Daily Tech News 30 June 2026

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South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, sort of. Only about $20 billion of that is direct South Korean public spending, with the remainder coming from regional governments and private investment.

The government will also help fast-track approvals to bring construction plans forward by as much as twelve years.
Meanwhile the Big Three - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have been hit with a private antitrust lawsuit by litigants in California. (Tom's Hardware)

The suit seems to be focused on decreased production of DDR4 and DDR3, which is legal, but alleges they colluded to do so, which may not be.

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IMEC has laid out its roadmap towards a 0.3nm process in 2038. (Tom's Hardware)

The article notes that this is marketing nonsense - well, the part you can read doesn't, but it's there in the details that you can't read - with actual feature sizes in the 10-20nm range. Since a single silicon atom has a diameter of 0.2nm, you can rest assured they're not building circuits that size.

The 0.3nm instead refers to the effective density thanks to increased use of 3D production to stack transistors vertically.
The Steam Cube hasn't even started shipping and the first clones are here. (Tom's Hardware)

Meta PC's Steamroller is a micro ATX system with a Ryzen 9600X and a Radeon 7600 - both a little faster than the components in the Steam Machine - 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 8GB of VRAM, and a 1TB SSD, for $1299.

It ships with SteamOS, so no Windows tax.
Everything new is old again: Nvidia's RTX 3060 has returned from the dead. (Tom's Hardware)

It was a pretty decent card, and its 12GB of VRAM gives it a boost over current 8GB models like the 5060 and the base model 5060 Ti
It can also run PhysX games, which Nvidia half-killed on the 5000 series. But now so can AMD graphics cards. (WCCFTech)

Thanks to open-source library ZLUDA.
The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge) (archive site)

Promise?

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:35 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

2 w00t 2nd

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (6wpGE)

3 Mornin'

Think I'll take a walk. Gonna be steamy later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

4 >>>The ware against woke

There's a pun there.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

5 I'm glad I quit gaming when I did. There is no keeping up with this foolishness. And my wallet thanks me. Maybe I should invest, billion dollar industry.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 04:48 AM (fkjGs)

6 Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love

um

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:49 AM (6wpGE)

7 Boogie *Pimps*

Wonder what that'll do to my For You feed?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:50 AM (6wpGE)

8 Howdy, med problems are keeping me up today, so I'm surfing laptops. I've decided that building a new rig is to much of an issue and I can have portability so it's time to shop.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 30, 2026 04:51 AM (Q/FnY)

9 Hitting that long road
See you when I get there

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)

10 >>>The war against woke could end US science as we know it

Or, more honestly--as the author of that way-too-long article allows in the very last sentence:

“We are going to see devastation to our federal grant programs like we’ve never seen before in this country if this is allowed to go forward.”

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:54 AM (6wpGE)

11
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 30, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

12 The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge)

Somebody want to volunteer to read and summarize that?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:10 AM (6wpGE)

13 from the Verge article (about halfway):

Scientists, it turns out, often know good science when they see it.

A little snippy, there, eh?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:19 AM (6wpGE)

14 Evening, late toilers. Morning, early risers. Whass happenin'?

83 F. at 4:20 am. Horrifying, esp. since I was planning to work out in it. Long ago, Dr. Cooper in Aerobics advised that if temps were over 90 F., to reduce exercise or change to the early morning or evening. Excuse me, Doctor Sir, but what do ya do when the early morning and evening heat-index temps are *also* over 90?

Though he lived in South Texas for much of his life, and was an active runner himself, so he knew about that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:21 AM (wzUl9)

15 We had an Osterizer like the one in the ONT. It worked great for easily 2 decades.

Until a spoon slipped out of my hand and bent the blades beyond repair.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 05:23 AM (qFwJc)

16 The tail end of The Eagle Has Landed w/ Michael Caine is on Movies! Odd; I've read the book multiple times, but have never seen the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:23 AM (wzUl9)

17 moar from the Verge article:

“People who come from minority communities tend to work on subjects related to health disparities or other things,” Berg says. “Not everybody, but some of them do.”

...

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:30 AM (6wpGE)

18 I looked over the ONT and its black-and-white photography. I love that stuff. Somewhere I have an Ansel Adams print or two of the Southwest, and will put them up when I have room, aka, when I have my house.

Maybe it's because I grew up with B & W TV and watching even color movies on it. The crispness and starkness of B & W images make them seem more real, somehow, more immediate, than does the color palette of the actual world.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:31 AM (wzUl9)

19 Verge article, summary:

Orange Man Bad

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (6wpGE)

20 Today's devotional from "The Upper Room"
Is by a person from Australia and concerns "Each
One's purpose" Psalm 92:1-156

https://tinyurl.com/yc7feyjy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Yl2Ob)

21 Mornin' Horde.

Well I guess we won't be able to count on the South Korean government in any antitrust investigation of SK Hynix or Samsung this time round, not with how much money is being shoveled at them to address the memory scarcity problems.

And we all know what happens when government throws a lot of money at a problem: The solution usually takes longer, costs 10 times more than it should, and arrives broken, if it arrives at all. Yay.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

22 @19/m: "ALL Verge articles, summary: Orange Man Bad"

Fixed that for you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

23 “We are going to see devastation to our federal grant programs like we’ve never seen before in this country if this is allowed to go forward.”
Posted by: m

Faster?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 05:43 AM (sAmhv)

24 22 @19/m: "ALL Verge articles, summary: Orange Man Bad"

Fixed that for you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

Thank you.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:44 AM (6wpGE)

25 NPR was all on this yesterday. Trump is running all the scientists out of the country.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 05:48 AM (6BjcW)

26 25 NPR was all on this yesterday. Trump is running all the scientists out of the country.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 05:48 AM (6BjcW)

https://www.npr.org

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:49 AM (6wpGE)

27 Yesterday FenSpouse called me over to the room where our computer is. I thought he was showing
Me the latest problem with it. but instead he opened the window curtain outside and there sitting on the ground was dear little spotted fawn
It's probably eating our lillies, but it is cute.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:49 AM (Yl2Ob)

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