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その昔、PCを自作しました。(回路設計をして回路のデバッグしてOSをセルフビルドしてメモリのキャリブレーション結果をブートローダーに反映してGUI付きLinuxが起動してQtアプリが起動する所まで)
惜しむべくは微妙にPCではないところ。
10月も終わり頃になるとスポーツショップにウインタースポーツ関連の品物が並び始めるので、テンション上がってくる。このタイミングでワックスなどサプライ品を買う事が多いので、今年はスプレーワックスとリムーバーを買おう。
仕事で高専に出入りしているけど、たまに特には優れた実績やスキルは持ってないけど起業したい。どうしたらいいですか?(🤩キラキラ)
みたいな子がいるのだけど、全力で止めてまずは卒業して一般企業に入れと言っている。
油断していたら中華製エンジンオイルが売りに出てますね。今のご時世では割と安いし、しかもSQかつC3なのでスペックは大変良いですね…
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電子科出身ですが計算機工学(コンピュータの工学寄りハードウェアに関する学問)、オペレーティングシステム概論(OSの仕組み、役割に関する工学寄り学問)、通信工学(工学的な情報通信とは?)、代数幾何(数学の行列など)が面白かったです。どれもどれだけ時代が変わっても変わらない普遍的な内容です。
次期86が話題ですが、トヨタでは同時にS-FRも動いていて、さらにダイハツでコペンも動いているので、私には夢のような状況に思えます。
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これまだやってたんか感。インテルの台所事情とCPUの性能が他社に追いついていないので切られたプロジェクトだったと思ったけど、少なくとも後者は改善傾向という判断で更なる効率化と高性能化に必要なプロジェクトという事やろか。
Intel X86S - Coming Back With A Vengeance!
Based on recent reports, Unified Core is now being developed by two different teams. First by Intel in Austin, Texas. The new one is RosaicLabs, Santa Clara.
So, what is Rosaic developing? All evidence points to a high-performance X86S-variant of Unified Core aimed at servers & AI (but I don't think it stop there).
Intel recently handed them access to E-core/Unified Core RTL. RTL stands for register-transfer level (hardware description of core logic).
X86S is a pure 64-bit only design. Dropping real mode, 16-bit protected mode, 32-bit protected mode including 32-bit ring 0. But instead, it still has 32-bit compatibility mode of x64 long mode.
This is not a hideous software translation layer like in Windows-on-ARM (WoA) x86 -> ARM. Same like Windows x64, X86S also directly executes 32-bit applications but with one minor caveat. Lack of 16-bit addressing.
Meaning, some rare legacy applications that use old 16-bit address-size overrides may not work. I'm talking about some 2 to 3 decade old legacy software with hand-coded assembly optimizations or legacy runtime libraries. Very rare these days.
RosaicLabs is currently working on the new X86S core and they're in collaboration with Intel. So, we can expect to hear from them probably by 2028 or 2029 at best. Earliest is, possible tapeout with Intel Uncore by 2028 at best imho.
Also, I've seen some dimwits assume X86S needs software emulation or translation layer or a VM to run 32-bit apps. That's completely wrong. They run 32-bit apps directly and exactly like your Windows 11 x64 but with slightly reduced backward compatibility for legacy applications that still use archaic 16-bit addressing. And those are mostly extinct already imho. So, not issues.
My estimate is X86S will have more than 99% compatibility with 32-bit apps. I think only 32-bit apps with hand optimized 16-bit assembly will have issues. And they don't matter anymore. The transition from x64 to X86S will be far smoother than the transition from Windows 32-bit to 64-bit.
X86S reduces x86 decoder complexity and improves efficiency. If x64 needs to catch up with the performance of ARM decoders and/or the likes of Apple Silicon, this is the most important step in the right direction. And it looks like Intel Austin team is risk-averse. And that's not good for Unified Core.
X86S is the right thing to do. And let's hope it happens. This is the way!
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