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Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan is looking at a big change to how the company makes chips for others, Reuters reports citing people who know about it. The new plan might mean Intel stops offering its 18A process technology to other companies. This is different from the strategy of the former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who had invested heavily in the 18A manufacturing process. Since assuming leadership in March, Tan has been working to reduce costs and find new approaches to revive the struggling chipmaker. By June, he began expressing concerns that the 18A process was failing to attract new customers. Abandoning external sales of 18A technology and focusing on its 14A process would require Intel to take substantial write-offs on the billions invested in its development. Industry analysts suggest these charges could reach hundreds of millions or potentially billions of dollars.

Intel plans to show the board these options later this month. However, a final decision is not expected until this autumn given the complexity and financial stakes involved. Even if they change plans, Intel will still keep its promises about 18A process including producing small amounts of chips for Amazon and Microsoft, and making its own "Panther Lake" laptop processors scheduled for late 2025. Along with standard 18A, Intel is creating two upgraded versions: 18A-P launching in 2026 and 18A-PT arriving in 2028.

AMD AI Linux-powered servers are failing to hibernate due to excessive VRAM and a high number of AMD Instinct accelerators per system.

Bitcoin Depot Legal Chief says that police should not break open its ATMs to get scam victims' money back.

Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers

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X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be

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VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO

Customers dismayed by Broadcom's move to selling costly bundles such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) will realize its value if they'd just use more of the components, the company's CTO says.…

The secretary of health and human services said that funding will be curtailed until Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, takes into account the science of vaccine safety in its campaigns.

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Microsoft has recently announced a one-year extension for free security updates on Windows 10, pushing the support deadline from October 14, 2025, to October 2026.

Nvidia is reportedly in talks with Foxconn over plans to deploy humanoid robots in a Houston factory building GB300 chips.

Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.

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Microsoft has confirmed it's developing a next-gen Xbox console with AMD as Xbox president Sarah Bond shared this news in a 60-second YouTube video promising to offer "an Xbox experience not tied to one store or limited to a single device." Bond announced Microsoft is teaming up with AMD for a "strategic multi-year partnership." This collaboration will involve co-engineering silicon "across a range of devices, including our next-generation Xbox consoles for your living room and your hands." The two companies will also join forces to build the next generation of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft is making it crystal clear that its next-gen Xbox platform will focus on multiple devices and won't be tied to its own store for games.

"This is all about creating a gaming platform that stays with you so you can enjoy the games you like on different devices wherever you want—giving you an Xbox experience not restricted to one store or linked to a single device," Bond explains. "That's why we're working with the Windows team to make sure Windows becomes the top platform for gaming". This comes right after Microsoft announcement of its partnership with ASUS to roll out two Xbox Ally handhelds in the coming months. These devices will feature a new full-screen Xbox interface running on Windows allowing Xbox Ally devices to access other platforms like Steam.Update Jun 19th: AMD comments on Microsoft partnership (YouTube video included)

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Several Republican senators say they're opposed to the wholescale repeal of certain clean energy tax credits passed by the House. Their phones have been ringing off the hook from industry leaders and energy lobbyists who want to make sure the Senate makes changes to the bill.

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Health Secretary RFK Jr. has removed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He says replacing them with new members will help restore 'public trust' in vaccines.

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The ban, which revives a controversial measure from Trump's first term, took effect Monday morning. Here's what to know about who's affected, who's exempt and how foreign leaders are responding.

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TrendForce's latest report on the display industry reveals that OLED technology—valued for its self-emissive structure, high contrast ratio, and lightweight design—continues to expand its market presence, primarily in small-size applications such as smartphones. However, its penetration into the large-size display segment has been hindered by high production costs and limited capacity. In contrast, the mid-size segment, including monitors, notebooks, tablets, and automotive displays, is emerging as a new battleground, driven by growing consumer demand for premium visual experiences.

TrendForce forecasts that OLED monitor shipments will grow by 80.6% YoY in 2025, with market penetration rising to 2%, and potentially reaching 5% by 2028. Amid this upward momentum, Chinese panel makers Visionox and TCL CSOT are distinguishing themselves by investing in alternative OLED technologies: Visionox through its proprietary technology, Visionox intelligent Pixelization (ViP), and TCL CSOT through inkjet printing OLED—setting themselves apart from Korean manufacturers focused on QD-OLED and WOLED evaporation-based technologies.

Divorce lawyers know certain times of the year are much busier than others. They and researchers have found seasonal patterns around divorce filings.

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TSMC is preparing to begin 2nm chip production with wafer prices reportedly reaching $30,000 and potentially $45,000 for more advanced nodes like A16, driven by the complexity of backside power delivery.

Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware

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Nvidia boss also says rescinding the AI diffusion rule was ‘completely visionary.’

New botnet campaign exploits legitimate system features to establish deep persistence while remaining virtually undetectable

A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6.

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Intel's upcoming "Diamond Rapids" Xeon processors are going to debut on a remarkably large new LGA9324 socket, according to a recently leaked photograph shared by hardware leaker HXL on X. The image appears to show a socket with 9,324 contact points, and when auxiliary debug pins are included, the total connection count may exceed 10,000. If this turns out to be accurate, it would surpass Intel's current flagship LGA7529 and AMD's SP5 sockets in raw pin density. Earlier reports indicated that Diamond Rapids will require Intel's next-generation Oak Stream platform, which in turn will use this upgraded socket. Within Intel's roadmap, the seventh-generation Xeon family is intended to replace the existing Granite Rapids lineup in both Advanced Performance (AP) and Scalable Performance (SP) segments. Prototype coolers from Dynatron suggest Intel plans to offer two sub-families: higher-end AP variants similar to the Xeon 6900P and a slightly less demanding SP series, potentially with a reduced pin count.

To put this evolution in context, the current LGA7529 platform supports up to 128 performance cores, 12 channels of DDR5 memory, and power envelopes up to 500 watts. A roughly 30 percent increase in pin count should allow Diamond Rapids to expand I/O bandwidth, add memory channels, increase thermal design power, and possibly accommodate more cores. Visually, the new socket appears to be nearly five times the size of Intel's LGA1851 socket, used by Arrow Lake desktop processors. Under the hood, Diamond Rapids is expected to use the Panther Cove-X core architecture, a server-optimized counterpart to the Coyote Cove design found in Nova Lake. These CPUs are reportedly being fabricated on Intel's 18A process node, with high-volume manufacturing anticipated by late 2025 or early 2026.

Last week at Computex, Intel released their Pro B-Series GPUs, the B50 and B60.
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The court was deadlocked 4-4, which meant a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional separation of church and state remained in place.

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The project, known as EPIC City, has yet to break ground, but members of this Muslim community feel stereotyped.

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The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

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This year, there have been at least 22 incidents involving lithium batteries in air travel, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration.

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It's been two years since Realtek showed off its 5 Gbps Ethernet chips at Computex and at the time, they hinted at a 10 Gbps chip. This year, the company was showing off a wide range of 10 Gbps Ethernet chips on the show, ranging from a standard consumer solution, to server chips and native USB variants. The base chip is the RTL8127, which offers the full range of speeds from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps, with a sub 2 Watt power consumption. This is followed by the RTL8127AP intended for servers, as it has full remote management support via DASH 1.2 support. Both chips sport a PCIe 4.0 x1 host interface, which for better or worse limits compatibility to more modern systems.

Next up is the fibre only RTL8127ATF, although it doesn't support 10/100 Mbps speeds, but it has a lower power consumption at just over 1 Watt. This is followed by the RTL8127AT, which is limited to the same speeds as the fibre only SKU, but it's a standard copper NIC. What sets these two SKUs apart from the previous two, is that they support PCIe Gen 3 x2 or PCIe Gen 4 x1 and they actually have a physical PCIe x2 interface, which limits compatibility with some motherboards as an add-card. Finally we have the RTL8159, which is Realtek's USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 10 Gbps chip, which again covers the full range of speed from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps. Realtek had several mockups of customer products on display, but final products might not look exactly like the ones shown.

At Computex 2025, NVIDIA presented its modular software stack for so-called “AI PCs” – a concept that primarily aims to transform commercially available PC systems with RTX graphics cards into locally deployable AI computing stations. The presented stack is made up of several components that interlock at different levels of the workflow: CUDA as a […]

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