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Vera Performance Revealed: Can NVIDIA’s New CPU Beat Intel and AMD?

The first independent benchmarks for NVIDIA's Vera processor have arrived, and it looks like bad news for Intel and AMD. Unlike the Grace CPU, which utilized mostly off-the-shelf Arm cores, Vera features NVIDIA’s own custom Olympus core architecture built on the ARMv9.2 instruction set. Packing 88 cores with support for 176 threads, the platform is tailored specifically to anchor the company's next-gen Vera Rubin AI platform.

According to testing published at Phoronix, performance results for NVIDIA's Vera CPU were striking: across a geometric mean of enterprise workloads, Vera outpaced AMD’s top-tier high-frequency EPYC 9575F server chip by roughly 11%. Against Intel's Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids flagship, Vera delivered a staggering 55% lead, even matching or outperforming dual-socket x86 configurations.

Vera’s secret weapon is its custom monolithic design. Relying on a second-gen Scalable Coherency Fabric that offers 3.4TB/s of bisection bandwidth across the die (married to a DDR5X memory subsystem...

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Huawei's ‘Chip Queen’ Throws Down the Gauntlet

The plot thickens in the great AI chip race. Tingbo He, president of Huawei’s chip-design subsidiary HiSilicon, says her company’s engineers have developed a novel way to optimize semiconductors—and she believes it will close the performance gap between Chinese and Western chips over the next few years.

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The UK's under-16s social media ban could arrive soon — but here are 8 measures we could see instead

* The UK government's online safety consultation just ended * This, and comments from officials, suggest we'll see new rules soon for under-16s * A ban might not be coming, but some features could be restricted The UK government is expected to announce some kind of social media crackdown

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With a new $100M raise, Princeton’s Thea Energy is now a top-funded fusion startup

Thea Energy has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series B led by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, the fusion startup told TechCrunch. The sum places the company among the better funded fusion startups, giving it an improved chance at achieving a commercial reactor. The new funding will help Thea expand

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Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and beginning tests of new subscriptions for businesses, creators, and Meta AI users. For a few dollars

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Huawei's ‘Chip Queen’ Throws Down the Gauntlet

The UK's under-16s social media ban could arrive soon &mdash; but here are 8 measures we could see instead

With a new $100M raise, Princeton’s Thea Energy is now a top-funded fusion startup

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

The UK's under-16s social media ban could arrive soon — but here are 8 measures we could see instead