Month: February 2021

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When the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) sued IPTV provider Omniverse One World Television and its owner in a California court in early 2019, the case looked relatively straightforward. But that wasn’t to be the case.

Omniverse Believed It Was Fully Licensed

According to ACE, Omniverse was a supplier of infringing content to third-party suppliers including the previously-sued Dragon Box, HDHomerun, Flixon TV, and SkyStream TV, who in turn offered packages to their customers.

However, unlike most entities sued by ACE, Omniverse owner Jason DeMeo insisted his company had acquired the necessary rights to the content offered by his platform. He pointed to a licensing deal with cable provider Hovsat, which in turn was supposed to have a deal with DirecTV to distribute TV content.

Questions were raised over the validity of these agreements and Omniverse eventually threw in the towel, agreeing to pay $50 million in copyright infringement damages to ACE.

Omniverse Goes After Hovsat

With Omniverse blaming Hovast for its predicament, including an unpaid $50 million bill, Hovsat’s presence was required in court. However, the company and its supposed owner Shant Hovanian failed to respond, which prompted Omniverse to demand $50 million in damages from Hovsat to settle its colossal Hollywood debt.

Last March the court denied Omniverse’s motion for default judgment on the grounds that it could not determine that defendant Hovsat had been properly served. The court did, however, suggest alternative means to serve Hovsat via a state official or agency, which Omniverse did in early September 2020.

In a memorandum supporting a motion for default judgment filed in December 2020, Omniverse explained that it paid Hovsat up to $46,000 in licensing fees every month and believed that DirecTV was getting its share too. But that turned out not to be the case, meaning that Omniverse was left unlicensed through Hovsat’s failures and liable to pay Hollywood $50 million in infringement damages.

Among other issues, Omniverse accused Hovsat of breach of contract, negligent and fraudulent misrepresentations, and breach of Warranty of Title and Against Infringement.

“Had HovSat not made the misrepresentations regarding acquiring the distribution licenses for the copyrighted content, and thus not breached their contract with Omniverse, Omniverse would have never been subject to the above-caption lawsuit raised by Plaintiffs,” the memorandum reads.

“It logically follows that HovSat’s misrepresentations thus proximately and directly caused the $50,000,000 in damages suffered by Omniverse.”

Hovsat Must Pay Omniverse $50 Million in Damages

In default judgment handed down by District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald yesterday, it is noted that Hovsat was served with process through alternative means but failed to plead or otherwise defend the action. Having considered Omniverse’s motion, the Judge found in favor of the former IPTV provider.

The Court found in favor of Omniverse on six counts, including breach of the implied warranty of title and against infringement under UCC § 2-312. Hovsat was ordered to pay $50 million in order to settle them all.

Whether Hovsat will quickly pay Omniverse (so that in turn Omniverse can settle with Hollywood) remains unclear but a lack of interest in the court process thus far tends to suggest otherwise.

Omniverse’s motion and the $50 million default judgment can be found here (1,2 pdf)

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Intel’s first foray into hybrid processors that combine different types of CPU cores in a single chip wasn’t all that exciting due to lackluster performance and a focus on efficiency for thin, light, and fanless computers. But it looks like the next Hybrid chip could pack a lot more horsepower.

The company’s upcoming Alder Lake chips are expected to launch by the end of the year, and based on leaked benchmarks and roadmaps, it looks like we can expect chips with up to 14 CPU cores and 20 threads. The new chips are such a departure from what came before that Intel is even phasing out the U and H series names for most of its laptop chips and instead introducing Alder Lake-M and Alder Lake-P chips.

Earlier this year, details for an unspecified Alder Lake P processor showed up at the online benchmarking site GeekBench, which listed these properties for the chip:

• 14 cores
• 20 threads
• 800 MHz base frequency
• 4.69 GHz max frequency
• 24MB L3 cache
• GPU with 96 execution units and 1.15 GHz max frequency

Now a leaked product roadmap shared by Wccftech provides more details about the Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M families:

• Alder Lake-M: 7-15 watt chips with up to 2 high-performance cores and 8 energy-efficient cores, these chips will replace Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake-UP4 chips like the Core i5-1130G7.
• Alder Lake-P: 12-45W chips with up to 6 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores, these will replace Intel Tiger Lake-U, Tiger Lake-H35, and Tiger Lake-H45 processors.

The high-performance CPU  cores will feature Intel Golden Cove architecture, which is the follow-up to the Willow Cove architecture used in 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake chips, while the energy-efficient cores use Intel Gracemont architecture, the follow-up to the Tremont architecture used in low-power, low-performance chips like the Celeron N4500 and Pentium Silver N6000 Jasper Lake processors.

The Gracemont cores do not support hyperthreading, but the Golden Cove cores do, which means that the reason you get configurations with up to 14 cores and 20 thread is that the 6 performance + 8 efficiency setup would only support hyperthreading for the six bigger cores. Thus you get 12 threads from those 6 cores, but just 8 threads from Gracemont cores.

Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M chips are both expected to feature Intel Iris Xe graphics with up to 96 execution units, so graphics performance should be at least on par with what we’ve come to expect from PCs with Intel Tiger Lake-U processors.

Other features expected to be available for both chip families include support for Thunderbolt 4 and WiFi 6E. But the lower-power Alder Lake-M chips will be limited to PCIe Gen 4, while Alder Lake-P is said to support PCIe Gen 5.0.

While we’ll likely have to wait a little longer to get a sense of whether the update brings real-world performance gains over Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake processors, we can practically be certain that Intel’s next hybrid processor lineup will outperform the previous-gen Lakefield processors, which combined a single Intel Sunny Cove (Ice Lake) high-performance core with four energy-efficient Tremont (Atom) CPU cores. The result was a chip that behaved more like an entry-level Atom-based processor than an Intel Core Y-series chip most of the time, despite appearing in premium thin and light laptops.

Hopefully increasing the core counts, thread counts, and CPU frequencies will result in stronger performance for Alder Lake-M and Alder Lake-P.

via VideoCardz

This article was originally published February 2, 2021 and last update October 5, 2021.

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