• A team at MIT has built transistors just 2.5nm wide using modifications of existing fabrication techniques.
  
  That latter part is significant, because it means this approach could potentially see industry adoption.  Many of the smallest / fastest / whateverest transistor records in the past have been built using techniques that don't scale at all.
  
  
• Silicon valley?  Ethos?  Hahahahahaha... <wheeze>  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• AMD CEO Lisa Su will be using her CES keynote on January 9 to launch the Ryzen 3000 CPUs and APUs and new Radeon graphics cards unless she doesnt.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Patches to support Zen 2 have been landing in the Linux kernel so AMD is clearly gearing up to launch something.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  As previously noted, there are two completely separate families of Ryzen 3000 parts on completely different processes and launch schedules, so AMD could well launch Ryzen 3000 at CES, just not 7nm.
  
  
• MIPS is going open source and royalty free.  (Phoronix)
  
  Not quite yet, but details to follow in Q1 2019.  This is likely a smart move given Arm's dominance of the sector and the interest in RISC-V.

• I linked to an Engadget story yesterday about Facebook banning a social media research company for what the company claims was research into how false media narratives propagate on social networks and what Facebook describes as, and I quote, "some seriously shady-ass fucking shit".
  
  This report from Tim Pool suggests that Facebook may have been right on this one and caught them with their red hands in the cookie jar.
  
  
  
  They were allegedly not only posting fake news during the Alabama elections, but presenting fake reports of Russian fake news efforts.
  
  It's mock turtles all the way down.

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