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Loongson revealed two domestically made CPUs for China's mainstream market due to independent research and development, having its IPC matching with Zen 3 and Intel Comet Lake CPUs. View the full article

Listings of Ryzen 8000F Series CPUs with their iGPUs and NPUs disabled appear on Funtech and PC-Canada, with some pricing, ahead of a confirmed global release. View the full article

According to a leak, Huawei's upcoming Kirin processor for PCs will feature next-generation Taishan V130 cores and next-generation graphics. View the full article

AMD's Zen 4-based entry-level EPYC 4004-series processors for the AM5 socket have surfaced on eBay. View the full article

A Gatchapon in Japan has been discovered which dispenses Intel CPUs with an asking price of as little as 500 Yen ($3) with mixed results. The video showcases one curious user on a visit to PC Ones, a computing store located in Osaka, Japan. For just 500 Yen, you're able to crank the handle and instead of a plastic toy, out will pop an Intel processor which may be fully functioning. Now, as you may expect, you're not exactly going to pop in a couple of dollars and receive one of the best processors on the market. The clip showcases that instead of the plastic orb was the Intel Core i7-8700 which is built on the LGA 1151 socket and was released back in 2017. Short of being a novelty, most surprising is the fact that the older i7 processor actually works as the lucky recipient was able to power it on in a makeshift test rig and boot up to the BIOS. You can't really ask for much more out of a CPU when you're spending less than the price of a cup of coffee on one. After some troubleshooting, they were able to install Windows 10 and then engage in some synthetic benchmarking through Cinebench R23 which showed the chip working in a more hampered capacity. While the CPU has six cores and 12 threads, the Task Manager screenshot revealed only five cores to be operational with 10 threads in use, likely from some pre-existing damage. More inventive ways to recycle hardware While this Gatchapon isn't the only quirky vending machine in Japan, or the region for that matter, it goes to show a creative way to dispose of older hardware without just resorting in a landfill. It's not known exactly which chipsets are available in the dispenser, but we're willing to bet that an older i7 or i9 are at the the upper echelon of what's inside. Chances are, when you crank the handle, you could receive an ancient chipset that has no functionality. But that's what Gatchapon is all about, after all. Put in a couple of dollars and you never know what you could win. If you ever find yourself cash-strapped for your next upgrade and you just so happen to be in Japan, you could win yourself a processor which normally sells for around the $200 mark, not too bad a gamble at all. This CPU capsule machine is an exception to what we generally see happen to old hardware which is thrown away, though, and gamifying old gear could be a way to cut down on the amount of silicon we see slung out, especially if there's any chance it could keep on ticking over inside a budget build. US retailers like MicroCenter could learn a thing or two from this operation. You might also like Best cheap processor deals in 2024The fastest CPUs in 2024How to choose the right CPU for you View the full article

Intel issues a state regarding stability issues concerning 13th and 14th Generation CPUs on 600-and 700-series motherboards made by respective manufacturers. View the full article

Intel has launched a new AI processor series for the edge, promising industrial-class deep learning inference. The new ‘Amston Lake’ Atom x7000RE chips offer up to double the cores and twice the higher graphics base frequency as the previous x6000RE series, all neatly packed within a 6W–12W BGA package. The x7000RE series packs more performance into a smaller footprint. Boasting up to eight E-cores it supports LPDDR5/DDR5/DDR4 memory and up to nine PCIe 3.0 lanes, delivering robust multitasking capabilities. Intel says its new processors are designed to withstand challenging conditions, enduring extreme temperature variations, shock, and vibration, and to operate in hard-to-reach locations. They offer 2x SATA Gen 3.2 ports, up to 4x USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, a USB Type-C port, 2.5GbE Ethernet connection, along with Intel Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 5G platform capabilities. Embedded, industrial, and communication The x7000RE series consists of four SKUs, all suitable for embedded, industrial, and communication use under extended temperature conditions. The x7211RE and x7213RE have 2 cores and relatively lower base frequencies, while the x7433RE has 4 cores, and the x7835RE has 8 cores with higher base frequencies. All four SKUs support a GPU execution unit count of either 16 or 32, and Intel's Time Coordinated Computing and Time-Sensitive Networking GbE features. The x7000RE offer integrated Intel UHD Graphics, Intel DL Boost, Intel AVX2 with INT8 support, and OpenVINO toolkit support. Intel says the chips will allow customers to easily deploy deep learning inference at the industrial edge and in smart cities, and “enhance computer vision solutions with built-in AI capabilities and ecosystem-enabled camera modules” as well as “capture power- and cost-efficient performance to enable latency-bounded workloads in robotics and automation.” More from TechRadar Pro Intel bets on a secret weapon to beat AMD in some AI workloadsIntel unveils 288-core Leviathan 5th-gen Xeon CPUIntel could move away from regular CPU releases View the full article

Ampere Computing unveiled its AmpereOne Family of processors last year, boasting up to 192 single-threaded Ampere cores, which was the highest in the industry. These chips, designed for cloud efficiency and performance, were Ampere's first product based on its new custom core leveraging internal IP, signalling a shift in the sector, according to CEO Renée James. At the time of the launch, James said, "Every few decades of compute there has emerged a driving application or use of performance that sets a new bar of what is required of performance. The current driving uses are AI and connected everything combined with our continued use and desire for streaming media. We cannot continue to use power as a proxy for performance in the data center. At Ampere, we design our products to maximize performance at a sustainable power, so we can continue to drive the future of the industry." AmpereOne-3 on its way Jeff Wittich, chief product officer at Ampere, recently spoke with The Next Platform about future generations of AmpereOne. He told the site that an updated chip, with 12 memory channels and an A2 core with improved performance, would be out later this year in keeping with the company's roadmap. This chip, which The Next Platform calls AmpereOne-2, will reportedly have a 33 percent increase in DDR5 memory controllers and up to 50 percent more memory bandwidth. However, what’s coming up beyond that, at some point in 2025, sounds the most exciting. The Next Platform says the third generation chip, AmpereOne-3 as it is calling it, will have 256 cores and be “etched in 3 nanometer (3N to be precise) processes from TSMC”. It will use a modified A2+ core with a “two-chiplet design on the cores, with 128 cores per chiplet. It could be a four-chiplet design with 64 cores per chiplet.” The site expects the AmpereOne-3 will support PCI-Express 6.0 I/O controllers and maybe have a dozen DDR5 memory controllers, although there’s some speculation here. “We have been moving pretty fast on the on the compute side,” Wittich told the site. “This design has got about a lot of other cloud features in it – things around performance management to get the most out of all of those cores. In each of the chip releases, we are going to be making what would generally be considered generational changes in the CPU core. We are adding a lot in every single generation. So you are going to see more performance, a lot more efficiency, a lot more features like security enhancements, which all happen at the microarchitecture level. But we have done a lot to ensure that you get great performance consistency across all of the AmpereOnes. We are also taking a chiplet approach with this 256-core design, which is another step as well. Chiplets are a pretty big part of our overall strategy.” The AmpereOne-3 is reportedly being etched at TSMC right now, prior to its launch next year. More from TechRadar Pro How Ampere Computing plans to ride the AI waveAmpere's new workstation could bring in a whole new dawn for developersPlucky CPU maker beats AMD and Intel to become first to offer 320 cores per server View the full article

China's latest KX-7000 was tested against the Core i5-7500, Core i7-7700K and Ryzen 7 1700X and found to have performance very similar to the i5-7500. View the full article

Zhaoxin, the Chinese tech firm behind CPUs like the Kaixian KX-6000 and KX-7000 series, has announced several important design wins. It says companies including Lenovo, Tsinghua, Ziguang, Ruijie, Honghe, and Seewo have Kaixian-powered devices ready. View the full article

AMD Zen 5's upcoming 2024 release continues getting foreshadowed in AMD Linux patches. View the full article

Next Computing has launched two new flyaway kits that can hold 1U or 2U rack-mount server chassis. These kits are ideal for businesses that need high-performance computing in a portable package. View the full article

In September 2023, Intel unveiled its 288-core Xeon CPU and, at the end of February 2024, began previewing it for the AI processing industry. Given the codename "Sierra Forest", that chip will be available in the second half of this year, while customers will have to wait until next year to get their hands on its more powerful "Granite Rapids" sibling. Intel has now rebranded its Xeon family of processors, replacing the "Xeon Scalable" name, which first hit the market in 2017 with the Xeon Platinum 8100 series, with "Xeon 6.” This new brand will include the all-efficiency (E) Sierra Forest chip and the performance (P) Granite Rapid one. Amplify performance signals The Sierra Forest data center chip is the first with an architecture comprised entirely of efficiency cores (E-cores), designed to deliver boost performance of 5G workloads by 2.7 times per rack, according to Intel. When it arrives, Granite Rapids (with P-cores) will build upon the doubled vRAN workload processing capacity offered by Sapphire Rapids and increase performance even further via Intel AVX and vRAN Boost. Both Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest variants share the same platform (including the chiplet-based design, sockets. memory, and firmware) and thus will use the shared Xeon 6 nomenclature, a move which Intel hopes will make everything clearer for customers. The company says the “evolved” Xeon 6 branding will “tell a united Intel Xeon story,” “Ease customer navigation,” and “Amplify performance signals”. Intel’s existing "Emerald Rapids" 5th-Gen Xeon Scalable Processor models won’t see a rebrand. It has been said with the current-gen Xeon product stack that Intel’s branding can be “more than a little confusing”, and the company obviously feels it’s best to start afresh with the new Xeon 6 brand and focus on making things simpler going forward. More from TechRadar Pro Intel bets on a secret weapon to beat AMD in some AI workloadsIntel unveils 288-core Leviathan 5th-gen Xeon CPUIntel could move away from regular CPU releases View the full article

To alleviate the frustration with instability issues on motherboards using 13th—and 14th-generation Intel CPUs, Asus is taking the first step by providing a setting on a new beta BIOS that uses Intel settings instead of its own. View the full article

A user on the ChipHell forums has posted supposed specs and leaked details of AMD's upcoming Strix Halo mobile APU, boasting 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, LPDDR5X memory, and more GPU cores than AMD's RX 7600 XT. View the full article

EKWB launches waterblock for custom cooling system for delidded AM5 CPUs, including X3D CPUs. View the full article

A leak has revealed that Intel is planning two new Xeon 6 CPUs boasting a whopping 500W TDP rating, one with just P-cores and the other featuring E-cores only. The P-core model will have 128 cores while the E-core variant will come with 288 cores. View the full article

Huaxia Chip was a rising star among China’s original computer processor intellectual property (IP) designers. However, despite the voracious appetite for all-things IT, the company is now bankrupt and will be liquidated. View the full article

An x86 boot sector Ray Tracer, inspired by Ray Tracer for Atari 8-bit Basic, brings some real-time RT rendering to 90s-era hardware. View the full article

Microsoft fixes a bug preventing PCs with specific Intel drivers from using Windows 11 without crashes and allows affected PCs to upgrade from Windows 10. View the full article

As the presidential election race heats up, Republican lawmakers criticize Biden administration export decisions. View the full article

MSI has published new BIOS updates featuring AMD's latest AGESA 1.1.7.0 firmware update, incorporating "next-gen" CPU support for its upcoming Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPUs. View the full article

Western Digital has created a new travel luggage carry case with 368TB of high-speed NVMe SSD storage with an Ice Lake server. View the full article

It was expected that Intel's LGA1851 socket would house the tech giant’s next-gen Arrow Lake chips, but for now it seems the company might have another use for it. At the recent Embedded World conference, Intel unveiled its Meteor Lake-PS architecture for edge systems, the first Core Ultra processor on an LGA socket. The new SoC design, which integrates the Intel Arc GPU and a neural processing unit, is aimed at enabling generative AI and handling demanding graphics workloads for sectors such as retail, education, smart cities, and industry. Ultra low TDP Intel says its Core Ultra processors offer up to 5.02x superior image classification inference performance compared to the 14th Gen Core desktop processors. Applications for the PS series include GenAI-enabled kiosks and smart point-of-sale systems in physical retail stores, interactive whiteboards for advanced classroom experiences, and AI vision-enhanced industrial devices for manufacturing and roadside units. The new chips are designed with low-power, always-on usage scenarios in mind. This is evident from the fact that none of these chips have a Thermal Design Power higher than 65W. There’s even a low-power version with a 15W rating (12-28 configurable TDP). Intel says “Moving away from the conventional setup where Intel Core desktop processors are combined with discrete GPUs, the PS series of Intel Core Ultra processors introduce an innovative integration of GPU and AI Boost functionalities directly within the processors, alongside the flexible LGA socket configuration. Offering four times the number of graphics execution units (EUs) compared to their predecessors in the S or desktop series, these processors deliver a powerful alternative for handling AI and graphics-heavy tasks. This design not only negates the necessity for an additional discrete GPU, thereby lowering costs and simplifying the overall design process, it also positions these processors as the go-to solution for those prioritizing efficiency alongside enhanced performance.” The desktop LGA1851 socket can support 5600MHz DDR5 memory, two PCIe Gen4 SSDs, and four Thunderbolt 4 devices. There is a notable absence of chipset support for Thunderbolt 5, Wi-Fi 7, and PCIe Gen5, however. The new desktop Intel Meteor Lake chips are not expected to be available until the fourth quarter of 2024. This timeline also coincides with the expected launch of Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, according to the latest industry rumors. More from TechRadar Pro Intel has a sneaky plan to sell 100 million Core Ultra PCs by 2025Edge computing spending set to skyrocket as AI takes hold9W Core Ultra U7-164U is probably Intel's most interesting laptop processor View the full article

EKWB has developed a brand new AIO specifically for delidded LGA-1700 coolers. The new cooler was designed specifically for the flood of new PC users that are delidding Intel's latest 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Core CPUs. View the full article