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Intel is firing back at AMD’s recent AIbenchmarksthat it shared during itsComputexkeynote that claimedAMD’s Zen 5-based EPYC Turin is 5.4 times faster than Intel’s Xeon chips in AI workloads. Intel penned ablog todayhighlighting the performance of its current-gen Xeon processors in its own benchmarks, claiming that its fifth-gen Xeon chips, which are currently shipping, are faster than AMD’s upcoming 3nm EPYC Turin processors that will arrive in the second half of 2024....

Ohio is seeing the effects of Intel’s growth, but maybe not in the way state officials had hoped. Intel will put a 916,000-pound “super load” on the road in Ohioon Wednesday, for a trip that will cover approximately 150 miles in nine days and snarl traffic for over a week. The price of progress! Intel’snew campus coming to New Albany, OH, is in heavy construction, and around 20 super loads are being ferried across Ohio’s roads by the Ohio Department of Transportation after arriving at a port of the Ohio River via barge....

Optical interconnects are crucial for next-generation AI and HPC data centers, but adding them to CPUs and GPUs is complicated, and much of the infrastructure for mass adoption is still lacking. To that end, Intel introduced its first fully integrated optical input/output (I/O) chiplet at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024. The optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet can be attached to CPUs and GPUs to enable high bandwidth, low power consumption, and extended-reach I/O connectivity....

Japanese shipping line Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kinetics, a subsidiary of Turkish floating power generation company Karpowership, to build and power a 20 to 73-megawatt floating data center. According toMOL, this pilot project will use a 120-meter-long ship with a gross tonnage of 9,731 tons. Power will primarily be delivered via a Karpowership vessel using various fuels like Liquified Natural Gas. It can also connect to other land and sea sources, like connecting to offshore windmills or onshore solar farms....

The market is flooded with mechanical keyboards that are focused on gaming, but there aren’t enough that are made specifically for writers. Enter the Freewrite Wordrunner, an upcoming wireless keyboard that’s designed to help those of us who write for a living. The 88-key, tenkeyless Wordrunner has a raft of unique, writer-friendly features including a electromechanical “wordometer” that counts your words like your car’s odometer counts miles (or km). There’s also an electromechanical timer for writing sprints, a set of dedicated macro keys and a function row that’s been redefined specifically to do things that writers need....

The DualSense 5 controller is an advanced piece of hardware, but you may have your preferences. There’s nothing like clicks for some, so what happens when thekeyboard is not working on PS5? If you want to feel just like on your PC, you’d need to understand how keyboard & mouse support work on the PS5. That means seeing its common problems, limitations, and troubleshooting. Keyboard Is Not Working on PS5 Causes Let’s start our troubleshooting guide by naming the common problems you may be facing:...

Leaked power specifications of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs allege up to 27% increase in power compared to the last generation, though still less than initially expected, courtesy ofKopiteKimiandhongxing2020at X.We aren’t sure if these numbers correspond to the TGP or TDP. However the numbers still offer a glimpse of what to expect from Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell GPUs; which are alleged to be announced by Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang during hisJanuary 6 keynote....

Uncertainty regarding Intel’sfab building commitment in Germanyhas started to ratchet up over recent days. The PC chipmaker has been preparing an expansive site for two very largeadvanced chip fabs near Magdeburg. However, given the context of the firmcanceling investments in Italy and Francelast month, plus thedisastrous lossesannounced earlier this month, the local Saxony-Anhalt state government is understandably worried. According to some reports, the local government isplanning contingency moves, should Intel pull out, but without the ‘anchor investor’ (i....

Qualcomm competitor MediaTek is developing an Arm-based SoC designed to run Windows, according to three insiders who talked toReuters. Meaning the choice of chip for your next laptop just got that much more complicated. Qualcomm has been the soleMicrosoftpartner for Arm-powered Windows PCs since 2016, after the two firms signed an exclusivity deal. This venture led to the mid-May launch ofSnapdragon X-powered Windows Copilot+ PCs, with Microsoft confident that the Snapdragon X Elite couldsurpass Apple’s M3 MacBook Air....

Microsoftis putting all of its weight behind Qualcomm’s latestSnapdragon X Elite, and expects it to outperform Apple’s competing M3 silicon — at least in certain workloads.The Verge reportsthat the trillion-dollar software and hardware behemoth is extremely confident in Qualcomm’s new CPU and is planning several demos for its upcomingAI PCevent in Seattle that will show the Snapdragon chip outperforming Apple’sM3-equipped MacBook Air laptops.These demos Microsoft is putting together supposedly won’t just show the Snapdragon Elite X beating the Apple M3 in a single metric, but will show superiority across several workloads — including AI acceleration and app emulation....

Microsofthas been working hard to wedge you into its ecosystem, and it appears to have taken one step further by making OneDrive backups an opt-out feature. OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud drive service, much likeGoogleDrive and iCloud. It comes standard with 5GB of free storage for anyone who signs up for a Microsoft Account, which you’ll likely do from now on, sincethe company recently turned off the easy bypass to Windows 11’s online setup....

With the launch earlier this month of Copilot+ PCs, a series of Qualcomm-powered Windows laptops,Microsoftis going all in on Arm processors. The software giant decided to give consumers, most of whom have never owned an Arm-powered PC, an incentive to buy a computer without Intel or AMD inside: a set of three exclusive AI features which are built into the OS. Intel and AMD laptop owners, even those who buy a brand new PC today, don’t have access to these features and word is that they won’t get the upgrades until much later in 2024, even after new laptops withAMD Ryzen AI 300 chips come outin the next few weeks....

Microsoft’s latest Surface devices, theSurface Pro (11th Edition)and Surface Laptop (7th Edition), made a splash this summer as the flagship Copilot+ PCs, utilizing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processors. Now, Microsoft is making them available for business customers, and both the new Surface Pro and existing Surface Pro 10 with Intel chips will get 5G options.The Snapdragon machines, sans 5G connectivity will be available on September 10. Like the consumer models, the Surface Pro will start with a 10-core Snapdragon X Plus and LCD display, or you’re able to upgrade to both a 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and an OLED screen....