Because implementing designing/manufacturing/validating SR-IOV HW is expensive. It's not something that would be useful as a differentiating feature for most consumer grade HW.
Intel vPro CPUs with iGPUs are used by the Fortune 500 enterprise industrial base. Intel hardware is already segmented for enterprise markets and they enable/disable features for specific markets.
There's lots of hardware competition for consumers, including upcoming Arm laptops from Mediatek and Nvidia. Intel can use feature-limited SKUs in both CPUs and GPUs to target specific markets with cheaper hardware and reduced functionality.
I'd wager it's a volume thing. Not enough Linux customers asking for SRIOV support, so it's not worth spending the money to enable driver support for it. The Fortune 500 companies that you mention should specifically ask for SRIOV support on linux mainline when making purchases. Unfortunately, that's the only way to make sure we have support upstreamed.
The silver lining seems to be that more and more things are moving into the firmware, and it's entirely possible that SRIOV could be supported through that in the future. But till then, I doubt it's going to happen.
I don't think they will last that long. TSMC could bring 7nm, 5nm and 3nm to market because Apple just straight out funded these processes with agreements to buy the capacity exclusively for the first year or so. Even Nvidia couldn't access it till now (if I didn't miss it). Companies are interested in 18A as a second supplier, mainly to increase capacity on advanced nodes. This though requires everything to go better than the plan. Intel wasn't a foundry for others, so they don't have the experience to support different companies needs (from design flow to IP availability like standard cells, ESD, Serdes etc). TSMC doesn't only develop a process but develop all the stuff around it to serve a diverse set of customers. Now, if Intel gets 18A right it's great. It doesn't mean everyone jump on it and book huge amounts of capacity. If the design fliw isn't streamlined and it takes too long to tape-out adoption will not be there. Global Founderies 14nm and 12nm are great examples of this.
> What I'd be more interested in is, does this also mean bigger/denser L1-L3 caches?
Just a semi-engineer here, not a semi-conductor engineer, but probably not. L1-L3 are on the die, so you'd just be making those at the same time as the rest of your CPU die, so they'll be made with the same process as that is. Which, once that process is the high NA UV, means yes, denser L1-L3. Though I wouldn't be too surprised to see an L3/L4 chiplet made with an older process for low-end CPUs... which might mean smaller cache?
The more important reason this doesn't mean denser caches is that the caches are SRAM not DRAM which are petty much completely different processes. High NA EUV also will likely yield higher density caches, but this is mostly unrelated.
Not quite, some ISPs lock down their routers and you can't expose the relevant ports publically. That's when Cloudflare Tunnels combined with a reverse proxy save the day.
Another really useful service is being able to protect everything behind a SSO like Github, allowing at least the most basic form of intrusion prevention that would secure your homelab from the majority of attacks.
> Not quite, some ISPs lock down their routers and you can't expose the relevant ports publically.
Here in Italy our public Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) has sentenced that ISPs cannot mandate a specific router type and MUST provide technical details so that any subscriber can be able to use a modem/router of choice. This was after quite a bit of lobbying by the "Free Modem Alliance (https://www.freemodemalliance.it/)
So I guess that at the end of the day i guess it's mostly a matter of political activism.
I love this, and run my own WRT3200ACM with OpenWRT
I've been in the same place you are now. I completely agree with the need for a healthy routine to be able to keep depression at bay and not having a environment to socialize robs you of key experiences we all need to have in our youths in order to be well adjusted later in life.
Having said that, you're in a great place to make a few key changes that might help! I moved to another country and learnt a new language and a whole new culture when I was in the same place as you!
Perhaps that's not a option for you, but maybe you could travel to a new city for a week or two! Trial out a few places and see what fits you. It takes a bit of effort and persistence, at the cost of routine, but having a fresh start might be the thing that gets you out of this.
Edit: You might want to look up Croissant to go and meet other remote co workers, there's a fair few of us around the world ;)
Indeed. I remember playing with Echo Nest back in the day and being blown away by it, Spotify seemed to either completely castrate it after buying them or just don't bother using it to its full potential.
Virgil 3D does good enough for my workload. I saw some problems in GLES backend support but they are minor and I have already written patches for them.
However, as feature_list in src/vrend_renderer.c shows, some features are unavailable and cannot be emulated. It is good enough but not perfect (and I think it is reasonable.)
