Daily Tech News 20 October 2023

• AMD's Threadripper and Threadripper Pro 7000 CPUs are finally here, for users for whom time is money. (AnandTech)
  
  These chips ain't cheap: Prices start at $1499 for the 24-core 7960X, and zoom up to $10k once you get to the 96-core 7995WX.
  
  But for comparison, a 24-core Intel Xeon W7-2495X costs $2199, and that's at the top of Intel's high-end desktop range. The 7960X is cheaper, faster, and at the bottom of AMD's comparable range. It's $100 more expensive than the previous 3960X, but it's a lot more than $100 faster.
  
  The regular Threadripper models provide four memory channels (up to 1TB total RAM), 48 PCIe 5 and 32 PCIe 4 lanes, and up to 64 cores.
  
  Threadripper Pro provides eight memory channels (up to 2TB total), 128 PCIe 5 lanes, and up to 96 cores.
  
  Also, similarly to Intel with its Xeon 2400 and 3400 chips, you can plug a Threadripper Pro into a Threadripper motherboard. You probably wouldn't want to, since Threadripper already goes up to 64 cores (where the Xeon 2400 maxes out at just 24), but you can.
  
  Available next month wherever extremely expensive computer components are sold.

• Facebook and Instagram are censoring terrorist propaganda. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Apparently this is a bad thing now that the terrorists are Arabs who murder babies rather than grandmothers from Iowa who went for a stroll on a bad day.
  
  
  
• Apple has censored John Stewart. (The Verge)
  
  Apparently his views were not aligned with corporate on the topics of AI and China, which Apple views as good but aren't.
  
  
  
• The worst person in the world just made a good point: New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing three crypto companies on allegations of defrauding customers of over a billion dollars. (The Verge)
  
  Guess I'll make popcorn.
  
  
  
• TSMC says it's N3P process is equivalent to Intel's 18A. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  180nm was probably the last process node where the numbers meant something real, and that was forever ago.

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