You can download more ram too!
Cybercriminals are creaming their jorts at the potential exploits this might open up.
Please, hackers wear cargo shorts and toe shoes sir
Oof. But yeah. Fair.
I want to go in record that sometimes I just wear sandals with socks.
Truly! The scum of the earth!
Others have already laughed at this idea, but on a similar topic:
I know we’ve basically disabled a lot of features that sped up the CPU but introduced security flaws. Is there a way to turn those features back on for an airgapped computer intentionally?
Haven’t used it in years, but it might still work:
The kernel option is
mitigations=off, if you want to try adding it to your Grub command line? From the testing I’ve done, provides no benefits whatsoever - no more frames in games, compilation runs no quicker, battery life on a laptop is no better.https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#Turn_off_CPU_exploit_mitigations
I highly doubt that unless they invented magic.
Added it
I meant tech radar but thanks
Haha okay
Edit: after a skim and a quick Google, this basically looks like a packaging up of existing modern processor features (sorta AVX/SVE with a load of speculative execution thrown on top)
Hur Hur Hur… PPU
This change is likened to expanding a CPU from a one-lane road to a multi-lane highway
This analogy just pegged the bullshit meter so hard I almost died of eyeroll.
You’ve got to be careful with rolling your eyes, because the parallelism of the two eyes means that the eye roll can be twice as powerful ^1
(1) If measured against the silly baseline of a single eyeroll
Apparently the percentage of people actually understanding what they are doing in the management part of the industry is now too low to filter out even such bullshit.
Why is this bullshit upvoted?
Already the first sentence, they change from the headline “without recoding” to “with further optimization”.
Then the explanation “a companion chip that optimizes processing tasks in real-time”
This is already done at compiler level and internally in any modern CPU for more than a decade.It might be possible to some degree for some specific forms of code, like maybe Java. But generally for the CPU this is bullshit, and the headline is decidedly dishonest.
Overclockers:
“Give me some liquid nitrogen and I’ll make that 102x.”Meh, I just spit on it.
Startup discovers what a northbridge is
10 tricks to speed up your cpu and trim belly fat. Electrical engineers hate them! Invest now! Start up is called ‘DefinitelyNotAScam’.
Gee its like all modern computers already have massively parallel processing devices built in.
I don’t care. Intel promised 5nm 10ghz single core processors by this point and I still want it out of principle
Has anyone been able to find an actual description of what this does? I clicked two layers deep and neither explains the details. It does sound like they’re doing CPU scheduling in the hardware, which is cool and makes some sense, but the descriptions are too vague to explain what the hell this is except “more parallelism goes brrrr” and it’s not clear to me why current GPUs aren’t already that.
