Daily Tech News 11 October 2022

• Micron is planning to spend $100 billion on fab facilities in New York state over the next 20 years. (AnandTech)
  
  Is that a lot? That sounds like a lot.
  
  This is in addition to the $15 billion factory they recently started building in Idaho.
  
  
  
• Samsung meanwhile is spending $30 billion a year on new chip production capacity. (AnandTech)
  
  And plans to be shipping 1.4nm by 2027.
  
  Do I even have any 7nm computers? The Xbox is 7nm if you count that, but this laptop is 10nm.
  
  Anyway, while 1.4nm is a made-up number, it will be better than the other, larger, equally made-up numbers.

• Speaking of made-up numbers, Intel's 24 core 13900K is slower than AMD's 16 core 7950X because two thirds of Intel's cores run at half speed. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  On the other hand, the 13600K can be faster than AMD's 8 core 7700X, because while the Intel chip only has 6 fast cores, it also has 8 half speed cores, so an effective 10 cores worth of cores.
  
  I understand why Intel did this - the same reason every mobile CPU does - I just wish they hadn't.
  
  
  
• VirtualBox 7 is out. (VirtualBox)
  
  Somehow Oracle doesn't appear to have ruined it yet.
  
  
  
• 43% of PCs still can't upgrade to Windows 11. (The Register)
  
  I do have one Windows 11 laptop, though I ordered it with Windows 10, because that was the old model and was on clearance. They sent me the new model at the clearance price, so I won, I guess?
  
  I did use the kill your WiFi trick to set it up without using an online account, so it's mostly working like Windows 10 with new paint.
  
  
  
• It might not run Crysis yet, but Notepad can run Doom. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Pixy, when you say "Notepad can run Doom", what do you mean?
  
  This.
  
  

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