MiniPC Show #87 – Arm Helium, SheevaPlug and Sorry Tony

Flash Sonoff V with Raspberry Pi
Dr Zzzs Smart Garage Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMepw…How to Flash Sonoff using Raspberry Pihttps://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tas…Tasmotahttps://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tas…OTA Flashhttps://github.com/SynAckFin/SonOTAJumpershttps://amzn.to/2U6pOLHSonoff SVhttps://amzn.to/2ExGoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpN3wNUj6w
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Presence detection with low cost BLE devices and Raspberry Pi/Zero W
This is a few notes on BLE-based presence detection. The obvious use case seemed to be to have your phone as the presence token.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/presence-detection-with-low-cost-ble-devices-and-raspberry-pi-zero-w/28173
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Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo
Channeling the late Steve Jobs, Linux kernel king Linus Torvalds this week dismissed cross-platform efforts to support his contention that Arm-compatible processors will never dominate the server market.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/23/linus_torvalds_arm_x86_servers/
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Intel bolsters discrete GPU team by purchasing Ineda Systems
In brief: Intel has purchased Indian chip manufacturing startup Ineda Systems for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition has been hailed by the company as an effort to boost their discrete GPU development team, and they will be adding over 100 engineers from Ineda to their staff.
https://www.techspot.com/news/78828-intel-bolsters-discrete-gpu-team-purchasing-ineda-systems.html
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Arm Helium Delivers up to 15x Performance Uplift for Machine Learning on Cortex-M MCUs
Arm has just unveiled Armv8.1-M architecture that adds Arm Helium technology, the M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE) for the Arm Cortex-M cores that will improve the compute performance of Cortex-M based microcontrollers.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/02/15/arm-helium-15x-performance-machine-learning-cortex-m-mcu/
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Making Helium: Why not just add Neon? (1/4)
Today Arm announced the M‑profile vector extensions (MVE) for the Armv8‑M, which started in Arm’s research group several years ago when we were asked to increase the DSP performance of Arm Cortex‑M processors.
https://community.arm.com/arm-research/b/articles/posts/making-helium-why-not-just-add-neon
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Arm Announces Neoverse N1 & E1 Platforms & CPUs: Enabling A Huge Jump In Infrastructure Performance
Anybody following the industry over the last decade will have heard of Arm. We best know the company for being the enabler and providing the architecture as well as CPU designs that power essentially all of today’s mobile devices.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13959/arm-announces-neoverse-n1-platform
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1TB microSD cards are now a thing
The inexorable march of increasing storage capacities continues today with the announcement of the world’s first 1-terabyte microSD cards.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/25/18239433/1tb-microsd-card-sandisk-micron-price-release
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Western Digital sees storage sun rise in NVMe land… and slowly set on SATA, SAS SSDs
Western Digital (WD) has started to replace its SATA and SAS SSDs with faster NVMe drives. Both the 2.5-inch Ultrastar DC SN630 and M.2 2280 (single-sided) format CL SN720 use WD and Toshiba’s 64-layer 3D NAND configured for TLC (3bits/cell) using PCIe v3 4-lane and NVMe v1.3 interfaces.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/27/western_digital_nvme_storage/
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The SheevaPlug NAS mini-PC is back with dual -A53 Sheeva64
Globalscale announced a $89 “Sheeva64” version of the old SheevaPlug NAS mini-PC that runs Ubuntu on Marvell’s dual-core -A53 Armada 3720 with 2x GbE, 3x USB, optional wireless, and a wall-power plug.
http://linuxgizmos.com/the-sheevaplug-nas-mini-pc-is-back-with-dual-a53-sheeva64/
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Google to Launch Edge TPU Powered Coral Development Board and USB Accelerator
Several low power neural network accelerators have been launched over the recent years in order to accelerator A.I. workloads such as object recognition, and speech processing. Recent announcements include USB devices such as Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 or Orange Pi AI Stick2801.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/04/buy-google-edge-tpu-coral-development-board-usb-accelerator/
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Sony presents CFExpress memory cards that rival NVMe SSDs for highest read/write speeds
Memory cards are primed to get substantial upgrades this year, as the SD Association already announced the next-gen microSD standard that brings write speeds of around 1 GB/s, and now the CompactFlash Association ups the ante with the CFExpress 2.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-presents-CFExpress-memory-cards-that-rival-NVMe-SSDs-for-highest-read-write-speeds.411009.0.html