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[Link] Modded GBA SP Does Its Best Switch Impression

Read: 2/11/2021 hackaday.com

The whole idea behind the Nintendo Switch is that the system isn’t just a handheld, but can be converted into a more traditional home game console when placed into its dock.

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[Link] Intel CEO says AMD's CPU dominance is 'over with Alder Lake'

Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com

In a recent interview, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, states that AMD's dominance of the performance CPU market will be over with the release of Alder Lake.

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[Link] Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips The PC For Mission-Critical Computing At NASA

Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com

In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash for exotic workstations.

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[Link] I can't stop laughing at how small Nvidia's new graphics card is

Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com

It's not often nowadays that we end up with a GPU that's comically small, but here we are: the Nvidia RTX A2000.

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[Link] Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply

Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com

By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.

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[Link] The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay

Read: 3/8/2021 www.theregister.com

Intel has stopped shipping the Itanium CPU. In January 2019 the company issued an advisory [PDF] warning that last orders for the CPU must be lodged by January 30th, 2020, and that final shipments would head out the door on July 29th, 2021.

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[Link] Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers

Read: 29/5/2021 newatlas.com

Engineers have designed a computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its microarchitecture every few milliseconds. Known as Morpheus, the puzzling processor has now aced its first major tests, repelling hundreds of professional hackers in a DARPA security challenge.

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