• Shopify is laying off 20% of its staff and selling its warehouse automation division.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Strongest economy ever, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
  
  
  
• LinkedIn meanwhile is laying off 700 staff and closing its Chinese app, InCareer.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  That second part only makes sense.  Operating an online network in China is vastly more trouble than it's worth.

• AMD's Ryzen Z1 is more than a rebadged laptop CPU.  (PC World)
  
  No it's not.  A rebadged laptop CPU is precisely what the Z1 is.  Everything from the Z1 through to the 7940HS uses the same chip design from the same factory.
  
  
  
• The Occamy CPU from SiPearl features 432 RISC-V CPU cores and delivers 0.75 DP TFLOPs.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's designed for space applications, though it's not clear if it's specifically radiation-resistant like the silicon-on-sapphire devices HP used to make, or just more robust because it's built on an older 14nm process.
  
  Either way, it's kind of the 100 chicken-sized horses or one horse-sized chicken question.  What do you do with an enormous number of relatively slow CPUs?
  
  
  
• Ink is React for building command-line interfaces.  (GitHub)
  
  Kill it with fire.
  
  
  

Posted by: normal at Tuesday, May 09 2023 09:11 PM (obo9H)

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