Amazon made a CPU!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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tech news yeah let's get the people going huh
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yeah here are my people in the back
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yeah let's let's let's talk about some server grade processors huh
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you are excited but wow i didn't expect that one okay Intel is being besieged on
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all sides in the server CPU space AMD's
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epic chips with our super high core counts are becoming increasingly popular
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and now amazon has announced they've made their own server chip it's called
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the graviton that's a hypothetical particle of gravitational energy james
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in case you didn't know ah and it's an ARM chip based off the
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cortex a72 design with up to 16 cores running at 2.3 gigahertz it's unclear
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what modifications amazon has made to the design but maybe this is like the
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amazon basics of server chips you know it's nothing fancy since it is an ARM
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chip the graviton doesn't pose much of a threat to the majority of amazon's
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servers currently equipped with Intel chips but it's an indicator that if
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Intel continues to drag its feed in processor design
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i mean who are we kidding they'll probably be fine it's Intel
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google's project phi has been sort of a niche alternative cell service for those
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with pixels and other specific Android phones but apparently it gathered enough
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xp because it is evolving pokemon yeah
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it's a pokemon it's like pokemon gotta catch em all except there's only
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one and it's project five project phi has evolved into google phi rebranded i
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mean and with the new name come support for many more Android phones and for the
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first time iphones
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although iOS support is in beta because google fi uses multiple cellular
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networks that means that switching between networks or from wi-fi to data
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might be less smooth than with the fully supported devices you also lose visual
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voicemail wi-fi calling and some other features but the no contract cheap data
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great roaming stuff that'll all be there now i'm hoping google fi evolves one
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more time so that it can come to canada
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pokemon it could be called alphabet phi
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and new zealand has become the latest country to block huawei from building 5g
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networking infrastructure the kiwi telecom spark said that it was prevented
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from using equipment from the chinese tech company by new zealand's government
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communications security bureau which unfortunately does not have an easily
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pronounceable acronym
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the agency said the reason they blocked the collaboration was because a
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significant network security risk was identified new zealand follows australia
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and the us in banning huawei technology in some form because of concerns about
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huawei's connections to the chinese government but but but they make cool
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phones so got away the risks
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now it's time for quick bits brought to you by fortnite
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bow to the quick bits we've reported a lot on apple's lower
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than expected iphone sales and now the company is taking even more steps to
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mitigate the crisis they've reduced production a second time for the iphone
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10s and 10r and they've also upped the trade-in value of old iphones if
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customers buy a new iphone
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i'm not really sure what else to say about this we've kind of talked it to death ha apple's having troubles
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i i laugh at your misfortune if you're having trouble logging into your iphone
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a company called drive savers claims to be able to break into a passcode locked
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iphone with a 100 success rate for
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around four thousand dollars however drive saver says that they do not offer
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their service to law enforcement then who's buying this
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people you're you do if you locked yourself out
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i would buy four new phones before you yeah that's true all your
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data how long until apple patches the exploit that makes this possible
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who knows but it's gonna happen for sure you know that padlock icon you see in
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web browsers next to the https that's supposed to tell you this website is
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secure well it turns out nowadays that doesn't mean jack squat as recent data
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from security watchdog fish lab shows that 49 of all phishing sites as in the
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kind that steal your personal information also have the padlock so
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i guess now we need a new icon that indicates impermeability you might think playing
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games on a phone is lame but iphones actually just got a bit of an upgrade
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over the nintendo switch fortnite at 60fps
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you are excited about this i am always surprised by what james is into that's
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right the game runs at 30fps on the switch but the latest iOS devices now
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have a 60fps option so watch out ninja
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andrew the barista is coming for you
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apparently we're getting more phones with camera cut out holes in the screen
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like the one coming from samsung and now huawei the chinese tech giant just
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teased a holy phone that we're going to presumably get more info about on
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december 3rd the notch is dead
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long live the pimple yeah yeah
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all day all day every day unfortunately this episode can't live any longer it's
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time has come thanks for watching guys we'll see you back here on friday for
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more tech news same bad time same bat channel
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is batman gonna be here that's what that sounded like
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i shouldn't say that then i'm really sorry guys all we get is robin Linus
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Linus europe if anything i'm batman