Daily Tech News 30 May 2022

• The Ryzen 5800X3D is the fastest gaming CPU you can buy today. (Tom's hardware)
  
  About 10% faster than Intel's 12900K, or 8% faster than the 12900KS with power unlocked, and about 15% faster than AMD's previous fastest gaming CPU, the 5900X.
  
  For productivity it's a different story - the 5900X has 12 cores rather than 8, and runs at a higher clock speed. But effectively zero games use more than 8 cores because that's what the latest consoles have.
  
  
  
• AMD's Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge is the fastest computer in the world. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Clocking in at 1.1 ExaFlops, it's almost enough to handle Microsoft Flight Simulator at 4K.

• More headlines from he 21st century: Robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter. (Business Insider / MSN)
  
  Many entry level jobs are going to go extinct, which while inevitable, is not necessarily a trend we want to accelerate. Change is a fine thing as long as it's not deliberately pushed faster than people can adapt.
  
  
  
• 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
  4. A robot may not be repaired by anyone other than the original manufacturer.
  
  Separate right-to-repair bills failed in North Carolina and California.
  
  You'll own nothing, and you'll repair nothing. And you'll eat journalists, because bugs are too valuable.
  
  
  
• This year's iPhone will stick to TSMC's 5nm, and not jump to 4nm or 3nm. (9to5Mac)
  
  4nm chips are in early production now, but apparently not in the volumes Apple requires. 3nm won't ship until late next year. And 5nm is pretty damn good already.
  
  But this means the iPhone... The 2022 iPhone probably won't be a significant advance over the 2021 model.
  
  
  
• Stuck some of my 8TB SMR drives in the Synology NASes so they're at least full of working drives. Two mirrored in one unit, and one as a separate backup disk in another.
  
  So far they haven't done anything awful; as far as I know the serious problems only arise when rebuilding a RAID-5 or RAID-6 array, where they blow the time out from days to weeks.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:47 AM

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