Daily Tech News 2 August 2024

• Intel announced its earnings report for Q2 of 2024, and it's less than wonderful. (AnandTech)
  
  While the company did post a profit and issue a dividend, it also announced plans to slash costs before things go into freefall.
  
  This includes suspending future dividends, cutting capital and operating expenses, and... Firing between 15,000 and 17,000 workers.
  
  
  
• The company also bit the bullet and announced two years of additional warranty on its failing 13th and 14th generation desktop processors. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which would be a bigger deal if Intel hadn't been rejecting warranty returns for the past year, all the while knowing that the problems were of its own creation.
  
  
  

• Intel is also running into production issues with its next-generation Meteor Lake desktop CPUs. (AnandTech)
  
  These are needed to replace the fault-ridden 13th and 14th generation chips. Meteor Lake actually has multiple chips on the package, similar to some AMD CPUs, and the problem lies with the components manufactured by Intel itself.
  
  The response has been to crank up production - since Intel owns the factories, it can do that - and discard the failed parts. That will allow Meteor Lake to launch on time but it will not come cheap.
  
  
  
• Micron meanwhile has announced its new 276 layer 1Tbit TLC flash chip. (AnandTech)
  
  This is about 30% smaller than its previous 1Tbit TLC chips, or about the same size as existing 1Tbit QLC.
  
  
  
• Testing out a 5Gb network card. (Serve the Home)
  
  These are great because they use much less power than a 10Gb card, are twice as fast as common 2.5Gb Ethernet, and run just fine over twenty year old Cat-5 cables.
  
  They are less great because 5Gb Ethernet switches basically do not exist.
  
  
  
• With the Boeing Starliner capsule now entering the eighth week of its planned eight day stay at the ISS, NASA is facing up with its most difficult choice yet: Admitting failure and asking Tony Stark Elon Musk to rescue its astronauts. (Ars Technica)
  
  There is a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked at the ISS right now, but that's the lifeboat in case of catastrophic failure, so the plan would be to send up a second capsule to ferry Butch and Suni home.

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