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Firefly AIBOX-9075 Edge AI box features Qualcomm IQ-9075 SoC with 200 TOPS NPU, 36GB LPDDR5

Firefly has launched the AIBOX-9075, an industrial Edge AI box powered by the Qualcomm DragonWing IQ-9075 SoC. It delivers up to 200 TOPS of AI performance via a Hexagon Tensor Processor NPU, paired with 36GB LPDDR5 ECC memory and 128GB UFS 2.2 storage. The device targets edge AI workloads including private LLM deployment, robotics, and computer vision. It supports popular AI frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX) and LLMs such as DeepSeek-R1, Llama, and Gemma, achieving up to 22 tokens/s with Llama2-7B. Connectivity includes dual 2.5GbE with TSN, optional Wi-Fi 6, 4G/5G, and 8x GMSL2 camera inputs. The rugged aluminum enclosure operates from -40°C to 85°C. It runs Ubuntu and Yocto Linux and is priced at $1,239 from the Firefly store.

$449 CHUWI UniBook 14-inch laptop is powered by an Intel Core 3 304 Wildcat Lake processor

CHUWI has opened pre-orders for the UniBook, a 14-inch laptop priced at $449 (regular $499) powered by Intel's new Core 3 304 'Wildcat Lake' processor. The penta-core SoC is built on Intel 18A and features an Xe3 GPU and 15 TOPS NPU. The laptop ships with 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, a 256GB NVMe SSD, a 1920×1200 IPS display, Wi-Fi 6, and a 53.38Wh battery rated for up to 13 hours. Early PassMark benchmarks suggest performance comparable to Apple's A18 Pro. Shipping is expected to start July 20, 2026, making this one of the first consumer Wildcat Lake laptops available for purchase.

Review: Gamrombo PS5 controller - including Linux set up

A hands-on review of the Gamrombo PS5 controller, a ~£40 third-party alternative to the official DualSense. It works out of the box on Linux via USB-C and Bluetooth, registers as a Sony DualSense, and supports touchpad gestures, vibration, speaker, and 3.5mm audio. Extras include programmable macro buttons and a turbo function. Downsides include no microphone, Windows-only firmware updater distributed via WeTransfer, no charging dock support, and a slightly cheaper feel compared to the official controller.

Top SA computer scientist on IBM’s chip breakthrough

IBM has announced a sub-1nm (0.7nm / 7-angstrom) chip design that packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized surface — roughly double the density of its 2021 2nm chip — with up to 50% more performance or 70% better energy efficiency. The key innovation is a 3D 'nanostack' architecture that stacks transistors vertically rather than shrinking them further. A South African quantum computing expert, Francesco Petruccione of NITheCS and Stellenbosch University, calls it a genuine engineering milestone and highlights implications for AI workloads, data centre energy costs, and on-device AI. IBM also reports a ~40% improvement in on-chip SRAM, easing the memory bottleneck for AI inference. Commercial production is estimated within five years, though significant manufacturing challenges remain.

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.

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.

Ubuntu brings Livepatch to arm64 for rebootless kernel updates

Ubuntu vừa mở rộng tính năng Livepatch hỗ trợ kiến trúc arm64 lần đầu tiên trên Ubuntu 26.04 LTS và Ubuntu Core 26, cho phép cập nhật kernel bảo mật không cần khởi động lại. Tính năng này yêu cầu đăng ký Ubuntu Pro (miễn phí cho cá nhân trên 5 máy) và chỉ áp dụng cho kernel (không bao gồm linux-raspi, nên Raspberry Pi không hỗ trợ).

Là lập trình viên phát triển ứng dụng trên các hệ thống ARM64 như cloud công nghệ lớn (AWS, Azure, GCP), bạn nên đọc bài này để hiểu cách tối ưu hóa bảo mật hệ thống mà không cần tạm dừng hoạt động, giúp tăng hiệu suất và giảm thời gian downtime trong sản phẩm của mình.