Windows XP turns 25, and it still outlives Windows 8

Windows XP is 25. It went on sale around the world on 25 October 2001, and a quarter of a century later there are still people switching it on.

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1. Computing·25 Oct·6 min read

   gpu-unlock frees full AI tensor speed on RTX 30 cards

   A free Linux module called gpu-unlock lifts RTX 30-series BF16 tensor speed to pro-card rates. One RTX 3090 Ti went from 87.5 to 157.4 TFLOPS.
2. Computing·23 Oct·5 min read

   Supermicro packs 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs into one rack

   Supermicro's liquid-cooled NVIDIA Vera CPU rack, announced on 22 October, has 22,528 cores. It's built to run up to 22,500 AI agent sandboxes at once.
3. Computing·18 Oct·6 min read

   Intel Razor Lake-AX targets 700 TOPS for robots in 2028

   Intel's Cho Min-sung told a Seoul humanoid chip conference on 16 October that Razor Lake-AX arrives in 2028 with about 700 TOPS, up from 180 today.
5. Computing·17 Oct·5 min read

   RTX Spark laptop tests: AI wins, Apple keeps the CPU crown

   First RTX Spark laptop tests show Nvidia's chip leading on local AI and strong on graphics, but behind Apple on CPU. Surface Ultra starts at A$4,399.
6. Computing·15 Oct·4 min read

   AMD's EPYC Verano brings 192 cores and LPDDR5X in 2027

   Lisa Su showed the AI-focused Zen 6 server chip at the OCP Global Summit. It's the first EPYC to use replaceable SOCAMM2 memory.
7. Computing·11 Oct·4 min read

   Applied Materials and Intel team up on AI chips at EPIC Center

   Applied Materials and Intel will work together on transistors, chip wiring and Foveros 3D packaging at Applied's EPIC Center, Applied said on 6 October.
8. Computing·8 Oct·5 min read

   RTX Spark laptops hit preorder as Windows opens to AI agents

   NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops, led by Microsoft's US$2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra, are on preorder and ship 16 October. Windows is opening up to AI agents too.
9. Computing·6 Oct·5 min read

   AMD samples space-grade Versal chip for 15-year missions

   AMD's space-grade Versal XQRVC1902 is sampling in a lidless package for 15-year missions. Class Y flight units are due in the second half of 2027.
10. Computing·3 Oct·5 min read

    AMD prices all 31 EPYC Venice chips, topping out at US$14,904

    AMD's priced all 31 of its Zen 6 EPYC Venice server chips, from US$700 for eight cores to US$14,904 for the 256-core EPYC 9996.
11. Computing·3 Oct·5 min read

    Los Alamos switches on its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server

    Los Alamos has its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server running in its Darwin testbed, getting code ready for its Mission, Vision and Veritas supercomputers.
12. Computing·3 Oct·5 min read

    Windows 11 26H2 arrives as a quick, one-restart update

    Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 version 26H2 on 29 September. It installs like a monthly patch and resets support to 24 months for Home and Pro.
13. Computing·3 Oct·5 min read

    Rust 1.99 lets you write C-style variadic functions in Rust

    Rust 1.99.0, out on 1 October, lets programmers write C-style variadic functions in Rust and stabilises raw-pointer layout APIs.
14. Computing·3 Oct·5 min read

    Raspberry Pi's US$30 Smart Display Module puts a Pi in screens

    Raspberry Pi's Smart Display Module went on sale on 29 September for US$30. It slots a Compute Module 5 straight into Intel SDM-ready screens.
15. Computing·2 Oct·17 min read

    NVIDIA patched 114 holes in its GPU drivers

    NVIDIA fixed 114 security holes in its GPU drivers on 30 September. If you run an NVIDIA card on Windows or Linux, it's time to update.
16. Computing·19 Sept·17 min read

    Four Linux kernel root flaws, including DirtyAH6, go public

    Four Linux flaws that let a local user take full control, including DirtyAH6 and TUNderflow, are now public. Kernel updates fixing all four are out.
17. Computing·11 Sept·5 min read

    Nova Lake Mass Production in Q4

    Leaked slides put Intel's Core Ultra 400 Nova Lake-S into mass production in Q4 2026, with 28-core retail chips aimed at Q1 2027.
18. Computing·9 Sept·27 min read

    ASML and TSMC push for 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV

    ASML and TSMC want chipmakers to switch to 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV machines, with pilot lines by 2031 and production readiness in 2033.
19. Computing·8 Sept·5 min read

    LUMI-AI Signed in Kajaani

    EuroHPC has signed with Bull to build LUMI-AI at CSC in Kajaani, Finland, on AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs. It's due in the second half of 2027.
20. Computing·8 Sept·3 min read

    AMD's Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 runs big AI models locally

    AMD's Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 chips take up to 192 GB of unified memory to run big AI models locally. HP and Lenovo systems are due in Q3 2026.

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