTX 1060, 1070, 1080 Deep Learning aimed P4 and P40 iPhone 7 Plus John Gruber’s iPhones 7 review LITTLE cores not used in Geekbench Benchmarks big.LITTLE bug in Mono Nine-levels of depth detection Remours of Intel modems in iPhone 7 Some Sensor Sums On a 7+, the wide is 3.99mm /_f_1.8 on 1/3”, and the tele a 6.6mm /f2.8 on 1/3.2” Angle of view is α = 2arctan( d / 2f), where d is the sensor width. So decrease f, to get the same α you need to keep (d / 2f) constant, so d decreases. Calculate f number like: N = f/D, where f is focal length and D aperture diameter. So double f and 22 the area of glass needed. But f isn’t doubled on the tele, as the sensor is

Apple Watch Updates Series 2 iPhone Water Resistance The Full Specs IP46 Waterproof API in iOS 10 iPhone Camera Disparity Maps iPhone CPU Wiki on Big.LITTLE Hexus on big.LITTLE Transistor Counts

Beeeeeeeeer Flash Week Flash Memory Summit Samsung and Netlist HypriDIMM Seagate 10Gbps PCIe SSD and 60TB SAS SSD Toshiba 1-up with 100TB SSD Micron Announces Quantx Branding for 3D XPoint Memory Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (Version with XKCD-style visualisation) Humanized Latency Numbers IDF Doug says H.264 instead of H.265 @ 12:57. Nvidia doesn’t like Intel’s Benchmarks Pincount 3647! Phi in the Ark Why Didn’t Larrabe Fail Amazon charts AMD do CPUs too Anandtech reading tea-leaves Tom’s Hardware Benchmarks Hot Chips Aftershow - Fun Computer Names Intertec Superbrain HP Superdome Meganode Transputer Nintendo Super Famicom Deepcrack - EFF DES Cracker Gigaring IO Channel - Cray SV1

Displays Sony 4K OLED display Under a Microscope Galaxy S7 Shootout OLED TV Shootout Qualcomm Mirasol E-Ink Report on Apple Recruiting Mirasol Team Bloomberg Article on Same 1440p max Mirasol Size The Machine Linux Weekly News article Memristor HP Removes Memristor’s from machine Jim Austin’s Computer Museum Aftershow Bad microwave interface design KnobFeel - the non-porn Tumblr Iain’s student microwave, Comrades.

Followup Question from James Burland. Presence Field of View Temporal Resolution Spatial Resolution Firma Facebook Surround 360 Announcement post Project Homepage Assembly and Hardware Guide Source code Hardware: External SAS JBOD array External PCIe exclosure PCIe expansion backplane PCIe external cable adaptor Portable PC Case How the Sausage is Made The PincountPodcast.com source code Jekyll Static Web Framework No-WWW Aftershow Matlab

Followup Episode 1 audio Doug mis-spoke VP9 quality and bitrates iPhone 6S H265 Mediatek 10 Core SoC x20 Dev Board More info Titan X, Again! New Intel Chips - Coffee Lake Are software encoders relevant? Xeons specifically for video Intel VCA board (Xeon PCIE boards) FPGA vs ASICS ASICS for Tensorflow FPGAs for Robot Arms

Followup Qualcomm Project Tango - Lightweight 3D tracking in silicon for mobile. Lenovo Phab 2 Pro Apple WWDC Metal Part 2 Replay Inside-Out Tracking How the Vive Lighthouse Works VR Cortex Episode 32 - Dropping Acid - Grey and Myke experience VR for the first time. CHOO CHOO AMD Sulon Scale in VR Lands End - The game Iain couldn’t remember. Video nonsense HEVC / H.265 VP9 Intel E5-1500 V5 CPUs with hardware HVEC encoding. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Series supports H.265 decoding in hardware.

Metal and deep learning Metal Performance Shaders Tensorflow on iOS OSX getting Cuda Tensorflow support Nvidia mac speculation Intel Ark Wikipedia list of Nvidia GPUs Titan P in August RX-480 Release Anandtech Preview Naughty AMD