Microsoft announces Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC — will let gamers play classic console games on PCs and handhelds

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Nvidia details Rubin architectural optimizations for inference – improvements target better performance and efficiency from the GPU to the rack

MoE expert weights can be distributed across GPUs in order to efficiently utilize limited per-GPU HBM capacity. Nvidia says that Rubin’s TMA has been improved to deal with the challenges of managing the growing numbers o…

Intel and AMD sign long-term server CPU deals with Chinese customers as prices jump over 40%, report claims — agreements purportedly guarantee purchase volumes

Some customers have discussed commitments running two years or longer, one of the people told Reuters , with the deals covering unit volumes only, which leaves Chinese cloud providers and internet companies fully exposed…

Fortinet becomes Intel 4’s first foundry customer, following firewall ASIC deal — CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s promised foundry wins begin to surface, but on a mature node

Meteor Lake is aging out of Intel’s lineup as 18A-based Panther Lake ramps through 2026, which leaves open the question of what fills Intel 4 capacity next. A multi-generation firewall ASIC program is a reasonable answer…