Although Intel would like to reduce its use of TSMC’s manufacturing services , the company will keep ordering chips from the Taiwan-based foundry for the foreseeable future, a high-ranking executive said at atechnology conferenceyesterday. Intel’s grand plan is to produce as many products as possible internally at Intel Foundry, but as this may not be the most optimal strategy, it is currently assessing what percentage of its products should be produced at TSMC....

Ever since AMD and Intel repositioned their Ryzen Threadripper and Xeon W (well, Core Extreme) processors from high-end desktops to workstations, their overclocking capability was largely forgotten, with only a few professional overclockers trying to push those CPUs to their limits. This week, overclockerSkyWalkerAMDmanaged to overclock Intel’s 60-core Xeon W9-3595X (Sapphire Rapids Refresh) processor to 5.80 GHz, which is a noticeably better result when compared to its predecessor. There is a catch, though....

PassMark software has highlighted a new entry in its CPU Mark single-threaded performance rankings. In a Tweet shared this weekend it embedded a chart showing Intel’s upcomingCore Ultra 9 285Kprocessor (an Arrow Lake-S desktop part) is the new single-core leader in the eponymous benchmark. The firm admits that the tested sample “might be a pre-release engineering sample, but results are looking good.” PassMark’s assessment seems reasonable, as the Core Ultra 9 285K confidently noses ahead of some ofthe best CPUsavailable to consumers, like theIntel Core i9-14900KS, and a host of Apple M3 variants....

Some purported specifications of Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 200U or Arrow Lake-U mobile processors have been surfaced byJaykihnat X. It turns out that despite the “Ultra” moniker; the Core Ultra 200U CPUs will utilize an updated version of the Meteor Lake architecture - reportedly using the Intel 3 node. We double-checked and it turns out that Intel’s naming scheme gets more confusing with each new launch. Arrow Lake-U is designated for thin and light laptops - with TDPs ranging between 12W, 15W, and 28W....

We may have a winner for the $20,000 Raspberry Pi and Hextree RP2350Hacking Challenge, but we won’t officially find out who the winner is until January 14. Engineer Aedan Cullen went public with hisHacking the RP2350presentation at the recent 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3), and there is aGitHub reponow published to accompany the videohere. Cullen studied the RP2350 in detail before going for a voltage injection glitch attack on pin 53 of the RP2350 chip, which managed to turn on the ‘permanently disabled’ RISC-V cores and their debug access port, enabling him to read the secret....

A leaked slide from MSI, explaining the Power Configurations for Intel’s Arrow Lake series of CPUs, has been shared by a user on the popular Korean hardware forumQuasar Zone. Interestingly, the same slide mentions a possible “Arrow Lake-S Refresh” which was justrumoredto be canceled some time ago. Funnily enough, the slide has large watermarks clearly stating “MSI Confidential” and “NO Public Exposure,” yet it is circulating freely on the Internet. To the left, we can see Power Delivery Configurations for Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 5K, 7K, and 9K families of processors....

LGDisplay, one of the global leaders in display technologies, unveiled a new stretchable display prototype that can expand by up to 50%. This makes it the most stretchable display in the industry, more than doubling the previous record of 20% elongation.LG Displayshowcased the new screen at the LG Science Park in Seoul as part of the Stretchable display national project, with over 100 stakeholders taking part in the event. This stretchable technology goes beyond expanding its size, though, as you can freely twist, extrude, and fold it without damaging the screen....

As covered byPhoronixearlier today, the latest AMDGPU driver fully supports DRM_Panic error screens, which should see it merged into the mainline Linux kernel soon—perhaps even on time for the following Linux release merge window. Linux kernel version 6.13 is set for a November release, so this could make the cut, though it is a bit last-minute. In the past year, there have been ongoing efforts to improve Blue Screen of Death-styled crashing error messages on Linux operating systems, culminating in two solutions: a"systemd-bsod" error screenfunctionality covering user space errors added in December and a new “DRM_Panic” functionality added in April for kernel panics and other errors that otherwise crash user space and render systemd-bsod effectively useless....

Hana Micron, a South Korean firm specializing in assembly, testing, and packaging (ATP) of semiconductors, is expanding its presence in Vietnam after some of its customers requested the company move production away from China. Because of this,Reuters reports, the company is investing 1.3 trillion South Korean Won (approximately $923.5 million) for the next couple of years to boost its packaging output of legacy memory chips. The primary chip packaging companies—Amkor Technology, Hana Micron, and Intel—have poured billions of dollars into Vietnam to increase their back-end manufacturing capacity....

Case manufacturer Flash Scale has announced a new ultra-compact Micro-ATX chassis resembling the size and form factor of Mini-ITX cases, as reported by IT Home. Known as the G300 “Mini Cannon,” the case measures just 16.8 liters in volume and has a handle at the top for easy portability. The G300 features a popular configuration among Mini-ITX chassis: the power supply is mounted in the front of the case. Compared to conventional configurations, this change vastly improves the space efficiency and allows case designers to shrink a chassis' size, which would otherwise be impossible....

Micron hasannouncedthe development of the industry’s first PCIe Gen6 SSD. Claimed to be capable of “sequential read bandwidths of over 26GB/s,” the new SSDs are being prepared for data center operating partners. The development of this super-fast newPCIe Gen6data center SSD is claimed to be the world’s first by Micron in its press release. Unsurprisingly, in the current computing era, the turbo-charged storage tech is heralded as capable of addressing the mounting demands of AI processing....

Microsoftreports that some users may face crashes or compatibility problems when playing select games from Ubisoft onWindows 1124H2. As a temporary workaround, the firm has halted updates to its feature-packed 24H2 version - for devices with these titles installed. While Ubisoft has released amitigationfor this bug, both Microsoft and Ubisoft warn of performance regressions. As of now, there is no expected release date for a potential fix but the developers are actively working to resolve this problem....

CrowdStrike’s buggy software update and its kernel-level access to Windows lethally combined to cause the massive outage last week. One of the ways thatMicrosoftcould avoid this type of unfortunate event in the future is to restrict kernel access to third-party developers. However, the company cannot legally do this because of an understanding it struck with the EU in 2009. Thus, this type of outage thataffected 8.5 million Windowsdevices could happen again, especially if it involves widely-used enterprise security software....