PC-Hardware: AMD setzt die Konkurrenz unter Druck

Intel abgehängt, Nvidia senkt die Preise: Durch die Radeon RX 6000 und die Ryzen 5000 kommt Bewegung in den Markt. Eine Analyse von Marc Sauter (AMD, Prozessor)

Intel abgehängt, Nvidia senkt die Preise: Durch die Radeon RX 6000 und die Ryzen 5000 kommt Bewegung in den Markt. Eine Analyse von Marc Sauter (AMD, Prozessor)

WSJ: AMD wants to buy FPGA maker Xilinx for over $30 billion

AMD’s been on a roll with its laptop, desktop, and server chips over the past few years. Now the company is apparently taking aim at the FPGA space. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, AMD is in advanced talks to buy chip maker X…

AMD’s been on a roll with its laptop, desktop, and server chips over the past few years. Now the company is apparently taking aim at the FPGA space. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, AMD is in advanced talks to buy chip maker Xilinx in a deal worth more than $30 billion. […]

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The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.

Ain't no party like a programming language virtual conference party

I’ve been running into a lot of happy and excited scientists lately. “Running into” in the virtual sense, of course, as conferences and other opportunities to collide with scientists in meatspace have been all but eliminated. Most scientists believe in the germ theory of disease.

Anyway, these scientists and mathematicians are excited about a new tool. It’s not a new particle accelerator nor a supercomputer. Instead, this exciting new tool for scientific research is... a computer language.

How can a computer language be exciting, you ask? Surely, some are better than others, depending on your purposes and priorities. Some run faster, while others are quicker and easier to develop in. Some have a larger ecosystem, allowing you to borrow battle-tested code from a library and do less of the work yourself. Some are well-suited to particular type of problems, while others are good at being general-purpose.

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