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RSSIntel quietly confirms Raptor Lake Next CPUs through internal driver publication
An internal driver and a shipping manifest reveal that Intel's desktop Raptor Lake Next parts may be on the way right now.
Intel "Raptor Lake Next" 16-Core and 20-Core CPUs Surface
Intel is actively planning the "Raptor Lake Next" chips as an update to its Socket LGA-1700 desktop processors. These chips are essential for PC buyers who are limited to the decade-old DDR4 memory standard due to the high prices of DDR5 memory, especially since the current Core Ultra "Arrow Lake" processors do not…
28-Core Intel Nova Lake-S CPU Shows Promising Performance Boost in Leaked Benchmark
It looks as though the upcoming Intel Nova Lake-S CPU family will launch soon, headed-up by a 28-core Core Ultra 9 CPU. A new PassMark benchmark spotted by VideoCardz now purports to show expected performance of that 28-core Nova Lake-S CPU in two separate benchmark runs. The CPU, which is listed as "Nova Lake Client…
Intel Core Ultra 4000 Nova Lake-S leak: 24-core CPU beats Core Ultra 9 285K in single-thread test.
The highest result attributed to a 24-core Nova Lake-S processor reaches 5,210 points in the single-thread test, followed by another submission scoring 5,191 points. For comparison, we selected baselines from existing processors with overall CPU Mark scores close to their published PassMark Averages. The Core Ultra 9…
PlayStation Handheld May Be Only Portable Console With RDNA 5
It has long been rumored that Sony is working on a PlayStation 6 handheld with a powerful AMD APU codenamed Canis, which has been alleged to feature a combination of Zen 6 CPU cores—potentially with all-new Zen 6 LP cores—and RDNA 5 tech for the iGPU. Now, according to Richard Leadbetter on episode 287 of the Digital…
Intel explores potential collaboration with AMD as Lip-Bu Tan pushes customer-focused turnaround
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has reportedly discussed potential areas of cooperation with AMD chief Lisa Su as Intel works to rebuild its CPU business and expand its foundry operations. The companies have already collaborated on x86 standards and CPU software, including AMD’s integration of its ZenDNN optimizations into…
Leaked 256-core Zen 6c EPYC CPU destroys Zen 5 in early single-threaded benchmarks hints at 24% IPC gain
A benchmark leak and a direct clock-matched comparison from an enthusiast seed the idea that Zen 6 may come with a decent IPC bump as well as increased clocks.
Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUs
Nouveau-DKMS is in development as an out-of-tree spin-off of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver focused on providing better support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" series graphics processors and potentially other generations too pre-Turing where the modern Nova driver is in development by NVIDIA...
Intel APX Support Lands in Windows 11 Ahead of "Nova Lake" Launch
Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) are officially supported on Windows 11 PCs. However, there are currently no consumer PCs capable of utilizing APX. Intel's APX is set to debut with the "Nova Lake" processors in early 2027, but software development has been ongoing to ensure new features are ready before…
Server CPUs to grow 30% in 2026 and 40% in 2027
Server CPU shipments are projected to increase 31% YoY in 2026. In 2027, continued growth in AI inference demand and rising adoption of agentic AI services are expected to drive […] The post Server CPUs to grow 30% in 2026 and 40% in 2027 appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
LattePanda Launches LattePanda Sigma 2: The Embeddable AI Single Board Server
The LattePanda Team today launched LattePanda Sigma 2, an x86 single-board server designed to bring high-performance local AI computing directly into intelligent products and systems. Built around the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H processor with Intel Arc B390 graphics, LattePanda Sigma 2 delivers up to 180 TOPS of total…
OpenAI's isolated red-team agents built a hidden CPU cache channel to talk with no network or shared files
OpenAI’s red-team agents passed hidden messages through the CPU cache, a covert trick already shown to move data between cloud VMs.
AMD 600 Series Chipsets Now Have Temperature Monitoring Support On Linux
With the Linux 7.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to the v7.2 and v7.3 series is finally the ability to monitor temperature sensors on AMD 600 Series chipsets that launched alongside the Ryzen 7000 series processors...
AMD FSR 4.1.2 Modded to Run on Intel Arc GPUs Leveraging XMX Cores
OptiScaler is a community-driven project that seeks to bring the benefits of upscaling and frame-generation across brands of GPUs, so gamers don't miss out on playability if the game doesn't feature the upscaler/frame-gen tech provided by their GPU vendor. The community successfully modded AMD FSR 4.1.2 to work on…
AMD Zen 6 (6c) delivers huge single-threaded gains in Geekbench 7, up to 25.7% single-threaded gains over Zen 5 with its new Zen 6c cores
AMD Lists Three Zen 6 "Medusa" GPU IDs in HIPRT 3.2
AMD has published HIPRT 3.2, the latest version of its ray tracing library for HIP, and the release notes name the integrated graphics of its upcoming Zen 6 "Medusa" processors outright. Under new features, AMD lists Medusa support for three GPU architecture IDs: gfx1170, gfx1171, and gfx115E. HIPRT is mostly used by…
MSI Launches MPG COREFROZR AP15 CPU Cooler with Integrated Dispay
MSI has launched the MPG COREFROZR AP15, its first air cooler with an integrated display built into the top cover. The cooler uses a dual-tower design with asymmetric tower widths, six 6 mm copper heat pipes, and a copper base. The DIGI-DISPLAY top cover module connects via magnetic POGO-PIN contacts and MSI's EZ Conn…
Bazzite Linux Gets New Handheld PC Support With ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 and Acer Predator Atlas
The launch of Valve's Steam Deck ignited a renewed interest in both Linux gaming and handheld x86 gaming PCs, and that push has resulted in accelerated development for projects like Bazzite. In a recent post, Bazzite developer, Andy East, aka Andy10115 online, has announced preliminary hardware support for both the…
Most Read – xMCUs, NVHBM base dies, Qualcomm layoffs
Google and Synaptics launching an xMCU, datacentre CPU growth outpacing GPUs and ASICs, and Microsoft pulling out of Nscale's UK datacentre project... The post Most Read – xMCUs, NVHBM base dies, Qualcomm layoffs appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
Toward Open ISA Supercomputing: A Comparative Study of RISC-V, Arm, and x86 Architectures on HPC Workloads
RISC-V is emerging as a candidate architecture for high-performance computing (HPC), but its competitiveness against established x86 and Arm processors remains difficult to assess because existing studies use different platforms, workloads, and methodologies, and rarely consider energy efficiency. Our work provides an…
Automated Multi-Line Bug Repair Using Model Checker Aided LLMs: A Case Study on RISC-V Processors
Functional verification of Register-Transfer Level(RTL) designs has become a critical bottleneck in modern semiconductor development, often consuming the majority of project resources. Debugging, in particular, remains an especially time-consuming task, requiring careful analysis of simulation traces or…
Linux 7.4 Fixes AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer
As a follow-up to the article in September about a Linux patch for fixing under-reported AMD Zen 5 TLB sizes, that work is now merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
A Business-Level Workstation Build for "Cheaper" AI Tokens. Ft. Silverstone Alta T2 and EPYC 9575F
This isn't a build for your homelab. Well... it could be if you had a lot of money! But better to let the business pay for it instead. 0:00 Intro 0:59 The Case 3:56 The Motherboard and CPU 9:45 Other Parts and The Build 24:36 Benchmarks and Outro You can find us... Twitter - https://twitter.com/level1techs Twitch -…
Xiaomi Redmi Book 14 2027 With Intel Wildcat Lake CPU and 2.8K Display Confirmed
Xiaomi has officially spilled the beans on the 2027 update to its Redmi Book laptop series, detailing both a launch date and what to expect from the laptops in terms of performance and battery life. The information comes courtesy of the Xiaomi Redmi account on Weibo, and the announcement reveals an October 27 release…
AMD Ryzen 5 5500F review: Vermeer rides again for budget gaming PCs
After years with the Cezanne-based 5500, AMD has finally updated its $100 CPU to the 5500F in the Vermeer family, adding a 200 MHz boost in clock speed and a PCIe 4.0 upgrade.
Open Source high performance RISC-V CPU "Kunminghu v3" has reached SPECint06/GHz > 21.7 on nightly build this week, which is better than ARM's V3, Intel's Sapphire Rapids and close to Zen 5 in terms of performance.
This dashboard has weekly and nightly performance regressions for those interested. On nightly build, Kunminghu v3 has hit GEOMEAN(INT) of 21.706 with gcc, which keeps going up as the platform nears validation and release phase in Q1 2027. SPECint06/GHz on xscc is 21.924. SPECint17/GHz is 2.321, which also compares…
(PR) Durabook Introduces the R12 Rugged Tablet Active Edge AI Platform
Durabook, the global rugged mobile solutions brand owned by Twinhead International Corporation, today announced its new R12 Rugged Tablet active edge AI platform. With the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 CPU, the R12 Rugged Tablet delivers exceptional computing power with enhanced AI performance, energy efficiency, and…
(PR) Server CPU Shipments Projected to Grow Over 40% YoY in 2027, with Arm-Based Products Continuing to Gain Market Share
TrendForce's latest AI server industry research indicates that demand for server CPUs has grown steadily since the second half of 2025 as AI server providers actively introduce AI agent applications. Server CPU shipments are projected to increase 31% YoY in 2026. In 2027, continued growth in AI inference demand and…
AMD Readies Official Ryzen Overclocking Driver for Linux
AMD is reportedly working on official Ryzen overclocking controls for Linux. Per Phoronix, AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K has posted a three-patch series for a new driver called AOD, short for AMD Overclocking Driver, to the platform-driver-x86 mailing list. It is a WMI driver that talks to the same firmware interface…
Powering agentic AI with the Arm AGI CPU software ecosystem
The open-source and commercial software building blocks for agentic AI already span the Arm64 ecosystem. Here is how they come together. The post Powering agentic AI with the Arm AGI CPU software ecosystem appeared first on Arm Newsroom.
Microsoft Reportedly Cutting Specs on Entry-Level 12-Inch Surface, AMD Arm Chip in the Mix
Microsoft might be working on a cheaper 12-inch Surface, and Apple's MacBook Neo looks like the reason. DigiTimes reports, citing supply chain sources, that Microsoft is reviewing the specifications of its entry-level 12-inch Surface to bring costs down, and is also rethinking which processor goes inside. The report's…
Leak: Intel Core Ultra 9 4995HX Leads Nova Lake Laptop Lineup
Intel's Core Ultra 9 4995HX looks set to be the fastest Nova Lake chip for laptops. Leaker Jaykihn on X has confirmed that the 4995HX uses an 8+16+4+2 layout, meaning 8 P-cores, 16 E-cores, 4 LPE cores, and 2 Xe3 GPU cores. That adds up to 28 CPU cores, four more than Intel's current Arrow Lake-HX chips, with the…
Chieftec Launches Two New Compact CPU Coolers
Chieftec has launched two compact CPU coolers, the CAC-S90PWM-T120 tower cooler and the CAC-S92PWM-LP45 low-profile model. Both were first previewed at Computex 2026, as we reported earlier. They follow the recent release of the taller CAC-S120PWM-T150 tower cooler, which stands 148 mm tall and features an all-black…
FADU puts the filesystem inside the SSD's flash to bypass host CPUs
FADU’s FS-SSD carries NFSv3 file operations inside NVMe commands, letting GPUs, DPUs, and NICs read files without a host file system.
AMD and Intel will work together to create a single PyTorch code path for AI inference on CPUs
AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.
Reorienting the Vector Axis: Restructuring FlashAttention for Long-Vector Processors
A Transformer is built around attention, whose cost grows with the square of the sequence length and dominates the layer on long sequences. FlashAttention made that cost manageable by tiling the attention matrix and updating the softmax as it goes, but almost all work since has targeted GPUs. On long-vector processors…
(PR) Synaptics Announces Astra SR200 Multimodal Edge AI Processors with Google Coral NPU
Synaptics Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today introduced the xMCU, a new class of microcontrollers that runs multimodal Edge AI, with the launch of the Synaptics Astra SR200 Series. Unlike conventional MCUs constrained by limited on-chip memory and compute, the xMCU combines heterogeneous, AI-native compute and…
AMD Software Adrenalin 26.10.1 WHQL Drivers Released
AMD has released its Adrenalin 26.10.1 WHQL graphics drivers, adding FSR Upscaling 4.1 support for Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards and several Ryzen AI processor families. The release follows yesterday's announcement that AMD plans to bring FSR 4.1 to older Radeon GPUs, APUs, and Xbox. The new upscaling version…
Mysterious AMD Zen 6 APU with 24GB of LPDDR5 memory appears in benchmarks
The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
Modal taps Nvidia Vera CPUs after firm's internal tests show 2x throughput over Intel and AMD chips
Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.
(PR) Axiomtek Launches MANO330 Compact Thin Mini-ITX Industrial Motherboard
Axiomtek, a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted to the research, development, and manufacture of innovative, highly efficient, and reliable industrial computer products, proudly introduces the MANO330, a compact Thin Mini-ITX motherboard powered by the Intel Processor N97 or N150 and DDR5 memory. Designed for…
KatoANN: Enabling Near-Exact Vector Search at the Speed of Lossy Scans with CPU Matrix Engines
Distance scans in partition-family approximate nearest-neighbor (ANN) search are typically limited by memory bandwidth. Existing systems therefore improve throughput by reading fewer bytes per candidate, often at the cost of recall. We present KatoANN, a CPU ANN search system that removes this tradeoff by batching…
Stop Paying by the Letter: Accelerating Full-Chip RTL Simulation with Host-Side Tokenized Logging
Firmware diagnostic logging (printf) is an essential debug instrument in full-chip SoC design verification, yet it imposes a heavy tax on cycle-accurate RTL simulation: formatting a 30-character, 1-argument message on a simulated CPU and serializing it through an MMIO aperture costs 3.04 to 15.23 $μ$s per call (15.27…
Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the performance per rack of AMD EPYC 9755 in new agentic AI CPU tests
Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the modeled rack performance of AMD’s EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a new evaluation methodology developed with Fujitsu, Meta, and OpenAI
Online Scheduling and Distribution of Quantum Circuits over Quantum Networks
Emerging quantum networks enable distributed quantum computing (DQC) by interconnecting modest, noisy quantum processors. However, practical deployments face tight memory budgets, probabilistic entanglement generation, and decoherence, all while serving multiple users. In realistic settings -- cloud execution,…
Cryogenic Recharacterization of a Commercial 22 nm FD-SOI Foundry Standard-Cell Library
Wiring and bandwidth bottlenecks between a quantum processor and room-temperature electronics can be reduced by placing digital control at the cryogenic stage, but commercial foundry standard-cell libraries are not specified for operation at 4 K. A cryogenic recharacterization flow is therefore developed for a…
HW News - NVIDIA's $7000 RTX Spark Laptop, RIP RTX 5090, GTA VI PC Launch Rumor, CPU Price Hike
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Accelerating CPU Speculative Decoding via Unified Graph Execution and Transactional KV Isolation
Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference, but deploying it on CPUs introduces severe systems bottlenecks: context-swapping latency between draft and target graphs, and memory allocation overhead during KV cache rollbacks. We introduce SubTernary, an execution framework that eliminates these costs through Unified…
SpikeDuet: CPU-Accelerator Co-Execution of Sparse SNNs on Commodity MCUs
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) expose sparse event activity, but commodity microcontrollers increasingly pair general-purpose processors with dense matrix-vector accelerators whose suitability for sparse inference is unclear. We investigate whether the on-chip Matrix Vector Processor (MVP) of the EFR32MG24 can…