Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, May 11th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, it's new Chip Day. Intel unveils its 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake H10 nanometer chips, while

Invidia unveils the RTX 3050 and 3050 TI laptop

GPUs, so expect a whole bunch of laptop lines to be refreshed soon, and oh look at that,

the Dell XPS lineup already has been.

Also details on the next-gen PlayStation VR hardware and an argument that Apple's recent

privacy moves are a naked and ugly power play that could harm the open web.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. I guess it's Big Chip News Day once again because first

of all Intel has unveiled its 11th Gen core Tiger Lake H 10 nanometer mobile processors for high

performance desktop and gaming with five consumer chips and five commercial ones, quoting

Anantec.

While users might be accustomed to seeing a wide array of Intel processors, each differing

by the smallest of margins, today's launch has only five models for consumers and another

five for commercial systems.

At the heart are Intel's latest Willow Cove processor cores with 1.25 megabytes of exclusive

L2 cash and up to 3 megabytes of shared L3 cache per core along with Intel's

latest GLP graphics. These all start at six cores and 12 threads and offer up to

5 gigahertz single core turbo for the most expensive models.

The most premium model is the Core I9 1199 11980 HK, which looks more akin to a desktop processor.

Intel has the 8 core part rated at 2.6 gigahertz for 45 watts

but also lists a base frequency of 3.3 gigahertz for 65 watts.

What makes this processor special compared to the others is that it can also be

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