• Apple plans to invest $500 billion to expand operations in the US, hire an additional 20,000 staff, and start building servers in Texas.  (The Verge)
  
  Servers?
  
  Apparently just for internal use.
  
  
  

Tech News

• AMD announced six new Ryzen 5000G-series CPUs.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They seem to be identical to the six existing Ryzen 5000G-series CPUs, so I'm not sure why.
  
  
  
• Intel's 6700P server CPUs are here, starting at $2700 for 32 cores.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's not particularly cheap, but these chips have 136 lanes of PCIe 5, so if you need a ton of I/O bandwidth it's not so bad.
  
  In fact, there's a 6500P model starting at $815 for 16 cores which has the same 136 lanes of PCIe 5, which is a good price for a bandwidth-intensive application.
  
  
  
• Stupid people are spamming the reply address to the "five things you did last week" email.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  If you have a .gov email, that's a very bad idea.
  
  If you don't have a .gov email, you ended up in the spam folder.
  
  Good work.
  
  
  
• Dutch technology startup Bird is abandoning Europe because it is an over-taxed, over-regulated nightmare state.  (Reuters)  (archive site)
  
  And moving to...  New York?