Daily Tech News 10 November 2023

• Apple's new M3 Pro - specifically, the 11 core version - has the fastest single-threaded performance of any CPU. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  By 1%, but a win is a win.
  
  Downside is that on multi-threaded tests it ranks 312th, right behind AMD's ultra-low-power Ryzen Z1 Extreme, used in portable gaming devices like the Asus ROG Ally.
  
  So Apple has some work to do there.

• Speaking of portable gaming devices there's now an OLED version of the Steam Deck. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Unless you live in Australia, in which case there is no Steam Deck at all.
  
  
  
• Micron has introduced 128GB DDR5-8000 server memory using its new 32Gb DRAM. (AnandTech)
  
  Which is really fast for server memory, which normally runs at more pedestrian speeds like 4800MHz, which is merely absurdly fast rather than insanely fast.
  
  To get 128GB on on module you previously had to stack two memory chips two deep (and before that, four deep), which slowed things down. Server CPUs have been adding more memory channels to get the bandwidth they needed with those slow modules, so an overnight 66% increase is going to shake things up a bit.
  
  Well, when I say overnight, these modules will be available next year.
  
  Expect 64GB desktop and laptop modules as well.
  
  And in 2026, says Micron, 96GB desktop and laptop modules, and 192GB server modules.
  
  
  
• The first planned small nuclear reactor in the US has been cancelled due to spiraling costs. (Ars Technica)
  
  How unusual.
  
  
  
• The Illinois state senate has voted 44-7 to approve the construction of small nuclear reactors. (AP News)
  
  How unusual. But seriously this time.
  
  
  
• Tumblr is reportedly on life support, and is not getting much of that. (Ars Technica)
  
  Tumblr these days is owned by Automattic, which also runs Wordpress.com.
  
  The site is best known for the 2018 Verizon Containment Breach, in which its parent company banned porn and millions of lunatics fled to infect ever other website in the world.

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