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…

Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated libr

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Nvidia has shipped ‘hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers’ — GPU firm pivots messaging as CPUs take center stage in agentic data centers

But just as chiplet-based designs made trade-offs in per-thread performance, Vera will likely make trade-offs for its unique architecture. The majority of data center workloads are still “legacy” tasks that hyperscalers …

Nvidia shows off DLSS 5 with three AI modes for different levels of detail — upscaler can switch between models in real-time

DLSS 5 is building up to be a significant step for upscaling tech just when we thought AMD was finally catching up . However, many people may still worry about artistic intent, even if the new demos look a lot more polis…

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…