Daily Tech News 9 Something

• After telling its customers to "eat shit and die" and then correcting itself and explaining that what it really meant was that as long as its customers ate the shit the dying was entirely up to them, Unity has unexpectedly fired 25% of its staff. (Reuters)
  
  The CEO of Unity is the former head of Electronic Arts.
  
  
  
• The 1800 abruptly unemployed Unity staff have nothing to fear though, because the US added 700 tech jobs last year. (The Register)
  
  You mean 700 thousand, right?
  
  
  
  700 thousand, right?
  
  
  

• Intel announced its Raptor Lake Refresh mobile CPU lineup and showed off its upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs. (AnandTech)
  
  So right now Intel is launching refreshed Raptor Lake and brand new Meteor Lake chips, and later this year will be launching both Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake.
  
  I can't keep them straight and I follow this stuff every day. Normal humans have no chance at all.
  
  
  
• Intel also announced the cheaper models of the desktop Raptor Lake Refresh 14th generation range, starting at $82. (AnandTech)
  
  The $82 chips are kind of crap and should be avoided, but for $109 you can get something decent (if you don't need integrated graphics).
  
  
  
• Six months in a leaky Raspberry Pi 5. (Ars Technica)
  
  Or two weeks using it as a desktop PC, anyway.
  
  It works, pretty much, if you don't demand too much from it.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's "Super" range of refreshed 4000 series graphics cards is here. (Ars Technica)
  
  In stores this month.
  
  The 4080 Super seemed completely pointless, being only slightly faster than the 4080, but it's also $200 cheaper than the 4080. Okay then.
  
  Which one should you get? Well, if you're playing vanilla Minecraft, consider that a Radeon 7600, the cheapest card from the current generation, can average 1000fps at 1080p.
  
  
  

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