Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, June 5th, 2018. Today, Intel releases some anniversary chips.

Why WhatsApp and Facebook had a falling out, follow-ups

from W.W.C. and analysis of that GitHub acquisition, and some scientists have purposely created a psychopathic AI.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. This year 2018 marks Intel's 50th anniversary as a company, but also the 40th anniversary of the

8086 processor, the 40th anniversary of the 8086 processor,

the granddaddy of the X86 architecture

that basically laid the foundation for the modern computing era.

And to mark both of those occasions Intel today announced the core

i7 8086 k a limited edition processor that will launch June 8th the exact

anniversary of the 80-86's original release.

This new 8th generation chip can achieve 50 gigahertz in turbo and has a default 4-Gagert's clock speed. No word yet on pricing.

And perhaps feeling the heat from AMD and Qualcomm at its Computex keynote in Taiwan earlier today.

Intel also teased a single pocket processor with a whopping 28 cores that will run at 5

gigaher.

Compare that to AMD's thread ripper processor which has 16 cores and 32 threads.

No word on pricing for this chip either, but Intel says it will debut in the fourth quarter of this year.

Other items teased today include the new Whiskey Lake processors, which will make use of Intel's

14 nanometer technology and are intended for thin and light laptops.

And the Amber Lake Chip series that will also be 14 nanometer and are intended for ultra-altra lightweight laptops and tablets.

A couple of details from yesterday's W.W.C.

keynote that fell through the cracks

and I wanted to bring up here.

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