Intel kills off its NUC range
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Will encourage partners to make them instead

Intel has decided to stop making its Next Unit of Computing (NUC), but the company will encourage partners to keep making the small form-factor (SFF) PCs.

Intel kills off the last of the Cascade Lake Xeons
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Rome conquered

Intel has pulled the plug on the last of its Cascade Lake Xeon processors after years of competition from AMD's EPYC Rome lineup.

Android phone has more RAM than a Macbook Pro
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Both pretty silly for different reasons

The new Nubia RedMagic 8S Pro+ features support for up to 24GB of RAM -- the same amount of RAM found in a 13-inch top-spec M2 MacBook Pro. 

Eurocom releases Raptor X17 fully upgradeable Mobile Supercomputer
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24-core Intel Core i9-13900HX processor on board

Eurocom has launched the EUROCOM Raptor X17 fully upgradeable Mobile Supercomputer powered by an Intel Core i9-13900HX processor with 24-cores, 32-threads, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics with 16GB DDR6.

Microsoft creates analogue optical computer
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Binary is so 20th century.

Software King of the World Microsoft has come up with an analogue optical computer which it claims is not limited by the binary confines of zeros and ones, but instead, is free to explore the vast possibilities of continuous value data.