• Surviving traces of dinosaur proteins and DNA may have been found in a fossil.  (Scientific American)
  
  According to - oh.  According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.  So they'll probably make soup out of it.
  
  
  
• The SpaceX Crew Dragon is due for launch next month.  (CNet)
  
  Which is good timing because the Soyuz program has caught Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague.  (Space.com)
  
  
  
• Writing Python in Rust.  (m-ou.se)
  
  I'm not sure this is so much a practical solution as a reductio ad absurdum examination of Rust's macro facilities.
  
  
  
• TSMC's 3nm node will deliver a 70% higher transistor density than 5nm.  (WikiChip)
  
  Nearly 300 million per mm2 which is more than ten times as much as 16nm which I seem to recall was current up to about a week ago.
  
  Compared to 5nm they expect a 10-15% speed increase at constant power or a 25-30% power decrease at constant speed, which is similar to the gains of 5nm over 7nm.
  
  Meanwhile 5nm has entered volume production and 6nm - an upgrade path for existing 7nm designs - is on track for this year.

Posted by: normal at Sunday, April 19 2020 02:11 AM (obo9H)

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