And these are the patches the advisory recommends "immediately applying" to your operating system:

Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 – Security Patch KB4500331
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 – Security Patch KB4499180 OR Monthly Rollup KB4499149
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 – Security Patch KB4499175 OR Monthly Rollup KB4499164

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2019/05/30/a-reminder-to-update-your...

Rumors from Intel Land

Everything wonderful you read in the paid Intel press about Intel 10nm, think on this ......  Intel currently only has one production line that can limp as good as what we can now see, and there ARE NO PLANS to get any more 10nm lines.  

The 7nm Intel Project timeline is doing "better" than the 10nm Intel Project and the Intel 7nm project implementation dates are overlapping 10nm now and the Intel 7nm project is still progressing date-wise and the 10nm project is not.   Intel is spending money on their 7nm plant lines, and has stopped wasting money on 10nm totally.

You can figure this one out on your own, Intel will announce that 7nm will start "soon" and they will show some new production lines to back that statement up.

Also realize that for Intel, the difference between 10nm and 7nm is a flexible thing, so if Intel wants to run their "7nm lines" in for the first year building "10nm Tiger Lake" while actually trying to shake out a bunch of 7nm design and early production bugs out of 7nm, well that might be a good path for Intel to take since Intel's 10nm image cannot possibly be damaged more than it already is.

Intel has only "10nm redesigned" just a very very few of their laptop chipsets for real and only originally had plans for about 4-6 chipsets at 10nm anyway, with them originally planned to be sharing that one limping modified production line.  

Remember once again, in reality the current 10nm Intel doesn't functionally outperform the existing 14nm Intel chipsets in real uses for anything other than mildly less power consumption (and that lower power consumption is being hurt by having to overclock 10nm so much just to get it to get out of its own way).  



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https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2019/06/21/intel-plans-shock-proce...

Rumors abound that Intel's head bean picker is going to have to cut his synthetically inflated 14nm prices he had put on their old Intel 14nm chipsets.   Intel is in a bad bad place right now, having just flat running out of 14nm production capacity while still bleeding from high scrap costs over their newer 14nm designs that do not fit and work well on 14nm for multiple multiple multiple cored products.  

Since Intel puts 14nm lithography all down at the same time on the same 14nm 2-D photo resist substrate, Intel's ongoing scrap costs due to cumulative errors due to increasing complexity are already quite high and are going up through the roof as Intel core counts keep go up.  

For Intel to have to cut their super inflated 14nm prices means they have to start eating some ongoing money out of their bank account again ......    and after blowing 25 billion chasing mobile a few years back Intel has not yet amassed that kind of cash stockpile like they used to have back then.







The 2019 Ryzen Mobile APU refresh of the old AMD laptop line of "all in one" processor is now done and it has created a brand new improvement level for laptops.   You can see the results from it right now in the HP Business Pro line up if you want to go have a look at it.  

Another AMD Ryzen Mobile refresh is planned for next year, and this refresh may actually involve a lithography downsizing as well as a chiplet based redesign,  either to Samsung 4nm or to TSMC 5nm depending if Intel really actually achieves something with their 10nm or 7nm to start that ball rolling early.

AMD is distracted at the moment doing a world's best Super Computer with Cray for our NSA buddies.   This will take a priority out of their attention for the second half of this year.   It is fortunate that AMD has already laid in new product plans two years out, plans and designs which all key off Intel doing something to try to actually compete with them (eventually) and these AMD new product plans only need execution by placing a purchase order at TSMC or at  Samsung since AMD already have their next level lithography designs proven out and ready now.



The Cray Super Computer

The Cray Super Computer project involves mating a large single 64-128 core Ryzen Epyc core chipset, an AI processor array and at least FOUR Radeon graphics chipsets together to make up a single cluster on the same rack board, using AMD's Infinity Fabric to build a very fast moving data cruncher cluster ----- and then organizing a thousand or so of these rack board clusters using all the skills Cray has honed over the decades.

AMD is likely to come out of the Cray Super Computer partnership carrying a brand new appreciation of combined processing efficiency and a new set of skills about combining CPU and GPU and AI functions in advanced & beneficial manners.   This will leak out in their Consumer and Epyc lines of products naturally after 2-3 years when the Cray NDA agreements run out.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/tsmc-6nm-5-nm-80-percent-density

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2446/tsmc-demonstrates-a-7nm-arm-based-chiplet...

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/tsmc-6nm-5-nm-80-percent-density


Significant news from ARM land and from TSMC

The main gist of all of this is that 5nm is HERE, now, ready for production in early 2020.  It however requires a redesign and re-layout of all of 7nm products to get all of the size and the extra 15 layer benefits that come with the new ASML direct burn 5nm-3nm scanner lines that folks are currently building.

TSMC's 6nm is also HERE, now, and it does NOT require a 7nm redesign/re-layout and it does offer 85% of the 5nm size benefits but 6nm does not offer all the extra 15 layer benefits of ASML's newest 5nm lithography does offer.

TSMC is beginning to pump up all the ARM phone chip designers, offering them the many many core chiplet tech AMD has been using in a 5nm lithography 15 layer chiplet format.   Specifically, these are 5nm 15 layer ARM processor chiplets that TSMC is currently talking about.

We see AMD moving towards using 4nm Samsung and now suddenly TSMC is peddling AMD's chiplet tech and infinity fabric tech to the whole ARM world at 5nm/15 layer?   Nice folks there at TSMC.  How is it suddenly your role to be peddling other people's tech?

I am all cornfused, a bunch .......   who actually owns this tech?

ARM Holdings and Qualcomm are acting kinda sorta slow on the uptake right now, as I would expect Qualcomm and ARM to be leading this sort of new tech wave, not TSMC.  

It is possible that ARM Holdings is simply sitting mum on this new development as is their habit, waiting to give the first mover advantage to their first customer (Apple) with everybody  knowing that TSMC is where Apple is building their A-14 chipset ....... and TSMC may have simply let the cat out of the bag accidentally early and in a way that makes them look really really bad.

We have known for years that AMD had a ARM design license and we knew ARM tech existed inside AMD processors, but to suddenly find TSMC peddling the AMD chiplet stuff to the broader ARM cell phone world along with the Infinity Fabric that makes it all possible, well it is a right surprise to me.   It certainly causes me to question who actually owns the tech that is involved .......  and makes me suspect what Apple is working on as well.   TSMC is referring here to successful prove out runs of a very complex PC like chipset with a lots & lots of complexity and many many many cores .......    

Apple's first PC level ARM chipset would look a lot like that, you know.

What we may also be seeing may be a form of Far Eastern rebellion against Trump's American Technology Transfer protectionism.    We may also be simply seeing that AMD's chiplet tech was really generalistic ARM tech all along, and AMD was simply the first to move it over into PC uses.

For example, TSMC has now stated it will continue to do business with Huawei, and TSMC is now giving Huawei new technology apart from AMD, ARM and the USA.    Remember please, Huawei is TSMC's largest non-Apple customer after all.

This current move from TSMC looks like it has TSMC assuming the rights to transfer some USA chiplet technology apart from the USA parent company ........      


      We assumed AMD was the originator of the tech ...... key word here is "assumed" I do believe.  

I think ARM and TSMC need to clarify this situation, ASAP



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First wave of clarifications arrives ........

Watch out boys and girls, TSMC is reaching over into the FOSS RISC-V and MIPS worlds and tucking it all together themselves with some existing tech from ARM that is currently already licensed by all the phone chip builders.

TSMC is signalling that the phone chip guys (Huawei specifically) can build up better computer chips than Intel currently has "by doing the AMD thing" just by using tech that is either free or has use rights that are already owned by Huawei and Mediatek and all the others.

Is this a Far Eastern reaction to the Trump tech embargo?

Look to see Trump assign people to "look into this" and to try to create some fashion of payback for TSMC for breaking up Trumps tech embargo.

It is clear now that TSMC sees its bread buttered on the China side, not the USA side as the vast mass of chip sales volume now comes from India and the Orient .......

Quantum computing may create the tech wall that Trump needs, if he can get the USA Quantum creators grouped together behind the new tech wall that he builds.

Global Foundry and Intel (and Intel's still massive build capacity) may well be a key part of this USA tech wall.

The tech that AMD and Cray develop to use in the new NSA supercomputer needs to go behind Trump's tech wall as well.


INTEL  ----- get off your dead ass and MOVE YOURSELF, you can do this too off of your existing ARM design license.   For you to still be dicking around while everyone in the Orient moves past you is CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE on your beanpicker CEO's part.

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2446/tsmc-demonstrates-a-7nm-arm-based-chiplet...

It is clear that TSMC considers this combined FOSS and ARM chiplet tech as coming from them and they have the rights to distribute it as they see fit ......



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https://wccftech.com/tsmcs-custom-built-octa-core-a72-chip-reaches-4ghz-at-1-...



TSMC’s design starts from a single chip with two chiplets on board. Each chiplet die is 4.4 mm by 6.2 mm with four Cortex A72 cores present. The cores have a custom L1 cache, and two 1 MiB L2 cache blocks on the die. An additional high-density bitcell 6 MiB L3 cache is also present. The cores can reach 4.0GHz at 1.20V, and 4.20 GHz at 1.375V. Additionally, the 1968-bit wide on-die mesh interconnects are capable of operating above 4GHz, and six of these are present on each die.

The two chiplets are connected to each other through TSMC’s Low-voltage-In-Package-INterconnect (LIPINCON). Each of these PHYs measures 0.42mm x 2.4mm, and can reach data transfer rates of 8Gb/p/s (Gigabit-per-pin-per-second) through a 2:1 multiplex function. LIPINCON also provides 0.56pJ/bit power efficiency and 1.6TB/s/mm˛ bandwidth density and 320GB/s bandwidth. It’s also important to note that more than two chiplets can be used with this design.

Through using CoWoS, TSMC is able to drive down power consumption for the chiplets, and TSMC has used a micro-bump pitch of 40µm in this design, and the two dies are separated by 100µm. These numbers put the Taiwanese fab ahead of Intel, and if TSMC continues its current trajectory, then it could very well expand its presence in the market in the future.

OK, so it is some serious stuff, it is well thought out and it shows how TSMC can use its 7nm, 6nm and 5nm direct burn EUV to simply outclass Intel at the PC game using technology all the phone players have already licensed from ARM.

This is Intel's worst nightmare -- effective competition from EVERYBODY in the world.

Intel is noticeably shaky right now and TSMC is flat out suggesting that ANY of the phone chipset builders (yep, any of them) could use and improve upon TSMC's 8 chiplet per chip design as shown and get TSMC to run PC class ARM processors off by the bajillions.

Give your imagination a practical functional boost here, use a RISC-V license on a completed and proven out FOSS PC chip design put together by a FOSS consortium using TSMC's ideas and simply make Intel passe'.

See, I can help Intel out too, just like TSMC did ........    

https://liliputing.com/2019/06/canonical-sort-of-backtracks-ubuntu-will-conti...

Ubuntu has screwed up mightily this past week by saying they were dumping all 32 bit support as of right now, with the current release being only compiled for 64 bit Linux systems.

Shuttleworth and his boys claim they asked all their peers and their supporting distros about this move months ago, but this was obviously NOT COMPLETELY TRUE because the world immediately screamed at the Ubuntu lead team that 1) they had broken Steam on Linux completely as many games are actually compiled at 32 bits .... and 2) they had broken all of WINE compatibility layers that are being used all over the place pretty much completely as Wine is at its base a 32 bit code.

It is obvious that Ubuntu is acting so self-centered now to a simply amazing degree and I know that Linux Mint as a sub-distro has been greatly stressed out by some of what Ubuntu has done willy-nilly of late, making key software choices that have very high maintenance levels as a current issue.    This Ubuntu self-absorption is not a new thing, BTW, Linux Mint itself came into existence because Ubuntu carelessly screwed the pooch thoroughly about 10 years ago in a very similar fashion.

Steam has announced that they will start focusing on some other distro ASAP ---- which one is not yet decided as Ubuntu of late has not been a good set of stable sensible folks to partner with.    If Gabe at Steam makes good on his threat many distros will automatically make the same move as Steam does as GAMES ARE IMPORTANT to a lot of distros and having a stable working environment is very important to all of them too.

Ubuntu likes to break things carelessly way too much lately --- Ubuntu has done got the mental Mickeysoft disease they do.



4 days later .......



https://liliputing.com/2019/06/steam-will-continue-to-work-with-ubuntu-for-no...


Due to pushback from the community, Canonical backtracked a bit and announced plans to include some 32-bit binaries in Ubuntu 19:10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. So it’s unsurprising that Valve says Steam will work on those upcoming operating systems. But as for the future of Steam on Linux? That’s a little less clear.

In a nutshell, Valve says it already includes many of the dependencies that 32-bit games need in order to run properly. But it relies on the host operating system for some things including 32-bit glibc, Mesa and NVIDIA graphics drivers, and more.

While it could be possible to put some of those things into a container so that they’d work even if they aren’t officially supported by the operating system, Valve had originally decided to drop support for Ubuntu when it became clear that it wouldn’t be possible to find workaround by the time Ubuntu 19.10 is scheduled to launch in October.

But now that Canonical seems set to offer at least 5-6 years of support for key 32-bit binaries, (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, which is set to launch next April, will be a long-term support release), it make sense for Valve to continue supporting the operating system.

That said, in Valve’s statement, the company makes it pretty clear that it’s exploring other options “that offer a great gaming desktop experience such as Arch Linux, Manjaro, Pop!_OS” and Fedora. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those other Linux distributions became the recommended Steam Linux OS in the future.

Mint Debian is about 5 years old now, and it actually takes about as much effort to maintain as Ubuntu used to take before the bevy of bad decisions came out of Shuttleworth's lead group --- HOWEVER, if Steam and Gabe goes with plain Debian as the Steam basis then that equation changes quite a bit.

Gabe at Steam is looking for a distro with a large support team that keeps it up quite well.   Mint is really too too small, all they have ever done is tune Ubuntu or Debian just a little tiny bit.   Ubuntu, when they don't have their heads up their butts is the right general size of organization and CAN make up a good match for Steam and Mint.

Microsoft's Clear is a candidate for source for both Steam and for Mint, but the main issue is that it is not free as it only gets released as part of a Mickysoft product.  Another fault is Clear changes too too radically way too frequently just to suit Mickey's itches.

Debian moves "broad stroke" upgrades at about the right speed.   Ubuntu's real main problem is their "Benevolent Dictator Forever" Mark Shuttleworth keeps abruptly making these individually called decisions that actually affect a lot more people than just him and his organization.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2019/06/28/amds-ryzen-5-3700x-beat...

Forbes is a financial magazine whose readership expects them to keep an eye on Intel.   Forbes has factually reported what has been going on for the last critical Six Months as Intel has lost its leadership position in personal computing.

Forbes has their own tech reporter now who is getting newly released CPU sets from both sides so he can do his own real, impartial testing and reporting.     Why is this needed, you ask?     Because Intel makes up its own news by using paid shill reporters who report totally false made up completely inappropriate comparisons (utter crap) as facts.

Now why is this particular report news?   Intel's very best totally cherry picked and tweeked gaming stuff got its cherry picked arse totally demolished by Ryzen 9 just 2 days ago with the Ryzen not even being overvoltage overclocked at all.

So why is the Ryzen 7 3700x (stock) beating the same  Core i9-9900K (gamer special) any form of big deal?   AMD is simply showing that their middle of the road stuff can kick Intel's arse as well, and that is newsworthy, especially coming from Forbes.

The silent recommendation to the Forbes readership is to tread lightly on Intel's future position -- this is Forbe's job to tell their readership about this as soon as possible so they have time to make adjustments.

So, what does Forbes actually have say one week out from the big ship on AMD processors across the world, having gotten and tested their provided samples from both sides already.

AMD's Ryzen 7 3700X Beats Intel Core i9-9900K In New Benchmarks

Antony Leather Contributor
Consumer Tech -- Forbes

Several results have been posted, three of which I've graphed here against results for the Core i9-9900K that are easily searchable in the database here. In the processor arithmetic benchmark, which measures the arithmetic and floating point performance of processors, the Intel CPU still has a lead, but it's less than 8%.   (Note please, this is Intel's only win on an i9 Intel 97700K that is being run against a mid line AMD Ryzen 7 3700x, so you would think Intel would have something better than an 8% lead on the only one item that they post a win for for something they claim "total dominance" over)

     

The image processing score was one of the biggest wins for the mid line AMD with a 15% lead over the mighty Intel Core i9 CPU.   The rest of the AMD wins were smaller numbers, but it shows that AMD has line lapped Intel pretty much across the lines of each vendor's current offerings.

The above benchmark the multi-media and media processing performance of processors and here the AMD CPU is 9% faster than the Core i9-9900K.  These are mostly encouraging signs that AMD is going to perform well in content creation software .

In two days the Nondisclosure Period on the Ryzen 3000 release ends.

Folks have boards and chipsets all over the place for weeks now and the Asians and the Europeans have been leaking benchmarks in a steady rain for as long as they have had their hardware.

We will watch Tom's Hardware as our official listing as they have been keeping a mixed brand ranking that includes both Intel and AMD ranked in order.   With all the news about AMD's 12 and 16 cores being greatly ahead of anything Intel has, and the shocking news that the Ryzen 5 line beats Core i7s pretty much in everything and that the lowest of the low Ryzen 3 line beats some of the Core i7s and ALL of the Core i5s, well, the Intel massacre is pretty bloody and messy at this point in time.

Intel still has their media controlling hand on the balls of most of the PC press, so look to see "the big squeeze" go into play and for all the tame Intel press to squeal out in unison to say whatever it is that Intel wants them to say .......