Intel slashes 5,000 more jobs in brutal cull
Axe in the corridors
Troubled Chipzilla is showing no mercy as it swings the axe on more than 5,000 employees across four US states in its latest bid to slash costs.
Nvidia NTC slashes VRAM with DirectX boost
AI texture compression and DXR 1.2 deliver performance gains
Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) has taken a big leap forward thanks to Microsoft’s DirectX Cooperative Vector support in the latest DirectX Raytracing 1.2 update. Early tests show a dramatic reduction in VRAM consumption while delivering a major performance uplift.
Nvidia ramps up SOCAMM modular memory production
Headed for AI PCs and servers
Nvidia is preparing up to 800,000 LPDDR-based SOCAMM modules this year ahead of a next-gen SOCAMM 2 launch designed to give its AI products superior performance and higher efficiency while remaining easily upgradeable.
Enthusiast class SoCs with massive iGPUs and cache
Troubled Chipzilla appears to be gearing up for a proper enthusiast class punch with Nova Lake AX, a new SoC designed to tackle AMD’s Halo APUs head on.
Sparks open-source exodus
Oracle's relentless licensing changes are pushing organisations into the open-saucy arms of openjdk, according to a new survey.
More than 200 pirate domains blocked
A fresh wave of site blocking has hit the UK’s already long list of outlawed pirate domains, but this time there’s an unexpected new enforcer. Cloudflare, normally seen as a neutral web infrastructure provider, is now showing “Error 451 – Unavailable for Legal Reasons” to users trying to access dozens of domains linked to streaming and download piracy.
China troubles are not over
Nvidia's joy after the Trump administration loosened export restrictions, allowing the AI chip giant to sell its H20 processors in China, might be short lived, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Fujitsu rides the AI boom UK PO scandal grows
Soaring AI ambitions are colliding with a British political and legal crisis
Fujitsu has become one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence gold rush. Its shares have jumped by nearly two-thirds since last year’s slump as the Japanese outfit pitches itself as a heavyweight in enterprise AI transformation.
Zen 5 cores, DDR5-6400 support and eye-watering prices
AMD is about to unleash its Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors, with retail availability kicking off this month.
What could possibly go wrong?
A week after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and went on an antisemitic rant, his AI outfit xAI has been rewarded with a US government contract worth up to $200 million.