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Head of AMD clarifies the future of Ryzen Threadripper processors

At the beginning of May, some confusion among connoisseurs of AMD products was caused by the disappearance from the presentation for investors of the mention of third-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors, which could, following the desktop relatives of the Ryzen 3000 (Matisse) family, switch to 7-nm technology, Zen 2 architecture with an increased cache volume and increased specific productivity per cycle, as well as […]

Release of Flatpak 1.4.0 self-contained package system

A new stable branch of the Flatpak 1.4 toolkit has been published, which provides a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository and are supported […]

Nissan SAM: When Autopilot Intelligence Isn't Enough

Nissan has unveiled its advanced Seamless Autonomous Mobility (SAM) platform, which aims to help robotic vehicles navigate unpredictable situations safely and accurately. Self-driving systems use lidars, radars, cameras and various sensors to obtain comprehensive information about the situation on the road. However, this information may not be enough to make an informed decision in an unforeseen […]

We upgrade designers in the company: from junior to art director

A free retelling of Alexander Kovalsky's lecture from our past QIWI Kitchens for designers The life of classic design studios begins in approximately the same way: several designers do approximately the same projects, which means their specialization is approximately the same. Everything is simple here - one begins to learn from the other, they exchange experience and knowledge, do different projects together and are […]

How we work with ideas and how LANBIX was born

There are many creative employees in LANIT-Integration. Ideas for new products and projects literally hang in the air. It is sometimes very difficult to identify the most interesting ones. Therefore, we jointly developed our own methodology. How to select the best projects and implement them, read this article. In Russia, and in the world as a whole, a number of processes are taking place that lead to the transformation of the IT market. […]

Linux Piter Conference 2019: Ticket and CFP Sales Open

The annual Linux Piter conference will take place for the fifth time in 2019. As in previous years, the conference will be a two-day conference with 2 parallel streams of presentations. As always, a wide range of topics related to the operation of the Linux operating system, such as: Storage, Cloud, Embeded, Network, Virtualization, IoT, Open Source, Mobile, Linux troubleshooting and tooling, Linux devOps and development processes and […]

AMD explains when switching to PCI Express 4.0 will provide a staggering performance boost

Having introduced the Radeon VII video card at the end of winter, based on a 7-nm graphics processor with Vega architecture, AMD did not provide it with support for PCI Express 4.0, although related Radeon Instinct computing accelerators on the same graphics processor had previously implemented support for the new interface. In the case of the July new products, which AMD management already listed this morning, support […]

AMD introduced Ryzen 3000 processors: 12 cores and up to 4,6 GHz for $500

Today at the opening of Computex 2019, AMD introduced the long-awaited 7nm third generation Ryzen processors (Matisse). The lineup of new products based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture includes five processor models, ranging from the $200 and six-core Ryzen 5 to the $500 Ryzen 9 chips with twelve cores. Sales of new products, as previously expected, will begin on July 7 of the current […]

lighttpd 1.4.54 http server release with URL normalization enabled

The release of the lightweight http server lighttpd 1.4.54 has been published. The new version features 149 changes, most notably the inclusion of URL normalization by default, a rework of mod_webdav, and performance optimization work. Starting with lighttpd 1.4.54, the server behavior related to URL normalization when processing HTTP requests has been changed. Options for strict checking of values ​​in the Host header are activated, and normalization of transmitted […]

How a DevOps specialist fell victim to automation

Note. Noteworthy was the most popular post of the /r/DevOps subreddit over the past month: β€œAutomation has officially replaced me at work - a trap for DevOps.” Its author (from the USA) told his story, which brought to life the popular adage that automation will kill the need for those who maintain software systems. Explanation on the Urban Dictionary to the already […]

Touch mini switch with glass panel on nRF52832

In today's article I want to share with you a new project. This time it is a touch switch with a glass panel. The device is compact, with dimensions of 42x42mm (standard glass panel has dimensions of 80x80mm). The history of this device began a long time ago, about a year ago. The first options were on the atmega328 microcontroller, but in the end it all ended with the nRF52832 microcontroller. The touch part of the device works on TTP223 chips. […]

TSMC starts mass production of A13 and Kirin 985 chips using 7nm+ technology

Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC announced the launch of mass production of single-chip systems using the 7-nm+ technological process. It is worth noting that the vendor is producing chips for the first time using lithography in the hard ultraviolet range (EUV), thereby taking another step to compete with Intel and Samsung. TSMC continues cooperation with Chinese Huawei by launching the production of new single-chip systems […]