A new discovery on the west bank of the Nile, near the iconic Valley of the Kings, has archaeologists buzzing about what may be the most important archaeological find since the location of Tutankhamun’s tomb. An entire lost city has been found, with workshops, palaces, a cemetery, and living quarters. The site is said to be in excellent condition. “There’s no doubt about it; it really is a phenomenal find,” Salima Ikram, an archaeologist who leads the American University in Cairo’s Egyptology unit, told . “It’s very much a snapshot in time—an Egyptian version of Pompeii.” The archaeologists have found multiple artifacts stamped with the seal of Amenhotep III or dated to year 37 of his reign, when Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV are believed to have ruled side-by-side.
The demand-induced silicon shortage may have made sourcing a GPU or AMD CPU at MSRP a miserable ordeal, but it’s had one upside: PC sales are booming. IDC reports that global shipments of “traditional” PCs — desktops, laptops, and workstations — skyrocketed 55.2 percent year on year, to a total of 84 million units. IDC that the large jump this year is due to an “unusually favorable year-over-year comparison” with Q1 2020. This is true — PC sales fell 9.8 percent in Q1 2020 as shutdowns hit China — but we can always compare against Q1 2019 instead. Compared against Q1 2019, the PC market still grew from 59 to 84 million units, a 1.42x increase.
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Nvidia thinks it’s time for traditional CPUs to step aside when it comes to tackling the largest machine learning tasks, especially training huge models that are now upwards of a trillion parameters. Conventional super-computers make use of specialized processors — often GPUs — to do much of the compute-intensive math during training, but GPUs typically can’t host nearly the amount of memory needed, let alone share it quickly in multi-GPU configurations. So the machine is often bottlenecked by the speed of getting data from CPU memory to the GPU and back. With Nvidia’s new Grace deep-learning CPU, which the company unveiled today, supercomputer GPUs get both much faster access to CPU memory and much better aggregate bandwidth when multiple GPUs are paired with a single CPU.
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Google’s A-series Pixel phones have been an excellent option for budget-conscious buyers in recent years, clocking in at just a few hundred dollars with the same great software and camera experience as the full-priced Pixels. We expected Google to launch an updated Pixel 5a in the next few months, but multiple reports now claim the chip shortage has forced some changes. Initially, sources said the phone was canceled altogether, but Google now confirms the 5a is coming but only to the US and Japan. The original report came by way of leaker , who has a relatively good record for accuracy.
Now that we’re about six months into the ongoing semiconductor shortage, the periodic updates coming in about which companies will be eating delays and slowdowns next have taken on something of a routine air. This time, it’s Apple’s turn at the dunking trough. Apple’s superior supply line management techniques have buffered it from issues to date, but the company is beginning to have problems sourcing certain low-level parts, to Nikkei Asia. This dovetails well with a in Bloomberg, recently, which discussed how a shortage in $1 display drivers is causing headaches everywhere. (In this context, a display driver is an integrated hardware circuit used to control and operate a display, not a piece of software.
