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 …

China’s hollow-core fiber trial pushes 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles without signal regeneration — milestone targets AI-era networking bottlenecks

On the hardware side, the researchers built a high-power amplifier using a cascaded dual-gain-unit architecture and a multi-element doping design, achieving a maximum output of 33.5 dBm (roughly 2.24 W) while maintaining…

South Korea unveils $520 billion investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip dominance — plan includes four new fabs and HBM facilities, ami

The plan also absorbs and accelerates projects already underway. The government said it would help Samsung and SK Hynix speed up construction of their existing capital-region clusters, with SK Group pulling forward the r…

AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — ‘CoT Forgery’ exploit spurs LLMs to div

To determine whether confusion about roles was specific to their attack or a more generalizable principle that explains why prompt injection works, the researchers took a different approach. They hid a command in a webpa…

Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games

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China’s hollow-core fiber trial pushes 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles without signal regeneration — milestone targets AI-era networking bottlenecks

On the hardware side, the researchers built a high-power amplifier using a cascaded dual-gain-unit architecture and a multi-element doping design, achieving a maximum output of 33.5 dBm (roughly 2.24 W) while maintaining…