Intel leaks some very early plans to completely dump the existing overly complex Core i architecture for a new, simplified hybrid processor set-up.    

Sad thing is they can't tell you exactly what this new Intel replacement architecture is going to look like at the moment ..... they aren't going to be the ones calling that shot.

But Intel does clearly see the Tensor AI handwriting is up on the wall and they also realize that Quantum computing is coming as well ..... the existing PC world has about 3 years left before going down the toilet bowl swirl with all the rest of "old computing tech".

Intel is posting lots of patents on all sorts of things, frantically buying up little forward thinking companies and patenting their stuff (as Intel technology) on lots of different pathways forward, spending their excess money now so they can maybe say they "own" a chunk of the future while they still have some money to spend doing that.

Intel is still shrinking year on year as a company, and it is losing influence right and left as it does so .....

What is clear is that Intel's old Core i x86 architecture "product line" is verging on intellectually defunct, and that relatively tiny AMD is currently designing much better "Core i & GPU hybrid processors" than Intel is, and that Intel simply cannot compete anywhere effectively any more using just their own old Intel patented architectures.

    "The future uses a lot of GPU tech and Intel is very weak on GPU technology"

I just saw the reply,, glad I looked up,  

holes a "maintenance feature" and unless you have a costly paid maintenance plan going out into the future, guess what you don't get ....

A Maintenance FEATURE,  gee, I don't remember EVER hearing about those. Are they New? How many of those should I expect to discover built into my car, or television?

https://chromeunboxed.com/new-chromebook-eve-nvme-ssd/


Optane from Intel falls off the table


    NVMe is a new industry wide standard for memory interfaces. These drives are still SSD (solid state drives), but they can send and receive data MUCH faster, among other tricks.

Take the Samsung 960 Pro for example. This NVMe SSD can see peak read/write speeds of 3500mbps/2500mbps. So it is clear, these drives (paired with a NVMe capable motherboard) can move multiple GIGABYTES of data per second.

3. Gigs. Per. Second.

For reference, a fast standard SSD at the current moment can see read/write speeds up to 750mbps.





Why it Matters

On multiple fronts, this is a massive step forward. Slow hard drives seriously impact the performance of locally-stored resources. If you have any doubt, go to a local Best Buy and mess around with two computers with similar processors and RAM: one with an old, spinning HDD and one with an SSD. The difference is easily observable.

For all computing types, faster data transfers mean faster experiences. We all like fast.

For Chromebooks, the reason this could be a big deal is simple: Android apps.

Chrome OS, on its own, relies more heavily on the speed of your data connection than it does on the speed of your internal storage. After all, the current crop of Chromebooks are being run off of eMMC storage, which is a good deal slower than standard SSD.

If Chrome OS is moving forward with NVMe storage, Android is the target. With apps now being stored and run locally on Chromebooks, faster data transfer of that stored data will result in much faster and stable performance across the board.


WHAT DOES IT MEAN ..... ???   MS had planned to have large chunks of Optane memory to make their fat porky Win 10S seem quick and nimble, comparatively speaking.

Now MS is being faced with the new "Eve class" of Chromebooks that are going to be swinging much FASTER, much bigger and much less expensive Samsung MVMe memory modules.  

Those still not real yet Win 10S Chromekillers won't seem to be all that fast or all that attractive to purchasers comparison shopping  against the less expensive Eve class of Chromebooks which are going to be noticeably speedier and cheaper than the more expensive, slower Win 10S machines.

HOWEVER, MS will cannibalize some of their own sales as all the existing more expensive Win10 laptops will be really slow looking and sluggish compared to those cheap Win 10S Chromekillers .....

Some bright boy at MS will realize this and the Win 10S Chromekillers will fade away before even landing good (yet again).


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New York Times says:

Microsoft to Cut Up to 4,000 Sales and Marketing Jobs

MS plans to stop doing what they have been doing, and do something different that won't require a sales force or Marketing group.  

MS hasn't said what that is yet ......

I understood.
I'm just appalled that a Known Problem was allowed to be delivered WHILE the manufacturer would only repair the problems that they knew existed before they sold it, IF the victim was Paying for a Maintenance Agreement.

Gates SUXXX

What is "EVE", who is designing it,  who is building it and what does it portend?

Six months ago, I joked about MS and Qualcomm tossing some Chromekiller BS down on Google by firing off some fictional pure poot style "flaming bullets" made of purely imaginary brown vapor ..... and eventually getting back some irritated return fire from Google with some for real flaming bullets (or return phaser fire, as the case might well be).

Bang !!!!   EVE flies out of the barrel aimed right at Wincom's nuts.

EVE is the platform name going through LENARO and Linus's kernel level commits and is now showing up in FCC reference designs.   EVE keeps making the tech news as being the first to incorporate "lower cost new super fast main memory" and being the first to use several other technical innovations like a new stylus.

Historically, EVE was the mother of a new race.  

Might this portend something on the techie front as well ???    

We know EVE is a new Chromebook type, that much is very clear.  

EVE already has had some cutting edge modern mobile tech showing up in it, a behind the screen finger print sensor, a high pixel count touch screen, a layout task bar and the rest of the modern phone features INCLUDING your choice of having Google Assistant being live at all times, with it started up by by verbal or touching a dedicated key/screen button.

Google has always works in partnership with a builder/vendor as they incorporate builder feedback into the base design, always.

In this case the EVE system commits are coming from Google Chrome Central and also from the individual builder(s) .....  

 (drum roll please)

HP (very heavy flow of commits)
Dell (heavy)
Acer (heavy)
Asus (light)
Lenovo (light)



These are the same laptop folks who will also build you a MS Chromekiller unit, and they see no conflict with this as they are most interested in just selling more stuff, the more stuff they can sell the merrier.   These laptop guys always do one of each kind so they are covered no matter which way the market eventually swings.

By doing EVE at the exact same hardware level as Chromekiller, the builder vendors will minimize their developmental expenses and increase their purchase quantities on the components, thus saving some additional coins.

Google doesn't try to stop this behavior as they want to quickly improve what they make to make it BETTER than the other stuff, so Google wants to take market share by EARNING it ongoing with a lower cost better performing product.   Working with the enemy camp members gets them completely detailed information much quicker so they can work around any advantages that are seen.

So far Google is meeting all the fancy stuff that MS has vapor pooted and added some more nice ones from the mobile world.   As the two companies "feature fight" I look to see a comprehensive set of features in both top end glory products, features which will then slide down-hill into the general population of chromebooks over time.

The last 2 waves of Chromekillers came out with an exact Same Same chassis and unit design swinging both Win 8 and ChromeOS, so some very early head to head comparisons were quick and easy to get.

So far folks have spotted lots of new fast NVMe super memory, Gigabyte Wifi and state of the art tower service radios, a Kaby Lake Core i7 processor, Google Assistant button and a finger print scanner.  

Kinda upscale, and equipped with other ritzy cell phone stuff.  But hey, if that is the ball field this Chromekiller game is going to be played out upon, then let the fun commence.

Eve isn't going to be low end or inexpensive, it smells more like a multi-branded Pixel level device right now.   We knew the Chromekillers were never going to get down to Chromebook pricing levels, so having EVE be price neutral (but having ass kicking better performance levels at the same cost) is how Google plans to play this one.

There will be more pedestrian versions of this Chromebook later on, I am sure.   A lot of the successful ritzy neat features will move downstream into these lower cost units, so the Pixel exercise is always worthwhile for those who can afford it.

     ..... what I don't see is any Qualcomm 835 processors showing up anywhere .....   nor do I see any Samsung visible at the moment .....     

Speaking of more over-hyped Wintel vaporous BS, we need to revisit Optane yet again.

Optane is the miracle memory that MS planned to use to make existing Intel and Qualcomm processors move fast enough to make Win 10 seem competitive.

Chromebooks (EVE class) have countered this with a LARGE full sized "all systems and data items on it" bigger faster SSD type solid state drive as standard boot drive (systems and data) -- one that uses  the new NVMe DYNAMIQ ready industry standards instead of Intel's slower, more expensive Optane standard.    

Current MVMe drives from Samsung can move 3 GIGS of data per second (faster than Optane) using FAR LESS POWER than Optane drives use to do it -- and this will only get better since this type of memory has just moved down to 7nm lithography at Samsung, TSMC and Global ....  and the new NVMe is now documented as part of the DYNAMIQ ARM standards.  

MVMe will get cheaper and cheaper as time goes on.

If you were thinking about Optane -- Buyer Beware, the gamer boys who actually bought the stuff early on are now talking out loud about their experiences.



http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reasons-why-intel-optane-drive-rip-off/

BE VERY VERY CAREFUL when buying a new machine -- many of the newest ones are hardware locked into MS Win 10 (and the Win 10 used is hard keyed to only run on certain levels of NEW Intel processors that are installed on hardware locked motherboards) and you CANNOT load an alternate OS like Linux on these machines.

These same sorts of machines may have Optane on them, as Optane will only run with the exact right Intel processor paired to the correct version of Windows 10 AND having the correct hardware locked motherboard to support both.

Linux actually really really does work well, much better than Windoz but I have learned that Linux simply is a "bridge too far" for many of the folks here on the list -- they are too mentally captured by their past way too much to even think about using Linux.

Hard fact, on a 11 year old Dell big box refurbished off-lease machine, I get FAST and VERY GOOD service from Linux, so much so that I am good to go for the foreseeable future.   For Free, no less.

The rest of you guys are pending buying a whole new set of new stuff, whether you think you are or not.   Intel and MS want you to HAVE to buy a set of new stuff inside the next calendar year.

However, many of you do already use the Chrome Browser and have done so for what, over 10 years now?   And you use your Android phones too .....  all the time, for about 10 years now too.

So, I recommend you load the free Chrome browser on your Windows box and get used to using it on your desktop as your main browser.   It is "the world's favorite browser" for a good reason, it simply works faster and better than either of the Intel browser flavors do.

Once you get used to it, well then you are now fully trained and can use a Chromebook or ChromeStation at will should the need arise.   Chrome browser and Chromebooks operate identically.   Android on Chromebook operates just like Android does, should you get you one of those more modern Android ready Chromebooks (they are becoming more and more available now at no extra cost).    

Doing it this way gets you the skills you need at no real effort on your part.

Seriously, MS is going to bleed you monthly and squeeze your balls really really hard come upgrade time every few years .....

You will get tired of this action pretty soon, I think.

I really can't take not owning my own machine any more, so I don't use MS at all unless I am gaming on a game that requires it.