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Wednesday, August 06

Daily News Stuff 6 August 2025

Solar Edition

Intel is reportedly struggling with yields on its latest 18A (1.8nm) process. (Reuters) (archive site)

Intel has said it plans to use this process for consumer chips, but that could prove difficult if yield really are bad.
Meanwhile the US government has reportedly asked TSMC to buy 49% of Intel in return for tariff relief. (Notebook Check)

Well, that's one way to fix things, I guess.

Sandisk has announced a 256TB enterprise QLC SSD. (Tom's Hardware)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
The CEO of GitHub says programmers must eithe embrace AI or quit. (FinalRound)

How nice that he gives us the option.
As programmer usage of AI grows, trust across all platforms continues to decline. (Ars Technica)

As users grow more familiar what it has to offer, satisfaction has slid from 40% last year to 29% now.
PCI-SIG has announced plans for PCIe 8.0, which will be twice as fast as PCIe 7.0. (Liliputing)

A full PCIe 8.0 x16 slow will offer 1TB per second of bandwidth, which used to be a lot.

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