Computing correspondent
Computing desk
Quin Halberg is The Gold Standard's computing correspondent. Halberg writes about chips, personal computers and the hardware people actually buy, with an eye on heat, speed and what lasts.
On 7 and 8 September 2026, ASML and TSMC opened an industry push to 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV. Samsung and Intel Foundry published matching notes the same SPIE week in Monterey. The pilot-line target is 2031; production readiness 2033. Intel says it has already put more than one million wafers through High NA on today's 6-inch masks.
EuroHPC JU signs Bull procurement for LUMI-AI at CSC Kajaani: AMD Instinct MI430X + 6th Gen EPYC 256-core. ~10× AI, nearly 2× HPC vs LUMI. Deploy H2 2027. TechPowerUp Sep 2026.
Roam/RV howto: Starlink app obstruction scan first; portable tripod vs sealed roof mount; AC inverter or 12 V DC; Australia/NZ Roam plan checks. Help Center + public Roam pages. Keep it legal and weather-tight.
AMD IFA 2026: Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 (Gorgon Halo), up to 192 GB unified memory for >300B-parameter local LLMs. HP/Lenovo commercial systems Q3 2026. No consumer non-PRO. TechTimes 4 Sep.
How a defender uses CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and BOD 26-04 dates. Walk cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities. 2 Sep seven additions as a reading drill. Public list. No exploit how-tos.
Adelaide–Perth ~2700 km on the Eyre Highway. Gaps generally under 200 km. RAA Charge, WA EV Network, NRMA Nullarbor. EV Roadside and The Driven 2026 maps. Plan B still matters.
AMD at IFA 2026: Threadripper Halo Station — 96-core 9995WX, dual liquid-cooled MI350P (path to four), 2 TB DDR5, 288 GB HBM3E (up to 576). Trillion-parameter claim. No price. Tom’s Hardware.
NVIDIA at IFA: RTX Spark Windows PCs from October. N1X in two SKUs — 20-core/6144 CUDA up to 128 GB, or 18-core/5120 up to 32 GB. Lenovo, Acer, Microsoft and more. No prices.
TxMCCS is a public file. Tesla Robotaxi LLC showed 7 then 45 Cybercabs on 31 August. A listing is an authorization, not a fare. SB 2807 from 28 May.
InstLatX64 captured AMD's Technical Information Portal on 26 August: Olympic Ridge and Medusa1 on AM5, Medusa1 and Medusa2 on FP10. Computex 2026 pledged AM5 through 2029. No consumer launch date from AMD.
The Design-In Tools listing, spotted 28 August and filed through 30 August, names LGA1954 next to NVL-S. Arrow Lake’s LGA1851 does not carry the next desktop.
