Nov 21st 2019
This Week in Computer Hardware 542
Google Stadia: Meh.
Hosted by
Patrick Norton,
Sebastian Peak
Google Stadia, Intel 10K CPUs!
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Google Stadia: streaming gaming still needs work. Intel Comet Lake-S Intel CPU Rumors: are 10,000 series CPUs coming? Crytek's Neon Noir is a beautiful benchmark, Field Kit is cool, and might lead to a DIY Tricorder. Valve announces Half-Life Alyx, this might be the new flagship for Oculus VR... all that and more with Sebastian Peak and Patrick Norton on This Week in Computer Hardware, episode 542!
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Links
- Google Stadia... "It feels like a beta," says Verge. "Google Stadia review: works well and has a clearer picture than early...
- Good editorial re: Stadia launch...
- A bit of a rant here, and a link to an article calling Google out about Stadia. Simply put, Stadia "4K" isn't...
- Google will pay $1.5 million for the most severe Android exploits...
- Oculus Link for PC is live...
- Intel to up core counts across the board with new 10,000 series CPUs
- Half-Life: Alyx has been officially announced today; VR flagship from Valve releasing March 2020
- We mentioned the Vulkan performance issues with RDR2 - apparently that's been addressed with NVIDIA cards
- FieldKit - Grand Prize Winner Of The 2019 Hackaday Prize (and it looks like the first step towards a real ST:TOS tricorder)
- Remember VIA? Their subsidiary Centaur Technology has a new x86 CPU - and it's the first with an AI co-processor.
- Get the Neon Noir Benchmark. Run it on everything. Repeat.
- Remember Loon??? Alphabet's Loon signs deal with Telefonica to provide internet to remote parts of the Amazon