• AMD is reportedly preparing Ryzen 9000G desktop processors.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These will be repurposed laptop chips just like previous G-series CPUs.  The difference is that these will offer up to twelve Zen 5 cores (or more specifically four Zen 5 cores and eight of the slower Zen 5c cores) plus up to 16 GPU cores.
  
  And up to 256GB of RAM, since they are after all desktop chips and that's how much you can put in a regular desktop system these days.
  
  Judging by the prices of the laptops though I expect the top models to be expensive.

• Samsung plans to enter full production with its own 2nm process node in the second half of this year.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Now they just need to find customers.
  
  
  
• Microsoft's profits grew by 18% in the latest quarter, buoyed by rising sales of its key product, Slurm.  (AP News)
  
  It has electrolytes.
  
  
  
• Google is spending $10 million to train 100,000 new electricians.  (Yahoo)
  
  Yeah, I don't think that's quite enough, guys.
  
  
  
• The Minisforum N5 Pro is a NAS.  (Liliputing)
  
  It has the familiar twelve core Ryzen 370 and supports five SATA drives and three NVMe drives.
  
  And OCuLink, without which it would be able to support five NVMe drives, and which is kind of useless in a device like this.
  
  
  
• Moved my Minecraft server from a VirtualBox VM on my laptop to an LXC container on my server.  I expected to see some improvement: They're both Zen 3 cores, but the server is a full desktop system rather than a low-power laptop.
  
  It's four times as fast, which I was not expecting.
  
  I'm not sure why it is so fast, or more accurately, why my laptop is so slow.  I'll play around and see if I can work out what is going on there but I am not unhappy with the outcome.

Posted by: cxt217 at Friday, May 02 2025 08:16 AM (ZLF73)

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