SFF.Network TLDR News – August 31, 2021

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• The tech heist of the century has occurred. Last year ARM's board voted out their Chinese division's CEO Allen Yu. Yu refused to leave, and hired his own private security to throw out anyone disloyal to him. Now, a year later, Yu has declared that the old division of ARM in China is now called ARM Limited, and will develop their own IP. However, they still have ALL of the IP ARM had developed, employees, building, and support equipment. The Chinese government has not stopped this from happening. So essentially, Yu has successfully stolen an entire division of a company. Story Link - SemiAnalysis

• Sony has launched a new PS5 model with smaller fan and heatsink. Austin Evens does a tear down measured notably higher exhaust temps. There is no change to the chip size in the PS5 itself. Video Story Link - Austin Evens

• Researchers have found a Meltdown-like vulnerability in Zen+ and Zen2 based CPUs, but it's easily fixed with software so don't worry too much. Story Link - Tom's Hardware

• Zen 3 CPUs are all in stock and on sale at New Egg. Story Link - Tom's Hardware

• Twitter user Jared McNeill has posted photos of an Apple Mac Mini M1 booting to NetBSD. Due to the custom nature of the M1, this is a major step forward to alternate OSes running on it. Story Link - Tom's Hardware

• In Japan, you can buy a Ryzen CPU in a vending machine...but not really because it's actually an arcade game that involves CPU chips, though you can actually win a Zen 2 chip from it. Still, if an airport has a vending machine Best Buy and vending machine CVS, I'm sure this is around the corner. Story Link - WCCF Tech

• Enermax is offering "free" LGA 1700 cpu mounting kits for their AIO coolers if you purchased it AFTER 6-1-2021 and provide proof of purchase of a gen 12 Intel CPU and and Z690 mainboard. So..."generous" of them. Story Link - Vortez

• Microsoft will disable updates for unsupported Windows 11 installs. You can install it, but you can't update if the hardware is not on the Windows 11 compatibility list. Story Link - PC World

 

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Microsoft will disable updates for unsupported Windows 11 installs. You can install it, but you can't update if the hardware is not on the Windows 11 compatibility list. Story Link - PC World

Didn't they have to stop doing this on Windows 7 because it was causing a lot of exploitable systems across the world becoming a PR nightmare ? I'd argue this is an even thinner argument to do this. It seems like a very clear way to reduce troubleshooting issues even more because they're basically eliminating a lot of hardware setups. Race to the bottom !

 

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Didn't they have to stop doing this on Windows 7 because it was causing a lot of exploitable systems across the world becoming a PR nightmare ? I'd argue this is an even thinner argument to do this. It seems like a very clear way to reduce troubleshooting issues even more because they're basically eliminating a lot of hardware setups. Race to the bottom !

They've tried this every time to force upgrades. It never works, and just creates trouble. I'm sure they'll back off again. If they don't than their opening the door for all sorts of issues.