Daily Tech News 17 June 2025

• Intel's rumoured next-next generation Nova Lake processors have been rumoured again. (WCCFTech)
  
  Albeit with more details this time.
  
  The top of the line Core 9 model will reportedly include 16 performance cores, 32 efficiency cores, and 4 low-power efficiency cores.
  
  Which would be a lot.
  
  The next models down would be the Core 7, with 14 P-cores, 24 E-cores, and 4 LPE-cores.
  
  However, both would use a base power of 150W, meaning - this being Intel - in reality they would run at more like 300W.
  
  Which is also a lot.
  
  They would also - according to a separate rumour - provide 32 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 16 PCIe 4.0 lanes.
  
  Not counting the PCIe 5.0 connection from the CPU to the chipset.
  
  The CPU provides the same number of I/O lanes - at the same speed - as AMD's current chips. But the chipset does a lot better than AMD, providing 24 total PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 lanes, against AMD's 870E which uses two chips to provide just 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes.
  
  Oh, and DDR5-8000 memory.

• Why AI is not helpful for coders. (Miguel Gringberg)
  
  Except for simple things like type-ahead, which has gotten a lot better.

  An AI tool can only resemble an intern with anterograde amnesia, which would be a bad kind of intern to have. For every new task this "AI intern" resets back to square one without having learned a thing!

  Until you throw it out the window.
  
  
  
• Facebook's Threads app has a new feature: Spoiler tags. (The Verge)
  
  Straight out of 1996.
  
  
  
• TSMC reports yields of 60% on its new 2nm process node. (WCCFTech)
  
  That's good, by the way. Means 60% of chips fabricated are good enough to use, before harvesting half-good dies for lower-end parts. AMD's 8 core and 6 core parts are identical, but the cheaper 6 core chips allow them to re-use 8 core chips with one or two production flaws.
  

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