death taxes and tech news
the new album from the guy that brought you brian the electrician that's a
banger let's hear it play it our favorite
electronics have been pretty expensive for a while now so let's have some
positive news okay the u.s federal government has lifted some tariffs on
goods from china specifically pcbs so
the hope is that products like motherboards will see price drops in the
near future yes the import taxes range
anywhere from an additional 7.5 to 25 percent so this will definitely make
things easier on manufacturers and hopefully they'll pass some of those
savings along to us by us we mean the americans
we're fine we're not we're all suffering as far as whether graphics card prices
will also drop that's a bit harder to predict across the board due to high
demand but ASUS is announcing that it's dropping its graphics card prices by up
to 25 percent starting on april first
no no you would think so that would be really
bad for them it's not a good luck guys horrible timing unfortunately there
still looks to be some not great news further out on the horizon for the
entire chip industry according to a report out of taiwan it's expected that
fabs will have to pay over 200 bucks for a 12-inch silicon wafer by 2024 the
highest price on record it's just going to equal out i guess this marks an
increase of 20 to 25 over current levels and to make matters worse most fabs have
multi-year contracts with wafer makers meaning if some company needs extra to
keep up with demand looking at you NVIDIA you are so
they just keep putting them out thirsty for wafers slurping them up they're
going to be rather hard to obtain the good news is that the big wafer makers
are planning to expand capacity and wafer costs aren't typically the biggest
driver of how much you the user ends up paying at the store but i'm still not
too keen on spending an extra five bucks that i could have spent on actual wafers
you know or horse armor
in elden ring did they even have it
it wouldn't help horses i can't say i'm too surprised but apple is reportedly
cutting down production of the new iphone se in fact the company is
planning to cut production next quarter by a full one fifth iphone slash edition
i'd buy it apple is still expected to ship as many as 20 million of the lower
end iphones this year but this is a lower number than apple was hoping for
oh poor apple low demand and not the chip
shortage is apparently the culprit marking the latest example of consumers
simply not being all that excited about lower end iphones because they're
jewelry this is it's simple remember what happened with the iphone 5c i got
it from our dean's what is that claire's
at the mall there's also the price increase of 30
over the previous iphone se that's not helping at all especially when the
iphone 13 mini is also positioned as apple's main mid-range product right now
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techlinked come on get smart quick bits are the little things in the
sky you can see on a clear moonless night
riley a new ipad pro is on its way and
unsurprisingly this one is expected to feature the new m2 chip oh the new new
the new you know that new new the news comes from well-known apple insider mark
german who expects the latest iteration of the tablet to come out this fall the
upcoming ipad pro is also expected to support magsafe so you can mount it to
one of your car vents if you want a nice big picture to help you drive in your
field well if you didn't want to use the one in the
tesla if you get that one terabyte version then you got like a 2 000 gps
and some news about AMD's m4 chips i hope you've got a hefty cooler at the
ready as a recent leak indicates the upper tier ryzen 9 7950x will have a
whopping TDP of 170 watts that's a lot
of watts have you ever seen that many watts a huge increase over the 5950x is
105 watts what unsurprisingly this would be a 16 core
processor but that's a high TDP even considering the core count so maybe
don't pair it with a 20 air cooler
unless you want to burn your house down for
points moscow based cyber security and
antivirus provider kaspersky is now ironically on the fcc's security threat
list i didn't know there were companies who were moscow based
not anymore you wouldn't know it it isn't super surprising given that
founder eugene kaspersky is suspected of being connected to russian intelligence
and kaspersky products were already banned from us government networks but
it does make kaspersky the first russian company to be added to the list which
includes chinese companies suspected of government entanglement like huawei and
zte american companies on the other hand they don't speak to the government at
all they barely know anything about each other they don't go to luncheons they
just give you a red envelope slide it under the table
if you paid for icloud in late 2015 or late 2016 congratulations there's a
class action settlement that came out of a lawsuit alleging that apple improperly
handled icloud data so not congratulations i got 25 cents coming to
me you got manipulated but
some coins payouts won't be going out until at least late 2022 and we're not
sure exactly how much they'll be but you should at least be able to you know pay
for a couple months of apple tv plus if that's
honestly severance though apparently it's good should we cover it
on our podcast they're just movies or with a little bit of money you could
also buy a game on apple's first ever game console the pippin oh that's right
they already have one uh nothing is confirmed yet but apple is consulting
with developers like capcom and ubisoft as well as folks in the hardware
industry to see if they can get one off of the ground off of the ground hovering
this follows earlier reports of apple poaching engineers from microsoft for
the same purpose or maybe for a hilarious prank there's no console we
hired you for nothing you don't have a job and we're not
playing when we say that you better come back on wednesday for more tech news
because there's going to be more baby and maybe even james will be here maybe
let's call it the apple gaming console we're not talking about that anymore the episode's over no more techniques no