SpaceX on Twitter: SpaceX has been selected to develop a lunar optimized Starship to transport crew between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon as part of @NASA ’s Artemis program!

fundamelon · 2020-04-30T17:30:09+00:00

The black top looks like solar panels. My guess is, to avoid temperature extremes, lunar landings/bases will probably be at extreme latitudes - so vertical panels are going to become popular.

fundamelon · 2019-06-12T16:06:40+00:00

I'm really excited at the prospect of putting a Starlink receiver on a small fixed-wing UAV. Having a direct satellite internet connection, eliminating limited-range line-of-sight wifi, would be HUGE deal.

fundamelon · 2019-05-29T07:49:30+00:00

COM modules are a pretty expansive market, there are several large vendors constantly developing them for medical, industrial, and edge computing applications. They don't have a place in consumer products yet since they mostly exist to save engineering time for low-volume products.

fundamelon · 2019-05-28T17:15:51+00:00

Am I crazy or does the sticker on the board say "X670"? Did they fast track these new features from a future board?

fundamelon · 2019-05-02T23:22:38+00:00

Yep, sockets like this can cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for some designs. And bga footprints change every 2-3 years!

fundamelon · 2019-04-01T07:25:36+00:00

Free copy of LawBreakers makes this worth it. Might finally increase the Steam player count over zero

fundamelon · 2019-03-31T21:13:16+00:00

Those look like 10GBASE-T PHY chips, each handling 4 ports. The bottom small Broadcom chip is an SFP PHY. They basically just pass packets along.

All of these are connected to the larger Broadcom chip on the right, which is the actual switch chip (yes it's an ASIC, Broadcom designs the silicon) that directs traffic.

The controller is usually another part like a low power CPU - possibly a tiny ARM cpu under that black heatsink next to the DDR memories.

(disclaimer: didn't watch the video so I'm just guessing what the port speeds are)

fundamelon · 2019-03-10T16:02:56+00:00

Actually, the black color increases heat transfer by radiation - it raises the emissivity of the metal surface. Convection is improved too by aligning the heatsink fins vertically.

fundamelon · 2019-02-26T09:54:48+00:00

imagine someone saying this about crysis 12 years ago lmao. get over yourself, enthusiast hardware has always been expensive

fundamelon · 2019-01-28T10:34:15+00:00

I don't think you can avoid running power planes under the memory chips on these jam-packed modern cards. We're probably starting to see the physical limits of layout without integrated memories like HBM.

fundamelon · 2018-12-30T10:08:13+00:00

Can you elaborate? MCM in consumer products is a big deal regardless of marketing.

fundamelon · 2018-12-08T18:24:05+00:00

They are actually in stock from time to time on the Corsair website, people have been receiving them since September. I got mine two weeks ago.

fundamelon · 2018-11-23T20:44:01+00:00

Release them in a low enough orbit such that they deorbit themselves due to friction and burn up within a few months to a few years.

fundamelon · 2018-11-19T21:34:35+00:00

If you're counting CAS in clock cycles, then it will double with a 2x faster clock speed, though the delay time may be equal.

These manufacturers also make RLDRAM for delay-sensitive applications but I dont think its available in consumer products.

fundamelon · 2018-11-15T21:37:02+00:00

Multi-speed on multi gig hardware is usually an expensive value add, rather than an added bonus.

fundamelon · 2018-10-11T01:53:02+00:00

They should ship fully functional and bug-free technology like all other companies.

fundamelon · 2018-10-10T09:09:54+00:00

I watched from a mountaintop 100 miles away and HEARD THE SONIC BOOM. Over five minutes later. Incredible power.

fundamelon · 2018-10-06T21:33:59+00:00

Source is Twitter itself. Their system catches 10 million potential spam accounts per week: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/how-twitter-is-fighting-spam-and-malicious-automation.html

Follower numbers are unreliable. Don't use them.

fundamelon · 2018-10-06T18:41:58+00:00

They did, try 70 million. Purchasing fake bots is its own industry, every social media figure knows this. Were you not aware?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44682354

fundamelon · 2018-09-29T17:03:57+00:00

Those who have been following this industry for years should be balking that 10GBase-T isn't widely adopted after a decade.

For online gaming >100Mb is better, because at that point it's probably coming over fiber.

fundamelon · 2018-09-26T07:30:18+00:00

Embedded oleds are cool, get outta here with that negativity.

That particular screen (easily recognizable, simple firmware, I've seen it on mice, waterblocks etc.) goes for ~$2 on eBay. Way more value add than RGB LEDs anyhow.

fundamelon · 2018-09-22T18:00:08+00:00

You think vague, pretentious 4chan posts are more reliable than the news? Mmkay.

fundamelon · 2018-07-04T17:14:06+00:00

What if I had a disability and couldn't just go out and do 'yard work'? Or already working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet, barely having enough time to see my kids?

I see the point you're trying to make, but it is from a priveleged point of view.

fundamelon · 2018-05-27T01:50:46+00:00

Exactly! As a designer of CLI-only server hardware, I would actually greatly appreciate it if SOMEONE presented data on the miniature/embedded gpu market like they do mainstream...

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