It was broken before we got there
Intel has found itself grappling with stability concerns over its 13th and 14th Generation Raptor Lake processors and is claiming that the kerfuffle stems from motherboard makers getting a bit too creative with the CPUs' settings—tweaking voltage curves, going wild with automatic overclocking, and tossing power limits out the window.
Motherboard makers back new AMD chips
ASRock and Biostar last to sign up
All the principal motherboard manuacturers have now introduced support for AMD's forthcoming desktop CPUs with their latest BIOS updates, and another vendor has specifically indicated that these chips will be the Ryzen 9000 series.
Boffins cross DRAM with NAND
Data survives once the power is switched off
Boffins from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled a prototype that marries the rapidity of Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) with the non-volatility of NAND flash memory, potentially heralding a new era in data storage technology.
AMD rolling out new adaptive SoCs
Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2
AMD’s rolling out a couple of new adaptive SoCs – the Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 for AI-powered embedded systems and the Versal Prime Series Gen 2 for more traditional embedded systems.
Unstable Intel high-end CPU patches kill performance
Up to nine per cent
Over the last few weeks, there's been a fair bit of chatter about high-end Chipzilla CPUs, like the Core i9-14900K, throwing a wobbly. Asus has knocked out a BIOS update for its Z790 motherboards to sort it, but it's nicked up to nine per cent off the performance in some tasks.