Monday the 13th of June is a public holiday in Victoria, so there will not be an issue of The Sizzle.
Tesla has finally started taking orders for the Model Y in Australia. Pricing starts at around $74,000 depending on where you live and deliveries are slated for August to November. They're also in Tesla's showrooms if you want a stickybeak before placing down a deposit. Meanwhile, the USA's NHTSA has upgraded its investigation of Autopilot to an "Engineering Analysis" after their preliminary investigation found cause for a deeper look at "the degree to which Autopilot and associated Tesla systems may exacerbate human factors or behavioral safety risks by undermining the effectiveness of the driver's supervision".
Qualcomm's CEO let loose in an interview with CNET that "we're aiming to have performance leadership in PC on the CPU, period" - which implies they're going to jump from their current status as slouch, to overtaking AMD's and Apple's impressive CPUs. The timeline for such a leap is late-2023. Normally you'd laugh at this and carry on with your day, but don't forget that Qualcomm owns Nuvia, which was a startup founded by ex-Apple CPU design chief Gerard Williams, who worked on the A7 to A12 CPUs, who poached a bunch of Apple's senior CPU engineers (much to Apple's disgust) before getting acquired by Qualcomm. Look, it's a slow news day okay, cut me some slack.
AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2022 has a heap of roadmaps showing off what they've got planned for the next year or two. On the desktop there's Zen 5 planned for 2024 using an "advanced node" (4nm-3nm) and a "re-pipelined front end and wide issue" - essentially a whole new architecture (but still based on x86 of course). In the datacentre, Genoa-X based EPYC CPUs will compete with Intel's top end Xeons later this year, delivering up to 96 Zen 4 cores in a single CPU. Finally, AMD's RDNA 3 GPU architecture is coming later this year (aka Radeon RX 7000 series), along with a 50% perf-per-watt improvement as it will be built on TSMC's 5nm process.
Lots of little things in iOS and macOS dropped at WWDC 2022 this week. Here's a round-up of the things I saw that interested me:
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