Daily Tech News 13 June 2022

• Intel has announced details of its Intel 4 process node - a pseudonominal 4nm, due in 2023. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What size modern semiconductor process nodes really are is a complex question and a little beside the point, because everyone has been using marketing numbers for the past fifteen years anyway. Intel 4 was previously known as 7nm, and though it's probably closer to a real 7nm, its scaling is much the same as TSMC's 4nm node (which is really just a minor adjustment to that company's 5nm node).
  
  Anyway, it gets 160 million transistors per square millimetre, 20% higher than TSMC's 5nm and 20% lower than TSMC's 3nm, so calling it Intel 4 is right on the money. That's also double the current Intel 7 process (previously 10nm).
  
  Intel 4 also offers 40% lower power consumption or 20% better performance at the same power, but that doesn't mean that clock speeds will jump from 5GHz to 6GHz. That statistic is a best case, selected where the process is most efficient. In the chart provided, that seems to be around 2.1GHz, though the improvements are significant right across the chart.
  
  Intel 4 will likely show up late next year in the 14th generation Meteor Lake CPUs.
  

• Fresh is a new web framework for JavaScript (ugh) and TypeScript (better). (Fresh)
  
  It doesn't require build scripts, doesn't ship any JavaScript to the client by default - using server-side / edge rendering the way Tim intended, and supports island based client hydration, because if you're on an island it's very important you stay hydrated.
  
  
  
• In which AWS simply lost 12 hours of data - without ever flagging a problem on its status page. (Jonathan Turnbull)
  
  The AWS status page, we've noted before, is miles away from being a live view of operations. It requires management approval to manually change the status of any service on the page.
  
  
  

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