COMPUTEX 2026 Intel’s upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeon will boost core counts to 192, a 50 percent increase over last generation, the x86 giant revealed at Computex in Taipei this week. But while core counts continue to rise, in doing so Intel has managed to cut thread counts by a quarter. Yep, Hyperthreading – Intel's marketing for simultaneous multithreading – is officially dead. Intel first added support for SMT all the way back in 2002. The technology boosted utilization by enabling two threads to harness idle execution units during a single cycle. While SMT doesn’t double throughput, for certain applications it can deliver double-digit percentage gains. After slowly abandoning the tech across its consumer product lineup, Intel's Xeons are latest to get the cut. Except, wait! It seems Intel may have seen the error of its ways, and is already reversing course on the decision. Intel’s next next Xeon, codenamed Coral Rapids, will bring SMT back. The jump from 128 to 192 is a big jump for Intel, but still smaller than the AMD is making with its 256-core Venice Epycs. If that weren’t enough, it looks like AMD could beat Intel to market by as much as a year. Diamond Rapids is now slated for release sometime in 2027. Echos of Epyc, notes of Monaka In addition to core count, we also got our first look at how Intel will stitch the chip together. It turns out AMD might have been onto something when it started gluing silicon together back in 2017, because Intel’s next round Xeons look more like an Epyc under the hood than ever. We know the chip will be fabbed using Intel’s 18A-P process tech, a refined version of its 2nm-class process tech. Beyond this details get a little fuzzy. From the renders shared in Intel’s press deck, we can see what appear to be two I/O dies serving four vertically stacked compute assemblies assembled using its Foveros packaging tech. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen something like this from Intel. Intel’s Clearwater Forest, which is finally launching after years of teasing, also used a similar arrangement, with four 24-core compute tiles sitting atop a base die containing the memory controller and L3 cache. Moving the L3 cache to the base die frees up a lot of die area on the compute chiplet. In this case, we're looking at four 48-core compute chiplets. In this respect, Diamond Rapids looks a lot like another CPU we’ve looked at recently: Fujitsu’s Monaka. That chip uses an almost identical chip layout, albeit with one I/O die rather than two. While we’re fairly certain Diamond Rapid’s L3 cache will live on the base die, the memory controller could be housed on the four base dies or it could be on the I/O dies, similar to what AMD has done since Rome launched in 2019. If we had to guess, our bet would be on the I/O die, since it would reduce the number of NUMA nodes to one or two as opposed to four. Not a mainstream part Unlike Intel’s last P-core Xeon, codenamed Granite Rapids, don’t expect to see Diamond Rapids deployed widely in enterprise virtualization or storage servers. According to Intel, Diamond Rapids is “optimized for high-demand IaaS, high-perf/thread,” putting it in the same class as its high-performance-computing (HPC)-centric 6900P-series parts. The lack of SMT complicates hypervisor licensing models. Where you once got two threads for the price of one, Diamond Rapids customers will now be getting half as many for their dollar. There are of course ways of getting around this. Oracle rented out its Ampere-based instances, which also lack SMT, in core-pairs rather than on a core-per-core basis, but something like this would presumably require buy-in from the likes of VMware or RedHat. As with past HP- optimized processors, Diamond Rapids will be packing a much beefier memory bus than most folks are going to be looking for. HPC workloads like their memory bandwidth and the next-gen Xeon will have no shortage of it with 16-channels of DDR5. Intel hasn’t disclosed what memory speeds the chip will support out of the box. With that said, Clearwater is already at 8000 MT/s on standard RDIMMS, and Granite could hit 8800 MT/s on MRDIMMS — in fact, 9600 MT/s DIMMS wouldn’t be an unreasonable assumption. That works out to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth per socket, which happens to be the same as Nvidia’s LPDDR5X-packed Vera CPUs. That’s not the only thing we're still in the dark about. Power consumption and instruction per clock gains from the chip’s new architecture are details we expect Intel to trickle out. The good news: we won’t have to wait long for the next round of specifications, as Intel will be presenting on Diamond Rapids at Hot Chips in August.

De kwaliteit van de basisschool van redacteur Denise Retera werd twintig jaar geleden beoordeeld als onvoldoende. Dat is ook nu nog de realiteit voor zo’n 100 scholen in Nederland.

At Saturday night's performance of La La Land in Concert in Sydney, 21-year-old Sterling Nasa took the stage after Oscar-winning composer and conductor Justin Hurwitz asked if there was an 'amazing sight reader' in the audience. Addressing the 2,000-strong audience, Horowitz made the call-out after the orchestra's lead keyboardist fell ill and had to leave during interval. Nasa suddenly found himself sitting at a keyboard he had never played before – a celeste – staring down a complex score he had never rehearsed, including an intricate synthesiser solo

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The US forward’s imperious 45 minutes against Senegal put some questions to rest, while his manager still wants to see more

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It wasn’t hard to see how annoyed US men’s national team star Christian Pulisic was getting. Another US national team camp, another friendly on the road to an all-important World Cup at home, and another batch of questions about his goal scoring drought, and the pressure it created for him and the team.

Before Sunday, the Milan midfielder hadn’t scored a goal for club or country in nearly six months. His dry spell just with the national team stretched back even further, with Pulisic having last found the back of the net on 19 November 2024, during a Nations League match against Jamaica.

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‘Innovative artist’, who was married to George Lucas until 1983 and worked on several Martin Scorsese films, has died from metastatic cancer

Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor of the 1977 film Star Wars and was part of a group of pioneering female editors who were essential to film’s New Hollywood era, has died aged 80.

Lucas, who was married to the Star Wars creator, George Lucas, from 1969 to 1983, died on Wednesday from metastatic cancer, her attorney Deidre Von Rock said in an email to the Associated Press.

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Red Dot Design Award Winners: iT32, iT30Pro, X3Pro, and ML80Bi  

Light Without Limits. Honored by Red Dot

This year, four Godox products — the iT32, iT30Pro, X3Pro, and ML80Bi — have been honored with the Red Dot Design Award. This recognition is more than an award for design. It reflects our continuous pursuit of refinement — in every detail shaped for real-world creation, and every innovation driven by how creators actually work.

The Award-Winning Lineup

• iFlash Camera Flash iT32: Honored as a revolutionary modular lighting system, the iT32 flash pairs with different X5 versions to seamlessly adapt to major camera brands, delivering full TTL and HSS compatibility. Combining magnetic modularity with Godox 2.4GHz wireless integration, this compact powerhouse functions as both an on-camera flash and an off-camera trigger, enabling photographers to shape light effortlessly anywhere.
• iFlash Camera Flash iT30Pro: Delivering “pocket-sized, pro results,” the iT30Pro packs full TTL and high-speed sync capabilities into an ultra-compact body. It sets a new standard with its vibrant full-color touchscreen interface, a built-in wireless master/slave X system, and a one-click quick-release hot shoe.
• Wireless Trigger X3Pro: Serving as a precise command center, the X3Pro redefines wireless control with its highly responsive touchscreen interface. It features seamless Godox 2.4G X system integration, remote smartphone APP control, and a pocket-friendly designed for effortless workflows.
• ML80Bi LED Light: The Godox ML80Bi is a compact yet powerful LED light designed for portable creativity. With the ML-Z Zoom Lens Reflector, it delivers brightness comparable to a 100W LED light. Its modular design supports a wide range of optical accessories, while the built-in battery and optional power adapters enable flexible power solutions for extended shoots.

Where Innovative Design Meets Creative Freedom.

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