- Sugar, spice and everything nice.
Those are the ingredients needed for a healthy dose
of tech news, James.
(slurps) Mmm.
Needs a little eye of newt.
- [James] (laughs) Hey, mister.
- Samsung and TSMC are planning a price hike
on their semiconductors in the coming years.
- [James] Collusion?
- (giggles) Straight to jail.
A push that will see costs increased
by as much as five to 20% by 2023.
The move will see the chip giants share the costs
with consumers amidst a rising tide of inflation
during a global supply chain crisis.
Hey, who said sharing isn't caring?
That means they love us.
TSMC has already seen its chip prices rise by 20% last year,
and will look to add five to 8% on top of that by 2023,
while Samsung plans to add about 15 to 20%.
(sighs) Samsung and TSMC account for more than two thirds
of global chip production.
And with manufacturing costs
rising by an average of 30% across the board,
the semiconductor giants are no doubt
trying to flex their market leverage
in order to turn a profit.
Which would seem totally respectable
in a capitalist system.
They gotta feed their kids.
- [James] I enjoy a good flex.
- If Samsung's Foundry hadn't just reported its highest ever
first quarter profit in 2022.
(sighs) It's like my grandmommy says,
"If you wanna play in the park,
you gotta pay the piper's precious price."
- [James] Oh, my grandma, Priscilla.
- Qualcomm has announced its Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1,
the successor to last year's 8 Gen 1, no plus.
Now with 100% more plus. - To the max.
- (laughs) That would've been way better.
Gen 1 Max!
- Qualcomm claims 10% faster CPU performance,
10% faster GPU clock speed and 30% more efficiency
on the CPU and GPU.
While only in iterative upgrade,
the 8 Plus Gen 1 claims it can offer an average of one hour
of extra gaming time over last year's offering.
So you can ignore your family and friends
for just a little while longer.
- In this economy. - Peace. What?
- [James] You need that.
- (giggles) The chip maintains
its four nanometer architecture,
though Qualcomm has swapped Foundries this time around,
like a jilted lover, opting for TSMC's design
instead of Samsung's.
Hell has no fury like a Foundry scorn, watch out.
- [James] Literal magma.
- Qualcomm's decision to jump ship to TSMC
is reportedly due to their attempts to diversify its sources
opting to not put all of their eggs in one basket.
Who puts their eggs in a basket anyway?
Mine come in a bag. - And they're very
heavily binned.
- Canada has finally decided to ban Huawei equipment
from their 5G networks,
amid growing concerns of cyber espionage
by the Chinese government.
The true north strong and free
has exercised some of that freedom
by disallowing wireless carriers from obtaining
any new 5G or 4G equipment by September of this year
and must remove all Huawei equipment from their networks
by June 28th, 2024.
- [James] See you on Craigslist.
- (giggles) The government is also placing a ban on ZTE,
another Chinese owned telecoms company,
citing security concerns.
Telecoms will be given a period of grace,
which is a great word to use
when speaking about cyber warfare and security,
up until December 31st, 2027 to remove all 4G equipment.
- [James] (blows raspberry) That's way past the apocalypse.
- (laughs) We're gonna be dead by then.
In banning Huawei equipment,
Canada joins America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand,
also known as The Five Eyes Alliance,
which is an intelligent sharing organization.
And surprisingly, not a justice league spinoff team.
- [James] The Five Eyes.
- You hear that guys?
It's our way or the Huawei. (giggles)
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- [James] Needs more eye of newt.
- Look, Newton and Einstein were smart,
but did they have any quick bits?
Probably not.
They probably didn't even have.
They probably didn't even have any.
- [James] Not even slow bits.
- Framework's fully modular repair friendly laptop
has just been updated to Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs.
The laptop is available as a DIY kit
for those of you who are into adult Legos,
or as a pre-built configuration
if laziness is your greatest virtue.
- [James] An S on Lego?
- Legos. Oh, I stepped on some Legos ouchie.
You can also bring existing components
over from a previous model,
which is great if you're into right to repair
and saving the whales.
That's one less ram stick inside of a dolphin's blow hole.
- [James] They support quad-channel.
- That's bad image.
Pebble's Smart Watch co-founder Eric Migicovsky
wants to make small Android phones great again.
Thank you.
He's launched smallandroidphone.com, makes sense.
An attempt to rally the small phone enthusiasts
in an effort to put pressure
on the likes of Google or Samsung or anybody really,
to help produce a premium small phone.
There's nothing wrong with having a small phone.
Everybody at my gym tells me my phone
is completely average-sized.
I don't appreciate it.
The ethical hackers competition Pwn2Own
is happening this week and there's been a healthy dose
of both pwning and owning taking place.
So far, the talented cybersecurity competitors
have showcased their skills in exploiting
and cracking different software.
With Microsoft taking the brunt of a bad first day.
Windows 11 was breached twice,
while Microsoft Teams was penetrated three times.
- Yeah! - Stop it.
The highest reported bounty came in at a staggering
$150,000, mamma mia.
And that's why you never leave your windows
unlocked at night.
You never know who's lurking with a step ladder
or a stable wifi connection.
HP's new Spectre x360 has launched today
and HP has gone Intel all the way.
The Premium and Spectre line,
which previously came coupled
with an Iris or Nvidia offering in the graphics department
has now become the first laptops to bring Intel's Arc A370M
to any market outside of South Korea.
That's right.
The Arc is no longer just a meme.
For the Arc of history is long,
but it bends towards justice.
And Amazon's trying a new approach
on marketing its new sci-fi series, "Night Sky".
The company has asserted that earthbound shows
are just too passe and has decided to beam
the first episode of its new show to infinity and beyond.
Where aliens can finally enjoy
some quality human entertainment.
From the most middling streaming service.
- [James] Yay, space noise.
- The signal will be broadcast at ranges
of 384,000 kilometers away from the earth,
so you're unlikely to receive the broadcast on Kepler-7,
but it's a heartwarming change
from the usual frigid emptiness
and endless despair of space.
- [James] They got it good out there.
- No, they're probably sad.
And don't despair just because this episode is over
because there'll be more on Monday.
So make sure to book your flights back from Nebulon-9,
the long weekend is busy. Trust me.
And you gotta go through the slime airlock.
- Get outta here. - (slurps) No!