Daily Tech News 30 May 20201

• Intel has quietly slipped Tiger Lake B into the sales channel - so quietly that I missed the importance of this yesterday. (WCCFTech)
  
  Existing 11th generation Intel desktop CPUs are made on their old 14nm process; until now only laptop chips were produced at 10nm. Tiger Lake B represents Intel's first 10nm desktop parts.
  
  We'll have to wait for reviews to see exactly how this turns out, but the new 11900KB uses 65W at base load, compared to 125W for the 14nm 11900K. It also looks like they've increased the cache from 16MB to 24MB.
  
  On the other hand, base clocks for the 11900B are a little slower than before.
  
  The 11500B on the other hand looks like it could be a gem: The power remains the same at 65W, but base clocks are up from 2.7GHz to 3.3GHz, and maximum boost clock from 4.6GHz to 5.3GHz.
  
  
  
• Intel also has graphics cards on the way. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is great given the ongoing shortage and sky-high prices from both Nivida and AMD. The cards are expected to have up to 512 Xe execution units, which gives us a good idea how fast they will be, because Tiger Lake laptop chips have up to 96 Xe units. The dedicated cards will likely run at a faster clock.
  
  On the downside, we won't see these until next year, so in the meantime it's either wait or pay the scalper.
  
  
  

• Zen 3 Threadrippers could arrive in August. (WCCFTech)
  
  That's ten months after the launch of Zen 3 for the consumer desktop, though it's only recently that the high-end Zen 3 parts (12 and 16 cores) became readily available.
  
  
  
• Microsoft Edge 91 is here and it's, um, basically crap. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  It pushes a bunch of unwanted features and an even bigger bunch of bugs.
  
  Avoid. Oh, wait, you can't. It updates itself auotomatically.
  
  
  
• Iran has banned Bitcoin mining due to ongoing blackouts. (NBC)
  
  This is not entirely because the country is run by genocidal kleptocrats; they've also been subject to a prolonged drought that has reduced hydroelectric output.
  
  The government blamed the blackouts on a natural gas shortage, which is rather like Australia blaming problems on a mouse shortage. (CNN)
  
  
  

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