The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Xbox Series S delivers four times the processing power of an Xbox One console and supports experiences up to 120fps,” says Liz Hamren , head of platform engineering and hardware at Xbox. “The primary difference between Xbox Series X and S is the GPU,” explains Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s director of Xbox program management.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

By comparison, Spokane County’s median selling price was in the mid-$200,000s five years ago. Some Spokane startup leaders say it’s especially difficult to compete for specialized talent like cloud and AI engineers who are critical to many of today’s tech innovations. Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ballard is also the technology executive responsible for both the company’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform as it shifts to electrification, and its digital platform engineering and architecture organization, and he counts on conversational AI and generative AI as major components to transform HR and IT service requests.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

For comparison, this is slightly above the availability of pre-World War II audio recordings,” Salazar writes, “and slightly below the survival rate of American silent films. The rest are out of print and unplayable without resorting to software piracy. Salazar’s team for the study included UW student researchers Lily Dong, Lane D.

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

RSC will be used to train a range of systems across Meta’s businesses: from content moderation algorithms used to detect hate speech on Facebook and Instagram to augmented reality features that will one day be available in the company’s future AR hardware. Image: Meta. Meta’s AI supercomputer is due to be complete by mid-2022.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Engineers for decades have chased the promise of fusion energy — a potentially limitless source of carbon-free power. To translate the process to an Earth-sized scale, engineers need to build a device in which they can create and sustain a super-heated gas called plasma. The goal is to get the plant running by 2028.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

Diorio also serves as an affiliate professor of computer science and engineering at the UW. He has helped steer F5 beyond its roots as a hardware company, expanding into application security and delivery software through multiple acquisitions. The Seattle company reported revenue of $2.7 billion for its 2022 fiscal year, a jump of 3%.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

In other words, the Nintendo Switch comparisons might go a little deeper than the surface, as many games on that platform run well below 60 frames per second. Valve hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat told IGN that “repairability is something we did actually focus on and try to make it as repairable as possible. Image: Valve.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

According to an invitation obtained by Electrek , it will feature “a keynote by Elon, hardware and software demos from Tesla engineers, test rides in Model S Plaid, and more.” Originally, Musk had claimed that Tesla’s cars wouldn’t need any hardware updates, only software, on the road to full autonomy. It’s a beast!”.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The chip also features a 16-core neural engine capable of handling up to 35 trillion operations per second, adding another layer of speed to its list of capabilities. This GPU supports advanced features such as mesh shading and hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Additionally, four high-efficiency cores complement these powerhouses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In comparison, GPT-3.5 — the large language model developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and the basis for ChatGPT — uses 175 billion parameters. In addition to growth for Google Cloud, Google’s Other Revenues segment — which includes hardware and nonadvertising YouTube revenue — also posted a revenue increase, totaling $8.8

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Immersion cooling leverages oil-based engineered fluids for a high performance, complex cooling solution. It’s important to note that more research and benchmark comparisons are needed to help customers make the best decisions. Yes, specific AI workflows require special hardware configurations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

It is also leveraging open source libraries such as XGBoost and Prophet; a variety of analytics tools; and Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform, for data engineering and report automation. One of the benefits of using analytics to better manage the supply chain is shipping optimization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. The recent announcement of their GraphQL-based Network Query Engine (NQE)—more information is available in this blog post —is also pretty interesting to me. Servers/Hardware. Fun read!

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

As someone who used a Switch Lite for a couple of years, though, I actually think Ayn’s hardware is better. The only real complaint I have about this hardware is the goofy Odin logo underneath the D-pad. Even on more powerful PCs, PS2 emulation is trickier due to Sony’s proprietary “Emotion Engine” CPU with its custom instruction set.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

The closest we got to a comparison was effectively, “is machine learning faster with hardware acceleration turned on?”. Rendering effects in the Unity game engine. Even a prerecorded chat with one of its silicon architects didn’t provide much insight. Rotating around a photorealistic stone face in Cinema 4D. Dirt looked.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Mircea Ulinic has a nice article describing the combination of NAPALM and Salt for network automation.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The Intel Management Engine (ME) has received a bit of attention as a potential security vulnerability; in this article , authors Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov expose some new concerns around the Intel ME and its undocumented Manufacturing Mode. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

The engineering team at Lyft recently discussed a new overlay-free networking approach they’ve been working on for Kubernetes: IPVLAN-based CNI stack for running within VPCs on AWS. Servers/Hardware. Andrés Martínez, a software engineer with Bitnami, shares a write-up on a serverless service mesh with kubeless and Istio.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Thanks to more powerful hardware, many games now have more stable resolutions, better frame rates, and faster load times, which makes playing them even better than before. I swapped back to PS4 Pro just to check, and sure enough, stuttery as heck by comparison, even though the resolution (1800p) looks exactly the same. Jay Peters.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 15, 2021

It contains a flexible rendering engine and offers a simple interface for common eBook functions such as pagination, styling, and persistence without developing a dedicated plugin or application. A reading system, which could be a hardware device or an app, is one of the key requirements to read ePUB titles. What is ePUB.js?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

I found the articles at step 5, the benefits of Git for network engineers , but the previous four articles also look helpful. Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware. This slightly older post by Jessie Frazelle outlines what she envisions it means to be a “distinguished engineer” (or some other high-level technical individual contributor). Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Frank Denneman has a great series on NUMA (the “NUMA Deep Dive”).

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2024

From games to crypto mining to AI In 1993, long before uncanny AI-generated art and amusing AI chatbot convos took over our social media feeds, three Silicon Valley electrical engineers launched a startup that would focus on an exciting, fast-growing segment of personal computing: video games.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

February 2017: Cook expands his thoughts on AR’s potential , adding a new comparison: AR is a big idea, like the smartphone. Apple’s AR hardware is perennially two years away. And so I think that things like these are better when they’re incorporated without becoming a barrier to our talking. This is something only Apple can do.”.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. Here’s an article that shows how to combine Docker Machine (to provision Docker Engine onto a node) and Docker Swarm (linking together multiple Docker Engine nodes).

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

“You are basically building a piece of hardware to do a specific thing,” she told a judge. As a result, Microsoft keeps tight control of what content users can access — it’s a “curated, custom-built hardware/software experience.” The Xbox is designed to give you a gaming experience. People buy an Xbox because they want to play games.”

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Vox

JANUARY 30, 2023

Meta is perhaps the odd one out since it’s doubling down on its biggest moonshot, the metaverse, but the company has axed other major projects, like its Portal video chat hardware. No one knows what’s stable now,” a Google software engineer told Recode after the layoffs. Morale is low.” one Google employee asked.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Intel is one of the few computer chip firms that still designs and manufactures its own hardware — it can design every part of the process to its own specifications and purposes, and it has an unmatched control over the actual manufacturing of its products. But when June rolled around, Intel’s troubles started back up again.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

To hear Apple tell it, the M1 Ultra is a miracle of silicon, one that combines the hardware of two M1 Max processors for a single chipset that is nothing less than the “world’s most powerful chip for a personal computer.” Update March 17th, 2:25pm: Added RTX 3090 power specifications for better comparison. At least, not yet.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

PitchBook, by comparison, estimates the overall market for gaming to be $447.3 PitchBook Image) Generally, market analysis for the games industry will measure the size of the market by focusing on overall consumer spending, such as Newzoo’s January report , which measured the global games market as a $92.2 billion industry.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s been years since any of the reigning tech giants — Apple, Google, or Meta — have put out a technology as transformative as their earlier products like the mobile phone, the online search engine, the personal computer, or a social media platform like Facebook. For comparison, Meta has sold an estimated 14.8 he said.

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