Daily Tech News 13 December 2023

• How are things going with our friends at The Verge oh God. (The Verge)
  
  Did you know chlorpromazine comes in tanker cars now?
  
  I think two or three should do the job.
  
  For today.
  
  
  
  

• Google Fiber is now rolling out its 20 gigabit internet service, for $250 per month. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For $250 per month I can get 250 megabits. While that's A$250 - about US$150 - 250 megabits is a lot less than 20 gigabits.
  
  
  
• TSMC is ramping up to ship 2nm chips in volume in 2025. (WCCFTech)
  
  Apple will be the first major customer, as has become the norm. But the iPhone has paid for TSMC's massive technical advances over the past decade, so I don't begrudge Apple its typical 12-month exclusivity period.
  
  
  
• Huawei meanwhile is working on 5nm chips. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  China is currently stuck at 14nm because they can't buy the EUV optical tools needed for finer process nodes due to sanctions, and can't make their own because they're decades behind in that particular part of the tech sector.
  
  So what they're doing is something called multi-patterning: By running a chip through the process multiple times, very very carefully, you can end up with finer details than you can by just doing it once.
  
  Problem is each pass through the machine increases the cost and increases the failure rate, so cost goes up exponentially. It's very much a stopgap approach, and unlikely to see adoption in any mainstream devices.
  
  
  
• After acquiring VMWare, Broadcom is on a newfound mission to fuck both its customers and its staff. (Ars Technica)
  
  Perpetual licenses are out; all products will now be subscription-only.
  
  Also out are nearly 3000 employees.

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