Daily Tech News 15 April 2025

• AMD is moving to TSMC's N2 process (2nm) for its Zen 6 cores next year, jumping straight over 3nm. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This rumour comes from... AMD and TSMC during an official announcement that AMD has the first Zen 6 silicon in house for testing.
  
  So probably legit.
  
  N2 is 15% faster than the current N3 node, only AMD's CPUs and GPUs are all still on the N4 node which is older again.
  
  Also mentioned during the announcement is that AMD has qualified TSMC's fabs in Arizona to start manufacturing its current 4nm chips.

• Apple doesn't upload all your data to the cloud to feed it into their AI systems like pretty much everyone else. Instead they download their AI onto your phone where it can feast on your data directly and send the results home. (MSN)
  
  Yes. That's much better.
  
  
  
• Silver Lake has bought a majority stake in Intel's Altera FPGA division. (Serve the Home)
  
  Altera - along with Xilinx - was one of the leading players in the FPGA space, producing chips where you can redesign the hardware on the fly in software.
  
  Intel bought Altera and has now sold off half of it.
  
  AMD bought Xilinx and seems to be having a better time of things.
  
  
  
• AMD's upcoming 9060 has half the hardware of the current 9070 XT but reportedly clocks around 20% faster. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It all depends on price. The 16GB model with 60% of the 9070 XT's performance and 100% of the VRAM is unlikely to leave you change from $400.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the 16GB model of Nvidia's upcoming 5060 Ti looks set to have an MSRP of $429 and a street price of $529 - if you can find one at all. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's not supposed to work like that but it do.
  
  If AMD can come in below that MSRP and actually have cards in stock, they will cement their GPU-comeback-in-progress.

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