Month: March 2022

Banks on alert for Russian reprisal cyberattacks on Swift

Payments messaging system could be targeted as pinch point of global transactions network.

Banks on alert for Russian reprisal cyberattacks on Swift

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Big banks fear that Swift faces a growing threat of Russian cyberattacks after seven of the country’s lenders were kicked off the global payments messaging system over the weekend.

VTB, Russia’s second-biggest bank, and Promsvyazbank, which finances Russia’s war machine, were among the lenders removed on Saturday from Swift as part of the West’s sanctions campaign against Moscow in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

Senior executives responsible for cybersecurity at several banks told the Financial Times that the threat to Swift, which enables banks to send trillions in payments across borders every day, could escalate if more Russia’s lenders are expelled from the system.

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AMD’s Ryzen 5800X3D promises 15% faster game performance, launches for $449

3D V-Cache enables “15% more gaming performance” than Ryzen 9 5900X.

The 5800X3D is Zen 3 with extra cache.

Enlarge / The 5800X3D is Zen 3 with extra cache. (credit: AMD)

AMD will release its latest experiment in CPU packaging to the general public next month. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, is an eight-core Zen 3 processor that uses unique memory-stacking technology to triple the amount of L3 cache in the standard Ryzen 7 5800X—96MB of L3 cache instead of 32MB.

The result is a chip that ought to run games 15 percent faster than a Ryzen 9 5900X, according to AMD’s figures. The company also says the chip will run games faster than Intel’s flagship Core i9-12900K, though it didn’t say by how much. The processor goes on sale for $449 starting on April 20th.

The 5800X3D and the half-dozen low-end Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors AMD announced today are likely the last hurrah for Socket AM4, the physical socket that AMD has been using since just before the introduction of the first Ryzen chips back in 2017. The years since have seen AMD regain its competitive footing against Intel thanks to several strong iterations on the original Zen architecture and use of TSMC's 7 nm manufacturing process.

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QuartzPro64 is a single-board computer with RK3588 processor and 16GB RAM

Pine64 is introducing a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Rockchip RK3588 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC storage plus a lot of input/output options. The QuartzPro64 is Pine64’s most powerful SBC to date, but it’s also one of the largest at 180 x 180mm (about 7.1″ x 7.1″) and one of the […]

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Pine64 is introducing a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Rockchip RK3588 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC storage plus a lot of input/output options.

The QuartzPro64 is Pine64’s most powerful SBC to date, but it’s also one of the largest at 180 x 180mm (about 7.1″ x 7.1″) and one of the most expensive – it costs at least $300 to manufacture, so the eventual price could be higher than that. But Pine64 has announced plans to subsidize the price and offer the QuartzPro64 to developers for $150 at launch. Folks who are interested can register their interest in pre-ordering by filling out an application.

QuartzPro64
QuartzPro64

While there are more affordable ways to get your hands on an SBC with an RK3588 processor, the QuartzPro64 also won’t be the most expensive board with that chip.

The processor is capable of driving up to four 4K displays or a single 8K display and features:

  • 4 x ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores @ 2.4 GHz
  • 4 x ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores @ 1.8 GHz
  • Mali-G610 MC4 graphics
  • Neural Processing Unit with 6 TOPS performance

Pine64’s QuartzPro board will pair that chip with LPDDR4x memory, eMMC storage, and:

  • USB-C (with video-alt mode)
  • USB0-C (with debug mode)
  • USB- 3.0
  • 2x USB 2.0
  • HDMI in
  • 2x HDMI out
  • PCIe 3.0
  • 2 SATA ports
  • 2x Gigabit ethernet
  • 2x SMA Antenna
  • 2x MIPI DPHY
  • 2x MPI DPCHY
  • Fan header
  • RTC battery holder
  • An array of switches, including power on/off maskrom and system KEY
  • eMMC socket
  • SD card slot
  • Power in via DC 12V
QuartzPro64 block diagram

Right now there is no software available for the board, which is why Pine64 is targeting developers first: to encourage them to create the software that will make the board useful. In order to find out more about pricing and availability, you’ll need to join Pine64’s Telegram, Matrix, and/or Discord groups or servers.

But if the board proves popular with developers, we could eventually see a retail version of the QuartzPro64 in the future.

QuartzPro64

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for something smaller and cheaper, there’s the Quartz64 series of boards featuring Rockchip RK3566 processors. The Model A version went on sale last summer. It’s available now for $60 and up.

Now Pine64 says production of the Quartz64 Model B is underway, and that it should be available by April with prices starting at $60 for a model with 4GB of LPDDR4 memory or $80 for an 8GB version.

Quartz64 Model B

The board has a 2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor, Mali-G52-2EE graphics, LPDDR4 memory, and USB 3.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, DS and CSI interfaces, a microSD card reader, 3.5mm audio jack, a PCIe Gen 2 M.2 connector for an NVMe SSD, and a 40-pin GPIO header.

via Pine64 March 2022 update and April 2022 update

This article was originally published March 15, 2022 and most recently update April 15, 2022 with additional details about the pre-order process. 

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