The Hot Take: Would just consider this verified he joined Intel.
Intel appoints Alex Katouzian to lead client computing and physical AI efforts and confirms Pushkar Ranade as CTO, signaling a deeper shift toward AI-driven and edge computing systems
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Interesting, wonder is he'll be working on any RISC-V stuff for Intel.
Intel has made two big changes: the appointment of Alex Katouzian from Qualcomm in the Client Computing & AI segment, along with Purskar Randae as CTO. Alex Katouzian Appointed to Lead Intel's Client Computing & Physical AI Group Press Release: Intel Corporation today announced two key leadership appointments to strengthen its core product business and advance the company’s innovation agenda. Alex Katouzian will join Intel as executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing and Physical AI Group. In this role,…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Well look at that! Probably was because of the memory crunch so they wanted to head off flak but they got it anyway.
Microsoft has quietly retracted its own documentation that suggested 32GB RAM is the “no worries” upgrade for gaming, and 16GB RAM is the baseline. This support document was likely written using a large language model, and Windows Latest first spotted it before it was taken down. Microsoft also nuked a document that recommended Copilot+ PCs for gaming. Microsoft has a “Learning Center” where it publishes guides and marketing articles to promote various Windows features, and these rank well in search results. It’s mostly used by Microsoft to…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: If this all is true they have a winner on their hands.
Intel's Z-Angle Memory (ZAM) is approaching completion as it races towards taking a bite at the AI boom while challenging HBM as a viable alternative. Intel's ZAM Challenges HBM As A Big Memory Innovation In the High-Bandwidth, High-Capacity Segment Offering 2x The Speed of HBM4 Z-Angle Memory or ZAM has been stirring up a lot of talk in the memory segment. The upcoming memory standard is being developed by Intel and SoftBank & aims to offer a low-power, high-density replacement to HBM. Now, new details have been shared that provide more…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Movies are ALL about the remakes, why not video games and move to competitors engine tech? Sure!
Halo leaker RebsGaming reports that Halo Studios is already working on remakes for the second and third installments in the sci-fi first-person shooter franchise. Halo 2 and Halo 3 are currently in early development, presumably powered by Unreal Engine 5 like the first game's remake; this builds on a previous claim from a former Halo Studios developer, and is now backed by two additional sources, one of whom provided verification to RebsGaming and confirmed the trilogy remakes will proceed regardless of how well the upcoming Halo: Campaign…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Closed source finally making it onto OSS OS, nice!
AMD has taken a major step toward enabling native open-source HDMI 2.1 support on Linux by submitting new patches for its AMDGPU driver. AMD Moves Closer to Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support on Linux With New AMDGPU FRL Patches It appears that the HDMI 2.1 support is finally arriving to Linux as AMD has submitted the new Fixed Rate Link (FRL) patches for its AMDGPU driver. This has been one of the longest-standing limitations that affected Radeon GPUs on the platform. There have been years of restrictions tied to the HDMI Forum (Org behind the HDMI…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: RISC-V breaking the GPU strangle hold on GPU's? YES PLEASE.
Tenstorrent made a bold claim during their TT-Deploy livestream, saying they are going to crush everyone at everything, including AI, with their Galaxy servers. Tenstorrent Galaxy Supercluster Offers 10x Faster GenAI Video, And Destroys Current-Gen GPUs With "Blitz Mode", Offering 350+ Tokens/s In DeepSeek R1 Jim Keller and his Tenstorrent are on a mission to challenge the existing AI hierarchy with their RISC-V-powered platforms. As such, the company unveiled its latest Galaxy Blackhole servers for AI at scale. With Galaxy Blackhole,…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: This has me very intrigued, I just wish Logitech and others with their software control on mice would jump onboard.
Steam on Linux use in March "had skyrocketed to 5.33%..." reports Phoronix, "easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago." So what happened in April? [April's results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March. Year-over-year it's roughly double with Steam on Linux in April 2025 being at 2.27%. Or two years ago for April 2024, Steam on Linux was at 1.9%. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Just what we need Ai specific instructions for them to gobble up all the CPU's now.
APX or Advanced Performance Extensions are the next evolution of x86 as Intel & AMD co-develop new standards for the architecture. APX Expands the x86 Instruction Set, Bringing Faster Performance & New Features That Will Benefit Both Intel and AMD's Next-Gen Chips Two days ago, we talked about ACE (AI Compute Extensions), which is a unified instruction set that aims to increase matrix-multiply performance for next-gen x86 chips. ACE is just one part of the grander scheme in which both Intel and AMD are working together to evolve the…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Looks like they're trying to reach for Cisco's pie.
Ubiquiti has announced the UniFi Dream Machine Beast, a new high-performance gateway designed for enterprise and large-scale network environments. The rackmount system integrates routing, security, and storage capabilities into a single platform, expanding the company’s UniFi ecosystem with a focus on higher throug ...
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