Chinese robotics firm LimX Dynamics has just shown off the latest developments of its new Biped Robot P1, testing the AI-powered robot and its ability to walk through mountainous forest terrain as well as being hit with a huge piece of wood. Check it out:

The new Biped Robot P1 uses reinforcement training to respond to the real-world, where there are moving objects and disruptions in its past -- a forest setting with leaves, wood, and dirt is great -- allowing LimX Dynamics to train its AI algorithms. You can see the AI robot kicking up dirt as it walks, walking into huge bunches of leaves and getting out of it without falling over.

A human operator is also there pulling at it, and it doesn't fall... as well as being hit by a rather large and heavy piece of wood, the Biped Robot P1 doesn't fault. LimX Dynamics took to the Tanglang Mountain range in Shanghai, China to test out its robot, moving around and navigating through rough terrain meant that the P1 had to be continuously aware of its surroundings, pumping that into its AI algorithm, and responding to it through reinforcement training.

Intel will unleash its new LGA 1851 socket later this year, where it will be home for its next-gen Core Series 200 "Arrow Lake" processors... but it looks like we'll be seeing some Meteor Lake-PS processors also slotting into that new LGA 1851 socket.

In a new post on X, hardware leaker "momomo_us" spotted a new Intel Meteor Lake-PS processor tested for the new LGA 1851 socket, meaning Meteor Lake will be first into the new socket, not Arrow Lake. Meteor Lake was originally launched in late 2023 as a laptop-focused chip, inside, featuring an NPU for AI workloads.

An upcoming iBase MI1002 motherboard is described as an "industrial motherboard with Intel Meteor Lake PS" with a render showing off the new LGA 1851 socket. Intel hasn't made its new Meteor Lake-PS processors official just yet, but if they're like their Alder Lake-PS brethren, we should expect Meteor Lake-PS processors to be aimed at the IoT market.

AMD is currently developing its 5th-generation EPYC "Turin" CPUs based on the next-generation Zen 5 and Zen 5c architecture, and now new leaks tease models with up to 160 cores and a huge 500W TDP.

The company will reportedly have at least 20 variants of its 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" CPUs based on Zen 5 and Zen 5c core architectures, with Zen 5 codenamed "Nirvana" and Zen 5c codenamed "Prometheus". AMD's new EPYC "Turin" processors have been designed to feature drop-in compatibility with existing 4th Gen EPYC processors on the SP5 socket (LGA 6096) with support for faster DDR5-6000 memory.

The news on AMD EPYC "Turin" CPUs is coming from leaker "YuuKi_AnS" on X, who posted a bunch of specifications for AMD's family of 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. Starting with the EPYC 9015 with 8 cores and 16 threads with 32MB of L3 cache and a 155W TDP, we fly pretty high up to the flagship EPYC 9845 with 160 cores and 320 threads with 640MB of L3 cache and a huge 500W TDP.

Broadcom has been silently working on what appears to be one of the largest processors ever made, with 12 stacks of HBM memory, making this mystery XPU a bigger beast than NVIDIA's just-announced Blackwell B200 AI GPU.

In some new photos posted to X by our friend Patrick Moorhead, founder of top-ranked, technology analyst and advisory firm Moor Insights and Strategy. He snapped a photo with Frank Ostojic, who runs Broadcom's custom silicon group, and their new third-gen XPU design from a large "consumer AI company". You can see the picture of the XPU above.

SK hynix has announced it has planned a mega fab complex called Yongin Semiconductor Cluster, which will begin construction in March 2025, with an estimated completion date in 2046... so we're still a while away.

The South Korean giant has prepared at least $90 billion towards the project, which will see four separate fabbing facilities and would be one of -- if not the -- biggest fab complex on the planet. SK hynix will have new bleeding-edge facilities on its site, as well as room for companies like South Korean rival Samsung to build other facilities there.

SK hynix will have multiple facilities up and running before its 2046 completion date, with the first of the four fabs to be operational in 2027. This is just two years after construction starts, similar to TSMC's new bleeding-edge facility in Japan, which also took just two years to build... meanwhile, Intel and TSMC continue to struggle with US semiconductor fab construction with multi-year delays ahead for Intel's plant in Ohio.

NVIDIA's set to reduce its production of Lovelace graphics cards from now on in preparation for the launch of Blackwell GPUs later this year.

That's the latest from the rumor mill, specifically Korean tech site Quasarzone as noticed by Wccftech.

Industry experts in South Korea are cited as sources who are saying that NVIDIA has told its manufacturing partners that it'll be dropping shipments in terms of supply for existing RTX 4000 graphics cards.

The Apple Vision Pro is currently only available to buy in the United States but the Apple website says that it intends to launch the headset in new countries before the end of the year. So far the company hasn't said which countries, but we now know that China will definitely be among them.

That's the news after Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed as much to China's state media during a recent visit to the country. Cook was in China to celebrate the opening of a new Apple Store in Shanghai as well as to speak with local officials and supply chain partners. According to a Reuters report, Cook was asked about the Apple Vision Pro and when it would arrive in the country. The report says that the Apple Vision Pro will go on sale in China this year.

There is currently no firm information on when that will happen but previous reports had suggested that Apple could launch the Apple Vision Pro in new countries before the June WWDC event. other countries are also expected to be part of the 2024 lineup but as yet Apple has not confirmed which ones will be included.

Apple has today released the macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 software update to the public, bringing with it no new features but a number of important bug fixes that are likely to be a big deal for those who suffered from those issues. One of those issues related to a bug that caused some USB hubs not to function correctly when connected to an external display.

Apple's new update is now available for download for free via the System Settings app on your Mac and it's currently rolling out to Apple's servers across the world. If you aren't yet able to download the new update it's important to try again later, with Apple's servers sometimes slow to update.

In terms of fixes, Apple says that the new macOS Sonoma software fixes an issue that caused some USB hubs to misbehave, with users having reported that they could no longer get their external display to work when it was connected to a Mac running macOS 14.4 via a USB hub.

The Apple Vision Pro has been on sale for a couple of months at this point but a new report claims that there could already be a big change in the works, and it might arrive sooner rather than later. If the report is true, Apple is already testing a way to use the Apple Pencil with the Apple Vision Pro, but quite how that will work is yet to be confirmed.

The report comes via unnamed sources speaking with MacRumors and it's said that Apple has already tested a new Apple Pencil with visionOS support. It's thought that the new support would allow people to use an Apple Pencil with artistic and creative apps like Freeform and Pixelmator software, it's thought.

In terms of how that will work, it's been suggested that users will be able to draw or write using an Apple Pencil on a desk or similarly flat surface and then have the strokes appear in an app running on the Apple Vision Pro. The move could make it easier to write notes and whatnot, much like what can be done on an iPad, but while using an Apple Vision Pro instead.

NVIDIA's RTX 3050 received a new spin on the graphics card not so long ago, a considerably cut-down version with 6GB of VRAM, and apparently it's selling well in China.

Indeed, this GPU - intended as a fresh option in place of the old GTX GPUs which have been chucked on the scrapheap - is under 'huge' demand in China, according to a report highlighted by Wccftech.

So much so, that apparently graphics card manufacturers over in the country are increasing the asking price of the RTX 3050 6GB, or that's the word on the grapevine, specifically from the Chinese Board Channel forums.