Author: ProHoster

Intel's statements about future plans brought down the company's stock price

An investor meeting held last night by Intel, where the company announced its plans to release 10nm processors and introduce 7nm manufacturing technology, did not seem to impress the stock market. Immediately after the event, the company's shares fell by about 9%. In part, this was a reaction to the words of the head of Intel Bob Swan (Bob Swan) that in […]

Release of the Russian distribution Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.13

NPO RusBITech has published the release of the Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.13 distribution kit, built on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and supplied with its own Fly desktop (interactive demo) using the Qt library. ISO images (3.7 GB, x86-64), binary repository and package source are available for download. The distribution is distributed under a license agreement, which imposes a number of restrictions on users, for example, […]

SaaS vs on-premise, myths and reality. Stop chilling

TL; DR 1: a myth may be true in some conditions and false in other TLs; DR 2: I saw a holivar - take a closer look and you will see people who do not want to hear each other Reading another article written by biased people on the specified topic, I decided to give my point of view. Maybe someone will be useful. Yes, and it’s more convenient for me to give a link to […]

New details on Intel Lakefield XNUMX-core hybrid processors

In the future, almost all Intel products will use the Foveros spatial layout, its active implementation will begin within the 10-nm process technology. The second generation of Foveros will be used by the first 7nm Intel GPUs to find their way into the server segment. At an investor event, Intel clarified the five tiers of the Lakefield processor. For the first time, performance forecasts have been published […]

64 MP in every smartphone: Samsung introduced new ISOCELL Bright sensors

Samsung has expanded its line of 0,8µm image sensors with the release of the 64MP ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor and the 48MP ISOCELL Bright GM2 sensor. According to the manufacturer, they will allow smartphones to take high-quality photos in high resolution. The company claims that this is the highest density image sensor on the market. ISOCELL Bright GW1 is a 64-megapixel image sensor made […]

How Compression Works in Object-Oriented Memory Architecture

A team of engineers at MIT developed an object-oriented memory hierarchy to work with data more efficiently. In the article we understand how it is arranged. /stock /PD As you know, the performance growth of modern CPUs is not accompanied by a corresponding decrease in latency when accessing memory. The difference in the change in indicators from year to year can be up to 10 times (PDF, […]

The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr tabletop campaign was plagiarized

Bethesda Softworks has released a promotional tabletop RPG campaign to celebrate the release of The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr. But there was an interesting catch: experienced Dungeons & Dragons players immediately saw the similarities between the Bethesda Softworks campaign and the one published by Wizards of the Coast back in 2016. The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr tabletop campaign has been published […]

Apple earned five times more than Huawei in the first quarter

Not so long ago, the quarterly financial report of the Chinese company Huawei was published, according to which the manufacturer's revenue increased by 39%, and unit sales of smartphones reached 59 million units. Notably, similar reports from third-party analytics agencies indicate that smartphone sales increased by 50%, while Apple's […]

49 Curved Inches: Acer Nitro EI491CRP Gaming Monitor Introduced

Acer has announced a giant monitor Nitro EI491CRP, designed for use in high-performance gaming systems. The novelty is made on the basis of a curved Vertical Alignment (VA) matrix measuring 49 inches diagonally. The resolution is 3840 × 1080 pixels, the aspect ratio is 32:9. The panel has a brightness of 400 cd/m2 and a response time of 4 ms. Horizontal and vertical viewing angles reach […]

The developer of the popular Linux distribution plans to enter the IPO and go into the "cloud"

Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu, is preparing for a public offering. She plans to develop in the field of cloud computing. / photo NASA (PD) - Mark Shuttleworth on the ISS Talk about Canonical's IPO has been going on since 2015 - then the founder of the company, Mark Shuttleworth, announced a possible public offering of shares. The purpose of the IPO is to raise funds that will help Canonical […]