• Samsung is aiming to have its 3nm process in risk production by 2020.  Risk production is the first runs of commercially useful chips to come off a new fabrication process; they have more variability and defects than later chips.  (Anandtech)
  
  Samsung also announced that their ultra-low-power 8nm process will come on line later this year.
  
  
• AMD's beloved Athlon CPUs are back in the form of the Ryzen-based Athlon 200GE.  (PCPer)
  
  The $55 chip is a 2 core / 4 thread part running at 3.2GHz, with 3 Vega CUs (192 shaders) and a 35W TDP.  That's great for a media center system, but for desktop use (and certainly for gaming) you're better off spending $99 for a 4 core / 8 CU Ryzen 2200G.
  
  
• QNAP's TS-332X NAS is a weird beast.  It has three 3.5" drive bays, three M.2 slots - but SATA only - and three ethernet ports, two 1GBase-T and one 10Gbit SFP+.  (Serve the Home)
  
  I don't know who it's for, exactly.  The home market isn't running SFP+ cables and the device is far too small for businesses that would.  And it can't use NVMe drives at all - though three SATA SSDs are enough to saturate a 10Gbit link anyway.
  
  
• Chrome 69 is screwing with URLs.  (ZDNet - warning, autoplays video with fucking audio.  Quit that shit, ZDNet.)
  
  This was a stupid idea when Safari did it, and it's a stupid idea now.

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, September 08 2018 01:38 AM (Q/JG2)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 08 2018 12:53 PM (PiXy!)

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