Daily Tech News 12 May 2022

• This is fine.
  
  

  Current #Polygon (#MATIC) safe low gas price: 545.9 Gwei
  Chart(7d): https://t.co/bo7LDRm3uJ
  Chart(24h): pic.twitter.com/JVYhsb8W2N

  — Polygon Gas Price Chart (@MATICfeeChart) May 12, 2022

  
  
  Polygon is one the major blockchains we use at my day job. My year started out with it falling apart due to a viral game called Sunflower Farmers, and it's just not getting any better. Trying to move house while working 18 hours a day is not fun.

• One chip to rule them all: Tachyum's Prodigy T16128 is a 128-core vector processor running at 5.7GHz. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Each core is a standard 4-issue out-of-order design, but is paired with two 1024-bit vector units (four times the capacity of Intel's CPUs) and a 4096-bit matrix unit. It supports up to 8TB of DDR5 RAM per socket and up to four sockets per system.
  
  And it runs x86, ARM, and RISC-V code as well as native binaries. It's as fast for GPU tasks as next-generation GPUs, and much faster for CPU-oriented workloads.
  
  How much it will cost when it arrives next year is not mentioned, but they'll offer 32 and 64 core models for broke gang.
  
  
  
• Rural America could have the solution to the growing tech skills crisis. (ZDNet)
  
  With everyone sane fleeing the cities, this is increasingly becoming true by definition.
  
  
  
• Qualcomm's new X70 mobile modem chip can hit transfer rates of 8.3Gbps. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Great, now I can hit my monthly bandwidth cap in 2.4 seconds.
  
  
  
• MIPS is switching to RISC-V. (The Register)
  
  MIPS was one of the first commercial RISC chips - IBM's 801 came earlier but mostly in embedded applications rather than as a system CPU.
  
  
  
• Failed "stablecoin" UST aka Terra was designed by the same people behind failed stablecoin Basis Cash. (CoinDesk)
  
  Serial enetrepeneurn't.
  
  
  

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