Recent content by theeldest

My goodness there's a lot of "confidently incorrect" in this thread. I know this forum is fairly anonymous and we don't give credence to day-job credentials but I'll give you mine anyway. I'm a lead on a performance engineering team at one of the top 5 SSD manufacturers. I've been in the...

This whole story is based on TechInsights seeing a drive on the open market using YMTC but not by the other manufacturers. That's not really evidence of when a node is at production as the bigger entrenched players generally have contracts with specific customers for first products.

I'm more concerned with the heat output in one room. Though I'm in central texas so it's a bigger concern for me than others. (my solution was a mini-split in my server room and switching to a minipc at my desk where I remote to my gaming system. Stays cools and I don't care how much heat it...

I understand how much trouble it is to rebench everything. Thanks for the extra effort, we really do appreciate your thoroughness.

Electrons per cell isn't tied to TLC vs QLC. Here's a bit from Anandtech back when Intel & Micron introduced their first 32-layer NAND: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9114/intelmicron-share-additional-details-of-their-3d-nand The quick bits: Last I saw was 10 - 100 electrons for small planar...

https://www.t4.ai/industry/ssd-market-share Intel is 8% of the SSD market There have been about 800m SSDs shipped in 2018 - 2020 8% of 800 million is 64 million 10million of 64 million is ~15% So Intel does about 15% of their volume as QLC SSDs. QLC drives are generally higher capacity than...

True to a point. My point of layers vs cell size is that even with the hurdles of scaling layers it's still a better / more cost-effective path forward. And it's not just scaling up layers that you can etch through. Stacking is used by all the manufacturers now and offers a way to again scale...

One of the other big drivers (moving forward) for QLC (and above) will be ZNS (zoned namespaces). It'll require relatively significant software development investments to use but this is fine for hyper scale and big enterprise. For those unfamiliar, ZNS effectively puts the onus on the...

QLC is cheaper, just not so much directly for enthusiast buyers. OEMs are getting cheaper devices which help them reduce costs and maybe pass that on to end buyers. Hyper scale customers (like AWS, Google, FB, etc) get QLC cheaper than TLC because they're buying at scale. PLC (and beyond) will...

3 gaming computers (2x 6950s, 1070, 1080) 1 chromebook 1 laptop 8 Raspberry PIs (2 on 3d printers, 1 on electronics workbench, 5 in a turing pi cluster) 1 mini pc (intel pentium) 1 NUC 1 Nvidia Jetson Nano for inference play thing 1 dual socket xeon v4 workstation 1 atom c3000 8-core 1U router...

Dang, that's quite the zombie thread. Also, That's a heck of a bad prediction. Consumer 10GbE in less than 3 years from 2012? Maybe another 8 years...

They're coming. SiFive has a couple boards. The first is a fair bit bigger than a raspberry Pi (ITX, 16x PCIe slot, M.2 NVMe slot, 8GB memory). The other board they do is an Arduino competitor. https://www.sifive.com/boards I think we'll see some Pi form factor SBCs in the next couple years.

I did a quick search and didn't find any games that have problems running with too many cores (the closest I can come is a problem with windows and more than 64 cores where things get weird). Is this a real problem you ran into? Because I'm pretty sure it's not a real issue just some "what ifs"...

In very large quantities. Almost exclusively for datacenter / server use cases. The Micron 9300 in the picture would be way more boujee but hardly anyone in the consumer world has heard of it. Decent $/GB at $0.19/GB for the 15TB version...

If Nvidia does buy ARM it's fully to support their datacenter work and not consumer devices. That doesn't mean they won't use ARM in consumer, but that's not their focus. It makes more sense when you remember they just bought Mellanox and are currently buying Cumulus. This would give them the...