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AMD's Epyc server CPU gets shoehorned into consumer motherboard, overclocked to 6.6GHz

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What just happened? Enthusiasts have managed to "hack" AMD's Epyc 4004 processors by fitting them into consumer PC motherboards and pushing them to their limits. Originally designed for small businesses seeking cost-effective server solutions, these chips have found a new lease on life in the hands of overclockers.

The Epyc 4004 chips, which launched in May, feature specs almost identical to AMD'


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Apple A16 chips now being made in the US, creating a mystery

Apple A16 chips are now being made in TSMC’s US chipmaking plant in Arizona, according to a new report. It’s said that while yield rates are lower than those achieved in Taiwan, they are very close to hitting the same standards.

The big mystery, however, is why Apple would want to make new A16 chips. Which new product might use them … ?

Taiwanese journalist reports:

TSMC’s first Arizona chips are now in production, and Apple is ready to be the


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(PR) ASUS IoT Introduces Arm-based Tinker Board 3 Single-Board Computer and Tinker System 3N for Diverse Vertical Applications

ASUS IoT, the global AIoT solution provider, today announced Tinker System 3N, an Arm -based fanless embedded computer with versatile applications for industrial use, and Tinker Board 3, a compact single-board computer (SBC) equipped with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 with comprehensive software-development kit (SDK) integration for versatile IoT and smart retail applications. Both ASUS IoT Tinker System 3N and Tinker Board 3 have been meticulously designed to cater to diverse vertical applications and industrial demands.

The

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(PR) Micron Expands SSD Portfolio With New Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD

Micron Technology, Inc., today announced the availability of the Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 NVMe solid-state drive (SSD), which offers two times faster performance than Gen 3 SSDs and 40% faster performance than Crucial's P3 Plus, giving gamers, students and creatives a boost in speed when they boot and use data-intensive applications. With capacities up to 2 terabytes (TB) and read and write speeds of 7,100 and 6,0
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These are the macOS Sequoia features not available on Intel Macs

If you’re still running an Intel-powered Mac, you’ll have at least one more year of macOS support. macOS Sequoia runs on the same Macs as macOS Sonoma , but as usual, there are some caveats about specific features supported on Intel machines.

Now that macOS Sequoia is available to everyone , here’s what you need to know.

As we’ve covered a few times already, all the Apple Intelligence features announced by Apple are only available on Apple Silicon-powered Macs. Specifically,

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Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12

All of the ARM SoC and platform updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Exciting this cycle is finally having initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 plus supporting several more Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops.

Linux 6.12 brings initial support for the Broadcom BCM2712 SoC that's powering the Raspberry Pi 5 . It's taken some time for this very preliminary BCM2712 / Raspberry Pi 5 support to be worked into shape for upstreaming. More
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Intel awarded up to $3 bln from US for national security related chip production - Reuters

Intel awarded up to $3 bln from US for national security related chip production Reuters

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World's smallest Apple IIe replica is 3D printed, uses $2 microcontroller

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Tiny Apple Potato: While criminals are working hard to turn retro gaming into a viable (though unlawful) business venture , law-abiding fans of everything retro are using 3D printers to replicate their favorite classic machines. The Adventures in Retro Computing (ARC) channel created a fully-functional, micro-sized Apple IIe model, which the YouTuber said would be a perfect gift for vintage computer enthusiasts and 3D printing


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Report reiterates 2nm chips for iPhone 17, but highlights the challenges

We heard back in July that Apple chipmaker TSMC was running ahead of schedule on trial production of 2nm chips expected to debut in next year’s iPhone 17 – and a new report reiterates this.

However, it highlights the challenges involved with this ultra-small process, and says that TSMC cannot manage it without help …

TSMC reportedly demonstrated its first 2nm chips to Apple back in December of last year.

TSMC, which dominates the global market in processors, has already shown the process test results for its


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AMD EPYC 4124P Quad-core Overclocked to 6.70 GHz on Desktop Motherboard

AMD released its EPYC 4004 series Socket AM5 processors for small-business servers, which come in unique core and clock speed configurations not found on the client Ryzen series, such as 4-core/8-thread and the 28-lane PCIe Gen 5 I/O die. The EPYC 4124P is such a processor, and it turns out that the chip works on regular AM5 desktop motherboards, but with a special BIOS. A user built one such contraption, put
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