Surprise! Intel has teamed up with Elon Musk and his Terafab project, to ‘help refactor silicon fab technology’ to give SpaceX and Tesla 1 TW per year of AI compute

With a social media post out of the blue, Intel has confirmed it has joined forces with Elon Musk’s Terafab project, using its foundries and packaging facilities to “help refactor silicon fab technology”. The exact details and nature of the agreement aren’t yet clear, but Intel is unlikely to get as big a foundry order…

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A Pokopia player has spent 260 hours over 22 days recreating an underground Cyberpunk city: ‘I swear to god, you people aren’t human’

An easy way to feel insecure as a Pokopia player is to just hop onto Reddit and see all the spectacular creations other players are cooking up. There are some seriously impressive builds to be seen, like Resident Evil 2’s RPD. My favourite so far is a Cyberpunk underground city by Pokopia player No-Communication7040. Heading…

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Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Many businesses around the world use old PCs to run machinery or handle inventory, simply because you don’t need a latest-generation processor to churn out a bit of code. Eventually, though, they will fail, but what happens when new prices for parts are sky-high because of the global memory crisis? According to one source, it…

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AMD’s senior director of AI thinks ‘Claude has regressed’ and that it ‘cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering’

Anthropic’s Claude has reportedly gotten much worse at generating code recently. That’s according to a head member of the AI Group at AMD. Last week, user StellarAccident took to the Claude Code GitHub to vent their frustrations at Claude’s AI-generated code. This account was soon discovered to be tied to Stellar Laurenzo, the senior director…

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Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

Intel’s Bartlett Lake CPU is a bit of a niche offering, mainly aimed at edge, embedded, and networking applications rather than consumer PCs. But what with its pure P-core engineering, it’s kinda intriguing. And yet not compatible with desktop motherboards. Until now, that is. An enterprising modder has managed to get a 12-core Bartlett Lake…

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‘I have crawled through depths of hell’: One coder’s suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past

The vast majority of web users click and swipe away at their preferred browser, with nary a thought behind the sheer amount of work that goes on behind the scenes in today’s websites. Web coders do, though, and often have to juggle performance considerations against having everything correctly rendered. But there’s one inspired bit of…

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Crimson Desert has received FSR SDK 2.2 support, offering better upscaling and frame generation for AMD cards

If you’re currently playing Crimson Desert on an AMD graphics card, you should hopefully find that the performance has improved with the latest patch. That’s because the game now implements FSR SDK 2.2, which should offer better and more consistent upscaling and frame generation. As shared on April 4, this is part of update 1.02.00,…

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