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Hot Chips 2026: Intel Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' comes with up to 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of last-level cache
Premium Intel has pulled back the curtain on its next-gen Diamond Rapids Xeon CPUs, packing up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 TB of last-level cache.
Hot Chips 2026: SK hynix pushes hybrid bonding to HBM5 as AI memory hits 775-micron ceiling
Premium The problem, per SK, is that HBM cubes are capped at a total thickness of 775 microns, the standard thickness of a 300mm logic wafer.
Hot Chips 2026: IBM's first dual-ISA core natively executes ARM and z/Architecture in the same core; all cores run at 5.7 GHz base frequency
Premium IBM is vastly expanding softwarte support on its mainframes with its first dual-ISA CPU core that natively supports z/Architecture and ARM instructions.
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Firm pioneers 3D printing copper coolers directly onto processors using OLED manufacturing techniques with 'pixel perfect accuracy'
Fabric8Labs has created a new 3D printing method that allows for printing copper cooling plates onto chips with extreme precision and intricate detail.
Huawei to open-source its UB-Mesh data center-scale interconnect soon, details technical aspects
Huawei unveiled UB-Mesh at Hot Chips 2025 as an open protocol to unify AI datacenter interconnects, enabling million-processor SuperNodes with lower latency, cost, and higher reliability.
Nvidia shares Blackwell Ultra's secrets — NVFP4 boost detailed and PCIe 6.0 support
News Analysis Nvidia offers an inside look at the ultra-efficient upcoming architecture
Intel reveals 288-core Clearwater Forest Xeon at Hot Chips
Built on Intel’s 18A node, the all-E-core Xeon packs 288 cores per socket and promises big efficiency gains.
