Daily Tech News 3 March 2025

• Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more multi-threaded performance than the current generation Snapdragon X chips. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Coincidentally, Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more cores than the current generation Snapdragon X chips.

• We don't really know anything about AMD's next-generation Zen 6 CPU cores, much less what graphics cores they will use. (WCCFTech)
  
  Anyone who knows isn't telling, and anyone who is telling doesn't know.
  
  Wait for the details to show up in a leaked shipping manifest to the consumer electronics regulator in India. Either that or a Linux driver.
  
  
  
• The Steam hardware survey results are frankly garbage. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Yeah, I don't think the proportion of Steam users primarily speaking Chinese grew by 60% in the space of a month. Or any of the other strange results.
  
  
  
• Intel has announced new 10Gb and 200Gb Ethernet cards. (Serve the Home)
  
  The 10Gb cards are interesting, claiming to use half the power of previous models. And they're downwards compatible with 5Gb, 2.5Gb, 1Gb, and for the masochists or people whose bedrooms are half a mile from the router, 100Mb.
  
  
  
• Mark Cuban has offered to fund 18F, the unofficial name for a group of whiny tech gerbils at the GSA. (Tech Crunch)

  Waldo Jaquith, a former 18F technologist, said that the federal government has been a good, reliable employer for generations. "What the jobs lack in salary are made up for in stability. Untold millions have been lifted into the middle class or kept out of poverty by having a single family member in a federal job. Now that's gone."

  Good.
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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