Qualcomm lands Meta as first named customer for its Dragonfly data centre chips

How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust

NVIDIA ra mắt NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, một nền tảng mã nguồn mở và mô-đun giúp doanh nghiệp xây dựng các tác nhân AI chuyên biệt đáng tin cậy. Bộ công cụ tích hợp các mô hình Nemotron (tùy chỉnh lý luận), NemoClaw (đảm bảo hành vi an toàn) và OpenShell (thực thi bảo mật), được triển khai trong các lĩnh vực như y tế, an ninh mạng và thiết kế chip.

Lập trình viên chuyên về AI nên đọc bài này để hiểu cách xây dựng các hệ thống agent chuyên dụng, an toàn và có thể kiểm soát được, giúp họ ứng dụng kiến thức về mô hình open-source, bảo mật và tích hợp vào các dự án doanh nghiệp thực tế.

Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years

Linux 7.2 is removing two obsolete drivers from its source tree: the DTLK ISA speech synthesizer driver and the Applicom PROFIBUS driver. The Applicom driver was originally ported from SCO Unix in 1998, has had severe coding style issues, was broken for years in early Git history, and has no known active users. Later Applicom hardware only officially supports Windows and has been discontinued. The removals together eliminate approximately 19,500 lines of code, reducing future maintenance burden.

Micron says chip shortage will "improve gradually" in 2028

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra has stated that the AI-driven global RAM and NAND shortage will persist through 2027 and only begin to improve gradually in 2028, with no clear timeline for supply catching up to demand. The shortage stems from major chip makers — Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix — pivoting to serve hyperscaler data center demand, leaving consumer markets undersupplied. Micron posted record Q3 2026 revenue of $41.46 billion, a 346% year-on-year increase. The supply crunch is driving up prices for DDR5 RAM and SSDs, with downstream effects including higher console prices and the Steam Machine launching at $1,049.

The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure

Arm-sponsored content arguing that CPUs play a critical but underappreciated role in agentic AI infrastructure. While accelerators handle model performance, CPUs act as the control plane — managing data movement, workload scheduling, and secure isolation. Arm's Neoverse platform underpins custom silicon from AWS (Graviton), Google (Axion), Microsoft (Azure Cobalt), and NVIDIA (Grace Hopper/Blackwell), all reflecting a shift toward purpose-built Arm-based processors in cloud and AI datacenters. The piece introduces the Arm AGI CPU, built with Meta, targeting rack-level density for agentic AI deployments.

AMD's most exciting AI machine this year isn't a GPU — it's a $3,999 mini PC

AMD's Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform is a $3,999 mini PC powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU with 128GB of unified memory, targeting local AI professionals who need to run massive LLMs without discrete GPU constraints. It can handle 200B parameter models, outpacing even the RTX 5090 in raw model capacity, while undercutting Nvidia's competing DGX Spark (now $4,699) on price. The machine ships with AMD's Ryzen AI Developer Center pre-configured, reducing the historically painful ROCm setup. However, ROCm still lags behind CUDA in maturity — Ollama can still require manual GPU path configuration, and quantization library support arrives later than on CUDA. AMD's upcoming Gorgon Halo platform promises 192GB of unified memory and 300B parameter model support, but closing the software gap with Nvidia remains the key challenge.

Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"

The Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver, added to the Linux kernel staging area back in 2017 with Linux 4.12, is still undergoing cleanup work nearly a decade later. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is dominated by 154 patches targeting this driver, described by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a 'beast of a driver.' The patches focus on removing function wrappers, cleaning up code, renaming functions, and eliminating unnecessary abstractions to bring the driver in line with upstream Linux WiFi driver standards. The RTL8723BS supports 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0, and the goal remains graduating it from the staging area into the formal networking subsystem.

Orange Pi 6 CIX CD8180 12-core Arm SBC gets 2.5GbE networking, smaller form factor, drops battery support

Orange Pi 6 is a new compact SBC (90x90mm) powered by the CIX P1 (CD8180) 12-core Arm Cortex-A720/A520 SoC with up to 32GB LPDDR5 RAM. Compared to the larger Orange Pi 6 Plus, it features 2.5GbE instead of 5GbE networking, drops LiPo battery support, and comes in a smaller form factor. Key specs include dual M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 slots, multiple display outputs, a 28.85 TOPS NPU, and support for Debian, Ubuntu, Android, Windows 11, and OpenHarmony. Pricing starts at $239 for the 8GB model, reflecting the high cost of LPDDR5 RAM, making it significantly pricier than typical Orange Pi boards.