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2+4=AMD hybrid Ryzen 7040 APU

Clever mixing of dies creates new APUs.

Meta’s failure is a success

Enormous losses but establishment of association.

Intel Q2 financials beat projections

Sales and income exceeded projections, but at $12.9 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in income, were still down year over year.

Micron’s massive-memory-density HBM

Second-gen HBM brings 1.2TB/s speeds.

Intel releases open-source HPC benchmark

Tests are designed to measure the best hardware/programming model for different use cases.

No bull: Texas Advanced Computing Center ‘Stampedes’ to 10 PFLOPS

Lots of cores, some CPU and some GPU… wish we knew.

Cerebras’ $100 million deal for AI supercomputer

Abu Dhabi to fund project in Santa Clara.

Samsung announces GDDR7

Next-gen high-bandwidth RAM for games, AI, and pro graphics.

Intel nukes NUC, Asus sweeps it up

One person’s trash is another’s gold.

Slow down the sanctions, says SIA

Restrictions could hurt sales with the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act last year.

AI generates infinite number of photorealistic scenes

Could be a boon to game and VR developers.

Nintendo Switch 2s do ray tracing?

Tegra T234, big OLED screen… Mario in the future.