White dwarfs are ‘heavy metal’ zombie stars endlessly cannibalizing their dead planetary systems
White dwarfs are dense, dead remnants of stars like our Sun that have burned up their nuclear fuel. They account for 97% of stars in the Milky Way. Scientists have discovered that white dwarfs have layers of “heavy metals” like silicon, magnesium and calcium on their surface, which is puzzling since these elements should sink […]
Chinese server CPU beats Microsoft, Google and AWS rivals to grab performance crown — Alibaba’s Yitian 710 is quickest server CPU but it is based on Arm rather than RISC and x86 is likely to be the overall speed champion
Alibaba Cloud’s Yitian 710 processor has been found to be the most efficient Arm-based server CPU for database tasks in large cloud computing environments, according to a new study. The 128-core Yitian 710 outperformed other Arm-based chips and ran circles around Intel’s Xeon Platinum processor in specific database workload tests. However, the Arm-based servers struggled […]