Who else was hoping this was about a port of Oberon[1] to the PS5?<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)</a>
At some point soon, Fab lines are going to become long term investments, instead of being depreciated in 5 years. Wafers won't get any larger, transistors won't get any smaller, and it'll be on our hands as programmers to tweak every last ounce of performance out of things again.<p>I know the "demo" scene folks are keeping the craft alive, and it gives me hope for the future.<p>Of course, an array of non-cached, non-optimized but very simple and low power processors in a grid can do a lot more work than a single instruction-reordering monster trying to make a single thread go ever faster.
Unfortunate product code name, I thought the article was about Oberon or Oberon+
<a href="https://oberon-lang.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://oberon-lang.github.io</a>
It's interesting that they didn't do a big horse and pony show for new models of consoles these days. Historically console manufacturers would use updates like these to push a new "slim" model or whatever, but nowadays it's done without much fanfare. Perhaps they sell enough either way that there's no point in making a spectacle of it.<p>I always like to wait for the first revision of hardware to buy in, since better thermals generally mean better longevity of the overall hardware.
Semi related, I have a huge number of BC-250's [0]. Now that ETH mining is over, I'm looking for something interesting to do with them. Not looking to sell them, but that might be possible at quantity, I'd rather work with you to run something on them. They iPXE boot Ubuntu. GigE. No onboard storage, but have 16gigs of ram. Easily tuned for performance.<p>Thoughts?<p>[0] <a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/93980-14800-asrock-mining-rig-powered-12-playstation-5.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.techspot.com/news/93980-14800-asrock-mining-rig-...</a>