Ex-Intel engineers are developing the ‘biggest, baddest CPU in the world’ by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts

Intel, CPUs, and the concept of “badness” aren’t necessarily things you’d want to shout about, what with numerous well-documented issues afflicting Intel’s recent processors. But a new Oregon-based startup called AheadComputing is leaning hard on the Intel provenance of its founders while claiming that it is creating, “the biggest, baddest CPU in the world.” And…

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Hideo Kojima’s got a new game out soon, which you can tell because he keeps banging on about death and legacy: ‘I am not going to pass the baton to anyone—I will rather crush the baton’

Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will release on PS5 June 26, with the inevitable PC version yet to be dated. It looks pretty wild and the trailers certainly suggest we’ll be getting a lot more Metal Gear flavouring than the original, even if I could do without promo events where Hideo Kojima…

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