CES 2022: my favorite announcement comes from AMD, and why it's interesting for syslog-ng
For the past few days, the IT news has been abuzz with announcements from CES. As usual, I’m following them on Engadget. I must admit, that there were just a very few announcements which really caught my attention. And my favorite announcement is the most boring of them all :-)
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Foldable tablet by ASUS: I still use my Google Pixel C tablet almost every day. It’s almost six years old and waiting for replacement. The ASUS tablet is larger and has more accurate colors, two features for the photography maniac in me. Being folded gives it a more book-like feeling when using it for reading. It also has an optional keyboard accesory, just like the Pixel C, so it’s not just a content consumption device.
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Color changing car is a promising concept by BMW. You can express your mood by the color, but it has more practical useses as well: turning it light in bright sunshine and dark in cold can also help in regulating temperature.
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Autonomous tractor by John Deere is more about my university research: precision agriculture. I worked on some of the foundations, like soil sampling and correlating the results with aerial photographs. Those and much more are already in practice today. This tractor brings precision farming concepts even further.
To me the best of show is something completely boring: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It is a CPU. Why is it interesting? It has 100MB of cache. I do regular peak performance testing of syslog-ng. It seems to me, that performance is correlated both to single core performance and cache size. I did not have a chance to test syslog-ng on the latest EPIC or Power10 CPUs, but my AMD Ryzen 7 5800X desktop CPU I use for photo editing beats any ARM, Intel or Power CPUs I tested previously with syslog-ng. And the 5800X3D has almost 3x as large cache, as my current CPU. I must say that I am amazed about the advancement of semiconductor technology and how it helps to deliver more capabilities with less power.
