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A union representing workers at South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics has called on its roughly 30,000 members to go on strike indefinitely, as part of its campaign for better pay and benefits.The announcement came on the last day of a three-day general strike being held by the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU).The union said it had made the decision after management showed no intention of holding talks over its demands.The NSEU, which represents nearly a quarter of Samsung Electronics’ workers in South Korea, said its actions had disrupted production.

Samsung has disputed these claims.

"Samsung Electronics will ensure no disruptions occur in the production lines.

The company remains committed to engaging in good faith negotiations with the union," the firm told BBC News.However, the union said: "The company has no intention to engage in a dialogue even after the first general strike, thus we declare a second general strike starting from July 10th, lasting indefinitely.

"The NSEU said about 6,500 workers have been taking part in the strike so far and called on more of its members to join the industrial action.A spokesperson for Samsung Electronics declined to comment on how many workers had joined the walkout.A protest on Monday was attended by around 3,000 people.

“In our view, there will be no production disruption,” Jung In Yun, from Fibonacci Asset Management Global told BBC News.Last month, the union staged the first walkout at the company since it was founded five and a half decades ago.Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions.It is the flagship unit of South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group.The firm is also the biggest of the family-controlled businesses that dominate Asia’s fourth-largest economy.Samsung Group was known for not allowing unions to represent its workers until 2020, when the company came under intense public scrutiny after its chairman was prosecuted for market manipulation and bribery.After the NSEU announcement, the company’s shares were trading flat to slightly lower on the Korea Stock Exchange.Last week, Samsung Electronics said it expects its profits for the three months to June 2024 to jump 15-fold compared to the same period last year.A boom in artificial intelligence (AI) technology has lifted the prices of advanced chips, driving up the firm’s forecast for the second quarter.

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Two new change proposals have been filed for enhancing the KDE offerings with this autumn’s Fedora 41 release.

First, there is a proposal to offer a new Fedora Spin using KDE Plasma Mobile.

Similarly, a Fedora Kinoite Mobile Bootable Container image is also proposed as part of that.

Some find success as well using KDE Plasma Mobile on 2-in-1 laptop devices too.

Those are the newest Fedora 41 change proposals for that feature release due out in October.

These changes still need to be approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) in the coming weeks.

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In a major covert operation of the cold war, the Central Intelligence Agency spent millions of dollars to support the conservative party that dominated Japan’s politics for a generation.

has dropped its covert financial aid and focused instead on gathering inside information on Japan’s party politics and positions in trade and treaty talks, retired intelligence officers said.

's financial role in Japanese politics has long been suspected by historians and journalists, the Liberal Democrats have always denied it existed, and the breadth and depth of the support has never been detailed publicly.

It was pieced together through interviews with surviving participants, many well past 80 years old, and Government officials who described still-classified State Department documents explicitly confirming the Kennedy Administration’s secret aid to the Liberal Democrats in the early 1960’s.

By the early 1960’s, the payments to the party and its politicians were “so established and so routine” that they were a fundamental, if highly secret, part of American foreign policy toward Japan, said Roger Hilsman, head of the State Department’s intelligence bureau in the Kennedy Administration.

A United States Senate subcommittee discovered that Lockheed Corp., seeking lucrative aircraft contracts, had paid $12 million in bribes to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and the Liberal Democrats.

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This would make it faster than the 45 TOPS offered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus in the first wave of Copilot+ compatible PCs, and also Intel’s projected performance for its next-generation Core Ultra chips, codenamed Lunar Lake.

Copilot+ PCs can do more AI processing locally on device rather than relying on the cloud, potentially improving performance and giving users more privacy.

If you don’t particularly care about generative AI, locally executed or otherwise, the Ryzen AI 300 processors also come with an updated CPU based on the same Zen 5 architecture as the desktop chips, plus an “RDNA 3.5” integrated GPU to boost gaming performance for thin-and-light systems that can’t fit a dedicated graphics processor.

The result is essentially AMD’s version of one of Intel’s E-cores, though without the truly heterogenous CPU architecture that has caused incompatibility problems with some apps and games.

The company said that the 890M was an average of 36 percent faster in a small selection of games compared to the Intel Arc integrated GPU in the Meteor Lake Core Ultra chips and 60 percent faster than the Snapdragon X Elite in the 3DMark Night Raid benchmark (this was part of a slide that was specifically highlighting the performance impact of translating x86 code on Arm chips, though for the time being it’s true that the vast majority of games running on Snapdragon PCs will have to deal with the overhead of code translation).

AMD says that the Ryzen AI chips are slated to appear in “100+ platforms from OEMs” starting in July 2024, a month or so after Microsoft and Qualcomm’s first wave of Snapdragon X-equipped Copilot+ PCs.

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Companies like Adobe have pledged support for the Windows on Arm initiative, with aims to bring its suite of creative tools to the platform natively.

Details on real world gaming scenarios are still trickling out of Build 2024 and other similar events, but these early glimpses certainly seem promising.

It could be especially ideal in smaller devices and handhelds, like the ASUS ROG Ally or the Steam Deck, particularly if it provides better battery life than AMD’s Z1 Extreme chipset.

At the event, Microsoft also showcased the website WorksOnWoa.com, which is a community-led project to catalogue the games that run decently well on Windows on Arm.

They also announced that Unity 6 will have native support for game developers, with a demonstration showcasing how smooth it runs on a Surface Laptop 7.

If the Snapdragon X Elite or future Arm iterations can deliver better battery life while maintaining the small form factor, that’s really the holy grail of portable Windows and Xbox gaming.

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At a minimum, systems will need 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, to accommodate both the memory requirements and the on-disk storage requirements needed for things like large language models (LLMs; even so-called “small language models” like Microsoft’s Phi-3, still use several billion parameters).

Microsoft says that all of the Snapdragon X Plus and Elite-powered PCs being announced today will come with the Copilot+ features pre-installed, and that they’ll begin shipping on June 18th.

But the biggest new requirement, and the blocker for virtually every Windows PC in use today, will be for an integrated neural processing unit, or NPU.

Right now, that requirement can only be met by a single chip in the Windows PC ecosystem, one that isn’t even quite available yet: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus, launching in the new Surface and a number of PCs from the likes of Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus, Acer, and other major PC OEMs in the next couple of months.

NPUs that meet Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC requirement will be used to power (among other things) a group of features that Microsoft is calling “Recall,” a collection of AI features that will try to make helpful suggestions by keeping track of everything you’ve done on your PC, including attending meetings, opening files, and doing web searches.

On a Copilot+ PC with the minimum 256GB SSD, Microsoft says Recall will take up about 25GB of disk space and store around three months’ worth of events.

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SHIFTphone 8 is the upcoming modular and easy-to-repair smartphone from Germany’s SHIFT GmbH.

This is the first major SHIFTphone update in four years and there are pending patches providing mainline Linux kernel support for this forthcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon powered modular/upgradeable smartphone.

The SHIFTphone 8 continues with being modular and upgrade friendly while being the first model having IP-certified waterproof protection.

There are hardware kill switches, 13 exchangeable modules for the phone, recycle-friendly, tempered glass screen, and other improvements over prior smartphones from this Germany company.

These patches from Linaro prepare SHIFTphone 8 kernel support for this device using the Qualcomm QCM6490 with 12GB of RAM, 512GB UFS storage, 1080p display, and hardware kill switches.

The initial Linux kernel support is enough for a frame-buffer display, integrated storage, battery monitoring, Bluetooth, and thermals.

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A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for an arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more.

Shinji Aoba, 45, pleaded guilty to the attack but his lawyers had sought a lighter sentence, arguing grounds of “mental incompetence”.

“I have determined that the defendant was not mentally insane or weak at the time of the crime,” Chief Judge Masuda said on Thursday at Kyoto District Court.

In July 2019, he burst into the studio during a work day, splashing petrol on the ground floor and setting it alight while repeatedly shouting “Drop dead”.

Families of the victims were seen in the court room, with some wiping tears as the judge read out the details of the Aoba’s crime, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.

The KyoAni studio in Kyoto is a beloved institution, known for producing films and graphic novels that were critically well-regarded by fans - including K-On!

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The orders reportedly fall under the category of ‘Super Hot Run’ and are set to be fulfilled in Q1 2024.

Meanwhile, the key fact of the report is that Nvidia is proceeding with a line-up of AI and HPC GPUs designed specifically for China and to meet U.S. export regulations.

Nvidia’s China customers need more of China-specific GPUs to achieve desired performance levels.

Or maybe it somewhat altered the process of making cut down GPUs to speed up their production or lower costs.

Also, Nvidia has billions of dollars of pre-purchased TSMC capacity, so, it is unclear whether it needs to place an urgent need at all.

Keep in mind that we are dealing with an unofficial piece of information and this one should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

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Intel announced technical details about its next-generation Core CPUs a few months ago.

Today, Intel is announcing the first wave of actual Meteor Lake processors, which Intel says will be available in some PCs starting today—expect to see quite a few of these PC designs announced this week and even more at CES next month.

The two families share many similarities, including Intel’s first built-in neural processing unit (NPU) for accelerating machine learning and AI workloads, but in short, the H-series chips use more power and include more P-cores and GPU cores.

They also include Intel Arc-branded, TSMC-manufactured GPU tiles with either eight or seven Xe cores, base CPU power limits of 28 W, and maximum Turbo Boost power limits of either 64 or 115 W (likely depending on the specific laptop you buy).

The U-series chips are cut back considerably to fit inside a lower power budget.

They all include just two P-cores plus eight E-cores and two LP E-cores, and integrated GPUs with only four Xe cores; the Arc branding has been dropped for these despite their use of the same GPU architecture, something Intel was already doing with the Iris GPU branding in previous generations.

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The world’s leading semiconductor companies are racing to make so-called “2 nanometer” processor chips that will power the next generation of smartphones, data centers, and artificial intelligence.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company remains the analysts’ favorite to maintain its global supremacy in the sector, but Samsung Electronics and Intel have identified the industry’s next leap forward as a chance to close the gap.

Any company that opens up a technological lead in the next generation of advanced semiconductors will be well placed to dominate an industry that pulled in well over $500 billion in global chip sales last year.

That is projected to grow further due to a surge in demand for the data center chips that power generative AI services.

TSMC, which dominates the global market in processors, has already shown the process test results for its “N2”—or 2 nanometer—prototypes to some of its biggest customers, including Apple and Nvidia, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

But two people close to Samsung said the Korean chipmaker was offering cut-price versions of its latest 2 nanometer prototypes in an effort to attract the interest of big-name customers including Nvidia.

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Chinese chip designer Loongson has finally launched its loong teased “next-generation” 3A6000-series processors based on the LoongArch microarchitecture.

As well as the headlining x86 compatible processor came the announcement of numerous partner desktop, laptop, and all-in-one machines — plus a consumer-grade motherboard from Asus.

Loongson compared its new 3A6000 with Intel 10th Gen and AMD Zen 3 CPUs prior to today’s official launch.

As mentioned above, the OC fun was muted due to a hard limit in the BIOS, but it’s always quite theatrical to see plumes of LN2 vapor boiling off a CPU.

The source reports suggest that future desktop CPUs from Loongson are going to make their greatest strides by using process refinements.

Now that it has finally launched, and with the plethora of partners announcing desktops, laptops, and AiOs, it’s likely we will be able to buy some of this new Chinese hardware in the coming weeks or months — for science.

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With its massive core count and extended memory support, AMD’s top-of-the-range 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX was designed to set performance records among the best desktop and workstation CPUs.

But AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro has another trump up its sleeve: overclocking capability.

At around 4.80 GHz, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX has managed to set several records in various versions of Cinebench benchmarks:

Such achievements break ‘the overclocked multi-thread performance world record,’ as AMD puts it.

A 4.80 GHz clock speed on AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX was achieved to make the overclocking results even more impressive.

At the same time, the CPU was cooled by an air cooler, a vast IceGiant ProSiphon Elite featuring four fans, and a heatsink that weighed 1440 grams.

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The rumors are true: Microsoft has built its own custom AI chip that can be used to train large language models and potentially avoid a costly reliance on Nvidia.

“We were excited when Microsoft first shared their designs for the Maia chip, and we’ve worked together to refine and test it with our models,” says Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

Microsoft is part of a group that includes AMD, Arm, Intel, Meta, Nvidia, and Qualcomm that are standardizing the next generation of data formats for AI models.

“At the scale at which the cloud operates, it’s really important to optimize and integrate every layer of the stack, to maximize performance, to diversify the supply chain, and frankly to give our customers infrastructure choices,” says Borkar.

Estimates have suggested OpenAI needed more than 30,000 of Nvidia’s older A100 GPUs for the commercialization of ChatGPT, so Microsoft’s own chips could help lower the cost of AI for its customers.

As Microsoft pushes ahead with even more Copilot features this week and a Bing Chat rebranding, Maia could soon help balance the demand for the AI chips that power these new experiences.

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Although Intel claims to have improved Raptor Lake Refresh’s IMC (integrated memory controller), the new chips retain native DDR4-3200 and DDR5-5600 support.

Weirdly, PC-Online would pair the Core i9-14900KS with DDR4-3200 memory instead of something faster to avoid bottlenecks with Intel’s speedy chip.

The specifications for the prebuilt systems look a bit mild, suggesting that these may be machines that target offices.

However, many vendors have ridden the Raptor Lake Refresh wave and released new 700-series motherboards with better power delivery subsystems for overclocking and fast Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.

PC-Online lets buyers order the prebuilt systems with the unreleased Raptor Lake Refresh chip and claims a shipping time between one and five days.

The Israel-based retailer’s enthusiasm to start shipping its prebuilt systems with the Core i9-14900KS suggests that an official announcement may not be too far away.

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That makes all those benchmarks relative but a tad outdated, especially since Intel’s Meteor Lake is a considerable jump in efficiency and performance, as claimed by the company.

Recently, those Apple M3 chips have been reviewed, primarily to critical acclaim, and we can see how they compare to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and its Oryon processor (via Geekbench 6).

The company is coming out with its first-gen Oryon processor, and not only does it do well against the M2 series, but it also competes very well against the new M3 and M3 Pro (M3 Max is much more powerful due to it having 16 cores versus Qualcomm’s 12).

That said, if we’re being honest, it is Intel and AMD that are Qualcomm’s real competition, as most humans don’t jump between PC and Mac when buying a new laptop and instead tend to stick with one ecosystem or even one brand due to familiarity.

Clock speed, cache size, memory structure, and the chip’s architecture also matter, so AMD often competes against Intel using fewer cores, costing less money, and using less power.

Likewise, Apple is cagey with its performance-per-watt claims, only noting that when matching the M1’s peak performance (so the M3 is not running at its actual higher speed), the new M3 uses 50% less power.

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Qualcomm caused quite a stir last week with its long-awaited announcement of its Snapdragon X Elite platform based on its new Oryon CPU, creating what some are calling the “Apple Mac Moment” for Windows.

During Qualcomm’s keynote, the company went on stage with some fancy graphs and a few handpicked benchmarks, putting it up against Intel’s best 13th-generation Core laptop CPUs and Apple’s M2 (and even M2 Max in one scenario).

More importantly, when we turned around, there were well over 20 Oryon-powered laptops with Geekbench 6, Cinebench 24, PCMark 10, Procyon AI, and 3Dmark WildLife Extreme and Aztec Ruins (pre-commercial builds).

But, similar to Apple, that platform can range from low TDP (thermal design power; basically, how much wattage the chip draws) to very high, with or without fans.

Each time you run a benchmark, the score fluctuates depending on external and internal thermal conditions or any Windows background processes that may temporarily be active.

It is worth noting that by the time Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite hits store shelves, Apple’s M3 line of CPUs (which are expected to be announced this week) and Intel’s next-gen Meteor Lake laptops processors with its beefy NPU and GPU, will be the new competition.

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The announcement was met with considerable excitement but also backlash as some fans reacted negatively that Quiñones now had the role instead of Wendee Lee, who originally voiced Yoruichi when the series began back in 2004.

Lee, a seasoned voice actress known for her roles across decades of anime, cartoons, and video games, appeared to conflate support for Quiñones, a newer but successful performer, as an attack against her.

“By stepping aside now I open the door of Access and give opportunity to an actor who can represent Yasutora Sado with the same love and pride and imagination but with more life experience than I have.”

Viz’s decision to bring Lee back comes at a time when other production companies have similarly found themselves facing criticism from fans displeased with the addition of Black cast members.

Hobbits Elijah Wood and Sean Astin spoke out against racist attacks on the Black and Brown actors cast in Amazon’s Rings of Power series.

Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series, defended Black actress Leah Jeffries when she faced racist abuse for her casting as Annabeth Chase in the Disney adaptation.

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Assuming Qualcomm’s numbers are remotely close to what is claimed, those are some astonishing benchmarks to be thrown around, especially compared to the older Snapdragon 8cX, which is closer to an Intel 11th Gen Core i5.

Qualcomm claims its new Hexagon NPU hits up to 45 TOPs (Tera Operations Per Second) and can run generative AI LLM (large language models) over 13B parameters on-device with “blazing speeds.”

Assuming Qualcomm’s numbers and no restrictions for tighter thermal constraints, Microsoft’s prized tablet PC could be more potent than the current gen Dell XPS 15 workstation and get better battery life than the iPad Pro.

Such a combination would be a remarkably powerful PC that is not only extremely fast but also packs some of the highest level NPU performance known, all while getting significantly better battery life than the competition.

Microsoft is not expected to release a Surface Pro 10 until fall 2024, and by then, Apple and Intel will already have faster systems, but that won’t negate what could be the holy grail in Windows computing.

The takeaway is that the Elite series is just one of the multiple versions of this platform that Qualcomm is set to release over the coming years to hit different PC categories at different price points, possibly higher and very likely lower, to better compete against Intel and AMD.

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Nvidia has quietly begun designing central processing units (CPUs) that would run Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Windows operating system and use technology from Arm Holdings(O9Ty.F), , two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Microsoft’s plans take aim at Apple, which has nearly doubled its market share in the three years since releasing its own Arm-based chips in-house for its Mac computers, according to preliminary third-quarter data from research firm IDC.

At an event on Tuesday that will be attended by Microsoft executives, including vice president of Windows and Devices Pavan Davuluri, Qualcomm plans to reveal more details about a flagship chip that a team of ex-Apple engineers designed, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Executives at Microsoft have observed how efficient Apple’s Arm-based chips are, including with AI processing, and desire to attain similar performance, one of the sources said.

In 2016, Microsoft tapped Qualcomm to spearhead the effort for moving the Windows operating system to Arm’s underlying processor architecture, which has long powered smartphones and their small batteries.

Software developers have spent decades and billions of dollars writing code for Windows that runs on what is known as the x86 computing architecture, which is owned by Intel but also licensed to AMD.

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