Daily Tech News 18 April 2024

• Turns out I was wrong: Google had nine of yesterday's pro-Nazi protesters arrested, then fired all of them. (CNBC)
  
  I still wouldn't trust Google with anything sharper than a rubber spoon, but this is a rare positive sign.
  
  
  

• How many bathrooms contain neanderthals? (John Hawks)
  
  The number may surprise you. Because it's greater than zero.
  
  
  
• With some power plants still offline following the recent earthquake, TSMC has stepped in. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  TSMC has backup generators for all of its many factories - big ones - because having the power go out can ruin tens of millions of dollars of chips.
  
  So now it's helping back up Taiwan's electrical grid as power plants are returned to operation.
  
  
  
• Samsung will be introducing 10.7gbps, 32GB LPDDR5X modules later this year. (AnandTech)
  
  Not sure if that's a 64-bit or 128-bit bus. Checking their existing products, it looks like they only offer up to 64 LPDDR5X RAM, so two of these packages would give 64GB of very fast memory.
  
  
  
• Nvidia has announced the A400 and A1000 video cards, for people needing professional graphics cards but not professional graphics speeds. (Serve the Home)
  
  These are half-height, single-slot cards that only use 50W, so don't expect them to be speed demons. The A1000 is likely about half the speed of a 4060, and the A400 half of that.

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