"Intel did not give any reason for the halt to construction"
""Israel continues to be one of our key global manufacturing and R&D sites and we remain fully committed to the region," the company said in a statement"
"The latest move by Intel follows tech giant Samsung Next, which announced in April that it had shut down its operations in Israel and shifted its activities abroad"
…Johnson “has named Reps #ScottPerry PA) & #RonnyJackson (TX) to the House Intelligence Cmte. The #Intel Cmte oversees the entire intelligence community & gets some of the most sensitive intelligence about the #US & its allies.”
AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for modern Ryzen systems. This is for leveraging ACPI CPPC data between CPU cores for improving task placement on AMD Ryzen systems for cores that can achieve higher frequencies and also helping in hybrid selection between say Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. This AMD Preferred Core support has been in development since last year.
Performance gains on AMD 4th Gen EPYC
AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager merged along with other work as part of better supporting the AMD MI300 series.
AMD has continued upstreaming more RDNA3+ refresh and RDNA4 graphics hardware support into the AMDGPU driver.
#Ukraine Considers Banning #Telegram if App is Confirmed as “Threat to National Security”
The Ukrainian parliament has been studying a bill since last week that threatens to shut Telegram down.
The measure, which has proven very unpopular but has garnered the support of deputies from four political groups in the Rada – 72% of Ukrainians use Telegram as their main source of information, a study found last year.
Ukrainian citizens can currently consult Telegram without limits, as opposed to surfing the internet or following news outlets regulated by Kiev’s media law.
PS. #France has quietly pushed blocking of telegram channels, the same in #Sweden and #Germany. But the app itself is still not banned here.
#Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said #POTUS#Biden is pushing him to get new federally funded chip factories up & running….
“He wants it bigger, he wants it sooner,” Gelsinger said.
The #Biden admin announced Wed that #Intel will receive $8.5B in grants & $11B in loans to help it reshore some of its #computer#chip#production from overseas.
The AI boom requires massive data centers that consume enormous amounts of water and energy.
Tech CEOs have plans for hundreds more hyperscale facilities in the coming years, but activists around the world are fighting back to protect their communities and force us to ask who really benefits from the future Silicon Valley is building.
@parismarx
The power consumption of #AI engines and the power consumption of #bitcoin mining have one (key) thing in common:
They both rely on power-hungry video cards to do their calculations.
We need to push the #VideoCard industry to start focusing on making their cards less power hungry. I shouldn't need a 1000watt #PSU to power my computer. #nVidia#Radeon#AMD#Intel
There's a great throwaway line in 1992's Sneakers: Dan Aykroyd, playing a conspiracy-addled hacker/con-man, feverishly tells Sydney Poitier (ex-CIA spook) about a 1958 meeting between Eisenhower and aliens where he said, "look, give us your technology, and we'll give you all the cow lips you want."
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In contrast with leading-edge manufacturers (who have been visibly indifferent to the CHIPS incentives), memory chip manufacturers responded to the CHIPS Act by committing hundreds of billions of dollars to new on-shore production facilities.
#Intel is a curious case: in a world of fabless leading-edge manufacturers, Intel stands out for making its own chips. But Intel is in a lot of trouble. Its advanced manufacturing plans keep foundering on cost overruns and delays.
Linux 6.9 released ( lore.kernel.org )