AMD announced the forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 and 9000 WX-series (codenamed Shimada Peak) processors, along with Radeon AI Pro R9700, at Computex 2025. Today, the manufacturer has disclosed more details for both products, including pricing and release dates.
The most substantial enhancement in the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 WX-series processors is rooted in their architectural design. The Shimada Peak chips incorporate AMD's latest Zen
The FCC announced yesterday that it plans to vote on new rules "to unleash submarine cable investment to accelerate the buildout of AI infrastructure, while securing cables against foreign adversaries, like China," as part of its efforts to follow the America First Investment Policy Memorandum that President Donald Trump issued in February.
“Submarine cables are the unsung heroes of global communications, carrying 99% of all Internet traffic," FCC chairman Brendan Carr said in a statement. "As the U.S
HighPoint Technologies, which specializes in storage solutions, just introduced two adapters that massively expand your system’s storage capacity through a single PCIe slot. According to the company’s press release , the Rocket 1628A and 1528D NVMe Switch Adapters let you directly plug up to eight PCIe devices into one PCIe 5.0 x16 or PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, or up to 32 NVMe drives via a UBM-compliant backplane
The developers behind the FFmpeg project are again claiming major performance uplifts delivered by wielding the art of handwritten assembly code. With the latest patch applied, users should see a “100x speedup” in the cross-platform open-source media transcoding application. However, the developers were soon to clarify that the 100x claim applies to just a single function, “not the whole of FFmpeg.”
BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly13
Intel’s lack of a proper answer to AMD’s Strix Halo—and by extension, Apple’s M-series—has left a clear gap in the high-end APU space. The Blue Team hasn’t seriously competed in the graphics-focused mobile market for a while, but that might be about to change. Just yesterday, “ Nova Lake-AX ” leaked as a potential return to form, marking what could be Intel’s most capable mobile chip
In the wake of recent layoffs, the Intel Oregon workforce is down to its lowest point in more than a decade, reports Oregon Live / The Oregonian. Worryingly, the newspaper’s sources have indicated that this isn’t the end for Intel's Oregon job cuts. Moreover, cuts as deep as this do not just affect Intel and its newly redundant staff; the Oregonian highlights the fact that the well-paid roles “helped buoy the whole state,” thanks to tax