With Russia cut off from foreign processor makers Intel and AMD, the country has been racing to transfer to more processors and components.
Russia’s latest step to secure the source chains for the new computers comes in the form of a new desktop motherboard designed for x86-compatible processors made through Chinese chip designer Zhaoxin, which is a joint venture between Taiwan’s Via Technologies and the Shanghai Municipal Government.
The new motherboard, called the MBX-Z60A, is made through russian- and Chinese-based electronics maker Dannie, according to a machine translation of an article published last week by Russian-language news aggregator Habr.
The motherboard designed to help Russia upgrade x86 processors it can no longer get from Intel and AMD due to export bans imposed by the United States and other countries.
Habr said Danny LLC, Dannie’s Russian department that generates the motherboard, has the ability to manufacture tens of thousands of cards a month, and that could expand over time.
The MBX-Z60A has a micro-ATX form factor, which means it can have compatibility with smaller desktops, and the processor is Zhaoxin’s KaiXian KX-6640MA. There is a conflict of shapes about the processor specifications. Habr said it has 8 cores, but checking the effects presented for the Geekbench and PassMark benchmarks implies that the KX-6640MA has 4 cores.
This is corroborated in a report by CNX Software, where benchmarks showed a base frequency of 2. 1 GHz, a turbo frequency of 2. 6 GHz, an L2 cache of four MB, and a thermal design force of 25 watts. The processor comes with 16 lanes of PCIe Connectivity 3. 0 and USB 3. 0 support.
In other words, the KX-6640MA rarely lags behind in terms of features, it’s also not fast, at all, even compared to recent smartphone chips, as Habr points out.
According to the effects of the tests submitted for the PassMark benchmark, the KX-6640MA scored an average of 1566 CPUs, putting it at a fraction of the 8543 score received through Apple’s A14 Bionic chip that will be integrated into the iPhone 12’s circle. of smartphone relatives from 2020.
When you compare the KX-6640MA to Intel’s quad-core options, it’s very unflattering for Zhaoxin, given that the processor turned out to have been released last year. higher than the KX-6640MA, and Intel’s Core i3-12100 score this year is more than nine times higher.
Habr said the KX-6640MA is still suitable for a “wide diversity of tasks in the workplace” and that at least the processor will be compatible with x86-based software. a neighbouring country.
The KX-6640MA is also integrated into a new computer made by Russian device maker Tonk, as reported via Russian-language computer news iXBT. com earlier this month.
As for other efforts that will help Russia upgrade Intel and AMD processors in PCs, a state-backed company called Rostec was running the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture on computer chips, according to a report last year.
On the server side, Russia has adapted to export bans with the arrival of a new supercomputer platform that can use foreign x86 processors as well as the country’s Elbrus processors. The concept is for developers to port x86-based systems to Elbrus.
But even then, the functionality of Elbrus-based servers wasn’t promising, and the Russian-language site ServerNews. ru reported in December that SberInfra, the generation department of Russia’s largest bank, Sber, had found Elbrus processors insufficient for workloads due to “insufficient memory, slow memory, few cores [and] low frequency. ” ®
The U. S. recouped more than $15 million in profits from the third virtual ad fraud operation that charges businesses more than $29 million for classified ads that have never been seen.
“This seizure is the largest cybercrime case in the history of the Eastern District of New York,” U. S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement.
The action, Peace added, “sends a harsh message to those involved in cyber fraud that there are no limits to prosecuting the bad guys and locating their ill-gotten gains anywhere in the world. “
A bipartisan organization of U. S. lawmakers has proposed a law that would most likely force Alphabet’s Google, Meta’s Facebook and Amazon to divest part of their advertising business.
The bill, titled the Digital Advertising Competition and Transparency Act (CTDA), introduced Thursday by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), with the participation of Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).
The bill would save giant advertising corporations elsewhere in the chain of advertising transactions. Large ad corporations can function as supply-side agents that promote publishers’ ad space, demand-side agents that promote classified ads, or ad exchanges that connect buyers and distributors, but no more than one of them.
Smartphone markets around the world are in decline, but this news doesn’t seem to have made it to North America, where the market grew by 4% in the first quarter of 2022.
Technology market research firm Canalys reported that smartphone brands shipped a total of 39 million games to North America in the first quarter of 2022, and most of them were driven by Apple, which recorded a 19% expansion in the first quarter to succeed in 51% of the smartphone market in the United States. Canada and Mexico.
Apple would likely lead the quarter in terms of shipments and market share, but Google has been the expansion leader: it added 380% to its North American market share from the first quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2022. However, this only brought it to 3% of the market, placing it in fifth place.
You can believe the sighs of relief across Redmond, Washington, this week when Acer unveiled its new TravelMate line, which incorporates Microsoft’s Pluto silicon.
AMD and Qualcomm have made a joint effort to bring Wi-Fi remote control features to AMD’s commercial systems, which could reduce their appeal to commercial IT services.
The two companies said they are running in combination with Qualcomm’s FastConnect wireless kit for AMD’s computing platforms based on Ryzen chips for desktops and laptops. 6 and 6E plus Bluetooth 5. 3, supports Wi-Fi connection speeds up to 3. 6 Gbps.
The remote control is made possible by the combination of the AMD manageability processor now built in with the Ryzen PRO 6000 systems and the FastConnect 6900 system, AMD and Qualcomm said, with help for the popular DASH consumption control developed through the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
Content delivery network upgrade Fastly buys Glitch, the corporate Internet IDE of the same name.
Glitch is a complete platform that officially supports JavaScript, but also allows coding in CSS, HTML, and other languages. It is designed to work like other cloud platforms and is capable of running full programs on demand, with Glitch managing all the hardware and developers allowed. to coding.
Upon being absorbed by Fastly, Glitch promised that the service would remain unchanged for users. it would be lost in the merger.
Microsoft quietly updated its fitness dashboard and said Windows 11 is “designed for a large-scale deployment. “
Adoption of Microsoft’s newest operating formula has stalled in recent months, as enthusiasts who simply upgraded did so, and those who didn’t meet Microsoft’s draconian list of hardware requirements were left with the maximum component in Windows 10.
A wave of business updates has yet to materialize, and many organizations choose to stick to what they know, designating themselves to be in a “broad deployment” position that will make it less difficult to load the update into the company’s roadmap.
Many giant corporations are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint, yet a new report says that, for some, the biggest source of emissions comes from investments made with their wealth, undermining their own environmental efforts.
The Carbon Bankroll report highlights the documented carbon dioxide emissions of various giant corporations and compares them to pollutants generated through money and investments held through those corporations, adding money, money equivalents and marketable securities.
In some cases, this figure is higher than emissions generated through his own company, demonstrating, in the words of the report, that “climate achievements are being undermined through a misaligned monetary formula that funnels billions of US dollars into carbon-intensive sectors of the climate crisis. “
Pro-Beijing and Iranian unbelievers are at war in Ukraine to spread disinformation that supports those countries’ political interests, namely to promote anti-Western narratives, according to Mandiant’s risk intelligence experts.
In addition, Iran’s cyber campaigns are Russia’s invasion of its neighbor to target Saudi Arabia and Israel, the researchers found.
In a new report released today, Alden Wahlstrom, Alice Revelli, Sam Riddell, David Mainor and Ryan Serabian of Mandiant analyze several operations the team observed in its reaction to the standoff in Ukraine. It also attributes these campaigns to actors who, according to the risk of researchers, work in favor of geographical regions such as Russia, Belarus, China and Iran.
Microsoft has implemented a threatening “interactive Insider Build on the Windows desktop. “
The update arrived in edition 25120 on the Windows Insider progression channel as a search box on the desktop. Tap a query, from the drop-down list of effects (powered by Bing) and a browser with the requested content is launched.
It’s a bit of a strange feature. Windows already has a built-in formula search lurking in the Start menu and not every user will be satisfied with having an Internet search box pasted on the desktop of their choice. Fortunately, it’s imaginable to turn off the text box, and not all experts will have access to the new feature while Microsoft plays with the concept.
Cisco Systems surprised Wall Street by warning investors that the Shanghai shutdown and the war in Ukraine will generate any prospect of profit expansion in its current and final quarter of 2022.
The world’s largest network provider estimates profit for its fourth quarter ending mid-summer will decline 1% to 5. 5% year-over-year, down from $131 million to $720 million.
Chuck Robbins, Cisco’s chief executive officer, responded to questions from nervous analysts on a conference call, telling them that the company’s expenses were holding up and that other points had shaped its monetary direction.
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