Meta fights soaring hardware costs by reusing old DDR4 server memory in new DDR5-only servers — custom CXL 2.0 chip marries legacy DDR4-2400 with cutting-edge D

bit_user edzieba said: Somehow, RAMdisk returned. No, this is a true memory expansion. It does not appear to the system as a drive (NVMe or otherwise). That said, the approach of relying on page migration does presume ce…

AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel’s footsteps with new core type for background tasks

usertests ezst036 said: In other words, is AMD prepping a big.little CPU? Strix Point and Kraken Point basically qualify as that. Strix Point is very heterogeneous with 4x Zen 5 + 16 MiB L3 in one CCX, and 8x Zen 5c + 8 …