August 2024

Micron Expands Datacenter DRAM Portfolio with MR-DIMMs

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The compute market has always been hungry for memory bandwidth, particularly for high-performance applications in servers and datacenters. In recent years, the explosion in core counts per socket has further accentuated this need. Despite progress in DDR speeds, the available bandwidth per core has unfortunately not seen a corresponding scaling. The stakeholders in the industry…

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AMD confirms Ryzen 9000 CPUs will go on sale on July 31 – but we’re still guessing at pricing for Zen 5 chips

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AMD has confirmed that its Ryzen 9000 processors will be out on July 31, and furnished us with a few extra details about the next-gen CPUs.As we already knew, the initial line-up of these Zen 5 processors – which will remain using the AM5 socket – will consist of four models. Those are the high-end…

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Apple expands Emergency SOS via satellite on iPhone to Japan

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Introduced alongside the iPhone 14, Apple is now expanding Emergency SOS via satellite feature to Japan. Japanese iPhone owners will now be able to make emergency calls even when they don’t have a cell signal or Wi-Fi networks nearby.As long as you have an iPhone 14, iPhone 15, or newer, you’ll be able to share…

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Cyber security adoption is vital to Scotland’s space race

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It has been described in various evocative ways across popular culture, reflecting its vastness and potential for discovery. But, as the industrialisation of space starts to become a reality, Scotland finds itself at the vanguard of a flourishing sector. As a global leader in the manufacture of CubeSats (a class of small satellite), backed by…

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Microsoft and CrowdStrike hit back at Delta’s legal threats

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Microsoft and CrowdStrike have defended themselves against a series of accusations by Delta, saying the US airline, which was particularly badly hit during the 19 July software outage, rejected their offers of help and had only itself to blame for cancelling thousands of flights, including some scheduled to deliver American athletes to the Paris Olympics.…

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Intel’s Arrow Lake flagship could run considerably slower than the Core i9-14900K – but don’t rule out this CPU yet

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Intel’s next-gen flagship for Arrow Lake desktop processors will tone down its top boost speed to 5.7GHz, which is appreciably slower than the current Core i9-14900K, or that’s the latest from the grapevine.So, as ever, treat this with some caution, but as VideoCardz noticed, the rumor aired by regular leaker OneRaichu on X – not…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

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Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a CrowdStrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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Believe it or not, AMD has already begun work on Zen 7 CPUs that are three generations into the future

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AMD is already working on Zen 7 processors, which will be two generations after next-gen Zen 5 CPUs.It’s pretty eye-opening to hear that development is already underway for a processor family three whole generations into the future, but of course, this is just the very initial stages of design for Zen 7, no doubt. (Sketched…

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Instagram users, get ready for an onslaught of AI avatars

3 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, chatbot, Facebook, Intel, Meta, Tech / By

Your Instagram app is about to get another healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of generative AI. Meta wants to let anyone create AI avatars that have the ability to chat with users. If the concept sounds familiar, it’s because we’re looking at Meta’s version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs. Also,…

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Intel raising power safeguard for next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs has rung alarm bells for some – but we’re hopeful it’s a positive sign

4 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, Intel, social media, Tech / By

It looks like Intel is going to raise the limits for temperatures with its next-gen desktop processors, which could be a sign of confidence in the stability of Arrow Lake – a hopeful hint of things to come, with any luck, in terms of the current worries around Core i9 stability.Before we go leaping off…

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