Ok, so the title isn’t as catchy as “Back to the Future,” but my guess is a lot of people who are advanced Linux users have — at least — a slight interest in retrocomputing. You’d like an Altair, but not for $10,000. You can build replicas of varying fidelities, of course. You can also […]
LINUX FU: FORWARD TO THE PAST! Continue Reading
Shenzhen based computer hardware manufacturer, Beelink, recently teased the release of a series of new Mini PCs top of which was the Beelink Gemini M, an ultra-thin Mini PC powered by the Intel Celeron J4125 processor running with 8GB of RAM. Featuring an ultra-thin aluminum enclosure and chassis, designed in a manner that allows for use in a variety of applications, the unique 1.77
BEELINK GEMINI M; ULTRA-THIN MINI PC BASED ON INTEL GLK-R PROCESSOR Continue Reading
AI processor company Graphcore Ltd. (Bristol, England) has announced its second-generation ‘Colossus’ intelligent processor unit (IPU), the GC200, claiming the 7nm chip is the world’s most sophisticated microprocessor. By Peter Clarke @ eenewseurope.com The company has also introduced a 1U board containing four GC200 processors that it calls the IPU-Machine or M2000. The chip is manufactured by foundry TSMC
GRAPHCORE LAUNCHES 7NM AI PROCESSOR Continue Reading
It is hard to describe the Brother SuperPowerNote. It looks like a big old Z80-based laptop, but it says it is a notebook. The label on it says (with lots of exclamation marks) that it is a word processor, a communications system, a personal scheduler, and a spreadsheet organizer. Brother also promises on the label
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IBASE Technology Inc., a world leader in the manufacture of a wide range of digital solutions, has rolled out the SI-642-N 4K digital signage player that leverages the 8th Gen Intel® Core™ U-series processors. The platform can be used in commercial establishments to increase brand awareness and customer engagement or deployed in transportation networks to
FANLESS 4K DIGITAL SIGNAGE PLAYER WITH 8TH GEN INTEL® CORE™ U-SERIES PROCESSORS Continue Reading
WIN Enterprises, Inc., a leading designer, and manufacturer of embedded x86 motherboards and appliances for electronic OEMs announce the MB-50040. The MB-50040 is a high-performance Mini-ITX single-board computer (SBC) for graphically-oriented factory process monitoring and IoT applications that require high performance. Features 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Mini-ITX DDR4 2400MHz SODIMM up to 64GB Supports 3 independent displays:
If you snore, you’ll probably find out about it from someone. An elbow to the ribs courtesy of your sleepless bedmate, the kids making fun of you at breakfast, or even the lady downstairs calling the cops might give you the clear sign that you rattle the rafters, and that it’s time to do something
AI-POWERED SNORE DETECTOR SHAKES THE PILLOW SO YOU WON’T Continue Reading
In November 2018, Hrdkernel announced the ODROID H2 as a “new generation of single-board computers.” However, despite its success, they could not ship enough of them to satisfy the demand due to the Intel Gemini Lake J4105 CPU supply shortage. Due to the shortage of the ODROID H2, the Odriod-H2+ was introduced, which has a slightly faster CPU, and will ship in
There are many questions that can be asked for software projects, with most of these questions starting with ‘Why…?’. This is true for the challenge of proving that cascading stylesheets are Turing-complete, or that you don’t need all those fancy ISA bits of an ARM processors when you already got the LDM and STM commands in the 32-bit ISA.
TURING COMPLETE PROGRAMMING ON ARM WITH TWO INSTRUCTIONS Continue Reading
There is an episode of Ren and Stimpy with a big red “history eraser’ button that must not be pressed. Of course, who can resist the temptation of pressing the unpressable button? The same goes for development boards. If there is a button on there, you want to read it in your code, right? The Raspberry Pi
BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO’S GOT THE (PICO) BUTTON? Continue Reading
