Daily Tech News 17 October 2024

• Meta (Facebook) is laying people off again. (Tech Crunch)
  
  11,000 were laid off in 2022, and another 10,000 last year. In addition, 5000 open positions were cancelled entirely.
  
  No numbers yet for this round of layoffs but it does appear to be smaller.
  
  
  
• Intel meanwhile is laying off 1300 workers at its Oregon foundry as part of its company-wide reduction of 15,000. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Like Boeing, Intel worked long and hard to achieve this disaster.
  
  
  
• TSMC meanwhile has recorded a record $10 billion in net profit for the last 3 months. (The Verge)
  
  TSMC is manufacturing Intel's latest Lunar Lake laptop chips.

• That's no moon, that's a potato: Intel's low-end Lunar Lake chips might not be. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The upcoming Core 5 210H laptop chip has multi-threading.
  
  Intel's new Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake chips don't.
  
  So this is a rebranded model from a prior generation.
  
  
  
• In more positive news the upcoming Ultra 9 285K doesn't suck that much. (CPU Benchmark)
  
  A new benchmark score puts the chip much more in line with expectations. A little slower multi-threaded than the 13900K, but significantly faster in single-threaded tests.
  
  
  
• Western Digital's SN850X is the best option for an 8TB M.2 drive. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Just one remaining problem: It costs three times as much as the 4TB model.
  
  
  
• Western Digital's SN770 is not the best option for running the Windows 24H2 update. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Unless you're a big fan of the Blue Screen of Death.
  
  Microsoft has paused release of the update while it figures this out.
  
  
  
• Sales of Apple's ludicrously expensive Vision Pro headset are down 80%. (MSN)
  
  And they weren't very good to start with.
  
  It's too big and bulky for an AR headset, and basically useless as a VR headset.
  
  And it costs $3499.
  
  
  
• Samsung's next generation GDDR7 memory for video cards will deliver 50% more capacity and up to 90% more speed. (WCCFTech)
  
  24Gb per chip and transfer rates up to 42.5Gbps, vs. 16Gb per chip and 23Gbps currently.
  
  
  
• Mitt Maybelline's psychotic attack on WP Engine continues to pay dividends. (LWN)
  
  If by "pay dividends" we mean "destroy the WordPress community".
  
  
  

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