Daily Tech News 1 May 2024

• After years of telling motherboard makers to set PL1 = PL2, Intel now says not to do that, and also that it never said to do that. (AnandTech)
  
  On Intel CPUs, PL1 is the long-term power level; PL2 is the short burst power level.
  
  On a high-end chip rated at 125W, PL2 is something like 253W. On the top of the line 14900KS, it is increased to 320W officially, and 400W or more unofficially.
  
  This produces great benchmark results but unfortunately fries the chips.
  
  Of course, if you throttle the chips back to the official official power limits, all the existing benchmark results become fairy tales.
  
  So if you're looking for a high-end CPU right now, go AMD.
  
  If you're looking at a mid-range CPU like Intel's i5-14500, none of this is likely to matter. It's a good chip.
  
  
  
  

• TSMC is preparing an 8x retical super carrier interposer for 2026. (AnandTech)
  
  I don't know either but apparently it involves cows.
  
  
  
• Every SSD is SLC if you try hard enough. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Modern SSDs store either three bits (TLC) or four bits (QLC) per memory cell, but the controllers have the ability to store just one bit per cell, which is faster and much more reliable. Of course that way you get one third or one quarter the space, but your drive can last up to thirty times longer.
  
  
  
• The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on Texas's age restriction legislation for porn sites. (NBC)
  
  An initial ruling by a federal judge held that the law was too broad, but was overturned by the Fifth Circuit, and the Supreme Court didn't answer the door, so now the law goes into effect.
  
  
  
• I ordered a couple of new monitors for my home office on Monday.
  
  They showed up this morning.
  
  Then three hours later I got an email saying they had been shipped.
  
  At least some parts of the process are working smoothly.
  
  
  

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