Signals from the silicon industry
The latest processor news, official announcements, and benchmarks from established technology sources.
Intel today posted a set of patches for bringing SoundWire support in the upstream Intel AVS driver for Raptor Lake. While Intel SoundWire activities are not new, I was curious to see them focusing on Raptor Lake improvements in 2026 for what will then go into a 2027 Linux kernel version...
Marvell announced its intention to acquire Lumentum in a $115B acquisition to further optical connectivity in the AI era The post Marvell Proposes Acquiring Lumentum to Combine Optical Circuit Switching with AI Connectivity Silicon appeared first on ServeTheHome.
OpenAI expects AI to become a major issue in the 2028 presidential election and is preparing a policy and public relations push after the U.S. midterm elections. The company is also promoting the term “AI compute campuses” for its data centers as it seeks to address concerns over electricity demand, water consumption, pollution and rising utility bills
