Matisyahu's Blog

Been resting up but I’m feeling a bit run down and crappy – I tend to catch something right around when seasons change so I think what I’ll do is have a sleep and then see how I feel in the morning because sometimes a good night sleep can be the solution. I completed the Connections tonight and got each row on the first go with Wordle being completed with the second attempt so no complaints from me.

Once again the contingent of socially reactionaries are throwing a temper tantrum regarding the fact that an artist by the name of ‘Bad Bunny’ is going to perform at the NFL half time show. The usual knuckle draggers coming out of the woodwork going on about bringing up the issue of immigration even though ‘Bad Bunny’ is from Puerto Rico which is part of the United States and then complains about the fact he primarily speaks Spanish even though Spanish is the predominant language spoken in Puerto Rico and large parts of the United States that used to be part of the Spanish colonial empire. Now for me ‘Bad Bunny’ style of music isn’t my taste (the music I like probably has a limited appeal although it was nice to see a metal band at the Olympics that was held in Paris, France):

So at the moment I have to admit is providing me with plenty of entertainment, seeing the right wing in the United States having a meltdown. I really have to wonder whether there is a noisy segment of the population who are perpetually sitting on the edge of their seat waiting to find or hear about something that’ll offend them so then they can play the victim and turn themselves into the centre of attention. Sitting on the edge of their seat, white knuckled, their legs jiggling because of all the adrenaline pumping through their body as they wait for the opportunity to be offended about something – no matter how trivial they’re addicted to the thrill of being able to be offended.

I found some documentation over on ‘Tech Power Up’ (link) in the comment section regarding the next architecture to be released in 2026 by Intel (link). It appears, based on the documentation, that FRED will make its way to Panther Lake however APX has only been made available for ‘Diamond Rapids’ which is their Xeon range which makes sense that servers and high end workstations would get the most benefit. With all that being said, Nova Lake will be released which will be aimed at the desktop which is probably when APX will be introduced. I thin the introduction of FRED (version 9 is the latest at the time this post was made) will make things interesting which should make the experience a lot smoother – here is a (link) that outlines what it actually does.

Long story short, what things such as APX, FRED and AVX 10.2 do, thanks to the standardisation occurring in the x86 advisory group, is to move the platform forward by addressing long standing issues and then ensuring that not only is it adopted by software and hardware vendors but also ensuring that there aren’t compatibility issues in terms of how it is implemented by Intel and AMD. There is the support that is required which require kernel level changes so I wouldn’t be surprised that we may not see the full benefits of these changes until next year when Windows 11 26H2 is released where the build number jumps to the 27900/28000 series where I’d say at the beginning of the year they’ll stabilise the core then start focusing on user visible improvements such as dark mode being implemented fully, adding more functionality to the Settings app and so on. By the time 26H2 is reach to be released the core of Windows 11 26H2 would have been rock solid for a year and then the transition will take place with another year of support for 25H2 customer who wish to hold back before making the big change.