Daily Tech News 16 March 2022

• Chinese CPUs could catch up with Intel by 2025. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Says an Intel exec - speaking at a gathering of the Chinese Communist Party who are not people who would appreciate being told the truth, that their home-grown CPU efforts are basically garbage.
  
  
  

• Memory and SSDs will be in short supply through 2023 and prices are expected to increase. (WCCFTech)
  
  Says the CEO of memory and SSD maker Micron.
  
  
  
• The goggles, they do nothing. (Business Insider)
  
  Microsoft is concerned that the Department of Defense may walk away from a contract for mixed-reality goggle because the goggles don't actually work.
  
  That links pops up an annoying subscription screen (at least for me) that has a link to more details about their subscription plan, or at least is supposed to have a link to details about their subscription plan. What it actually has is a link to an article about how much customers hate subscription plans.
  
  
  
• Microsoft has said that the embedded ads in a preview version of the Windows file explorer were an experiment and were not ever intended to be released to the public yet. (Thurrott.com)
  
  The article includes links to six more articles about the previous times Microsoft's experimental never-to-see-the-light-of-day embedded ads saw the light of day.
  
  
  
• Cannot write to /russia - no space left in country. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Russia has two months of cloud storage left before things start going seriously pear-shaped. With foreign providers shutting down services there isn't enough capacity in the country to provide for its own needs and they might need to start deleting their old saved games.
  
  
  
• Intel is looking at expanding its manufacturing facilities in Europe, spending as much as 80 billion Euros over the next decade. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Across eight countries including expansions in Poland and Ireland and a major new factory in Magdeburg, Germany.
  
  
  
• A full list of AMD's new chips. (AnandTech)
  
  Nothing truly groundbreaking; these are just variations on the existing Zen 3 lineup. The new 5800X3D is interesting but with 8 cores and 96MB of cache it costs the same as the 5900X with 12 cores and 64MB of cache, which is likely to be faster for most tasks.
  
  
  

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