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Intel announced it has installed the first major structural truss at its New Albany, Ohio semiconductor plant, marking the next construction phase. The project, originally expected to produce chips by 2025, is now targeted for completion in 2030, with a second fab slated for 2031. Intel has not confirmed reported talks with SK Hynix about leasing foundry space at the site.
Best Buy is selling the Lenovo Legion 5i 16-inch gaming laptop for $1,799.99, down from its $2,649.99 list price, a $850 discount. The configuration includes an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX processor, Nvidia RTX 5070 mobile graphics with 8GB VRAM, 16GB RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 16-inch 3K display with a 240Hz refresh rate.
Newegg is selling an ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt gaming desktop for $1,499.99, a $200 discount. The system pairs an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM with a 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
The OpenBSD project has shipped version 8.0, its 61st release following a semiannual schedule dating to 1996. The update adds support for Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards, expands kernel virtual address space on AMD64 from 4 GB to 512 GB to allow mapping VRAM above 4 GB, and introduces ARM64 hibernation support, a new RPKI-to-router daemon, RISC-V vector extension support, and updates to LibreSSL and OpenSSH, while dropping Loongson architecture support.
OpenBSD 8.0, the 61st release of the security-focused Unix-like OS, has launched with virtualization upgrades supporting up to 64 vCPUs per VM, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. The release also adds Intel Arc A-Series graphics support via updated DRM drivers, expands the amd64 kernel's virtual address space from 4GB to 512GB, and includes security hardening to pledge, unveil, and executable validation.
Newegg is selling the ABS Stratos II Aqua prebuilt gaming PC for $2,549, a $450 discount. The system pairs an Intel Core i9-14900KF processor with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GPU, 32GB of G.Skill DDR5 RAM, a 2TB M.2 SSD, an 850W Gold power supply, and a 240mm AIO cooler in an ABS Stratos II case.
AI cloud provider Modal has agreed to deploy Nvidia's new Arm-based Vera CPUs after preliminary internal testing showed roughly double the throughput of its existing AMD and Intel processors for agentic AI workloads. Modal says it will continue using its current CPU suppliers alongside Vera, rather than replacing them outright.
Intel has petitioned the FCC for an exception covering automated guided vehicles (AGVs) used in its chip fabs to move silicon wafers and materials, after such robots were added to the FCC's Covered List banning foreign equipment. Intel says it relies on AGVs from Japanese suppliers like Murata Machinery and Daifuku, and that no domestic alternatives currently exist. The company is requesting a conditional waiver to keep operating and updating its existing AGV fleet without breaching compliance rules.
Best Buy is selling the iBuypower Slate Gaming PC for $899, down $300 from its $1,199.99 list price. The build includes an Intel Core Ultra 5 225F processor, an Intel Arc B570 GPU with 10GB of VRAM, 16GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
OpenBSD's upcoming 8.0 release will ship inteldrm, radeondrm and amdgpu graphics drivers synced to the Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53 driver stack, according to developer Jonathan Gray. The update adds support for Intel's Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) GPUs, and amd64 kernel virtual address space has been expanded to 512G, allowing more than 4G of VRAM to be mapped for uses like Vulkan GPU compute. The release also makes Clang/LLVM 22 the base compiler across Clang-supported architectures, including sparc64, which has now switched to Clang by default.
Newegg has discounted the ABS Flux II Aqua pre-built gaming PC by $500, dropping its price from $2,299.99 to $1,799.99. The build pairs an Intel Core i7-14700F processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, and a 1TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD.
A developer has produced a fully annotated disassembly of the original 8 KiB firmware used in DEC's 1978 VT100 terminal, which ran on an Intel 8080 microprocessor. The documentation cross-references the firmware code with DEC's original Technical Manual and print set to explain how the terminal's functions were implemented.