Daily Tech News 25 February 2023

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Intel's 4nm process node has entered production, with the first consumer product - the company's 14th generation Meteor Lake CPUs - due late this year. (WCCFTech)

It takes months for a chip to go through an advanced production pipeline, so that delay is entirely expected.

TSMC and Samsung have both started production at 3nm, so this doesn't quite catch Intel up with the most advanced process technology, but Intel expects its own 3nm process to come on line before the end of the year - to be followed by 2nm in the first half of 2024 and 1.8nm in the second half.

All these nm numbers are fictional - if transistors were really 2nm across they wouldn't work - but the three companies use roughly the same methods for calculating their made up numbers so the lies are at least comparable.

Meteor Lake looks to be a laptop-only CPU generation; there will be a refreshed version of Raptor lake for desktops this year, probably still based on 7nm. This might reduce Meteor Lake's power consumption, which would be good news. Alder Lake (12th gen) and Raptor Lake (13th gen) laptops are fast but are not known for amazing battery life.

AMD meanwhile is using a mix of TSMC's 4nm, 5nm, 6nm, and 7nm for its own chips. Apple has reserved all of TSMC's early 3nm production - known as N3 - but there are four new variants of 3nm coming online over the next year and a half, and next year's Zen 5 chips (Ryzen 8000 or 9000) are planned to use one of those.

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Microsoft's upcoming Surface Laptop Studio 2 will use one of those power hungry 13th generation chips. (WCCFTech)

The current model uses a 4 core 11th gen chip so the new model with 14 cores will be a lot faster, but battery life is going to take a step backwards, something we've already seen with the Surface Laptop 5 (the non-Studio version)

I also predict it won't have the Four Essential Keys.
Not exactly tech news but Warner Bros is producing a new series of Lord of the Rings films. (Variety)

If you thought they'd already produced three films from the three volumes of the Lord of the Rings, you'd be correct, so it's not clear what story these will follow. Amazon has already strip-mined the appendices for its Rings of Power train wreck, so it's probably not that.

Still, I expect nothing good to come of this.
How will the Universe end? (Quanta)

Scientists now predict that the Universe will be renewed for a fourth and final season and then be abruptly cancelled just as shooting begins.
If you want a classic microcomputer but just want it to sit there and look cute because it's easier to emulate them than maintain fussy failing hardware Rocky Bergen has you covered. (Rocky Bergen)

Free to download. You'll need a colour printer, some sharp scissors, and glue.

No Reason In Particular Video of the Day

Disclaimer: No habla Spanish either.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2023 04:01 AM (xhxe8)

2 G'Night everyone

Posted by: SFGoth at February 25, 2023 04:02 AM (KAi1n)

3 G'day Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 25, 2023 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 G'night SFGoth

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 25, 2023 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

5
Apparently the age of the Universe is not settled science and the Big Bang Theory has to be recalculated. Be right back, math required.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 25, 2023 04:05 AM (enJYY)

6 Mornin' again, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 25, 2023 04:05 AM (BFMqu)

7 https://tinyurl.com/mudbe9t6
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
#10 is from Rita Panahi in Australia

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2023 04:12 AM (xhxe8)

8 You never know, the WB LoTR thing could be good. There is a lot of great spectacle if they did Silmarillion* stuff, but I think they are doing Third Age... which was already done with The Peter Jackson movies. So...

*heh. Chrome spellcheck recognizes 'Silmarillion.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 25, 2023 04:17 AM (zZu0s)

9
How come in all ancient cave paintings it's man hunting game and not salad?

Posted by: Deep Thoughts at February 25, 2023 04:18 AM (enJYY)

10 How come in all ancient cave paintings it's man hunting game and not salad?

Posted by: Deep Thoughts at February 25, 2023 04:18 AM (enJYY)

They pissed on all the salad. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2023 04:21 AM (VwHCD)

11 Apparently the age of the Universe is not settled science and the Big Bang Theory has to be recalculated. Be right back, math required.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

The Universe and especially the Earth has always been exactly the same. It's only in the past 40 years that man has screwed up the earth with CO2. Otherwise, we would just go spinning along at the perfect temperature and weather all the time.

Posted by: Bruce at February 25, 2023 04:34 AM (vd8XM)

12 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2023 04:35 AM (T4tVD)

13
From Big Blue:

Earth is in a 2.58my ice age, in an 11,000y warm interglacial between 100,000y deep freezes, known as glacials. This is due to orbital fluctuations known as Milankovitch cycles & has nothing to do with the atmospheric trace gas carbon dioxide regardless of rise & fall, a UN hoax.

Interesting graph, made from ice core data. As temperatures rise, CO2 levels follow right along.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 25, 2023 04:36 AM (enJYY)

14 Ice ages come and ice ages go, one will come again no matter what men on earth do

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2023 04:37 AM (xhxe8)

15 Heading out.

Make it a good day, all!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 25, 2023 04:38 AM (BFMqu)

16 Have a great day MLii

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2023 04:41 AM (xhxe8)

17 Have a good one and stay safe MLii !

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2023 04:41 AM (T4tVD)

18 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 25, 2023 04:53 AM (VohFI)

19 Interesting vid clip Pixy.

The Spanish version of 'Willie and the Hand Jive'?

Posted by: Bruce at February 25, 2023 05:14 AM (vd8XM)

20 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2023 05:21 AM (ju2Fy)

21 Sorry to read about WDS passing. Prayers and condolences for her family.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2023 05:23 AM (ju2Fy)

22 Typical late winter weather weekend coming up. Snow squalls, robins trying to find worms in the thin layer of ice and snow, and my neighbor bitching about why he doesn't live in Florida. Its all his and Trumps fault.

Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2023 05:25 AM (P8J+N)

23 11: The Universe and especially the Earth has always been exactly the same. It's only in the past 40 years that man has screwed up the earth with CO2. Otherwise, we would just go spinning along at the perfect temperature and weather all the time.
Posted by: Bruce

True. I believe we are in the 52nd year of Ten years to Save the Earf from kLImATe KatasterFeE!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 25, 2023 05:28 AM (ifUkZ)

24 Its all his and Trumps fault.
Posted by: Colin

When I woke up at 3 AM CST, I thought it seemed awfully light outside. Found a light snow had fallen overnight and the neighbors lights were reflecting off of it.

Posted by: Bruce at February 25, 2023 05:28 AM (vd8XM)

25 True. I believe we are in the 52nd year of Ten years to Save the Earf from kLImATe KatasterFeE!!!
Posted by: Puddleglum

HaRumph!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 25, 2023 05:29 AM (vd8XM)

26 Sorry to read about WDS passing. Prayers and condolences for her family.
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2023 05:23 AM (ju2Fy)
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Oh my I am very saddened at this news. May her memory be a blessing.

Good morning

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023 05:34 AM (EZebt)

27 Evening and morning to all! 'Tis Saturday at last after a weird week for me with 2.5 days off. What's the temp and weather like where you are?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 05:38 AM (omVj0)

28 It would be great to rip my sinuses out of my head and stomp them into dust. Because they're killing me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023 05:38 AM (EZebt)

29 How come in all ancient cave paintings it's man hunting game and not salad?
Posted by: Deep Thoughts at February 25, 2023

***
Always remember, the word "vegetarian" is derived from an ancient Indian word meaning "lousy hunter."

Or, as Speaker-to-Animals said, "How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 05:40 AM (omVj0)

30 It has been rilly rilly cold. Like 45 degrees.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023 05:41 AM (EZebt)

31
I put a new ceramic tile floor into a guest bathroom. 50 square feet at $1.99 per square foot, so a hundred bucks. But it's a thicker tile and now I have to either chip out the old marble threshold and replace it, or overlay it with a 1/4" red oak at about $50 - or half the cost of the floor. Geez, lumber is crazy expensive anymore.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 25, 2023 05:45 AM (enJYY)

32 It would be great to rip my sinuses out of my head and stomp them into dust. Because they're killing me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023

***
From the time I was about 12 until I was 42, I had recurring "sinus" headaches that felt like a nail being driven in over my left eye by my nose. Not migraines, but nauseating and exhausting (and hangovers would usually kick them on too). When they began to run into a second day, I got an Rx for Seldane. It worked, but wired me up no end -- it had lots of caffeine.

Then, suddenly, they stopped happening and have been gone from my life for more than 20 years. So perhaps there is hope for you, SanFran.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 05:45 AM (omVj0)

33 Talking about being a vegetarian or meat eater, what happened to the story about bugs being the future. Deep fried cockroaches, ants, stink bugs and all the rest. Maybe the next fast food chain, get in on the ground floor now!

Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2023 05:45 AM (P8J+N)

34 MiL came to dinner last night. She waited until we were eating before she brought up the latest lie she read in the Times.

Did you know that tech companies are fleeing Israel in droves because they are going to change the way they appoint judges? Rheeeeeee!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023 05:46 AM (EZebt)

35 At least she brought homemade hot fudge and caramel sauce for dessert.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023 05:46 AM (EZebt)

36 When I woke up at 3 AM CST, I thought it seemed awfully light outside. Found a light snow had fallen overnight and the neighbors lights were reflecting off of it.
Posted by: Bruce at February 25, 2023

***
I loved that quality of the light, and the silence of a morning after a snowfall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 05:47 AM (omVj0)

37 I had recurring "sinus" headaches that felt like a nail being driven in over my left eye by my nose...
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Yes. Exactly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023 05:48 AM (EZebt)

38 Regarding the Seldane knocking out my sinus headaches years ago: The Seldane is off the market now, but apparently it was loaded with caffeine. If I'd known I could have taken some No-Doz and and maybe knocked the headaches out a lot earlier in my life?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 05:50 AM (omVj0)

39 I loved that quality of the light, and the silence of a morning after a snowfall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

25 degrees here now. Gets up to 55 on Monday.

Posted by: Bruce at February 25, 2023 05:50 AM (vd8XM)

40 39 and cloudy here. Sun may peek out later this morning as we head toward a high of 54.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2023 05:50 AM (ju2Fy)

41
Did you know that tech companies are fleeing Israel in droves because they are going to change the way they appoint judges? Rheeeeeee!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2023 05:46 AM

Leftists always violate the 48 hour rule. They only care about the latest unverified outrage. They never check back on the story.

I got in a conversation with my leftist sis about J6. She knows the early reporting. Anything about who actually died, that the fire extinguisher story was bogus, Roy Epps, who secured the permits for the event? Nope, nada, zilch.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 25, 2023 05:52 AM (enJYY)

42 Which is a worse conversational habit: splattering likes and ya knows or various fux? I do the latter. It's my favorite word.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at February 25, 2023 05:54 AM (Eeb9P)

43 16 degrees here, also a light snowfall overnight.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 25, 2023 05:54 AM (VohFI)

44 39 and cloudy here. Sun may peek out later this morning as we head toward a high of 54.
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2023

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I'll trade you. High of 84 today, and rancidly humid. 10.5 months of any one season, even summer, is too much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 05:55 AM (omVj0)

45 Which is a worse conversational habit: splattering likes and ya knows or various fux? I do the latter. It's my favorite word.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at February 25, 2023

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I never used that word much growing up. Then I met my father-in-law, the well-educated pro non-fiction writer, and he sprinkled his conversation with it. Now I let it slip more often than I should.

"Have you noticed in me a tendency to use profanity for emphasis?"
"No."
"It's f**king radioactive out there."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 05:58 AM (omVj0)

46 Noodus krakatoan

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2023 06:01 AM (omVj0)

47 KRAK OF DAWN HAS ARRIVED
So grab a coffee and head upstairs

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2023 06:01 AM (xhxe8)

48 7 https://tinyurl.com/mudbe9t6
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
#10 is from Rita Panahi in Australia
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2023 04:12 AM (xhxe

Thanks, Skip!

Posted by: m at February 25, 2023 06:42 AM (4UYlo)

49 .

Posted by: . at February 25, 2023 06:58 AM (S/NWs)

50 50!

Posted by: m at February 25, 2023 07:00 AM (4UYlo)

51 Wolfus, it's not about the nail.

Awesome video, Pixy.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 25, 2023 08:00 AM (iKBwy)

52 The gal in that video has sharp elbows.

Posted by: GWB at February 25, 2023 08:52 AM (NJ9MR)

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