Wednesday, December 03
Daily News Stuff 3 December 2025
None Shall Pass Edition
None Shall Pass Edition
Top Story
- AMD is reportedly planning price hikes to its graphics cards to cover soaring memory costs: An extra $20 for 8GB models and $40 for 16GB models. (Tom's Hardware)
Which is not all that bad.
- AMD has also - reportedly increased prices for its CPUs, which don't contain any DRAM. (Overclock3D)
To add to the mystery, while this increase is supposed to have already happened, nobody seems to know which models are affected or what the increases are. Indeed, the whole thing might just be the end of Black Friday discounts at the distributor level.
Tech News
- The Trump administration is planning to take a $150 million equity stake in startup xLight, which aims to make better EUV lasers to chip production. (WSJ) (archive site)
Current EUV fab equipment uses 13.5nm lasers. xLight is planning to bring that down to just 2nm, which is pretty inarguably an x-ray more than UV light.
This takes money from the 2022 CHIPS Act, which apparently still has $6 billion available to spend on chip fabrication facilities.
- San Francisco is suing ten food companies for producing food. (NBC)
"How very dare you?!", squeaked city attorney David Chiu.
- Bending Spoons is buying Eventbrite for $500 million. (Tech Crunch)
Bending Spoons is assembling quite the collection of has-been companies here, including Evernote, Meetup, Vimeo, and AOL, which you may have heard of.
- Apple has said that it won't pre-install India's mandatory spyware on its phones. (Reuters)
I'm game. We'll see who rusts first.
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Those food companies include some of the really big ones. I've been saying this for a lot of years, but I'll do it again: at least one of them should announce they're obviating the suit by pulling 100% of their products from California stores. Let's see what happens when nobody in California can get a Coke.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, December 03 2025 11:01 PM (1zWbY)
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"they raise a host of privacy and security issues"
I hate language abuse and I wish people would stop saying crap like this. No, it doesn't "raise issues." It threatens privacy and security.
I hate language abuse and I wish people would stop saying crap like this. No, it doesn't "raise issues." It threatens privacy and security.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, December 03 2025 11:07 PM (1zWbY)
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xLight is fairly interesting. Lithography research might be broken down into sources, optics, and material effects. xLight is proposing to work on the source problem by building a particle accelerator. Maybe can be thought of as a really fancy distributed vacuum electronic device (VED). Anyway, I gather they will be installing one at some sort of federal influenced semifab research facility. A lot of the particle accelerator texts are written by physicists, and maybe not directed at some of the questions electrical engineers would find interesting.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, December 04 2025 02:20 AM (rcPLc)
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I find the bizarre habit of suing over perfectly legal things unenticing. If we had a non-mentally-crippled judiciary they would be tossed and censured, and maybe given contempt if they kept trying.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, December 04 2025 07:49 AM (e0fX0)
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