Recent content by Chewy509

On the current Apple Silicon series stuff, they are custom devices as the actual drive controller is in the SOC and the 'HDD' is just a card with NAND flash and a bridge chip on it. You can source upgrades and DIY, but you may need access to some Apple software to reset the drive controller in...

Based on my reading, it's firmware tweaked for AI workloads that process video... My guess it's the same firmware used for video surveillance systems (basically linear writes at low IO queue depth), but tweaked to be more responsive to random IO in regions the were written recently... (The cache...

I would assume the 'AI' part means the firmware is designed for typical IO workloads found when used with AI software. Similar to how drives for video systems is designed more for linear IO, vs random IO. And HHDs for NAS may be tweaked for more random IO and quieter running, and so on.

IIRC, SDR -> DDR4 were a single 64bit wide data bus to the DIMM, but with DDR5 that was changed to a 2x 32bit data bus, thus allowing 2x 32bit reads to the DIMM to done independently. Due to the change to 32bit wide channels we can now have non power of 2 sizing of the actual memory chip...

Sounds a lot like the approach Sun took with the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 series.

Sorry to hear, with my sincere my condolences. RIP.

IIRC, nVidia said no new architecture until 2025. Will look at refreshes of current generation (aka Super's and Super Ti's) and continued focus on AI for 2024... Some reports are also indicating the the 50xx series will be a refresh of the current Ada Lovelace GPU (same architecture on a die...

I was going to recommend cablemod for right angle adapters, but they are not currently doing 8pin/6pin PCIe adapters but only 12VHPWR at the moment... apparently 8pin are on there way... https://store.cablemod.com/product-category/angled-adapters/

Interesting take on Ryzen vs Intel

Thermite is the only way...

Appears I was slightly incorrect, it appears ASMedia designed the actual chipsets themselves... Source for the above: https://www.techpowerup.com/242485/asmedia-remains-amd-chipset-usb-partner-increases-revenues-by-44-7...

The Powerbook 100 came in black, didn't it? Or is that more of a very dark grey? Otherwise one of the G3 based models was certainly black...

The only items to really note, was the unusual RAM size for the M3 Pro based MacBooks, eg, based installed size is 18GB, and that the M3 Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth compared to the M2 Pro (150GB/s vs 200GB/s). Mind you, having colour matched keyboards on the iMac is a nice touch...

IIRC, AMD licensed and used one the ASMedia USB 3.x controller designs in their Ryzen chipsets, so you won't see as ASMedia, but rather as a AMD chipset controller. Motherboard manufacturers would often add additional USB controllers to boost the number of USB ports. It was speculated that it...

Typically 2 years from the release of the 'version' of Windows 11 (for Home/Pro, excluding Enterprise which has it's own release cycle). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-11-home-and-pro