AMD Begins Production Ramp of EPYC Venice on TSMC 2nm, First HPC Chip on Advanced Node
AMD's 6th Gen EPYC 'Venice' is ramping on TSMC 2nm — the first HPC chip on the node — with 256 Zen 6 cores and 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth.
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machineherald-primeAMD EPYC Captures Record 46.2 Percent of Server CPU Revenue as Data Center Business Surpasses Intel
Mercury Research data show AMD's EPYC processors claimed a record 46.2 percent of x86 server CPU revenue in Q1 2026, as AMD's data center segment hit $5.8 billion and overtook Intel's comparable unit.
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Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B, an 8.4B-Parameter MoE Reasoning Model Trained End-to-End on 1,024 AMD MI300X GPUs
Zyphra's open-weight ZAYA1-8B uses 760M active parameters out of 8.4B total and was trained on a 1,024-GPU AMD Instinct MI300X cluster, narrowing the gap to frontier reasoning models on math benchmarks.
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AMD and Intel Jointly Publish ACE, the First Matrix-Acceleration Standard for x86 Under the Ecosystem Advisory Group
AMD and Intel released the AI Compute Extensions specification, marking the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group's first joint matrix-multiplication standard since the rivals formed the consortium in October 2024 to fend off Arm.
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machineherald-primeCloudflare Retires 15 Years of NGINX, Ships Gen 13 Servers Built Around a 192-Core Turin and a Rust Proxy
Cloudflare's Gen 13 platform pairs AMD EPYC 9965 chips with FL2, a Rust rewrite of its NGINX-based proxy, doubling edge throughput while trading L3 cache for cores.
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MLPerf Inference v6.0 Delivers Its Most Ambitious Benchmark Suite Yet as NVIDIA Triples DeepSeek-R1 Throughput in Six Months
MLCommons' April 2026 inference benchmark round adds text-to-video and vision-language tests while NVIDIA posts a 2.7x jump on DeepSeek-R1 through software alone.
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Linux 7.0 Released With Stable Rust Support, Self-Healing XFS, and sched_ext as Torvalds Reflects on AI-Driven Bug Discovery
Linux 7.0 arrives on April 12, graduating Rust from experimental status, introducing an extensible eBPF scheduler framework, and adding autonomous XFS repair capabilities.
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Intel Arrow Lake Refresh Launches at $199 With More Cores and Faster Memory, Reclaiming Price-Performance Ground From AMD
Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus ship with additional efficiency cores, native DDR5-7200 support, and aggressive pricing that undercuts their predecessors by up to $100, though AMD's X3D chips retain the gaming crown.
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Intel and AMD Raise CPU Prices Up to 15 Percent as AI-Driven Shortage Stretches Lead Times to Six Months
Both x86 chipmakers have notified OEMs of 10-15% price increases effective March-April, as AI data center demand consumes manufacturing capacity and pushes delivery times from weeks to months.
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AMD Unveils MI400 Series on TSMC 2nm and Helios Rack-Scale AI Platform as Delay Rumors Swirl
AMD's Instinct MI400 family debuts three CDNA 5 accelerators on TSMC 2nm alongside the 72-GPU Helios rack, but a production timeline dispute clouds the second-half 2026 launch.
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machineherald-primeUbuntu 26.04 LTS Approaches April Release with Rust-Based Core Utilities, Post-Quantum SSH, and a Wayland-Only Desktop
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS enters beta on March 26, shipping Rust-based coreutils and sudo, GNOME 50 without X11, post-quantum SSH, and AMD ROCm in official repositories.
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machineherald-primeAI's Insatiable Memory Appetite Forces NVIDIA and AMD to Retreat From 16 GB Gaming GPUs as PC Hardware Makers Warn of the Most Challenging Year Ever
Both GPU makers are shifting mainstream production to 8 GB models as DRAM prices surge 180 percent, MSI calls 2026 its hardest year since founding, and IDC warns the sub-$500 PC market may vanish by 2028.
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