• Good small Android tablets are thin on the ground.  So how about a $60 6.5" phone?  (AnandTech)
  
  Well, it's only a 1200x540 screen, a quad core 1.3GHz A53, 2GB RAM, and 16GB or 32GB of storage, plus a microSD slot.  And three rear cameras plus a front camera in a teardrop notch.  Android 10 and...  Stuff.
  
  
  
• Crucial has released the P5, a new TLC PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Capacities up to 2TB, speeds up to 3400MB/s on reads, 3000MB/s on writes, which is about as fast as you get on PCIe 3.0.
  
  
  
• Australia may be working towards right-to-repair legislation.  (TechDirt)
  
  Even while it is busy trashing the right to link.
  
  
  
• I thought for a moment that dropping the Staten Island groundhog was local vernacular.  (TechDirt)
  
  New York, New York, it's a wonderful town.
  
  
  
• AMD just kicked Intel in the nuts if they have any.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The third-generation Ryzen 3 parts are out, both 4 core / 8 thread parts that look set to kill the more expensive and as yet unreleased 10th generation Core i3.
  
  
  
• The fossa has focalised.  (Ubuntu)
  
  Ubuntu 20.04, that is.
  
  Don't touch it until July.
  
  
  
• How does it perform, you ask?  (Phoronix)
  
  An average of 20% faster than Blistered Binturong over 200 benchmarks on a 36-core Xeon system.  That's with a new version of GCC as well as the new kernel and everything else.
  
  
  
• A look at the cheapest, lowest endest Epyc processor.  (Serve the Home)
  
  The 7252 is an 8 core processor - four CPU dies with only one active core per CCX.
  
  I wonder if AMD will create more variants with Zen 3, which has a single block of eight cores per die instead of two four core CCXes.  They could probably do any number from 1 to 64 cores right now, but odd distributions would make load balancing tricky.
  
  
  
• Apple is planning a 12-core Arm-based Mac of some sort for next year unless they aren't.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Or possibly a Greek salad.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has launched another flotilla of satellites.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  They are already the largest satellite operator in the world and the gap is growing rapidly.
  
  
  
• Coles fixed their online checkout thingy.  Only now they're out of their great gluten free chickie nuggies.  They have a dozen different gultenated varieties in stock, of course.
  
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, April 24 2020 04:50 AM (Iwkd4)

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