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Samsung Connects 96 PIM-Modified AMD MI100 GPUs

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Samsung has built the world's first large scale computing system using GPUs with built in processing-in-memory (PIM) chips. These memory modules, which were loaded onto 96 AMD Instinct MI100 GPUs , increased AI training performance by 2.5x, according to a report by Business Korea .

Samsung originally demonstrated the PIM-modified GPUs in October, but only recently combined 96 PIM-modified GPUs in a cluster. Compared to normal video memory,

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Tom’s Hardware Best of 2022 Awards

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2022 was a year of ups and downs in the enthusiast tech space. On the one hand, manufacturers took some lumps as PC sales declined sharply, but still remained above pre-pandemic levels . On the other, it was a fantastic year in many ways for PC builders, gamers and makers of all budgets and skill levels.

After a couple of years in which crypto miners and scalpers were the only ones who could get their hands on a graphics card

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(PR) Z790 AORUS TACHYON Smashes 10 Overclocking World Records!

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today announced the ultimate overclocking motherboard Z790 AORUS TACHYON with the latest 13th gen Intel Core processors has smashed 10 world O.C. records including PCMark 7, 3D Mark…etc, as well as 16 GFP (Global First Place) of individual category test by different core numbers, and obtained 9 HFP (Hardware First Place) highest record in specific CPU ID vs. core count

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(PR) Gigabyte Z790 AORUS TACHYON Smashes 10 Overclocking World Records!

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today announced the ultimate overclocking motherboard Z790 AORUS TACHYON with the latest 13th gen Intel Core processors has smashed 10 world O.C. records including PCMark 7, 3D Mark…etc, as well as 16 GFP (Global First Place) of individual category test by different core numbers, and obtained 9 HFP (Hardware First Place) highest record in specific CPU ID vs. core count

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(PR) Ventana Introduces Veyron, World's First Data Center Class RISC-V CPU Product Family

Ventana Micro Systems Inc. today announced its Veyron family of high performance RISC-V processors. The Veyron V1 is the first member of the family, and the highest performance RISC-V processor available today. It will be offered in the form of high performance chiplets and IP. Ventana Founder and CEO Balaji Baktha will make the public announcement during his RISC-V Summit keynote today.

The Veyron V1 is the first RISC-V processor to provide single thread performance that is competitive with the latest incumbent processors for


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Linux 6.2 Expands Support For More Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, Apple M1 Pro/Ultra/Max

All of the Arm SoC support additions and DeviceTree updates have been merged for the Linux 6.2 merge window. There is support for a number of additional Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs in the kernel as well as having the initial mainline bits for the Apple M1 Pro/Ultra/Max SoC variants.

Arnd Bergmann sent in the SoC updates in advance for this Linux 6.2 holiday merge window. Linus Torvalds already honored these pull requests. Some of the SoC highlights for Linux 6.2 include:

- Seven new Qualcomm
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As the world courts TSMC, Taiwan worries about losing its 'silicon shield'

Semiconductor giant TSMC was feted this week by US President Joe Biden and Apple CEO Tim Cook during a ceremony to unveil its $40 billion manufacturing site in Arizona — a huge investment designed to help secure America's supply of the most advanced chips.


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Linux on Apple Silicon Takes Giant Leap With Driver Updates

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Significant news arrives from Asahi Linux (opens in new tab) , the project that’s attempting, and actually succeeding, to get an operating system that’s not macOS running natively (opens in new tab) on Apple Silicon Macs. It has hit an important milestone: a graphics driver that brings work-in-progress OpenGL 2 support to the distro. Meanwhile, the M-chips’ journey toward mainstream Linux support took a step forward too.

Open source drivers for Apple

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Women sue Apple, claim AirTags helped exes stalk them

Apple has been sued by two women who said its AirTag devices have made it easier for former partners and other stalkers to track down victims.


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Apple Silicon CPUFreq Driver Heading To Linux 6.2

With the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel cycle the Apple Silicon CPU frequency scaling driver is set to be mainlined for further improving the Apple M1/M2 SoC support on the mainline kernel.

Sent in yesterday were the Arm CPUFreq updates to queue in the Linux power management tree ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window. Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki has pulled these Arm driver updates, which most notably includes the new CPUFreq driver for Apple SoC CPU P-states handling.

This "apple-soc
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