A landmark piece of computing history popped up in an online auction earlier this week. For sale as Lot #5006 (opens in new tab) on RR Auctions is a prototype Apple Computer A, claimed to have been assembled by nonother than Steve Wozniak and owned by Steve Jobs. If that isn’t a fine enough pedigree to excite bidders, there is photographic evidence that this is the production prototype for the Apple 1 and was instrumental in securing Apple’s first

Intel already disclosed that it had begun shipments of QVL 4th Generation Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' processors to select customers and is sampling these processors with a broad set of clients. However, Intel has not confirmed that its next-generation Xeon W-3400-series CPUs are already in the wild and being tested by third parties. Yet, this appears to be the case, and people are test driving Intel's Xeon W9-3400-

Samsung's revised take at a Computational Storage Device (CSD) may be just another key element in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Powered by an AMD Xilinx Versal FPGA, Samsung promises its new product will lead to 50% reduced computational times, a 70% lower power consumption, and a reduction in CPU utilization in the order of 97% compared to the cost of running conventional SSD devices for frequently-accessed data. The SmartSSD has just become smarter.

When AMD introduced its Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPUs for high-end workstations and then made them widely available, it was only a matter of time before someone introduced server platforms for these processors. It looks like ASRock Rack is the first company to do so with its WRX80D8-2T motherboard, which supports a Threadripper Pro CPU, up to 2TB of memory, and has seven PCIe 4.0 x16 slots.

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPUs support

ByteDance, the owner of the TikTok social media app, has begun to hire specialists to develop its datacenter system-on-chips (SoCs). ByteDance will join multiple high-tech Chinese companies that recently rolled out their own data center SoCs designed to work on specific workloads.

So far, ByteDance has posted 31 chip-related openings on its website, reports TMTPost . Thirty-one chip engineers will barely be able to build an advanced processor, but what they could do