Earlier this year, we covered news that Chrome would begin allowing users to block audio on autoplaying video. With any luck, we’ll see other browsers rolling this feature out in short order. If video that autoplays on mouse-over is annoying, video that autoplays when you have the temerity to load a page is a murderous frustration. Chrome 64 addresses this shortcoming, along with a few other changes we’ll discuss below. First and foremost, with Chrome 64, you can disable autoplay video across an entire website with just a few clicks. While I don’t personally use Chrome, I’m hoping to see this feature spread to Firefox and other browsers in the near future.
Press two buttons on a 2018 Nissan Rogue, and the car takes over and drives itself. That’s the promise of ProPilotAssist, as Nissan calls it, the most affordable and compelling example of Level 2 self-driving yet. Several other high-end automakers do the same thing, but on cars costing a lot more. I’ve driven ProPilotAssist-equipped cars three different times and grown more impressed each time. There are a lot of limitations. But within the limits, the system is very good at what it does, which is drive you safely in your current lane of a divided access highway. It arrives first on the 2018 Nissan Rogue, followed by the 2018 Nissan Leaf EV.
AMD’s Navi has been of interest to AMD fans since it first popped up on roadmaps, with hints of a next-generation memory subsystem and a “scalability” option that might be similar to the modular GPU designs that Nvidia is supposedly considering for its own products. First, the hints. As Hot Hardware , some driver notes for a Linux driver update back in July that were recently discovered reported: [WARNING]: Should use –pci when using create_asic_from_script() new_chip.gfx10.mmSUPER_SECRET => 0x12345670 new_chip.gfx10.mmSUPER_SECRET.enable[0:0] GFX10 is a Navi reference, and there are plenty of other hints to ongoing Navi work at AMD, from a job opening for a senior ASIC design and layout engineer () to various statements from AMD that it’s working on 7nm ramps already (the remarks date to May of this year).
Intel announced its new Stratix 10MX FPGA today, marking the first time an FPGA has been available with HBM2 memory onboard. The Stratix 10 MX has up to 10x more memory bandwidth than competing solutions that rely on DDR4 (512GB/s of aggregate bandwidth in two HBM2 stacks). Like the now-confirmed AMD / Intel team-up to build Vega graphics into certain Intel CPUs, Intel is using its Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) to connect various components of the system. All Stratix 10 MX FPGAs use HBM2, but they offer varying amounts of memory on-package, from 3.25GB (MX 1100) to 16GB (MX 1650, MX 2100).
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Samsung is the top Android device maker by a comfortable margin, which makes it a natural rival to Apple. The companies are constantly trying to one-up each other with their latest flagship designs, and the most recent blow was struck by Apple with the iPhone X. Despite that high starting price, the iPhone X is doing well. Samsung may be looking to slow Apple’s momentum with an earlier-than-expected unveiling of the Galaxy S9. Sources Samsung is looking to show off the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus in February 2018. With the Galaxy S8, introduced big design changes, completely dropping the flat OLED panel as an option for its flagship phones.
AMD announced it has landed Baidu as a customer and partner. It’s a significant win for AMD; Baidu doesn’t really have a US presence, but it controls 76 percent of the PC search market in China and 82 percent of the mobile and tablet markets. , Baidu is opting to adopt single-socket Epyc servers. AMD currently offers a range of single-socket CPUs, from the Epyc 7601 (32 cores, 2.2GHz base, 3.2GHz turbo) to the Epyc 7251 (8 cores, 2.1GHz base, 2.9GHz turbo). Reviews of Epyc have generally been favorable — the CPU doesn’t always beat Intel but it competes far better than anything AMD has had in-market since Interlagos launched in September, 2011.
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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), once fully operational, will be the heaviest rocket since the Saturn V rolled off the manufacturing line. One of the key problems facing SLS has been its development and launch costs. There are a number of reasons why the spacecraft is so expensive, including the procurement procedures NASA has to follow, the Senate-mandated equipment and facilities its required to use, and the simple fact that building a hugely expensive rocket that only flies once or twice a year (at an all-in cost of $1.5B to $2.5B) means spending a lot of money to keep facilities open and functional while they’re doing mostly nothing.
