For ARM, in contrast, this isn’t an issue. Computer makers such as Dell or HP could simply license ARM intellectual prop

How Mac’s used GPUs before unified memory. There was even an option of having graphics cards outside the computer using a Thunderbolt 3 cable. There is some speculation that this may still be possible in the future.,I have chronic pain and a chronic illness. I actually have several chronic illnesses (celiac disease, Addison’s disease, endometriosis), but the “underlying cause” is still undiagnosed, so my pain is questioned, interrogated.,AMD has also started putting stronger GPUs on some of their chips and moving gradually toward some form of SoC with the accelerated processing units (APU) which are basically CPU cores and GPU cores placed on the same silicon die.,When I lost most of my sense of smell, I began to realize that things I thought I could still smell/taste were actually memories. I was tasting a memory of guacamole, not the guacamole in my mouth. Maybe pain is a memory too, always past tense coming into the present to tell us how to feel about something.,There is of course a tradeoff in this strategy. Getting this high bandwidth memory (big servings) require full integration which means you take away the opportunity from customers to upgrade their memory. But Apple seeks to minimize this problem by making the communication with the SSD disks so fast, that they essentially work like old fashion memory.,We are all filtering pain all day long. Which pain should I react to? Which pain do I ignore? Which pain will soon be too big for me to see and function around? This is potentially a life-or-death question we answer minute by minute. What if it’s a heart attack? A lethal situation (fire, poison, violence)? The pain organ reacts to each pain as if it were the same level of danger. The pain organ, like the thalamus or thyroid, takes what’s there and makes what it makes: pain.,But what if pain is another sense we never learn to understand or interpret? Maybe all this is sensory information about something “out there” that our other senses can’t perceive because of distance, or time, or dimensions. Maybe something in our environment is “pushing” on this pain sense that lights up, but doesn’t explain. Our minds, used to the dull comfort of painkillers and analgesics, can’t translate the communication. That sense, that information, is lost to an amorphous, terrible presence that won’t let go. A ghost is warning us, yelling at us, but we don’t understand its language.,Takeout menus: Go through the menus and throw the old ones. Place the others in an organized folder to keep in the kitchen or consider taking pictures of them to keep on the phone and get rid of the paper ones.,I try to come up with a description of the pain in my feet without using a metaphor for a physical attack or accident, the typical ways of explaining pain (sharp, stabbing, burning). I finally find its description in another pain: that glowing, aching burn after a day running and falling on cement as a child, catching myself with bare hands. Feet and hands throbbing at different frequencies whether or not there is a visible abrasion, the skin screams, the tissues yell, but only in a voice I can hear. A memory only I can access.,In 2017, a symposium was held exploring the involvement of microbes in Alzheimer’s disease, the most prevalent form of neurodegenerative disease. One speaker was Ruth Itzhaki, professor emeritus from the Universities of Oxford and Manchester who gave a lecture titled “The role of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD)” [1].,AMD Ryzen Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) which combines CPU and GPU (Radeon Vega) on one silicon chip. Does however not contain other co-processors, IO-controllers, or unified memory.,Yet there are important reasons why they cannot do this. An SoC is essentially a whole computer on a chip. That makes it a more natural fit for an actual computer-maker, such as HP and Dell. Let me clarify with a silly car analogy: If your business model is to build and sell car engines, it would be an unusual leap to begin manufacturing and selling whole cars.,To talk about pain, we have to refer to some other pain — one that is easy to picture and usually involves a tool or weapon, like a knife, axe, or hammer. To talk about pain, we have to distance ourselves from it, separate via violence. Pain is happening to us rather than something our bodies are doing.,Condiment packets: Who doesn’t bring home a couple of those from fast food? Check the expiration date since they usually don’t last long. If not expired, use them as soon as possible instead of your usual condiment or bring them to work with your packed lunch.,Plastic silverware: Plastic silverware is outdated. If you plan to take tableware at work, consider buying some new fancy biodegradable cutlery and throwing the old plastic ones away! The environment will thank you.