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GlobalFoundries Will Allegedly Skip 10nm and Jump to Developing 7nm Process Technology In House (Updated)
Subject: Processors | August 20, 2016 - 03:06 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Semiconductor, lithography, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, global foundries, euv, 7nm, 10nm
UPDATE (August 22nd, 11:11pm ET): I reached out to GlobalFoundries over the weekend for a comment and the company had this to say:
"We would like to confirm that GF is transitioning directly from 14nm to 7nm. We consider 10nm as more a half node in scaling, due to its limited performance adder over 14nm for most applications. For most customers in most of the markets, 7nm appears to be a more favorable financial equation. It offers a much larger economic benefit, as well as performance and power advantages, that in most cases balances the design cost a customer would have to spend to move to the next node.
As you stated in your article, we will be leveraging our presence at SUNY Polytechnic in Albany, the talent and know-how gained from the acquisition of IBM Microelectronics, and the world-class R&D pipeline from the IBM Research Alliance—which last year produced the industry's first 7nm test chip with working transistors."
An unexpected bit of news popped up today via TPU that alleges GlobalFoundries is not only developing 7nm technology (expected), but that the company will skip production of the 10nm node altogether in favor of jumping straight from the 14nm FinFET technology (which it licensed from Samsung) to 7nm manufacturing based on its own in house design process.
Reportedly, the move to 7nm would offer 60% smaller chips at three times the design cost of 14nm which is to say that this would be both an expensive and impressive endeavor. Aided by Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, GlobalFoundries expects to be able to hit 7nm production sometime in 2020 with prototyping and small usage of EUV in the year or so leading up to it. The in house process tech is likely thanks to the research being done at the APPC (Advanced Patterning and Productivity Center) in Albany New York along with the expertise of engineers and design patents and technology (e.g. ASML NXE 3300 and 3300B EUV) purchased from IBM when it acquired IBM Microelectronics. The APPC is reportedly working simultaneously on research and development of manufacturing methods (especially EUV where extremely small wavelengths of ultraviolet light (14nm and smaller) are used to etch patterns into silicon) and supporting production of chips at GlobalFoundries' "Malta" fab in New York.
Advanced Patterning and Productivity Center in Albany, NY where Global Foundries, SUNY Poly, IBM Engineers, and other partners are forging a path to 7nm and beyond semiconductor manufacturing. Photo by Lori Van Buren for Times Union.
Intel's Custom Foundry Group will start pumping out ARM chips in early 2017 followed by Intel's own 10nm Cannon Lake processors in 2018 and Samsung will be offering up its own 10nm node as soon as next year. Meanwhile, TSMC has reportedly already tapped out 10nm wafers and will being prodction in late 2016/early 2017 and claims that it will hit 5nm by 2020. With its rivals all expecting production of 10nm chips as soon as Q1 2017, GlobalFoundries will be at a distinct disadvantage for a few years and will have only its 14nm FinFET (from Samsung) and possibly its own 14nm tech to offer until it gets the 7nm production up and running (hopefully!).
Previously, GlobalFoundries has stated that:
"GLOBALFOUNDRIES is committed to an aggressive research roadmap that continually pushes the limits of semiconductor technology. With the recent acquisition of IBM Microelectronics, GLOBALFOUNDRIES has gained direct access to IBM's continued investment in world-class semiconductor research and has significantly enhanced its ability to develop leading-edge technologies," said Dr. Gary Patton, CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. "Together with SUNY Poly, the new center will improve our capabilities and position us to advance our process geometries at 7nm and beyond."
If this news turns out to be correct, this is an interesting move and it is certainly a gamble. However, I think that it is a gamble that GlobalFoundries needs to take to be competitive. I am curious how this will affect AMD though. While I had expected AMD to stick with 14nm for awhile, especially for Zen/CPUs, will this mean that AMD will have to go to TSMC for its future GPUs or will contract limitations (if any? I think they have a minimum amount they need to order from GlobalFoundries) mean that GPUs will remain at 14nm until GlobalFoundries can offer its own 7nm? I would guess that Vega will still be 14nm, but Navi in 2018/2019? I guess we will just have to wait and see!
Also read:
- To 7nm And Beyond (Interview @ Semiconductor Engineering)
- GloFo Looks For 7nm Leadership @ Electronics Weekly
- GlobalFoundries develops 7nm and 10nm technologies in-house @ KitGuru
- SUNY Poly and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announce New $500M R&D Program in Albany To Accelerate Next Generation Chip Technology @ GlobalFoundries (PR)
- AMD GPU Roadmap: Capsaicin Names Upcoming Architectures @ PC Perspective
- Next Gen Graphics and Process Migration: 20 nm and Beyond @ PC Perspective
IDF 2016: G.Skill Shows Off Low Latency DDR4-3333MHz Memory
Subject: Memory | August 20, 2016 - 01:25 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: X99, Samsung, ripjaws, overclocking, G.Skill, ddr4, Broadwell-E
Early this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, California G.Skill showed off new low latency DDR4 memory modules for desktop and notebooks. The company launched two Trident series DDR4 3333 MHz kits and one Ripjaws branded DDR4 3333 MHz SO-DIMM. While these speeds are not close to the fastest we have seen from them, these modules offer much tighter timings. All of the new memory modules use Samsung 8Gb chips and will be available soon.
On the desktop side of things, G.Skill demonstrated a 128GB (8x16GB) DDR4-3333 kit with CAS latencies of 14-14-14-34 running on a Asus ROG Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard with an Intel Core i7 6800K processor. They also showed a 64GB (8x8GB) kit clocked at 3333 MHz with timings of 13-13-13-33 running on a system with the same i7 6800K and Asus X99 Deluxe II motherboard.
G.Skill demonstrating 128GB DDR4-3333 memory kit at IDF 2016.
In addition to the desktop DIMMs, G.Skill showed a 32GB Ripjaws kit (2x16GB) clocked at 3333 MHz running on an Intel Skull Canyon NUC. The SO-DIMM had timings of 16-18-18-43 and ran at 1.35V.
Nowadays lower latency is not quite as important as it once was, but there is still a slight performance advantage to be had tighter timings and pure clockspeed is not the only important RAM metric. Overclocking can get you lower CAS latencies (sometimes at the cost of more voltage), but if you are not into that tedious process and are buying RAM anyway you might as well go for the modules with the lowest latencies out of the box at the clockspeeds you are looking for. I am not sure how popular RAM overclocking is these days outside of benchmark runs and extreme overclockers though to be honest.
Overclocking Innovation session at IDF 2016.
With regards to extreme overclocking, there was reportedly an "Overclocking Innovation" event at IDF where G.Skill and Asus overclocker Elmor achieved a new CPU overclocking record of 5,731.78 MHz on the i7 6950X running on a system with G.Skill memory and Asus motherboard. The company's DDR4 record of 5,189.2 MHz was not beaten at the event, G.Skill notes in its press release (heh).
Are RAM timings important to you when looking for memory? What are your thoughts on the ever increasing clocks of new DDR4 kits with how overclocking works on the newer processors/motherboards?
Introduction and Features
Introduction and Features
The new Seasonic PRIME 750W Titanium PSU is simply the best power supply we have tested to date. Sea Sonic Electronics Co., Ltd has been designing and building PC power supplies since 1981 and they are one of the most highly respected manufacturers on the planet. Not only do they market power supplies under their own Seasonic name but they are the OEM for many other big name brands.
Seasonic's new PRIME lineup is being introduced with the Titanium Series, which currently includes three models: 850W, 750W, and 650W (with more to follow). Additional PRIME models with both Platinum and Gold efficiency certifications are expected later this year with models ranging from 850W up to 1200W. Wow – we are already looking forward to getting our hands on a couple of these!
The power supply we have in for review is the PRIME 750W Titanium. This unit comes with all modular cables and is certified to comply with the 80 Plus Titanium efficiency criteria; the highest available. The power supply is designed to deliver extremely tight voltage regulation on the three primary rails (+3.3V, +5V and +12V) and provides superior AC ripple and noise suppression. Add in a super-quiet 135mm cooling fan with a Fluid Dynamic Bearing and a 10-year warranty, and you have the makings for an outstanding power supply.
Seasonic PRIME 750W Titanium PSU Key Features:
• 650W, 750W or 850W continuous DC output
• Ultra-high efficiency, 80 PLUS Titanium certified
• Micro-Tolerance Load Regulation (MTLR)
• Top-quality 135mm Fluid Dynamic Bearing fan
• Premium Hybrid Fan Control (allows fanless operation at low power)
• Superior AC ripple and noise suppression (under 20 mV)
• Extended Hold-up time (above 30 ms)
• Fully modular cabling design
• Multi-GPU technologies supported
• Gold-plated high-current terminals
• Protections: OPP,OVP,UVP,SCP,OCP and OTP
• 10-Year Manufacturer's warranty
• MSRP for the PRIME 750W Titanium is $179.90 USD
Please continue reading our review of the Seasonic PRIME 750W Titanium PSU!
Lian Li Releases 550W and 750W SFX-L Power Supplies
Subject: Cases and Cooling | August 19, 2016 - 04:15 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: Lian Li, SFX, SFX-L, power supply, PSU, small form-factor, 550W, 750w, PE-550, PE-750
Announced back in April, Lian Li has now released a pair of SFX-L power supplies for small form-factor systems with the PE-550 and PE-750. The pair offer fully-modular designs with flat, ribbon-style cables, and carry 80 Plus Gold and Platinum certifications.
The PE-750 power supply
"The PE-550 is 80Plus Gold-rated for a maximum 89.5% efficiency; the PE-750 is 80Plus Platinum-rated for a maximum 92% efficiency. Both use a near-silent 120mm smart fan and minimize noise by operating fanlessly when output power is below 30%. Both PSUs use a single 12V rail design for the best possible stability under heavy system load, matched with myriad protection features to ensure reliable operation."
The PE-550 power supply
For more information and full specs, the product page for the 550W PE-550 is here, and the 750W PE-750 page is here. The PE-550 and PE-750 retail for $115 and $169 respectively, and both are available now.
ASUS Announces the ROG GX800 4K G-SYNC Gaming Laptop with GTX 1080 SLI
Subject: Mobile | August 19, 2016 - 03:46 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: UHD, ROG, Republic of Gamers, notebook, laptop, GX800, GTX 1080, gaming, g-sync, asus, 4k
ASUS has announced perhaps the most impressively-equipped gaming laptop to date. Not only does the new ROG GX800 offer dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics in SLI, but these cards are powering an 18-inch 4K display panel with NVIDIA G-SYNC.
Not enough? The system also offers liquid cooling (via the liquid-cooling dock) which allows for overclocking of the CPU, graphics, and memory.
"ROG GX800 is the world's first 18-inch real 4K UHD gaming laptop to feature the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 in 2-Way SLI. It gives gamers desktop-like gaming performance, silky-smooth gameplay and detailed 4K UHD gaming environments. The liquid-cooled ROG GX800 features the ROG-exclusive Hydro Overclocking System that allows for extreme overclocking of the processor, graphics card and DRAM. In 3DMark 11 and Fire Strike Ultra benchmark tests, a ROG GX800 equipped with the Hydro Overclocking System scored 76% higher than other gaming laptops in the market.
ROG GX800 comes with NVIDIA G-SYNC technology and has plug-and-play compatibility with leading VR headsets to allow gamers to enjoy truly immersive VR environments. It has the MechTAG (Mechanical Tactile Advanced Gaming) keyboard with mechanical switches and customizable RGB LED backlighting for each key."
Specifics on availability and pricing were not included in the announcement.
Serious mobile gaming power from ASUS, if you can afford it
Subject: Mobile | August 19, 2016 - 03:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: asus, ROG, gtx 1070, G752VS OC Edition, pascal, gaming laptop
The mobile version of the GTX 1070, referred to here as the GTX 1070M even if NVIDIA doesn't, is a interesting part sporting 128 more cores than the desktop version albeit at a lower clock. Hardware Canucks received the ASUS RoG G752VS OC Edition gaming laptop which uses the mobile GTX 1070, overclocked by 50MHz on the Core and by 150MHz on the 8GB of RAM, along with an i7-6820 running at 3.8GHz. This particular model will set you back $3000US and offers very impressive performance on either it's 17.3" 1080p G-SYNC display or on an external display of your choice. The difference in performance between the new GTX 1070(M) and the previous GTX 980M is marked, check out the full review to see just how much better this card is ... assuming the price tag doesn't immediately turn you off.
"The inevitable has finally happened: NVIDIA's Pascal architecture has made its way into gaming notebooks....and it is spectacular. In this review we take a GTX 1070-totting laptop out for a spin. "
Here are some more Mobile articles from around the web:
More Mobile Articles
- ASUS ROG Strix GL702VT 17.3in Gaming Notebook @ Kitguru
- Asus ZenBook Flip UX360CA @ Kitguru
- Wise Pad W7 Windows 10 Phablet @ TechARP
Now we know what happened to Josh's stream; does your camera do YUY2 encoding?
Subject: General Tech | August 19, 2016 - 01:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: yuy2, windows 10, skype, microsoft, idiots
In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft has disabled MJPEG and H.264 encoding on USB webcams for Skype in their Adversary Update to Windows 10, leaving only YUY2 encoding as your choice. The supposed reasoning behind this is to ensure that there is no duplication of encoding which could lead to poor performance; ironically the result of this change is poor performance for the majority of users such as Josh. Supposedly there will be a fix released some time in September but for now the only option is to roll back your AU installation, assuming you are not already past the 10 day deadline. You can thank Brad Sams over at Thurrott.com for getting to the bottom of the issue which has been plaguing users of Skype and pick up some more details on his post.
"Microsoft made a significant change with the release of Windows 10 and support for webcams that is causing serious problems for not only consumers but also the enterprise. The problem is that after installing the update, Windows no longer allows USB webcams to use MJPEG or H264 encoded streams and is only allowing YUY2 encoding."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- lackberry and Windows phones hold just 7 percent of smartphone market combined @ The Inquirer
- Arduino + Software Defined Radio = Millions of Vulnerable Volkswagens @ Hack a Day
- Cisco joins Microsoft and flings out Skype-friendly collab app @ The Register
- Fujifilm X-T2 Mirrorless Camera Hands-On Preview @ TechARP
- instax SHARE SP-2 Mobile Printer Hands-On Preview @ TechARP
- Linksys LGS318P 18-Port Smart PoE+ Gigabit Switch Review @ NikKTech
- MSI Pro-Modding competition and GT73 VR at Gamescom 2016 @ Kitguru
Gamescom 2016: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Video
Subject: General Tech | August 19, 2016 - 01:40 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: mount & blade ii, taleworlds
Mount & Blade is a quite popular franchise in some circles. It is based around a fairly simple, but difficult to master combat system, which mixes melee, blocking, and ranged attacks. They are balanced by reload time (and sometimes accuracy) to make all methods viable. A 100 vs 100 battle, including cavalry and other special units, is quite unique. It is also a popular mod platform, although Warband's engine can be a little temperamental.
As such, there's quite a bit of interest for the upcoming Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. The Siege game mode involves an attacking wave beating down a fortress, trying to open as many attack paths as possible, and eventually overrunning the defenders. The above video is from the defending perspective. It seems like it, mechanically, changed significantly from Warband, particularly the Napoleonic Wars DLC that I'm used to. In that mod, attackers spawn infinitely until a time limit is reached. This version apparently focuses on single-life AI armies, which Warband had as Commander Battles.
Hmm. Still no release date, though.
AMD Announces TrueAudio Next
Subject: Graphics Cards | August 18, 2016 - 07:58 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: amd, TrueAudio, trueaudio next
Using a GPU for audio makes a lot of sense. That said, the original TrueAudio was not really about that, and it didn't really take off. The API was only implemented in a handful of titles, and it required dedicated hardware that they have since removed from their latest architectures. It was not about using the extra horsepower of the GPU to simulate sound, although they did have ideas for "sound shaders" in the original TrueAudio.
TrueAudio Next, on the other hand, is an SDK that is part of AMD's LiquidVR package. It is based around OpenCL; specifically, it uses AMD's open-source FireRays library to trace the ways that audio can move from source to receiver, including reflections. For high-frequency audio, this is a good assumption, and that range of frequencies are more useful for positional awareness in VR, anyway.
Basically, TrueAudio Next has very little to do with the original.
Interestingly, AMD is providing an interface for TrueAudio Next to reserve compute units, but optionally (and under NDA). This allows audio processing to be unhooked from the video frame rate, provided that the CPU can keep both fed with actual game data. Since audio is typically a secondary thread, it could be ready to send sound calls at any moment. Various existing portions of asynchronous compute could help with this, but allowing developers to wholly reserve a fraction of the GPU should remove the issue entirely. That said, when I was working on a similar project in WebCL, I was looking to the integrated GPU, because it's there and it's idle, so why not? I would assume that, in actual usage, CU reservation would only be enabled if an AMD GPU is the only device installed.
Anywho, if you're interested, then be sure to check out AMD's other post on it, too.
More space than even Jimmy Stewart would need to satisfy his voyeurism
Subject: Storage | August 18, 2016 - 02:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: skyhawk, Seagate, rear window, hitchcock, 10TB
Seagate designed the 10TB SkyHawk HDD for recording video surveillance by adding in firmware they refer to as ImagePerfect. This is designed for handling 24/7 surveillance and extends the endurance life of the drive to 180TB a year, for the length of the three year warranty. Constantly recording video means this drive will write far more often than most other usages scenarios and reads will be far less important. eTeknix tried the drive out in their usual suite of benchmarks; being somewhat difficult to set up a test to verify the claimed support for up to 64HD recordings simultaneously. If you are looking for durable storage at a reasonable price and might even consider needing more than eight drives of storage you should check the SkyHawk out.
"I've recently had a look at the 10TB IronWolf NAS HDD from Seagate and today it is time to take a closer look at its brother, the brand new SkyHawk DVR and NVR hard disk drive with a massive 10TB capacity. Sure, you could use NAS optimized drives for simple video setups, but having a video and camera optimized surveillance disk does bring advantages. Especially when your recorded video is critical."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Seagate IronWolf 10TB SATA III HDD Review @ NikKTech
- WD Blue SSHD (WD10J31X) 1TB @ TechARP
- The WD Gold 8TB Datacenter Drive @ TechARP
- QNAP TVS-682-I3-8G NAS Server Review @ NikKTech
- Low-cost 120 GiB SSD duel: SanDisk SSD PLUS vs. Kingston SSDNow V300 @ Hardware Secrets
NVIDIA Officially Announces GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Edition
Subject: Graphics Cards | August 18, 2016 - 02:28 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: nvidia, gtx 1060 3gb, gtx 1060, graphics card, gpu, geforce, 1152 CUDA Cores
NVIDIA has officially announced the 3GB version of the GTX 1060 graphics card, and it indeed contains fewer CUDA cores than the 6GB version.
The GTX 1060 Founders Edition
The product page on NVIDIA.com now reflects the 3GB model, and board partners have begun announcing their versions. The MSRP on this 3GB version is set at $199, and availablity of partner cards is expected in the next couple of weeks. The two versions will be designated only by their memory size, and no other capacities of either card are forthcoming.
|GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
|GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
|CUDA Cores
|Base Clock
|1506 MHz
|1506 MHz
|Boost Clock
|1708 MHz
|1708 MHz
|Memory Speed
|8 Gbps
|8 Gbps
|Memory Configuration
|Memory Interface
|Power Connector
As you can see from the above table, the only specification that has changed is the CUDA core count, with base/boost clocks, memory speed and interface, and TDP identical. As to performance, NVIDIA says the 6GB version holds a 5% performance advantage over this lower-cost version, which at $199 is 20% less expensive than the previous GTX 1060 6GB.
Intel's new SoC, the Joule
Subject: General Tech | August 18, 2016 - 02:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Intel, joule, iot, IDF 2016, SoC, 570x, 550x, Intel RealSense
Intel has announced the follow up to Edison and Curie, their current SoC device, called Joule. They have moved away from the Quark processors they previously used to a current generation Atom. The device is designed to compete against NVIDIA's Jetson as it is far more powerful than a Raspberry Pi and will be destined for different usage. It will support Intel RealSense, perhaps appearing in the newly announced Project Alloy VR headset. Drop by Hack a Day for more details on the two soon to be released models, the Joule 570x and 550x.
"The high-end board in the lineup features a quad-core Intel Atom running at 2.4 GHz, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 16GB of eMMC, 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.1, USB 3.1, CSI and DSI interfaces, and multiple GPIO, I2C, and UART interfaces."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft Windows UAC can be bypassed for untraceable hacks @ The Inquirer
- Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac @ Slashdot
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Enables NVIDIA Ansel Support For 3D Stereo Screenshots @ Techgage
- ech support scammers mess with hacker's mother, so he retaliated with ransomware @ The Register
- 90 per cent of people ignore security notices because their brains are too busy @ The Inquirer
- NikKTech With Kingston HyperX It's All About Speed Global Giveaway
Podcast #413 - NVIDIA Pascal Mobile, ARM and Intel partner on 10nm, Flash Memory Summit and more!
Subject: Editorial | August 18, 2016 - 02:20 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, podcast, pascal, nvidia, msi, mobile, Intel, idf, GTX 1080, gtx 1070, gtx 1060, gigabyte, FMS, Flash Memory Summit, asus, arm, 10nm
PC Perspective Podcast #413 - 08/18/2016
Join us this week as we discuss the new mobile GeForce GTX 10-series gaming notebooks, ARM and Intel partnering on 10nm, Flash Memory Summit and more!
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Hardware/Software Picks of the Week
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Josh: A sale at Origin!
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Sebastian: Budget bookshelf speakers!
Gunning for Broadwell-E
As I walked away from the St. Regis in downtown San Francisco tonight, I found myself wandering through the streets towards my hotel with something unique in tow. It was a smile. I was smiling, thinking about what AMD had just demonstrated and showed at its latest Zen processor reveal. The importance of this product launch can literally not be overstated for a company struggling to find a foothold to hang on to in a market that it once had a definitive lead. It's been many years since I left a conference call, or a meeting, or a press conference feeling genuinely hopefully and enthusiastic about what AMD has shown me. Tonight I had that.
AMD's CEO Lisa Su, and CTO Mark Papermaster, took stage down the street from the Intel Developer Forum to roll out a handful of new architectural details about the Zen architecture while also showing the first performance results comparing it to competing parts from Intel. The crowd in attendance, a mix of media and analysts, were impressed. The feeling was palpable in the room.
It's late as I write this, and while there are some interesting architecture details to discuss, I think it is in everyone's best interest that we touch on them lightly for now, and instead refocus on the deep-dive once the Hot Chips information comes out early next week. What you really want to know is clear: can Zen make Intel work again? Can Zen make that $1700 price tag on the Broadwell-E 6950X seem even more ludicrous? Yes.
The Zen Architecture
Much of what was discussed from the Zen architecture is a re-release of what has been out in recent months. This is a completely new, from the ground up, microarchitecture and not a revamp of the aging Bulldozer design. It integrated SMT (simultaneous multi-threading), a first for an AMD CPU, to better take efficient advantage of a longer pipeline. Intel has had HyperThreading for a long time now and AMD is finally joining the fold. A high bandwidth and low latency caching system is used to "feed the beast" as Papermaster put it and utilizing 14nm process technology (starting at Global Foundries) gives efficiency, and scaling a significant bump while enabling AMD to scale from notebooks to desktops to servers with the same architecture.
By far the most impressive claim from AMD thus far was that of a 40% increase in IPC over previous AMD designs. That's a HUGE claim and is key to the success or failure of Zen. AMD proved to me today that the claims are real and that we will see the immediate impact of that architecture bump from day one.
Press was told of a handful of high level changes to the new architecture as well. Branch prediction gets a complete overhaul. This marks the first AMD processor to have a micro-op cache. Wider execution width with broader instruction schedulers are integrated, all of which adds up to much higher instruction level parallelism to improve single threaded performance.
Performance improvements aside, throughput and efficiency go up with Zen as well. AMD has integrated an 8MB L3 cache and improved prefetching for up 5x the cache bandwidth available per core on the CPU. SMT makes sure the pipeline stays full to prevent "bubbles" that introduce latency and lower efficiency while region-specific power gating means that we'll see Zen in notebooks as well as enterprise servers in 2017. It truly is an impressive design from AMD.
Summit Ridge, the enthusiast platform that will be the first product available with Zen, is based on the AM4 platform and processors will go up to 8-cores and 16-threads. DDR4 memory support is included, PCI Express 3.0 and what AMD calls "next-gen" IO – I would expect a quick leap forward for AMD to catch up on things like NVMe and Thunderbolt.
The Real Deal – Zen Performance
As part of today's reveal, AMD is showing the first true comparison between Zen and Intel processors. Sure, AMD showed a Zen-powered system running the upcoming Deus Ex running at 4K with a system powered by the Fury X, but the really impressive results where shown when comparing Zen to a Broadwell-E platform.
Using Blender to measure the performance of a rendering workload (a Zen CPU mockup of course), AMD ran an 8-core / 16-thread Zen processor at 3.0 GHz against an 8-core / 16-thread Broadwell-E processor at 3.0 GHz (likely a fixed clocked Core i7-6900K). The point of the demonstration was to showcase the IPC improvements of Zen and it worked: the render completed on the Zen platform a second or two faster than it did on the Intel Broadwell-E system.
Not much to look at, but Zen on the left, Broadwell-E on the right...
Of course there are lots of caveats: we didn't setup the systems, I don't know for sure that GPUs weren't involved, we don't know the final clocks of the Zen processors releasing in early 2017, etc. But I took two things away from the demonstration that are very important.
- The IPC of Zen is on-par or better than Broadwell.
- Zen will scale higher than 3.0 GHz in 8-core configurations.
AMD obviously didn't state what specific SKUs were going to launch with the Zen architecture, what clock speeds they would run at, or even what TDPs they were targeting. Instead we were left with a vague but understandable remark of "comparable TDPs to Broadwell-E".
Pricing? Overclocking? We'll just have to wait a bit longer for that kind of information.
Closing Thoughts
There is clearly a lot more for AMD to share about Zen but the announcement and showcase made this week with the early prototype products have solidified for me the capability and promise of this new microarchitecture. We have asked for, and needed, as an industry, a competitor to Intel in the enthusiast CPU space – something we haven't legitimately had since the Athlon X2 days. Zen is what we have been pining over, what gamers and consumers have needed.
AMD's processor stars might finally be aligning for a product that combines performance, efficiency and scalability at the right time. I'm ready for it –are you?
NVIDIA Today?
It always feels a little odd when covering NVIDIA's quarterly earnings due to how they present their financial calendar. No, we are not reporting from the future. Yes, it can be confusing when comparing results and getting your dates mixed up. Regardless of the date before the earnings, NVIDIA did exceptionally well in a quarter that is typically the second weakest after Q1.
NVIDIA reported revenue of $1.43 billion. This is a jump from an already strong Q1 where they took in $1.30 billion. Compare this to the $1.027 billion of its competitor AMD who also provides CPUs as well as GPUs. NVIDIA sold a lot of GPUs as well as other products. Their primary money makers were the consumer space GPUs and the professional and compute markets where they have a virtual stranglehold on at the moment. The company's GAAP net income is a very respectable $253 million.
The release of the latest Pascal based GPUs were the primary mover for the gains for this latest quarter. AMD has had a hard time competing with NVIDIA for marketshare. The older Maxwell based chips performed well against the entire line of AMD offerings and typically did so with better power and heat characteristics. Even though the GTX 970 was somewhat limited in its memory configuration as compared to the AMD products (3.5 GB + .5 GB vs. a full 4 GB implementation) it was a top seller in its class. The same could be said for the products up and down the stack.
Pascal was released at the end of May, but the company had been shipping chips to its partners as well as creating the "Founder's Edition" models to its exacting specifications. These were strong sellers throughout the end of May until the end of the quarter. NVIDIA recently unveiled their latest Pascal based Quadro cards, but we do not know how much of an impact those have had on this quarter. NVIDIA has also been shipping, in very limited quantities, the Tesla P100 based units to select customers and outfits.
Is Enterprise Ascending Outside of Consumer Viability?
So a couple of weeks have gone by since the Quadro P6000 (update: was announced) and the new Titan X launched. With them, we received a new chip: GP102. Since Fermi, NVIDIA has labeled their GPU designs with a G, followed by a single letter for the architecture (F, K, M, or P for Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal, respectively), which is then followed by a three digit number. The last digit is the most relevant one, however, as it separates designs by their intended size.
Typically, 0 corresponds to a ~550-600mm2 design, which is about as larger of a design that fabrication labs can create without error-prone techniques, like
multiple exposures (update for clarity: trying to precisely overlap multiple designs to form a larger integrated circuit). 4 corresponds to ~300mm2, although GM204 was pretty large at 398mm2, which was likely to increase the core count while remaining on a 28nm process. Higher numbers, like 6 or 7, fill back the lower-end SKUs until NVIDIA essentially stops caring for that generation. So when we moved to Pascal, jumping two whole process nodes, NVIDIA looked at their wristwatches and said "about time to make another 300mm2 part, I guess?"
The GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070 (GP104, 314mm2) were born.
NVIDIA already announced a 600mm2 part, though. The GP100 had 3840 CUDA cores, HBM2 memory, and an ideal ratio of 1:2:4 between FP64:FP32:FP16 performance. (A 64-bit chunk of memory can store one 64-bit value, two 32-bit values, or four 16-bit values, unless the register is attached to logic circuits that, while smaller, don't know how to operate on the data.) This increased ratio, even over Kepler's 1:6 FP64:FP32, is great for GPU compute, but wasted die area for today's (and tomorrow's) games. I'm predicting that it takes the wind out of Intel's sales, as Xeon Phi's 1:2 FP64:FP32 performance ratio is one of its major selling points, leading to its inclusion in many supercomputers.
Despite the HBM2 memory controller supposedly being actually smaller than GDDR5(X), NVIDIA could still save die space while still providing 3840 CUDA cores (despite disabling a few on Titan X). The trade-off is that FP64 and FP16 performance had to decrease dramatically, from 1:2 and 2:1 relative to FP32, all the way down to 1:32 and 1:64. This new design comes in at 471mm2, although it's $200 more expensive than what the 600mm2 products, GK110 and GM200, launched at. Smaller dies provide more products per wafer, and, better, the number of defective chips should be relatively constant.
Anyway, that aside, it puts NVIDIA in an interesting position. Splitting the xx0-class chip into xx0 and xx2 designs allows NVIDIA to lower the cost of their high-end gaming parts, although it cuts out hobbyists who buy a Titan for double-precision compute. More interestingly, it leaves around 150mm2 for AMD to sneak in a design that's FP32-centric, leaving them a potential performance crown.
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On the other hand, as fabrication node changes are becoming less frequent, it's possible that NVIDIA could be leaving itself room for Volta, too. Last month, it was rumored that NVIDIA would release two architectures at 16nm, in the same way that Maxwell shared 28nm with Kepler. In this case, Volta, on top of whatever other architectural advancements NVIDIA rolls into that design, can also grow a little in size. At that time, TSMC would have better yields, making a 600mm2 design less costly in terms of waste and recovery.
If this is the case, we could see the GPGPU folks receiving a new architecture once every second gaming (and professional graphics) architecture. That is, unless you are a hobbyist. If you are? I would need to be wrong, or NVIDIA would need to somehow bring their enterprise SKU into an affordable price point. The xx0 class seems to have been pushed up and out of viability for consumers.
Or, again, I could just be wrong.
Gigabyte BRIX Gaming UHD Combines 2.6L Chassis with Discrete GPU
Subject: Systems | August 17, 2016 - 04:37 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: UHD, SFF, IDF 2016, idf, gigabyte, gaming, brix
While wandering around the exhibit area at this year's Intel Developers Forum, I ran into our friends at Gigabyte a brand new BRIX small form factor PC. The BRIX Gaming UHD takes the now-standard NUC/BRIX block shape and literally raises it up, extending the design vertically to allow for higher performance components and the added cooling capability to integrate them.
The design of the BRIX Gaming UHD combines a brushed aluminum housing with a rubber base and bordering plastic sections to create a particularly stunning design that is both simple and interesting. Up top is a fan that pulls air through the entire chassis, running over the heatsink for the CPU and GPU. This is similar in function to the Mac Pro, though this is a much more compact device with a very different price point and performance target.
Around the back you'll find all the connections that the BRIX Gaming UHD supplies: three (!!) mini DisplayPort connections, a full size HDMI output, four USB 3.0 ports, a USB 3.1 connection, two wireless antennae ports, Gigabit Ethernet and audio input and output. That is a HUGE amount of connectivity options and is more than many consumer's current large-scale desktops.
The internals of the system are impressive and required some very custom design for cooling and layout.
The discrete NVIDIA graphics chip (in this case the GTX 950) is on the left chamber while the Core i7-6500HQ Skylake processor is on the left side along with the memory slot and wireless card.
Gigabyte measures the size of the BRIX Gaming UHD at 2.6 liters. Because of that compact space there is no room for hard drives: you get access to two M.2 2280 slots for storage instead. There are two SO-DIMM slots for DDR4 memory up to 2133 MHz, integrated 802.11ac support and support for quad displays.
Availability and pricing are still up in the air, though early reports are that starting cost will be $1300. Gigabyte updated me and tells me that the BRIX Gaming UHD will be available in October and that an accurage MSRP has not been set. It would not surprise me if this model never actually saw the light of day and instead Gigabyte waited for NVIDIA's next low powered Pascal based GPU, likely dubbed the GTX 1050. We'll keep an eye on the BRIX Gaming UHD from Gigabyte to see what else transpires, but it seems the trend of small form factor PCs that sacrifice less in terms of true gaming potential continues.
HP's Latest Omen Desktop Puts a Gaming System in a Cube
Subject: Systems | August 17, 2016 - 04:25 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: PC, Omen 900, Omen, hp, gaming, desktop, cube, computer
HP has introduced a new pre-built gaming desktop, and while the Omen series has existed for a while the new Omen offers a very different chassis design.
This Omen isn't just cube-like, it's actually a cube (Image credit: HP)
Inside the specifications look like the typical pre-built gaming rig, with processors up to an Intel Core i7 6700K and graphics options including AMD's Radeon RX 480 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080. Configurations on HP's online store start at $1799 for a version with a GTX 960, a 1TB spinning hard drive, and a single 8GB DIMM. (Curiously, though reported as the "Omen X", the current listing is for an "Omen 900".)
A look inside an AMD Crossfire configuration (Image credit: HP via The Verge)
HP is certainly no stranger to unusual chassis designs, as those who remember the Blackbird 002 (which Ryan stood on - and reviewed - here) and subsequent Firebird 803 systems will know. The Verge is reporting that HP will offer the chassis as a standalone product for $599, itself an unusual move for the company.
(Image credit: HP)
The new Omen desktop goes on sale officially starting tomorrow.
Corsair's Dominator Platinum, 64GB of DDR4-3200
Subject: Memory | August 17, 2016 - 04:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Corsair Dominator Platinum, corsair, ddr4-3200
It will certainly cost you quite a bit to pick up but if you have a need for a huge pool of memory the 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4-3200 kit is an option worth considering. The default timings are 16-18-18-36 and the heat spreader and DHX cooling fins keep the DIMMs from heating up, even when Overclockers Club upped the voltage to 1.45V. Part of the price premium is the testing which was done before these DIMMs left the factory, as well as the custom PCB and hand picked ICs which should translate to a minimum of issues running at their full speed or even when overclocked. Pop by to see how this kit performed in OC's benchmarks.
"If I break it down, you get a set of modules that have been through an extensive binning process that hand selects the memory ICs being used on these modules. There is a custom designed, cooling optimized PCB that those memory IC's are mounted to so that we can enjoy a trouble free user experience. The DHX cooling solution on these modules is easily up to the task of keeping the modules cool with minimal airflow. The heat spreader and DHX cooling fins are designed to use convective cooling in the absence of any airflow over the modules."
Here are some more Memory articles from around the web:
- Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-2666 @ Benchmark Reviews
- G.Skill TridentZ 3866 MHz 2x 4GB DDR4 @ techPowerUp
- 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 @ eTeknix
Skyrim isn't done with you yet; full conversion Enderal arrives
Subject: General Tech | August 17, 2016 - 02:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Enderal, SureAI, mod, skyrim
Enderal: The Shards of Order is a complete conversion of the Steam version of Skyrim into a completely new game in a brand new world. The mod is 8 GB in size and requires a separate launcher, both available at Enderal.com and you can expect between 30 to 100 hours playtime. You may remember this team from Nehrim, their previous total conversion mod for Oblivion. Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN have covered this mod previously, however until now it was only available in German. The full English version, including voice acting, is now complete and ready for you to dive into. You might want to consider unmodding your Skyrim to install the mod, it does create a copy of the Skyrim installation so you can restore your Thomas the Tank Engine mod once you are set up.
"A final version of Enderal: The Shards of Order has been completed and can be downloaded for free now. While 'Enderal' sounds like it could be something made by a United States pharmaceutical company, it is actually a massive total conversion mod for Skyrim, not just adding new weapons or turning it into a survival game, but creating a whole new RPG using the raw materials of its parent."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Final Fantasy 15 hands-on: Brave new direction or just pandering to fans? @ Ars Technica
- MOO! Master Of Orion Reboot Leaves Early Access @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- The Legend Of THQnix: Dead Publisher Is Back, Kinda @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Valve's Robot Repair @ [H]ard|OCP
- Sunless Sea's Former Lead Now Writing For Stellaris @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Hands On: Dawn Of War III @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Battlefield 1 Open Beta starts from 31st August @ HEXUS
- BioShock Original And Remastered Graphics Comparison @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Without Kojima, Metal Gear becomes a multiplayer zombie action game @ Ars Technica
- Beyond No Man's Sky: 10 of the best games still to come in 2016 @ The Inquirer
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Roger felled big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic 7-6 6-3 in just 70 minutes to reach the fourth round in Indian Wells.
"It's always a bit of a success story to get his serve back," Roger said. "It seems like he is serving from the service line. Ivo has really improved a lot over the past few years so it's always nice to get through a tough match like this."
Our champ was able to withstand 13 aces by the Croatian, breaking him in the seventh game of the second set to avoid another tiebreaker while never facing a break point himself. "That's always a good thing," he said of holding serve with ease. "That kind of keeps you a bit relaxed." Despite his dominant record over Karlovic, Roger said he was always glad to come away with a win against him.
Roger next faces Chile's Fernando Gonzalez (head-to-head: 11:1), who dispatched American James Blake 7-5, 6-1.
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This is a discussion on "We Can't Afford to measure PUE" Really? - Solaris Rss ; Let's make a proposition: One can't not afford to measure energy consumption in any facility. You can't change what you don't measure. I was reading through my blog subscriptions while on a few long flights and ran across mmanos' note ...
Let's make a proposition: One can't not afford to measure energy consumption in any facility. You can't change what you don't measure.
I was reading through my blog subscriptions while on a few long flights and ran across mmanos' note in LooseBolts, linked below.
"We Can't Afford to measure PUE": "
I'm not particularly opposed to organizations going out and taking measurements as MM suggests. However, let's not look at this as being a particular solution to the underlying problem. There are some particular challenges that should be discussed here. Summarized:
1. PUE is useful only when understood in time-series
2. PUE is principally actionable when understood in context
If we take the first point, PUE is not useful when approached as a snapshot measurement. Rather, it is principally a metric that can be used to understand the relationship of ICT to supporting facility consumption. This relationship varies continuously. Thus, to understand the relationship, one would look at the information over time - and at a high degree of granularity (so measurement occurs frequently).
The second point is really that PUE is not all that useful if looked outside of context. With PUE alone, I really don't have anything useful. I need to know where the consumption occurs, and the patterns of that consumption. Even better - I really want to understand consumption against other measurable criteria - one reason why there is a shift toward DCiE.
Even more important to consider here is that if you think you need to measure PUE, then you really need to have the basic measurement apparatus in place to provide actionable intelligence - the ability to actually make changes that results in reduced costs.
Thus, I'd want to be able to detail consumption of all high-consumption apparatus (especially the chilled water plant and electrical equipment). This detail would dive into performance (think DOE2 trending for chillers, and even more powerful algorithms). Thus, what would be presented to me would be more of a picture of why my PUE is high or low and where there are opportunities (and an ROI) for cost reductions.
These systems, next generation BMS platforms, we dub iBMS, drive this type of intelligence. They pay for themselves, and are by far more preferable than scheduling a technician to run around a building once in a while for a PUE score.
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Chinese biotech company, Zhen-Ao Group has become a major sponsor of the International Weightlifting Federation.
The deal is a good fit for Zhen-Ao Group which is a leading developer of nucleic acid products and natural medicines.
The company has been considering a major sponsorship with weightlifting since being introduced to the Federation at the 2011 IWF Junior World Championships, which were held in Malaysia.
Zhen-Ao Group has been a partner of the Chinese Olympic Committee since 2001 and continues to be the official health supplement supplier of the Chinese Olympic Team.
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by Simeon GantFor New Pittsburgh Courier (NNPA) San Diego, Calif.—High School and College students received a few basic principles on how to succeed in business from legendary basketball star, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, earlier this week. With candor, wit and all seriousness, the Hall of Fame "hooper" explained to more than 80 youth at the Ron Brown Youth Entrepreneur Summit his kernels of success and how he matriculated from athlete to businessman. Magic Johnson


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Ḥanafīyah, also called Madhhab Ḥanīfah, English Hanafites, in Islām, one of the four Sunnī schools of religious law, incorporating the legal opinions of the ancient Iraqi schools of al-Kūfah and Basra. Ḥanafī legal thought (madhhab) developed from the teachings of the theologian Imām Abū Ḥanīfah (c. 700–767) by such disciples as Abū Yūsuf (d. 798) and Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī (749/750–805) and became the official system of Islāmic legal interpretation of the ʿAbbāsids, Seljuqs, and Ottomans. Although the Ḥanafīs acknowledge the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth (narratives concerning the Prophet's life and sayings) as primary sources of law, they are noted for the acceptance of personal opinion (raʾy) in the absence of precedent. The school currently predominates in Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, and the countries of the former Ottoman Empire.
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NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group, which is the co-owner of
DNA newspaper along with the Dainik Bhaskar group, has joined the United News
of India (UNI) board as a shareholder.News agency UNI has shareholding
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There are several important issues to consider in this year's presidential election – the war, the economy, the environment. As if that were not enough, here is one more weighty concern: BMW says it is developing a new, turbocharged four-cylinder engine but is waiting for the outcome of U.S. elections to decide whether to bring it here.
The new engine will be turbocharged and provide better efficiency and acceleration than the company's current normally aspirated inline-six, said Jim O'Donnell, president of BMW North America. The engine will be coming to European markets in the near future, but BMW is holding off on the United States. Why? BMW wants to gauge how tight future fuel efficiency standards will be in the United States, and it thinks much of that depends on who becomes the next president.
O'Donell also promoted the company's diesel engines, and expressed hope that they may yet find a major audience on our shores. His rhetoric closely matches that of fellow German manufacturers Volkswagen and Mercedes, both of which have been touting their latest cleanest diesel technologies as an answer to our fuel economy woes.
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ST. LOUIS -- Dereke Tipler picked the right time to play the best football game of his high school career.
The 5-foot-11, 190-pound tailback scored a career-high six touchdowns and rushed for career-high 297 yards in NMCC's 49-26 win over Clayton Monday, giving the Eagles their first quarterfinal win ever.
"Outstanding, outstanding player," said Clayton coach Larry Frost. "He's going to be a good football player for somebody on the next level. We just couldn't handle him."
Along with Tipler, quarterback Brian Murph and running back Desmond Sims shredded the shellshocked Clayton defense all night, racking up a whopping 603 yards of offense.
"We thought coming in that we could score on them," said NMCC coach Steve Rogers. "I don't know how impressed they were with us, but we weren't that impressed with their defense. We had some turnovers and made some stupid penalties, but somewhere along the way we scored about seven touchdowns. We had to be doing something right. The kids really wanted it and played hard. They put forth a great effort tonight."
NMCC (11-1) will host Salem, who defeated Duchesne 35-7, in the semifinal round on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
"Tipler played well, Murph played well, Desmond played well, and the line blocked extremely well tonight," said Rogers. "We did pretty much what we wanted to do. It was just a big win for us."
The Eagles scored on their first two possessions of the game as Tipler capped off a drive from seven yards out, then Murph hooked up with Sims for a 70-yard touchdown.
Tipler went on to score touchdowns on runs of 52, 35, 30 and 9 yards, and even caught a 24-yard TD pass in the second quarter.
"They're a very fine football team," said Frost. "Our kids played hard and we did the best we could. We had them, and then they'd break a long run. We had to stop their big plays and we couldn't do that."
NMCC's defense allowed Clayton just five first downs in the contest, but the Greyhounds found other ways to score. Otis Karngbaye returned a fumble 38 yards for a touchdown and Adam Pearson returned a kickoff 83 yards for another TD.
Quarterback Greg Lazerus scored Clayton's first touchdown in the second quarter when he called his own number and broke off a 52-yard TD up the gut in the second quarter.
Todd Abrams scored the Greyhounds' other touchdown from eight yards out.
"Our special teams let us down a little bit," said Rogers. "We kind of played in spurts, and had a couple of breakdowns. Fortunately, we had a lot of good offense going tonight."
Murph checked in with 105 yards through the air and 87 on the ground. Sims finished with 91 yards rushing and 70 receiving. Abrams led all Clayton rushers with 49 yards on six carries.
Clayton's standout running back Brookes Robinson carried the ball just three times in the first quarter and sat out the rest of the game with a deep thigh bruise.
"He just couldn't go," explained Frost. "Last week he went and I'm sure it did more damage. We had a doctor on the sideline that made the decision. We can't hurt his career."
Other Clayton players did play at less than 100 percent, but Frost offered up no excuses.
"I wish we were a little healthier, but I'm not going to make any excuses," said Frost.
"I wish our quarterback was healthy, I wish Brookes was healthy, and I wish Rodney Payne was healthy, but that's football. You have to give (NMCC) all the credit. I think they will do well in the next round. Who knows, maybe they will make it all the way. It wouldn't be too bad to lose to the state champs."
First NMCC has to deal with Salem (11-1) in Saturday's semifinal game.
"They're big, physical, and run the wishbone," said Rogers.
"It will be a real good test at our place. I don't think they've seen the kind of speed they're going to see Saturday at our place. It should be a real big ballgame."


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2006 Antica (Antinori) Cabernet Sauvignon
(USA, California, Napa Valley, Atlas Peak)
Very soft but powerful wine. This Napa (Italian) Cabernet had some nice old world qualities to it. It was not overpowering with fruit like the big bold Napa cabs. It had just the right balance between fruit, tannins, and wood. Perfect amount of oak for me and just the right earthy characteristics. The color was a deep purple and hinting toward the brown side. The start of the palate was balanced with raisins, cinnamon, blackberries, sour cherry and rounded out with black currant. The mid palate had a bump in tannins and still kept the characteristics of the wine. The finish was pleasant with some cigar feel to it and a little heat on the tannins. This wine was not a screaming bold Napa cab but it was definitely a quality wine with good balance for the price. Right about 45 bucks. Worth a try.
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Origin: Atlas Peak District, Napa Valley
Grapes: 100% Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon
Clones: See, 15, 337, and 7
Alcohol: 14.5%
Release: June 2009
Vintage: Flooding kicked off the New Year in Napa Valley while seasonal amounts of rain continued into spring. Budbreak was delayed by a few weeks, but by June the weather improved and vines began to bloom and set fruit. In Mid-July a 10-day, record-setting heat wave helped the vines reach normal development for a typical growing season. Sufficient soil moisture from heavy winter rains allowed vines to survive the extreme heat. Seasonal, somewhat cooler weather returned in August. Cool weather dominated early October allowing the fruit to ripen slowly, maximizing flavor intensity and complete maturation in the fruit.
Vineyard: Cabernet Sauvignon was harvested from the 24-acre Townsend Vineyard, planted at an elevation of 1460 feet in the volcanic soil series Perkins Gravelly Loam. Vine density is 2233 vines per acre and divided between four distinct Cabernet Sauvignon clones which contribute to the wine's complexity in flavors, and rich, concentrated fruit.Antica Napa Valley | Napa Valley Cabernet | Antinori Napa
Vinification: The harvest took place October 7-27 with the average yield of 3.3 pounds of fruit per vine. Grapes were hand-harvested during the cool morning hours from thirteen zones with higher elevations picked first. Grapes were de-stemmed, lightly crushed and placed in the fermenter where the must rested overnight before the yeast was added. During the 10-day fermentation, gentle pumpovers allowed polyphenolic components to be extracted giving a rich character to the young wine. The wine was then racked into new French oak barrels for malolactic fermentation which completed by December. Lots were racked to remove any solids and returned to barrel for additional aging. After 12 months, each lot was tasted and a selection made for the blend which was bottled in late spring of 2008 and allowed to age an additional 12 months. Antinori chief enologist, Renzo Cotarella, oversaw the production of this wine.
Taste: The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon offers pure, ripe Cabernet Sauvignon fruit centered on currant and unfolding to blackberry and black cherry flavors. The palate offers fullbodied richness and power, with a persistent display of freshness in the smooth and lingering finish.


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Then they came for the REALTORS®!
First they came for the mid-level bankers, and I did not speak out-
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There is very little difference, today than when Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) wrote the original just different scape goats!
Today Dodd-Frank took away the consumer's options and choice about mortgage origination and control of their cost.
It's been twenty years now, since the Chairman of Countrywide made his speech about getting rid of the Mortgage Brokers, the very people that made him rich, to bring the origination fees back to the Banks. Today the Mortgage Brokers are nearly gone.
Then they came for the REALTORS®!
It's been even more than twenty years since the Banks wanted to get into/control real estate sales! Can the REALTORS® who didn't speak out for the mid-level bankers, for the appraisers, for the Mortgage Brokers, or for the Consumers really think all their finger pointing will protect them? Pastor Niemöller faced annihilation for 5 years in a Nazi concentration camp, may the REALTORS® be so lucky.
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5:00: Flower goes to play the puck behind the net and gets tangled with a couple of Devils players. Luckily the Pens were able to clear the puck.
7:04: Pens get to regroup and get a needed faceoff in the Devils defensive zone.
13:15: Devils have been controlling the play these past few minutes. They already have seven shots during this period and Fleury has had to come up with a few big saves.
18:00: My talented intern Kaitlin Zurawsky will now be taking over the game blog for the first time. Happy reading!
20:00: Puck drops to start the second. Game on!
- Tanger leads the Pens with 8:17 minutes played
- Jordan Staal's next goal will be the 100th of his career
- The Pens have now scored the opening goal in seven of their first 10 games
0:00: That'll do it for the first. Pens lead 1-0 on a goal from Staalsy (his fourth of the year). The Devils have a 10-9 advantage in shots.
4:20: Adam Henrique cuts through the Pens D and goes in alone on Fleury, who stones him with the very end of his left pad!!! That was a stretch if I ever saw one!
5:25: The video board just recognized Steve Sullivan for playing his 900th career NHL game. The crowd acknowledges the huge feat with a loud chorus of cheers. Congrats Sully!!!
7:13: As my colleague Sam Kasan just tweeted, the Big Mac Drought of 2011-12 continues... sigh.
9:13: The Big Mac Attack is early tonight!!! It starts now.
10:00: Devils made it out of that one unscathed.
12:08: New Devils captain Zach Parise wrestles Kunitz to the ground, and he's going to be penalized for it. Pens back to the PP!
13:53: And the Pens convert! Cooke (behind the net) and Park (on the half wall) make a few passes back and forth before Park calmly sends a pass right to Staal's wheelhouse. He rips a one-timer from the slot that deflects off Anton Volechenkov's outstretched stick and into the net! Pens 1, Devils 0
14:29: Devils D man Bryce Salvador just left the ice and went down to the locker room. Not sure what happened there. And now the Pens are on the PP as Clarkson goes to the box for hi-sticking Fleury!
16:47: Now it's the Devils' turn to get a good scoring chance, as Zubrus gets a couple of cracks on the doorstep but Fleury gets a pad out to stifle his attempt!
17:49: Cooke gets some time and space to wind up for a shot in the offensive zone. Hedberg turns his shot aside and Asham goes in for the rebound, but whiffs on the attempt! Vitale can't get a handle on it either.
20:00: Puck drops. Game on!
It's official: Ben Lovejoy is scratched tonight. Deryk Engelland will be in the lineup. Mark Letestu and Evgeni Malkin are the other scratches. Here are the official combinations:
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It's a hockey night in Pittsburgh! The Pens are currently preparing to take on the New Jersey Devils for their first intra-division match of the season. This is the first of six meetings between the two teams.
The news out of Pittsburgh this morning is that Evgeni Malkin will not play tonight and Tyler Kennedy needs to progress to be symptom free before he can go any further. The six defensemen who dress will be a game-time decision, so stay tuned to the blog to find out who plays!
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People who buy health coverage under the Affordable Care Act might not get the help they would like to stop smoking, according to NPR.
The health law allows new individual and small group health plans to charge smokers up to 50 percent higher premiums in 2014.
Small group plans — at companies that employ up to 100 people — can boost smokers' rates only if plans also offer a wellness program to help people quit. However, men and women insured through plans on the individual market won't get the same coverage.
Wellness programs are rare in the individual market. The health care law provides for a demonstration project in 10 states to introduce wellness programs in the individual market, but it hasn't yet been implemented.
Six states and the District of Columbia will not implement the smoking surcharge. Others will limit the premium differential to less than 50 percent.
Meanwhile, a health care law program that advises consumers on insurance options is sparking controversy nationwide from critics who say it puts people at risk of fraud.
Eighteen states have enacted or are considering legislation to apply tougher requirements to "navigators," people and organizations who will help consumers shop for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces.
Republicans in Congress argue the navigator program could admit felons or allow the theft of consumers' personal information.
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Who invented the bikini?
The bikini experienced a surge of popularity in the second half of the 1900s, but the two-piece swimsuit is much older than that. Two millennia previously, Latin writers and poets including Ovid and Martial mentioned bikini-clad athletes and sex workers.
At least five ancient statues exist of Venus clad in a bikini, and at Piazza Armerina in Sicily are fourth-century mosaics depicting ten bikini-clad athletes dancing, running, throwing the discus, playing ball and working out with weights.
Greek paintings from over a thousand years earlier also depict female athletes in two-piece outfits. But we can trace the bikini back further still.
Around 5600 BC, the mother-goddess of Catal Huyuk (Çatalhöyük) was sculpted wearing a garment which some claim resembles a bikini. There are shoulder-straps, although the extent of the garment is not clear to me.
Catal Huyuk is the oldest city ever found, so the bikini may be as old as human civilization itself. The ancients were truly at the forefront of modern fashion.
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- The majority (around 81%) of the Portuguese population are Roman Catholic, while 3.3% follow other Christian denominations. Some 6.8% of the population declare themselves to be non-religious.
- The country of Portugal was founded in 1152.
- The month of June holds festivities dedicated to three saints known as Santos Populares.
- Each region of Portugal has its own traditional dishes made from meat and seafood.
- The oldest bookstore in the world (1732) is Bertrand in Lisbon (Chiado district).
- Portugal and England signed the oldest, and still active, diplomatic alliance in the world, (Windsor Treaty, 1386).
- Portuguese language is spoken by about 230 million people around the world (incl. 210 native speakers), and is the official language of 9 countries.
- Almost 12% of the inhabitants of Luxembourg and 3% of the people in France are of Portuguese descent. Paris has the largest Portuguese community outside Portugal and is the second largest Portuguese city after Lisbon based on the number of Portuguese residents.
- The name Portugal first appears in 868, during the Reconquista over the Muslims. A county was formed around the city of Porto, from which "Portugal" is derived.
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic is a country located in Southwestern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are Portuguese territory as well. The country is named after its second largest city, Porto, whose Latin name was Portus Cale.
The land within the borders of the current Portuguese Republic has been continuously settled since prehistoric times. After a period of Roman rule followed by Visigothic and Suebian domination, in the 8th century most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Moorish invaders professing Islam, who were later expelled by the Knights Templar. During the Christian Reconquista, Portugal established itself as an independent kingdom from León in 1139, claiming to be the oldest European nation-state. In the 15th and 16th centuries, as the result of pioneering the Age of Discovery, Portugal expanded western influence and established the first global empire, becoming one of the world's major economic, political and military powers. In addition, the Portuguese Empire was the longest-lived of the modern European colonial empires, spanning almost 600 years, from the capture of Ceuta in 1415 to the handover of Macau in 1999 and grant of sovereignty to East Timor in 2002. The empire spread throughout a vast number of territories that are now part of 53 different sovereign states. However, the country's international status was greatly reduced during the 19th century, especially following the Independence of Brazil, its largest colony. After the 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy, the democratic but unstable Portuguese First Republic was established, itself being superseded by the "Estado Novo" authoritarian regime. Democracy was restored after the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution in 1974.
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Portugal is a developed country with a very high Human Development Index, the world's 19th-highest quality-of-life as of 2005, and a strong healthcare system. It is one of the world's most globalized and peaceful nations: a member of the European Union and the United Nations, and a founding member of the Latin Union, the Organization of Ibero-American States, OECD, NATO, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the eurozone and the Schengen Agreement.
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Hartsfield-Jackson Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
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Swing con Son, Orquesta Lyrica, NovaSound, Orquesta Macuba
30 Local High School students and Department of Aviation employees
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with four local bands and a day at the airport for high school students. On September 20, Swing con Son kicked off a four week concert series. Every Friday during Hispanic Heritage Month, a local band will perform in the Atrium providing entertainment for passengers. On October 10, Hartsfield-Jackson will welcome students of Hispanic heritage from partnership high schools for "Preserving Culture Through Leadership," a day designed to inspire careers in aviation and leadership. The day will consist of student presentations, airport tours and speakers.
Orquesta Lyrica – Friday, September 27, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
NovaSound – Friday, October 4, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
"Preserving Culture Through Leadership" – Thursday, October 10, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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