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Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, SDKs, chip designs, and more.

Source: Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry

Source: Intel Schedules Tiger Lake Architecture Presentation For August 13th, Launch on September 2nd

Source: Ampere Altra 1P Server Pictured: GIGABYTE’s 2U with 80 Arm N1 Cores, PCIe 4.0 and CCIX

After months of speculation, Intel is finally announcing the formal specs for its upcoming 10th Gen Comet Lake desktop CPUs.

Source: Intel Unveils Comet Lake Desktop CPUs: Up to 5.3GHz, 10C/20T, and Some Unanswered Questions – ExtremeTech

Ampere has already given a number of details away about Altra in an announcement late last year, however this time around we have concrete details and the company has performance projections. On the back of its first generation eMAG product, Ampere is looking to offer better-than-Graviton2 performance to any cloud provider or hyperscaler who isn’t called Amazon, given that Graviton2 is built by Amazon and only available to Amazon. In that regard, Ampere has taking Arm’s full recommendations for its N1 design, building a chip with the most number of cores that N1 is designed to support.

Source: Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon

Great video on a new treatment for Cystic Fibrosis … My daughter was fortunate to have genes that allowed her to use Symdeko but this amazing news for so many folks that could not use existing therapies.