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Varloomon TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab

The article is wrote for tech illiterate audience.

They will use EUV for the first factory (2024). And High-NA EUV (next gen from ASML) for the second factory in 2026.

4nm,3nm are just marketing terms, and means nothing, since they stopped naming nodes according to their actual size since 16nm.

Varloomon Factorio runs on Apple Silicon

Developers aren't interested when Apple keeps dropping APIs.

Develop your game for x86_32, suddenly Apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for x86_64.

Develop your game for OpenCL/GL, suddenly Apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for Metal.

Develop your game for x86_64, suddenly apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for ARM64.

That's without counting the fact that most games developed nowadays developed using Vulcan or DX12 which has to be rewritten to Metal.

People are installing Windows on their Macs to play games that used to run natively on MacOS. Imagine how bad the backlash if this happened on Windows.

Varloomon Qualcomm vs. Arm: The bizarro quotient just went off the scale

Then on what basis they are targeted by this lawsuit but not Apple or Samsung for example.

Varloomon Qualcomm vs. Arm: The bizarro quotient just went off the scale

Can Qualcomm or any other company own such license ?

or is it monopoly.

Varloomon Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip

True and Apple & Softbank (ARM Owner) have joint VC.

Varloomon Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip

Apple transitioned from x86 to ARM in less than a year.

It can be done, using mix of native applications and emulation. And as long the emulation speed is indistinguishable from native (Like Rosetta 2), end users won't notice it and won't complain.

Google & Meta can team up to transition all their apps to RISC-V and that would be 70% of the most used daily apps, other will follow the lead.

Varloomon Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip

Stifling innovation like no tomorrow to maintain market domino.

Luckily we have something called RISC-V ready to takeover.

Varloomon Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip

We are in a transitory period with ARM till RiSC-V takeover and free the market from their stringent behaviors.

Might take few years, but we are on the right track to get there.

Varloomon Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting

Who's idea to feed monstrous 450W GPU with power using this small choke point?

Varloomon Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting

CPUs are not fed 600W through a tiny overloaded connector.

Varloomon Nvidia’s hot adapter for the GeForce RTX 4090 with a built-in breaking point

Why is the card has NOT been recalled already by now?

Are they waiting for some major house fire news to break out before doing something.

Varloomon Google added HEVC support in Chrome

Every new software and hardware is moving towards the royalty free, agile and efficient AV1 codec.

But out of nowhere and 9 years after its release, they add support to the mother of all royalties HEVC codec.

Probably had some kind of deal to benefit their android partner Samsung, since they own pretty much most of HEVC patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...

Varloomon Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on

ESNI is not implemented yet on any website. And there is no software support except beta versions of Chrome/Edge and you have to manually toggle flags in dev mode.

All SNIs are passed as plain text to your ISP/VPN, even with DoH/TLS secure DNS enabled.

Varloomon macOS Free and Open-Source Security Tools by Objective-See

KnockKnock is pretty useful. I run it once a month to make sure nothing out of ordinary is installed on my Mac.

I once found out that a VPN that I have uninstalled long time ago still has shady entry in the login items thanks to KnockKnock.

Varloomon Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage

This article is out of date. We have chip glut situation right now, both Intel and NVIDIA have pushed back their 4nm orders. And 7/8nm already produced chips are piling up with no buyer to be found (especially GPUs).

Varloomon Cloudflare Warp

Yes, but it's not implemented yet on any website. And there is no software support except beta versions of Chrome/Edge and you have to manually toggle flags in dev options.

Varloomon Cloudflare Warp

Which is not supported by 99.99% of the websites.

Varloomon Cloudflare Warp

Encrypted DNS doesn't encrypt SNI, your ISP can see all domains your visit in plain text.

Varloomon Cloudflare Warp

Plus (paid) tier started giving anonymous IPs.

Varloomon Cloudflare Warp

Are you using free or paid Wrap ? Paid wrap hides your original IP (unlike the free) and generally the IPs have good reputation (no CAPTCHA).

Varloomon Cloudflare Warp

Wrong, even with HTTPS & secure DNS, your ISP can see every site you visit in plain text from SNI requests.

Varloomon VPNs on iOS are a scam

If you have the paid version you get anonymous IP, otherwise it uses you own IP. I use their own speed test page to check my IP and location of the cloudflare server I'm using. https://speed.cloudflare.com/