• Intel announced its new Rocket Lake desktop CPU lineup.  (AnandTech)
  
  They will ship....  Around the middle of March.  Yes, seriously.
  
  
  
• AMD is announcing its own new CPU family.  But the announcement is at 3AM and I'm old and tired and have a work meeting first thing in the morning, so here's the link.
  
  
  
  The last time I intentionally stayed up for something like this was Google I/O hoping for a new generation of Nexus 7.  Boy was that a waste of time.
  
  
  
• Western Digital's new PCIe 4.0 Black SN850 SSDs are twice as fast as their Blue SN550 for twice the price.  (AnandTech)
  
  Or - bear with me here, this is complicated - you could just buy two Blue SN550s.
  
  
  
• Phil Shoemaker, former head of Apple's App Store, gave testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's review of big-tech monopolies.  (iMore)
  
  He said that Apple's policies are arbitrary and deliberately and explicitly anti-competitive, and that Apple consistently violates its own rules when it sees a benefit.
  
  Apple was not happy.
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, October 08 2020 11:48 PM (eqaFC)

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