Intel has reached quite an important milestone today with its most advanced node -- Intel 18A -- which will be used for client CPUs (Panther Lake) and server CPUs (Clearwater Forest).

The company has now confirmed both Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest have both left the lab and have been successfully turned on, booting into an operating system and hitting the important milestones in less than 6 months after they were taped out.

What does this mean? It means that the silicon development is on track, with Intel confident that production for Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest to start sometime in 2025. The new Intel 18A process node has also been deployed for an external customer, with the first chips for this customer to tape out in 2025 featuring RibbonFET and PowerVIA technologies (which are available to all customers).

Uh... well, Google isn't in a good spot right now, with a US federal judge ruling that the US-based search giant abused a monopoly over the search industry.

Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in the ruling: "Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act".

At the time of writing, Mehta hasn't imposed any remedies on Google, but the judge may order the search giant to change how it operates or sell parts of its business. The lawsuit itself claims that Google acted illegally to keep its dominant position in the search industry through multiple actions.

NVIDIA rolled out the beta for its NVIDIA App back in February, and since the company has been listening to the community feedback and working on a bunch of new features for GeForce owners to enjoy.

The Green Team has taken to its blog on its website to announce a new update for the Beta app that combines NVIDIA Control Panel and the GeForce Experience App into one, and according to NVIDIA the new update adds a new Display section that allows users to change the resolution, refresh rate and orientation of their connected display. Along with other customizable features such as G-Sync, Surround, custom resolutions, and more.

Additionally, there is a new Video section that adds RTX Video Enhancements and customization sliders for RTX Video HDR. For those that don't know, RTX Video HDR automatically converts any Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) video within a browser or compatible application into HDR videos through the use of AI. Furthermore, NVIDIA has added RTX Super Resolution, and ChatRTX, which enables users to personalize a GPT large language model with their own content.

Cybersecurity is paramount in a world that is only becoming more digitized, and one of the biggest cloud hosting players in the game, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has revealed how it keeps its services clean of malicious domains.

The hosting arm of Amazon took to its blog to detail its industry-leading security system called Mithra, which the company explains uses an internal neural network graph model that assigns a trustworthiness score to a domain. This score enables AWS to aggregate a list of high-quality domains and low-quality domains, which can then be provided to third parties. This system is capable of evaluating up to 200 trillion DNS requests in 24 hours, and detecting 182,000 malicious domains per day.

Very similar to the Iron Dome, which is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system designed to shoot down incoming missiles, Mithra's massive neural network is constantly updated with malicious domain names, preventing them from accessing the network. Additionally, Mithra can send its security information to third parties for further evaluation.

Memblaze has announced it has hit a significant milestone at FMS 2024: the shipment of over 150,000 units of its PBlaze7 7940 series PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs since they launched at FMS 2023 last year.

The enterprise-focused Memblaze PBlaze7 7940 SSD features the Marvell Bravera SC5 controller and the latest NAND flash technology. Leveraging deep optimization by the engineering team at Memblaze and its Unified Framework Platform, the PBlaze7 7940 SSD delivers 2.5x the performance and 1.5x the power efficiency of conventional Gen4 SSDs.

FMS 2024 is this week, with Memblaze expanding the capacity of its PBlaze7 7940 to a huge 30.72TB of Gen5 SSD goodness for enterprise customers. This expansion significantly reduces SSD and server deployments, lowers TCO, and decreases carbon emissions.

NVIDIA is the company powering this global push into artificial intelligence-powered systems, tools, and software, as the Jensen Huang-led GPU maker currently creates the best hardware to train AI models.

The value of NVIDIA's AI GPUs caused the company to skyrocket to the peak of the tech industry, briefly earning itself a staggering $3.3 trillion market valuation and becoming the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.

The valuation of NVIDIA has since corrected, but it's market dominance in the AI chip market has remained the same, which has caught the attention of numerous government regulators. Authorities with the European Union, Britain, and China have already asked for information on NVIDIA's sales of its AI chips, allocation of supplies, investments in other companies, and more.

It was only last month we heard about Apple, NVIDIA and many other big name players in the AI race being caught up in an investigative report that found they all used a public data set containing YouTube video transcripts to train their respective AI products, which is a violation of YouTube's terms-of-service (TOS).

YouTube has said in the past that any "unauthorized scraping or downloading of YouTube content" is strictly prohibited, and it's especially prohibited when that data is then used for commercial projects. Last month, a Proof News investigation found NVIDIA, Apple, and other AI companies used an academic data set containing subtitles from more than 170,000 YouTube videos to train AI models, and now NVIDIA has been caught in the spotlight again with a report from 404 Media.

According to the publication that spoke with a former NVIDIA employee about the company's internal processes, employees were instructed to scrape videos from Netflix, YouTube, and other sources to add to the data sets that are being used to an AI model for NVIDIA's Omniverse 3D world generator, self-driving car systems, a "digital human" AI avatar product, and the Cosmos deep learning model.

Dell announced its company is "getting leaner" with executives informing thousands of employees via a memo it has begun its effort into "streamlining layers of management."

President of global sales and customer operations Bill Scannell and global channels president John Byrne explained in the memo the company is attempting to grow faster in the market by concentrating its efforts on the development of "modern IT and AI" and that it can seemingly achieve that without 10% of it workforce, or approximately 12,500 employees. The layoffs are part of Dell's overall push to reduce its workforce to under 100,000 people.

These layoffs at Dell come only a matter of days after Intel announced it was laying off 15% of its workforce, amounting to 15,000 job cuts and a 26% stock drop. The massive stock drop is attributed to recently confirmed hardware issues with Raptor Lake chips, which is causing a fire internally for the CPU manufacturer. As for Dell, last year, the company planned on reducing its workforce by 5% but ended up reducing it by double that, or 13,000 people.

Microsoft is currently pushing as many Windows 10 users as it possibly can to Windows 11 ahead of the announced end-of-support date in October 2025.

Microsoft announced it was ending support for Windows 10, the world's most popular operating system, in October 2025, which means the popular operating system will no longer receive security updates and support from Redmond. The announcement has caused the slow migration of millions of Windows 10 users over to Windows 11, but Windows 11 adoption isn't happening as fast as previous operating system generations.

It was only in July that Statcounter reported Windows 10 still doubles the market share of Windows 11, with Windows 10 commanding 65% and Windows 11 taking up 29.75%. Now, Statcounter has published new numbers that show Windows 10 has decreased to 64.99%, and Windows 11 has, for the first time, broken the 30% mark with 30.83% market share.

Since the explosion of AI-powered models, academics, teachers, and many other professions have been rightfully concerned about tools such as ChatGPT being used to assist in the writing of essays and research papers.

The easy accessibility to powerful AI models such as ChatGPT has given rise to a substantial increase in the amount of AI-generated content across the internet. Unfortunately, it appears some of this content has already made its way into scientific journals within submitted papers, and classrooms with students taking advantage of these free tools to write assignments and papers.

To prevent the abuse of this technology in the academic setting, companies rolled out AI detection tools. Unfortunately, these detection tools proved unreliable, but according to a new article by The Washington Post, OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, have developed a new method that can detect ChatGPT-generated content with a 99.9% accuracy rate. The new system issues a watermark to ChatGPT-generated content that cannot be seen by the human user but detected by the detection too.

Elon Musk has filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for allegedly being tricked into funding what turned into a for-profit business.

The new lawsuit comes after Musk dropped a previous lawsuit back in June, and much like the previous lawsuit, Musk's legal team alleges Altman and OpenAI deceived Musk by "preying on Musk's humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by artificial intelligence." The new lawsuit is much larger than the previous one and alleges Musk agreed to fund OpenAI with $44.6 million between 2016 and 2020 under the assumption that OpenAI was going to use the overall initiative of open-sourcing artificial intelligence development.

However, according to the suit the Altman and OpenAI made promises to Musk they intentionally knew they weren't going to keep, and that Musk's funding was misappropriated for purposes that would result in for-profit business ventures. Musk has previously stated it was very important for OpenAI's research to be publicly available, or open-source, hence the name - OpenAI. Additionally, the lawsuit points out OpenAI's articles describing its mission to make its technology available to the public.

AMD is not done with the RDNA 3 generation of Radeon graphics cards. The latest rumor from GPU leaker Komachi_Ensaka on X states that Team Red has a pair of entry-level cards coming, the Radeon RX 7400 and Radeon RX 7300.

These new GPUs will use the Navi 33 chip, as seen in the Radeon RX 7600 and Radeon RX 7600 XT. Both cards feature 2048 Stream Processors with a 128-bit Memory Interface built on TSMC's 6nm process node. The XT variant bumps up the memory capacity to 16GB, making it a more attractive option for AI and VRAM-intensive gaming.

Performance-wise, outside of ray-tracing, the Radeon RX 7600 combo sits between the GeForce RTX 3060 and the GeForce RTX 4060. With the new Radeon RX 7400 and Radeon RX 7300 set to use a cutdown version of the same chip found in the Radeon RX 7600, these cards would be GeForce RTX 3050 competitors.

Last week, we reported on a GDDR6X memory shortage that could potentially impact the availability of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards, specifically the popular mid-range GeForce RTX 4070, which is one of the most used GPUs among PC gamers, according to Steam's latest hardware survey.

According to new information from a reliable NVIDIA source, MEGAsizeGPU over on X, NVIDIA already has a GeForce RTX 4070 using GDDR6 (the non-X variant found in Radeon GPUs and cards like the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti). Although it's not confirmed, the leaker claims the new RTX 4070's GDDR6 memory could be rated at 20Gbps, making it slightly slower than the current GeForce RTX 4070 with GDDR6X memory.

The current model's 21Gbps puts the overall memory bandwidth at 504 GB/s, which would decrease to 480 GB/s. This small decrease shouldn't have a notable impact on the GPU's overall performance.

NVIDIA's next-generation Blackwell AI GPU has been reportedly experiencing some issues, which have caused some major delays that will see shipments kicking off in 2025... except for Foxconn.

Foxconn is the only company that has received enough of NVIDIA's new Blackwell GB200 Superchips, so it will be the only company pumping out new GB200 AI servers. According to UDN, they will be available in Q4 2024.

NVIDIA's new GB200 AI servers were meant to be shipping in large quantities in Q4 2024, but the yield issues with B200 forcing a redesign for B200A this time next year, is causing some major headaches for some of the biggest companies on the planet. UDN reports that it was found that the problem could stem from "unsatisfactory" yield rates of the advanced packaging required for GB200.

Elon Musk has said he wants to "give people superpowers" with his brain-computer interface (BCI) implants through Neuralink, which the SpaceX and Tesla founder said will let you "outperform a pro gamer".

Elon wants to increase humans' "output rate." With Neuralink's BCI, he said that there's the potential to have "three, maybe six, maybe more orders of magnitude" of how fast our brain processes signals to the chip.

The SpaceX and Tesla boss sat down for the latest episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, with Fridman saying there would be "hundreds of millions" of people getting Neuralink implants in the "next couple of decades" to which Elon agreed.

Microsoft and the Xbox team have confirmed that Obsidian's new RPG, Avowed, will not be released in 2024 and has been delayed to February 18, 2025. The Xbox social media team confirmed the delay in an announcement that began with the phrase "so many games!" hinting that the delay comes down to too many first-party and key third-party releases on the way this holiday season.

Xbox head Phil Spencer chimed in, adding, "We're proud of what the Obsidian team have accomplished with Avowed and want to make sure they have the best launch possible. We look forward to you enjoying it along with the rest of our lineup of games and updates coming this year and beyond."

According to insiders, development on Avowed is wrapping up, and the delay is purely due to timing - so that the highly anticipated RPG doesn't get lost in a sea of Xbox games.

We reviewed the Lenovo Legion Go handheld earlier this year. The Windows device powered by AMD's Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor proved itself to be a powerful little unit for portable PC gaming. It can play titles like Far Cry 6 and Starfield alongside indie games and anything else that runs on a Windows 11 machine.

Performance aside, what separates the Lenovo Legion Go from competitors like the ROG Ally from ASUS is that it sports a large 8.8" QHD (2560 x 1600) 144 Hz IPS display with a physical design that includes removable controllers ala the Nintendo Switch, a kickstand, and ample cooling.

Big and bulky is not for everyone, so it's great to see that Lenovo is apparently preparing to launch a more compact Lite version of the Lenovo Legion Go with a 7-inch display.

Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3 is the latest version of its popular and powerful AI image-generation tool. It can deliver photorealistic results thanks to what it describes as the "most advanced text-to-image open model yet." For those following the rise of AI image generators, one thing that Stable Diffusion 3 brings to the table - or solves - is the ability to recreate repeating patterns and, yes, human hands.

It's impressive, and the model runs on hardware ranging from an Apple M2 Ultra to a GeForce RTX 4090-powered rig. Naturally, with its 24GB of GDDR6X memory and unlocked Ada Lovelace power, the latter is several magnitudes faster than any other "at-home" option. Still, with TensorRT acceleration and optimization, the GPU can render or generate images in real-time.

You can see this in action in NVIDIA's video, which it presented at SIGGRAPH 2024. The video showcases SDXL Turbo generating an image of "a hot rod, racing in the desert at sunset" in real-time, adding details to the image like adding a canyon to the background as it's being typed in. Impressive!

Silicon Motion has just unveiled its new SM2508 Gen5 SSD controller, the best performance-per-watt Gen5 SSD controller at FMS 2024.

The new Silicon Motion SM2508 Gen5 SSD controller is the world's first PCIe Gen5 client SSD controller using TSMC's 6nm EUV process node, which provides a 50% reduction in power consumption compared to other SSD controllers using the 12nm process node.

The company says that the entire SSD uses less than 7W of power, the new SM2508 Gen5 SSD controller has 1.7x better power efficiency than Gen4 SSDs and up to 70% better than competitive Gen5 SSDs already on the market.

Logitech G's latest isn't hardware but new software aimed at PC gamers and creators. MIXLINE is described as an easy-to-use audio mixing solution, and best of all, it's free. Available now for Windows 10 and 11 users, it's designed to make dealing with more than one audio source a breeze.

"If you have more than one audio source while streaming, gaming, or even just wearing your headphones, then MIXLINE is for you," said Daniel Bowen, Senior Global Product Manager for MIXLINE.

An audio source can be Spotify, Google Chrome, Counter-Strike, Discord, etc. With MIXLINE, audio inputs are on the left side of the UI, and outputs are on the right side. This gives you direct control over routing and choosing where each signal goes. For creators with speakers, headsets, and output streams, it's a great tool to keep all their audio on track.