Daily Tech News 4 November 2023

• The tape-out of Apple's M3 CPU, announced this past week, cost the company $1 billion. (ExtremeTech)
  
  That's not the cost of the design. That's not the cost of production.
  
  That's the step in between, taking the design they had and getting it ready for production on TSMC's latest 3nm node.
  
  That used to be a lot of money, but Apple sells a lot of stuff at 1000% markups, so the company can certainly afford it.

• Nvidia's China-only A800 AI card can now be purchased in the US. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And not in China anymore, because the US government changed the rules again.
  
  
  
• Want a small (3" square) router appliance with four 2.5Gb Ethernet ports and support for two monitors? Available on Amazon starting at $212. (Liliputing)
  
  Also available with two network ports and an extra HDMI port.
  
  
  
• Want a passively-cooled rack-mount 128 core Arm server with IP65 dust and water resistance? You can get one of those too. (Serve the Home)
  
  Not the sort of thing most people need, but if you're doing oil and mineral exploration, for example, extremely handy.
  
  
  
• MicroLua is Lua for the RP2040, the chip found in the Raspberry Pi Pico. (GitHub)
  
  Literally Lua; it's a complete implementation of Lua 5.4.6. A stripped-down implementation might be more practical, but having the full language is useful too.
  
  
  
• Tech layoffs are a thing of the past, part 2171:Faire, which wants to be a co-op competitor to Amazon, has laid off 20% of its staff. (Tech Crunch)
  
  At least they have a plan, unlike so many other startups. Amazon is not an easy competitor to tackle though.

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