The Verge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

All while getting processors that are years behind Windows devices, with screens that haven’t meaningfully changed since 2012, on computers that Apple charges a premium. The most powerful 16-inch MacBook Pro you can buy right now — ostensibly Apple’s best and beefiest laptop — features a 9th-generation Intel Core i7 processor from early 2019.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it’s moving Macs away from Intel processors to its own silicon chips. The new Macs will use arm64, the same CPU architecture that recent iOS devices use (Intel-based Macs use an architecture called x86-64).

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Ever need to add another GbE port to a small server, workstation or perhaps Intel NUC, however no PCIe slots are available? Looking for tool to convert a Windows system to a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) while it is running? Looking for tool to convert a Windows system to a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) while it is running?

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

But are Apple’s ARM chips actually powerful enough now to replace the likes of Intel and AMD? The closest we got to a comparison was effectively, “is machine learning faster with hardware acceleration turned on?”. It also seems telling that Apple isn’t publicly planning to get rid of Intel anytime soon. Dirt looked.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We had wall-to-wall coverage at The Verge , and a good place to start is our article detailing the 5 biggest announcements from Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ hardware event. First, Apple is making battery claims that I would characterize as “bombastic at best” if they were applied to a laptop with an Intel chip inside.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Eul takes the stage; he’s the VP and General Manager of the Mobile and Communications Group at Intel. ” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. .”

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. x86 marches on! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. See more details here. Check this out.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The speakers are Brian Johnson from Intel and Alex Rodriguez with Expedient. Integrated I/O in the E5 CPUs has also allowed Intel to introduce something like Intel Data Direct I/O (DDIO).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Apple hit Intel hard with its first M1 chips, offering a rare step-change improvement in performance with its 2020 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. While Windows laptops had looked increasingly tempting to the Mac crowd over the past five years, Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips shift the balance , particularly in the GPU realm.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Spending this much gets you AMD’s fast and efficient 7nm Ryzen 7 4800H based on the Zen 2 architecture, along with the Radeon RX 5600M graphics chip. The 4800H is a 45W processor that rivals Intel’s Core i7-10875H with base clock and boost speeds, and also for having eight cores and 16 threads.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Campusano discusses Linux development in Windows 10 with Docker and WSL 2. Former colleague (he recently moved into a new role) Jamie Duncan talks about using buildx and container manifests to build container images for multiple CPU architectures in this blog post. The world has moved on, and so did I.”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Intel’s latest chips fight back against AMD Intel’s had a hard time competing with AMD lately. AMD’s Ryzen Zen 3 CPUs took the performance crown from Intel in gaming a year ago, and Intel’s response with its 11th Gen Core i9-11900K earlier this year was lackluster, to say the least.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake chips have finally arrived, ushering in a new era of the company’s chips, lead by the flagship Core i9-12900K CPU, which Intel promises is the “world’s best gaming processor.”. But today’s announcement marks the culmination of those efforts in the form of actual hardware that you can buy and use.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

Intel’s Architecture Day 2020 brought a first look at the company’s upcoming Tiger Lake processors, along with a more detailed preview of Intel’s foray into building its own GPUs with its upcoming Xe graphics — both of which promise to offer higher performance and lower power consumption than ever before. Intel needs a big win.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Servers/Hardware. This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple’s big bet on moving away from Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs in favor of its own Apple Silicon chips is paying off in meaningful ways, and if you can afford one of these machines, you will be very happy with them. They’re great. They’re great. The 16-inch is even just a little thicker than the older 16-inch MacBook Pro. This is good news.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Coming into this review, I had a catalog of potential pitfalls that Apple could have fallen into when switching from an Intel chip to its own processor. MacBook Air hardware. On the outside, the new MacBook Air is nearly identical to the Intel-based one Apple released earlier this year. Apple claims this is more efficient.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration. For example, their product runs natively as an agent/daemon/service on various UNIX platforms, various Linux distributions, and all recent versions of Windows Server.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. I think it can get you started on the software aspect of it, but then there's also the hardware side, and then for that you might need some additional tools or hardware to interact with that.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. I think it can get you started on the software aspect of it, but then there's also the hardware side, and then for that you might need some additional tools or hardware to interact with that.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In those days, we were tackling terrible Android and BlackBerry tablets, evaluating the first wave of Intel ultrabooks , and heaping praise on the then-revolutionary Galaxy Nexus. Microsoft was trying to follow in Apple’s footsteps, combining its hardware and software experience together for the ultimate mobile computer.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link]. IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 2: [link].

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Servers/Hardware. I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: In a few years time (let’s say 3–5 years), Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) will be regarded as important if not more important than the virtualization extensions. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Similar Posts: Technology Short Take #44.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Alienware pitched the Concept UFO as the type of radical gadget that could make PC gaming more accessible by cramming a full Windows 10 platform into something you could carry out of the house. Alienware would not confirm at the time it had any intention of making a real, consumer version of its Windows handheld. Intel NUC 9 Extreme.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.) Until the 1.3

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012. Virtualization. How about some oVirt inception?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

AMD went on to kill off the ATI brand in 2010 and has struggled to compete with Nvidia and Intel ever since. After stealing the performance crown from Intel with its latest Zen 3 CPUs earlier this month, AMD is now setting its sights firmly on Nvidia. AMD is back in the game. The Radeon RX 6800 XT’s fans help keep the card cool.

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