In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two of the industry’s fiercest rivals, Intel and AMD jointly announced the formation of a new x86 advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) moving forward, an important consideration given both the potential addition of new features and the various x86 simplification efforts already underway. The companies announced the new x86 ecosystem advisory group at the 2024 OCP Summit....

Spotted by hardware sleuthEverestatBapco, the unreleased Core 5 210H looks similar to the Alder Lake-basedCore i5-12450H. One would expect anything under the “Core 200” series to be based on Arrow Lake, but the non-Ultra models appear to be based on theRaptor LakeorAlder Lakesilicon. The fresh sighting of the Core 5 210H has sparked concerns regarding Intel’supdated naming scheme. The 200-series monicker will be confusing for consumers with less experience. For example, only Core Ultra 200 parts are based on the Arrow Lake architecture....

As observed byInstLatX64, the latest update to Intel’s Software Development Emulator has given us an intriguing look at the L3 cache specification of Intel’s upcoming Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs. Specifically, Intel SDE shows that Granite Rapids will now have 480MB of L3 cache, compared to Emerald Rapids' 320 MB. When we reviewed the Emerald Rapids-basedIntel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPUlate last year, we determined that its tripled L3 cache compared to past generations contributed significantly to its gains in Artificial Intelligence inference, data center, video encoding, and general compute workloads....

The major advantage of two monitors isincreased workspace. Instead of splitting your screen or minimizing applications, you get an entire display for your secondary task. Assuming you’re agamer and streamer, you may utilize the primary display to play the game and the secondary to check your chats. This applies toeditors,designers,students, andgeneral userstoo. However, thecost doublesif you pick thesame modelas your second display. And if you go for a different monitor,calibrating it becomes a hassle....

Last week,Valvereleaseda new Experimental update for its Proton compatibility later, which builds upon the stable September 19 Proton 9.0-3 release by providing fixes for dozens of games and even adding support for Nvidia’s Optical Flow AI and DLSS 3 Frame Generation technologies. DLSS 3 now being supported under Proton bodes well for the future of Nvidia gaming on Linux, particularly when playing titles where framerate isn’t easy to come by....

AMD’s upcoming Zen 5 Epyc CPUs, codenamed Turin, have previously beenconfirmed to occupy the same SP5 socket as their Zen 4 predecessors while having 192 cores— but now, a leaked motherboard spec listing from renowned leaker @momomo_us on X / Twitter, has revealed yet more details. Since these CPUs were previously slated for a 2024 release, this spec leak could point towards an upcoming official announcement. As ever with leaks, take the news with a pinch of salt until an official announcement is made....

GPU detectiveKopite7kimi on Xsuggests that Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 50-series “Blackwell” GB203 and new GB205 dies will feature the same memory bus widths as Nvidia’s outgoingRTX 40-seriesAD103and AD104 GPU dies — those are found in the likes of the RTX 4080 Super and theRTX 4070 Super, some of thebest graphics cards.Kopite7kimi’s latest post appears to be a confirmation of what he said a few days ago, regardingBlackwell’s memory bus sizes. Instead of widening or shortening the bus-width of its RTX 50-series GPUs, Kopite believes that Nvidia is content with the memory bus-width configurations it’s using on its RTX 40-series Ada Lovelace GPUs and will translate those to its new GPUs based on theBlackwell architecture....

Lightshot is a handy app for taking instant screenshots while still being able to edit and customize them simultaneously. Also, it overcomes various limitations of your system’s built-in screenshot tools. However, it isn’t always the perfect app. Sometimes the app doesn’t respond or crashes when opening. To resolve these issues, try relaunching the application and see if it solves your problem. Nonetheless, continue reading further to find various fixes for other issues you may face while using Lightshot....

Global analytics companyStatCountershows that the Linux market share of desktop operating systems has hit an all-time high of 4.44%, up from 3.12% a year ago, and it was just 2.76% in July 2022. While this might look like a small amount, this is a massive jump in terms of real numbers, especially as most Linux distributions are essentially free and have no marketing teams behind them. The Linux operating system first breached the 4% mark in February 2024 but slumped back down to less than 3....

While heads-up displays aren’t very common for consumers —Apple’s expensive Vision Proaside — they are already a critical part of the military and medical industries. And, believe it or not, the main problem with HUDs in these mission-critical environments is not cost or even the embarrassment of looking uncool with a big gadget on your head — it’s eye fatigue. When you stare at the microdisplays inside a typical headset, the brightness and contrast remain fixed....

Semiconductor manufacturerMicron Technologyhas lost a patent infringement lawsuit with Netlist. A jury in the United States decided that Microninfringed on memory module technology patentsheld by the computer memory company Netlist. Micron could be forced to pay Netlist $445 million (£349.7 million) or more in damages. The case revolves around some of Micron’s high-performance computing memory products. Jurors in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas agreed that Micron infringed upon two of Netlist’s patents toimprove memory module capacity and performance....

Micron Technology hasintroducedits new multiplexed rank dual inline memory modules (MRDIMMs) designed to combine high performance, low latency, high capacity, and predictable power consumption for next-generationIntel Xeon 6server platforms. As the number of cores per socket rise, the new modules will be particularly useful to ensure decent per-core memory bandwidth, which will be valuable for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. MRDIMMs are JEDEC-standardized next-generation memory modules that essentially feature two DDR ranks that run in a multiplexed mode to double the speed....

Although OpenAI is technicallycutting off Chinaand businesses are scrambling to find an alternative, they may not need to do so. According to a report onThe Information,Microsofthas confirmed there is a loophole allowing access to OpenAI’s models using its Azure cloud service. When OpenAI made its surprise announcement that it would leave the Chinese market effective July 9, companies reliant on the generative and conversational AI models began searching for alternatives. OpenAI had officially prohibited the use of its technology for some time, but developers used VPN services to mask that they were in China and access the models....