Intel this week has started production at Fab 9, the company’s latest and most advanced chip packaging plant. Joining Intel’s growing collection of facilities in New Mexico, Fab 9 is tasked with packaging chips using Intel’s Foveros technology, which is currently used to build the company’s latest client Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processors and Data […]
MLCommons, the consortium behind the MLPerf family of machine learning benchmarks, is announcing this morning that the organization will be developing a new desktop AI benchmarking suite under the MLPerf banner. Helmed by the body’s newly-formed MLPerf Client working group, the task force will be developing a client AI benchmark suit aimed at traditional desktop […]
Asus has introduced a USB4 PCIe add-in-card for the company’s desktop motherboards, allowing users to add two USB4 ports to their systems. The card can be used to connect up to four devices and a display to each of its ports, and can even be used to charge laptops that support USB charging. […]
The final approval of the 802.11be standard may only be scheduled for December 2024, but that has not put a spanner in the works of the Wi-Fi Alliance in creating a Wi-Fi 7 certification program. At the 2024 CES, the program was officially announced with products based on silicon from Broadcom, Intel, Mediatek, […]
With recent high-performance CPUs exhibiting increasingly demanding cooling requirements, we’ve seen a surge in releases of new dual-tower air cooler designs. Though not new by any means, dual-tower designs have taken on increased importance as air cooler designers work to keep up with the significant thermal loads generated by the latest processors. And even in […]