Intel Optane and the half-measures: Do these memories solve a current problem?

Intel Optane

The introduction of the new Optane family of memory drives comes after years of development and promise to bury the traditional hard drive. In fact, Intel seemed to indicate that its non-volatile XPoint 3D memories might even make it difficult for successful SSDs.

Things are not so clear now that the first units have reached both the business market and the end user market. At least in the second case we find small units and whose advantages, no matter what Intel says, show no revolution in the current market. It seems rather that Intel wants to invent a solution to a problem that (already) does not exist.

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LiFi has achieved a new milestone: 42.8 Gbps through infrared, and is already 100 times faster than WiFi

LiFi

A connection up to a hundred times faster than WiFi and also based on light. Yes, that’s LiFi, the next data connection that promises us an infarct bandwidth and a stability that to this day is impossible through WiFi.

Today is published a new research that seeks to solve one of the problems that the use of LiFi, which is to have the light on at all times, since they have now experimented with infrared rays obtaining very good results.

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Sony wants to transform our body into musical instrument through this strange bracelet

Sony musical instrument

For years, music has influenced our bodies through dance, but Sony wants to end it, that is, our bodies in motion are those that influence music. Sounds interesting? Well, that’s what the Japanese company will present at the SXSW festival where they usually carry out their experimental projects.

This year has been no exception and are presented the Motion Sonic Project, which consists of a wearable bracelet equipped with technology that makes our body’s movements are transformed into music.

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Ryzen 5: Six cores and 12 threads for less than $250

Ryzen 5

Following the trend started with its Ryzen 7, AMD has unveiled the details of its next family of processors for the consumer market. This time the market niche is more ambitious, according to AMD, there is twice as much demand for processors priced below $300 than on the high end.

The Ryzen 5 will hit the market to compete directly with the Intel Core i5 for price, and even with several Core i7 models in performance, putting the focus on high performance for the price you pay for them. Both players and creatives who do not require high performance are among their potential customers.

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The latest from NVidia fits into a credit card: A brain for artificial intelligence in robots and drones

Nvidia

A NVidia known mainly for its graphics, or more recently for being stuck inside Switch, but the reality is that it has failed to become strong in mobile devices. It tried with smartphones, but it seems to have grown tired of that, and he wants to put the brains to the next revolution of gadgets: robots, drones, smart cameras or sensors. Closely related to the ‘Internet of Things’.

Very small devices that require three things: tiny hardware, a process capability capable of dealing with artificial intelligence algorithms, and most importantly, reduced consumption. The answer to these problems has NVidia with its new plate Jetson TX2.

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These are the first Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti from ASUS

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What you see in images is the aspect of the first GTX 1080 Ti that will go on the market next March 10, by ASUS. The company will attack with two very different models in appearance: the Turbo model is the least striking, while ROG STRIX imposes more with a triple fan configuration.

We are faced with custom or customized models on what Nvidia initially introduced. The changes are mainly in the cooling systems introduced, which allows you to play with better overclocking in the latest Pascal GPU introduced in the market.

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Bill Gates: “If a robot replaces the work of a human, this robot must pay taxes like a human.”

Bill Gates

The next big revolution will be the arrival of robots to jobs, something that has already begun to happen in various regions of the world, in some companies and even in restaurants, where machines are taking control of production chains and automation Of tasks. This will mean a major change, and for example, they are already thinking about how to regulate it.

Among the voices that have given their opinion about the upcoming revolution, it is the Elon Musk who says that we should merge with the machines but want to be irrelevant. And now that of Bill Gates, who asks that robots have the same fiscal responsibilities as humans.

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Tiny computer of only one cubic millimeter is so powerful that it counts on artificial intelligence

Tiny Computer

The so-called millimeter computers or micromotes are not new, have been developed for several years with the idea of pushing tiny devices for minimal energy consumption, especially for IoT devices. The University of Michigan is the one that has been in charge of investigating more thoroughly within this technology, in fact two years ago they presented us their first bet with the M ^ 3.

Today at the International Conference on Solid State Circuits of the IEEE (ISSCC), computer scientists David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester of the University of Michigan presented the latest update to their micromote, which has significantly decreased their consumption Energetic, expanded its memory, but the most relevant is that it is now able to integrate an entire system of artificial intelligence.

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SSD against hard drive: This way a notebook performance improves

SSD

Improving the performance of a computer, whether desktop or laptop, directly, simply and economically, is currently replacing the traditional hard disk with an SSD. At the price we can find them currently, it is a winning solution and does not require a significant effort or outstanding payout. At least for the improvement we get in return.

Advantages of SSD vs. Hard Drive

When thinking about changing a classic hard drive by an SSD the first thing that comes to mind is the speed improvement that we will get. But it is not the only one.

With very short access times and maximum speed transfers, which allow us to run applications faster or copy / move files faster, we must add that we are talking about units based on flash memory that do not have moving parts, So they are more reliable and resistant. This causes that the falls of the equipment do not pose a risk for the own data (if the SSD is not damaged, of course).

On reliability with time and GB of writing, as we discussed in the analysis of SSD Blue WD, except in very specific cases, we will change equipment or unit before the current begins to fail.

SSDs are also silent disks in their operation, and with a very reduced consumption compared to classic HDDs, since they do not require movement of any part. With the advancement in the capacity with which we can get them without the price, difference is very large compared to classic disks and increasing reliability, there is no reason not to have an SSD in our desktop or laptop except for very specific cases.

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Quadro GP100 is the latest in Nvidia for workstations 16 GB of HBM2 memory and NVLINK

Nvidia-Quadro-GP100

Well, the whole family is now converted to Pascal; if we have seen the GeForce GTX and the Titans go months ago, now it’s the turn of the Quadro. These are the graphics designed to place on workstations, so more than a mass product to play; this has a rather different destination, but no less interesting for those who follow the world.

Nvidia has presented at the SOLIDWORKS World event up to six new graphics cards, all with a professional destination, but the one that interests us most is the Quadro GP100. This unit presumes, among other things, to have 16GB of memory in HBM2 format.

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