• Intel has entered "risk production" on its new 18A process.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's 18 angstroms - 1.8 nanometers - in case you were wondering.  Though it's just marketing; nothing about the process measures 18 angstroms.
  
  Risk production is when a new process seems to work, but nobody has used it in volume yet.  Hence the risk.
  
  Intel cancelled its planed 20A process, so this will be the first time we see new features like gate-all-around transistors from them.

• ARM plans to grow its datacenter market share from 15% to 50%.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This year.
  
  Which is comical.
  
  
  
• The 13 laws of software engineering.  (Manager.dev)
  
  Most of them apply to other schools of engineering as well.
  
  
  
• A judge has blocked Arkansas' online age verification law for infringing on free speech and being overbroad.  (Engadget)
  
  Such laws are not intrinsically bad, but in the US they must thread the needle of the Bill of Rights.  So far all have failed.
  
  In Australia we just got a similar law.  Nobody has yet said how it will be enforced.  Obviously it will infringe on free speech, but the government thinks that's just great and the main opposition party doesn't think it goes far enough.

• OpenAI has raised another $40 billion in funding, valuing the company at $300 billion.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  And claims that the service is used by 500 million people each week, which I rather doubt, unless they're counting everyone who uses a service that uses OpenAI in some way.
  
  So I guess we're not going to be rid of them any time soon.

• Micron is planning to increase memory prices, though it's not saying by how much or when.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a cyclical business, and the past couple of cycles killed off most of the major manufacturers, so I'm not going to object to them making money while there is money to be made.
  
  
  
• AI copilots are not a silver bullet.  (M Lagerberg)
  
  Though AI translation software seems much closer.  I didn't realise this post was translated from Dutch until I saw the notice at the bottom.
  
  The revolution vs. evolution bit wasn't anything special, though: The words are almost the same in Dutch and the translator only needed to adjust the spelling.
  
  
  
• Intel is planning to spin off its non-core assets.  (Thurrott)
  
  Though precisely what those are varies from day to day.
  
  
  

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