looks like there will be a network split if sha3 is not accepted wownero/meta #29

wow, according to the 7 day chart on here: miningpoolstats.stream/monero , the network spiked to 2 gh/s at some point

gingeropolous: respectxmr had a counting bug, their hashrate spiked to 500 MH/s for a few moments

ah

a counting bug? is it in the upstream pool code?

Dubbed the the BlackBerry Optics Context Analysis Engine, the tool utilizes “unique” processor telemetry from Intel’s Threat Detection Technology and a mix of machine learning and artificial intelligence in order to thwart the malicious programs, often dubbed cryptojackers.

hmm sounds familiar :D

"Intel’s Threat Detection Technology" aka checking rounding mode flag :D

I'm glad to see randomx-sniffer finally implemented, lol

LOL

so Apple announced that they will fully transition to ARM in the next 2 years

guess soon it will be possible to test RandomX on Apple chips with JIT

that announcement has been a long time coming

did intel stock price move?

0.79% up according to google

lol stupid markets

first hardware will be out end of year

Intel has lost the plot, and everyone knows it now. That's why Apple is announcing at this point in time

does apple make up a large portion of intel sales?

2-4%

but they're a flagship, halo product

apple usually gets the high spec processors unavailable to any other vendor

But we want Intel to find the plot again, don't we?

meh.

breaking x86 dominance is a great thing, IMO.

it's a shitty ISA that has caused endless years of pain in software and compiler design

if ARM finally released a chip worthy of being called a server processor, and took over data centers overnight, it would be a blessing

if x86 became extinct overnight, computing efficiency would immediately jump by at least 20% worldwide

how does randomx fair in an x86 extinction?

works great on ARM

ARM is head and shoulders above x86 in terms of coding efficiency

it's easy enough you can write ARM asm by hand and still get good results

without much effort

but frankly most ISAs still in use in the world today are superior to x86

Intel could conceivably swallow their pride and switch to manufacturing ARM too, if they wanted to

technically they already are an ARM manufacturer, there are little cortex-Ms inside the security engine of every modern x86 chip, IIRC

noteworthy that when faced with a need for a compact, secure processor, they didn't use anything x86-derived

They bought strongarm

hopefully someone will start making ARM chips with reasonable cache sizes

I would guess Apple has no choice but to do so, given this direction

but yeah, would be nice if some other companies did too