Daily Tech News 8 May 2024

• Apple has announced its M4 CPU, just months after the M3. (Ars Technica)
  
  It's 50% faster.
  
  50% faster than what, you ask.
  
  Shut up, they explained.
  
  
  
• Along with the M4 CPU comes a new range of iPad Pros using it. (AnandTech)
  
  These start at $1000 and go up to $3000.
  
  That is, the cheapest model costs more than my new laptop and the extra memory and storage I bought for it.

• Speaking of laptops, the old new laptop - the one I bought two years ago that has been waiting all this time to be set up - has a working Windows license again.
  
  And it runs my modded Minecraft instance at 60fps with shaders enabled.
  
  It could probably do more but it's only a 60fps screen.
  
  
  
• Asus leaked the part number and specs of AMD's upcoming Strix Point laptop chips. (AnandTech)
  
  Twelve cores - four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c, which are identical but run at clock speeds about 25% lower, 36MB cache, a top speed of 5.1GHz on the main cores, and 77 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of AI thingy.
  
  That's double the AI thingy of Apple's M4, which has a 38 TOPS thingy.
  
  
  
• China's latest GPU beats the best chips from AMD. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That is, the best chips from AMD from 2008.
  
  It's roughly equivalent to a Radeon 4850. I had one of those. Passive cooler. Played Mass Effect and Dragon Age on it.
  
  It definitely slowed down in big combat scenes but it was mostly okay.
  
  
  
• Micron's new LPCAMM2 memory modules are now available for purchase. (WCCFTech)
  
  In one speed, LPDDR5X-7500.
  
  $175 for 32GB and $330 for 64GB. Not cheap but 80% cheaper than Apple and even more cheaper than replacing your whole computer because the RAM is soldered in place not that I'm bitter about that right now.
  
  
  
• An OpenAI executive says that ChatGPT will be "laughably bad" in twelve months. (Business Insider)
  
  Hey, give yourself some credit. It's laughably bad right now.
  
  
  
  

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