Tag Archives: ARM

Pigs Fly At M$

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Microsoft has committed publicly to use ARM chips in machines that will be running cloud services in its own datacenters before year-end.” See Windows Server on ARM: It’s happeningChuckle. For many months commentators here have been telling me ARM won’t make … Continue reading →

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Did You Think Prices For Intel CPUs Were OK Last Week? They Weren’t.

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“the prices have been slower to fall, but we’d highly recommend that you keep an eye on the following pages, if you are looking for a good deal this week. So far, at Micro Center we’ve seen the beefy six-core … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Beastly Candidate

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Firefly-RK3399 Plus Pre-saleBegin shipping on March 15th, 4GB-DDR3, 32GB-e…$ 239.0” See Firefly ShopYes, Cortex A-72, little by little, are coming onto the market in a form even I can use. There are smartphones now but I want something with more I/O … Continue reading →

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LeMaker Cello Less Dead Or Mummified?

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“LeMaker Cello– An ARM 64-bit Sever Main Board with 96Boards EE Specification” See LeMaker Cello|An ARM 64-bit Sever Main Board with 96Boards EE SpecificationI keep an eye on this page and noticed a change today. They’ve deleted the part about delivery … Continue reading →

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ODROID-C2 Update

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“ODROID-C2 List Price : $46.00 Dispatch : in 30 days” See ODROIDHmmmf! I was thinking of ordering a couple of Odroid-C2s soon and visited the maker’s site. I was surprised to find the price had risen… Perhaps it’s related to the … Continue reading →

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Threats Are Easily Made But Hard To Keep

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“American farmers sent $2.4 billion of corn to Mexico in 2015, the most recent year of available data. In 1995, the year after NAFTA became law, corn exports to Mexico were a mere $391 million. Experts say such a bill would … Continue reading →

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About Cheap Junk…

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“We asked Intel to provide specific details about when it began and stopped shipping Intel Atom C2000 processors with faulty clock outputs. Intel declined to comment. The official errata says the B0 stepping of C2xxx Atoms are vulnerable to failure, … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi As An ARMed Commodity

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“A design goal for BitScope Blade was to enable Raspberry Pi to be conveniently mounted to build compute clusters, cloud hosting platforms and even render or software build farms.BitScope Blade Pack 20, a Quattro Pi based cluster with Power & … Continue reading →

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WELCOME TO CANADA!

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“We’re concerned about the impact of this order and any proposals that could impose restrictions on Googlers and their families, or that could create barriers to bringing great talent to the US. We’ll continue to make our views on these … Continue reading →

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Me And My ISP

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Robert Pogson

For a while, Beast III has been my personal computer, firewall, database, file/web server, and router. That gives me the possibility to monitor my throughput from the ISP. The ISP promises 150mbits/s and speed tests have shown values up to … Continue reading →

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ARMADA 8040 Community Board Slips

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Estimated shipping : March” See ARMADA 8040 Networking Community BoardThis is getting annoying. First Lemaker Cello doesn’t deliver and now Marvell 8040 Community Board is delayed. I guess it’s a good thing I spent money on other things like a shiny … Continue reading →

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ARM And Intel Go Head To Head In UK

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Scientists have a growing choice of potential computer architectures to choose from, including new 64-bit ARM CPUs, graphics processors, and many-core CPUs from Intel. Choosing the best architecture for an application can be a difficult task, so the new Isambard … Continue reading →

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