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Phison's new software uses SSDs and DRAM to boost effective memory for AI training
By Paul Alcorn published
Phison claims this is the world's first workstation that can run a 70B Llama 2 model.
Working PCIe 6.0 connectivity demoed by Astera Labs
By Paul Alcorn published
Astera Labs demoed working PCIe 6.0 connectivity using its Aries retimers that power Nvidia GPU platforms, among others.
Meteor Lake-PS CPUs will be the first chips to use Intel's LGA1851 socket
By Zhiye Liu published
iBase MI1002 motherboard will sport Intel's LGA1851 socket, with support for the Core Ultra Meteor Lake-PS processors.
China blocks Intel and AMD CPUs for government offices and servers
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
China would replace AMD and Intel-made CPUS with home-made options from Loongson and Phytium.
Leak suggests AMD's upcoming 'Turin' Zen 5 CPUs will support 4TB of RAM at 6000 MT/s
By Christopher Harper published
A leaked Socket SP5 motherboard spec sheet reveals faster memory bandwidth for upcoming Zen 5-based Epyc "Turin" CPUs.
Unlike Apple's chips, Qualcomm's X Elite Arm CPU will run Windows games just fine using x64 emulation — native ARM64 code will give best performance
By Christopher Harper published
Qualcomm, in a victory for Arm CPU architecture and especially itself, point toward competent gaming performance in x86 applications on its upcoming X Elite-based laptops.
AMD debuts China-only Ryzens at AI summit — Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F ditch the iGPU
By Mark Tyson published
Yesterday at the AMD Beijing AI PC Innovation Summit, the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F iGPU-less processors were quietly revealed.
New chip flaw hits Apple Silicon and steals cryptographic keys from system cache
By Aaron Klotz published
Researchers have discovered a serious security vulnerability in all current Apple silicon that puts sensitive cryptographic keys at risk of being stolen while being housed inside the CPU cache.
A new generation of Ryzen processors codenamed 'Strix Point' will be released in 2024
By Mark Tyson published
At an event in China earlier today AMD shared its AI PC ecosystem plans confirming 'Strix Point' chips will combine the charms of Zen 5, RDNA 3+, and XDNA 2 processing.
AMD's Zen 2 FPU for PlayStation 5 is 35% smaller than a Ryzen 7 3800X but sacrifices nothing in terms of gaming performance
By Aaron Klotz published
It has been discovered that AMD was able to shrink Sony's custom PS5 Zen 2 FPU by 35% compared to normal Ryzen CPUs by chopping off parts of the CPU that aren't needed for gaming.
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