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Zen 6 stays on AM5
An AMD portal listing shows Zen 6 consumer chips staying on the AM5 socket, which AMD has pledged through 2029. There's no launch date yet.
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Quin Halberg
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Quin Halberg writes the Computing and How-to desks, with 30 stories covering chips, operating systems and the hardware people buy. Computing pieces run from AMD's EPYC Venice prices to Windows 11 26H2 and Rust 1.99. The how-to guides walk readers through jobs like moving books to Amazon's new Kindle, or checking every clock in the house when daylight saving starts.
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Intel put LGA1954 on the store
An Intel Design-In Tools listing names the LGA1954 socket next to Nova Lake-S, so Arrow Lake's LGA1851 won't carry the next desktop chips.
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Print one cycloidal actuator first
Berkeley Humanoid Lite builds should start with one 3D-printed 6512 cycloidal actuator, which costs $188 in US parts. Get that turning before the robot.
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Print the piano action that flexes
Hackaday filed [dovetail]’s compliant-mechanism action on 29 August. Here is how the action works, and how to print one key before you print eighty-eight.
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AWS is working to bring NVIDIA's 88-core Vera CPU to its cloud
AWS is bringing NVIDIA's Vera CPU to its cloud. The chip has 88 custom Olympus cores, up to 1.5 TB of memory and a 1.8 TB/s link to Rubin GPUs.
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Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU
Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.