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Intel is facing tough times, having lost $1.6 billion in the second quarter of 2024, which is several times more than $437 billion the company lost in the previous quarter.

Apache Kafka 3.8 was released in June of this year, the previous version 3.7 became available in February, and the next version 3.9 is scheduled for release in the fall of 2024. The tool is needed to build event-driven applications and data pipelines. Version 3.8 has security improvements, JBOD support, and the ability to delete configurations.

Wholesale prices for domains will rise from $9.59 to $10.26 on September 1st, according to Verisign, the registrar of ".com" domains. Thus, domain prices will rise by 7%, which is the maximum possible increase given the legal agreements, in particular with the US government.

The DPU or data processing unit is a somewhat new device designed to take some of the load from the CPU and put it onto a separate card in the server. The card itself can handle various management tasks, and requests related to storage and network.

The AMD processor, which is not yet available on the market, scored 55,327 points and broke the world record for 16 cores.

The achievement was demonstrated at the China Joy event on liquid nitrogen. Before this event, Ryzen 9 7950X had the best score of 50,843 points. Uncle Tony from Bilibili presented the achievement. However, it has already become known that the HWBot team can exceed the record.

Intel announced the release of a microcode update for 13th and 14th generation processors, which won’t, however, fix the processors that are already affected.

The faulty microcode causes processors to request higher voltage levels, leading to potential overheating and damage. The update will be available in mid-August via BIOS updates from OEM manufacturers and Windows updates.

The incident that led to a major failure of 8.5 computers was caused by a tiny update file that weighed around 40KB and was ignored by the company's error detection tools.

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Intel has introduced a series of processors based on their new architectural solutions. The main feature of the series will be an NPU unit that will provide high performance for artificial intelligence tasks.

An American startup called Etched announced a new Chip that they are going to release under the name Sohu. The chip is strictly specialized for transformer AI-models, which are the most widely used in today’s market, and is manufactured using TSMC's 4 nm process technology.. The transformer architecture is burnt directly into the chip, dramatically improving its efficiency for this particular model while making the chip unsuitable for other models like CNN, LSTM, or SSM. According to Etched, a 8x Sohu server can be as powerful as a 160 NVIDIA H100 server.