Technology

Surprising no one, it turns out that the next generation iPhone will put an even bigger performance gap between itself and the rest of the industry, as TSMC begins mass production of powerful 7-nanometer A12 chips for use in Applenext-generation iPhones.

Smaller is better

TSMC announced volume production of 7-nanometer chips in April 2018 but did not say who it was producing these processors for. Bloombergclaims those chips are Apple&s.

Why does this matter

Itlike this -- a nanometer is one billionth of a meter. In chip design it represents the distance between the transistors that comprise the processor.

Pilot fish gets a new job where one of her first assignments is to design a database-oriented application.

"I'm not permitted to create any tables or keys," says fish. "I have to submit it to our database admin, who will take care of it when he gets around to it.

"I soon learn that, at this company, they spell DBA G-O-D."

Fish sends DBA her tables, their links and recommended indexes. DBA accepts the table design, but tells fish that the data will be indexed by first, middle and then last name.

That won't work, fish tells him; the lookup key is by last name. But the boss sides with the DBA. And predictably, the application's response times are B-A-D.