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Micron’s Record-Setting 1.5TB microSD Card Stores 4 Months of Video

Kioxia Has ‘Working Prototypes’ of the World’s First 2TB microSD Card

Kioxia says that it was able to finally make the SD Association’s standard a reality thanks to what it describes as “proprietary manufacturing technology.” The new cards are built by stacking sixteen, one terabit dies of 3D flash memory at a maximum thickness of 0.8mm at the die mounting area.

[...] Kioxia says it has created a working prototype and is ready to move it to mass production, but it doesn’t plan to do so until 2023.

I didn't notice the 1.5 TB announcement, but it doesn't look like it is available for purchase yet. I looked up microsd after seeing that the Razer Edge lists support for 2 TB microSD cards. It's not unheard of for the vendor to list the SDXC maximum as what a device supports, but it seemed like the right time.

ODROID-H3 and ODROID-H3+ SBC’s feature Intel Celeron N5105, Pentium N6005 processor

Both new SBCs support up to 64GB RAM, significantly faster Intel UHD graphics, an M.2 PCIe Gen 3 socket, and keep the same port assignment with two 2.5GbE ports, two SATA ports, as well as two USB 3.0 and two US 2.0 ports.

[...] Both boards can be purchased now with the ODROID-H3 SBC going for $129 and the ODROID-H3+ model selling for $165.

The previous J4105 and J4115 CPUs that ODROID-H2(+) used had only 12 graphics execution units. N5105 has 24 EUs, N6005 has 32 EUs.

I want to see 8-core Alder Lake-N hit the market first but these could be an attractive option for some users.

What do you do for fun when your brain is tired?

By that I mean when you are mentally exhausted from having to work hard plus deal with all sorts of incoming things, and your brain just wants a rest?

Hobbies and stuff are great, but when your brain is tired, even they can seem like a chore, or you end up just sitting and staring or unable to focus. What do you do to switch off completely and let your brain recharge?

ASRock Unveils Blazing M.2 PCIe Gen 5 SSD Cooler With Active Fan Heatsink, Compatible With Z790, X670E & B650 Motherboards

ASRock has revealed its Blazing M.2 PCIe Gen 5 SSD [cooler] which is an active fan heatsink for X670E, Z790 & B650 motherboards.

ASRock has developed five styles for the new SSD cooling system, and it is stated that the airflow, measured in cubic feet per minute (cfm), will be 4.92. The new Blazing M.2 PCIe Gen 5 SSD cooling fan attachments will be compatible with X670E, B650 and B650E, and Z790 motherboards, and the company has provided a list of compatible models and which type of cooler variant will work with each.

Earlier this year, in March, Phison reminded manufacturers and users of the elevated temperatures that PCIe Gen 5 M.2 NVMe SSD devices would produce. Not only would the new PCIe SSDs offer speeds topping 14GBps, but Phison reported that the M.2 SSD controller limits had been factory set to 125°C. Phison explained that as the drive is filled with data, the temperatures increase. However, the NAND flash memory, which can only accept up to 80°C, will cause the SSD to go into a critical state and shut down the system, causing losses of information and depreciation of the system.

Previously: Gen 7 SSDs

Ukraine troops say they take key town, Putin ally mulls possible nuclear response

Ukrainian troops said on Saturday they had taken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible use of low-grade nuclear weapons.

The capture came just a day after Putin proclaimed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions - including Donetsk, where Lyman is located - and placed them under Russia's nuclear umbrella, at a ceremony that was condemned by Kyiv and the West as an illegitimate farce.

[...] The recent successes have infuriated Putin allies such as Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia's southern Chechnya region, who said he felt compelled to speak out.

"In my personal opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons," Kadyrov wrote on Telegram before Zelenskiy spoke.

Other top officials, including former president Dmitry Medvedev, have suggested Russia may need to resort to nuclear weapons, but Kadyrov's call was the most urgent and explicit.

Chill nuclear explosions to watch.

AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Review: Retaking The High-End

Meanwhile, the updated socket also offers enough pins for the CPU to drive 4 Superspeed USB 3.x ports, and a USB 2 port. The USB 2 port is new for this generation, and meanwhile 3 of those USB 3 ports now also support the USB Type-C connector, unlike AM4 which could only natively drive Type-A ports. As a result, AM5 CPUs can drive a total of 3 Superspeed Type-C ports, a fourth Superspeed Type-A port, and then the aforementioned USB 2 port.

[...] Finally, in conjunction with the USB I/O changes, AM5 also introduces some display I/O changes. Whereas AM4 could directly drive up to 3 displays, AM5 brings this to 4. Specifically, AM5 offers one dedicated display output (which will generally be allocated to HDMI), while the other 3 display outputs are available over those 3 USB Type-C ports as DisplayPort alt mode. It’ll be up to motherboard manufacturers if they want to expose any of these USB-C root ports as physical USB-C ports or as DisplayPorts, but so far from the motherboard designs we’ve seen, the former is more common (though certainly not universal).

Anticipating a shift to more USB Type-C displays, AMD is also implementing what they call “hybrid graphics” support on AM5. Unlike previous products where this referred to linking up the integrated graphics with a discrete GPU in CrossFire mode, this time around it refers to being able to being able to use the mobo/iGPU’s display outputs to drive a monitor while using a dGPU to render content. This is largely lifted from AMD’s laptop technologies, where similar techniques are used to allow the dGPU to be powered down when it’s not in use. In the case of desktop processors, this just means every display output will work, regardless of whether it’s plugged into ports coming from the CPU or a discrete video card.

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Meanwhile on the display controller side of matters, this is the block that’s enabling Ryzen 7000 CPUs to drive up to 4 4K@60Hz displays. The iGPU display controllers can drive HDMI 2.1 up to its maximum 48Gbps data rate, or it can drive a DisplayPort 2.0 output at up to the UHBR10 data rate (a feature not even found on NVIDIA’s forthcoming RTX 40 series cards). And as mentioned previously when talking about motherboards and chipsets, motherboard vendors will have the option of exposing these DP outputs either via USB-C alt mode, or by implementing fixed DisplayPorts. All of which, in turn, can be used as active display outputs even if a discrete video card is installed, via AMD’s new hybrid graphics mode.

From an article in the Guardian:

A senior member of a far-right Italian political party tipped to win general elections this month has appealed to state broadcaster Rai not to screen an episode of the globally popular children’s cartoon series Peppa Pig over the inclusion of a same-sex couple in its cast of characters.

Apparently a recent episode shown on UK TV for the first time shows co-parenting lesbian polar bears.

A character called Penny announces: “I live with my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti.” The family then sit down for a meal together.

The popular TV series is aimed at pre-schoolers and it should be noted that nowhere does it include any sexually-explicit material.

Still, the old misery-gutses get all in a tizzy about it. Stupid fascists.

Pilot faces criminal charges after threatening to 'intentionally crash' into Mississippi Walmart

A pilot who threatened to “intentionally crash” into a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, Saturday morning was taken into custody hours later after landing the plane in a field.

The pilot, identified by police as Cory Wayne Patterson, stole the twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 90 from the Tupelo Regional Airport around 5:30 a.m.

Patterson called 911 from the aircraft to say that he was going to crash into Walmart, Tupelo police chief John Quaka said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw

Rest in pizza.

I have three days to learn enough about the Rust programming language to head off the C++ guys at the pass. There's a meeting coming up.

Note that we don't have enough people who know C++ either, other than "everyone else uses it for everything so we should too." That's about the limit of their knowledge. This is PHB-level stuff.

I'm not planning on living out the rest of my career writing and debugging and maintaining C++. No way. Where do I start? I have already said, "I offers memory safety and it's good enough that Linus is letting it in the kernel now."

Help!