• AMD has announced its new Zen 6 Epyc server CPUs and we know, if anything, less about them than we did before the announcement.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Here's the problem: Zen 6 is strongly rumoured to increase the core count per chiplet from 8 to 12, and increase the L3 cache and X3D cache per chiplet by 50% to match.  Which means that the raw numbers of cores and cache do nothing to confirm or deny the 12 core rumour.  It doesn't help that the announced mainstream products focused on 96 core models which would have the same numbers whether that's twelve 8-core chiplets or eight 12-core chiplets.
  
  Until you get all the way down to the bottom of the chart for Socket SP8 processors and find the 8-core Epyc with 48MB of cache which rather hints that 12 core chiplets are not a lie.
  
  Oh, also supported (officially) are PCIe Gen 6 - probably for servers only, and 12.8GHz MRDIMMs - also probably for servers only.  And up to 16 memory channels per socket, which at 12.8GHz delivers close to three times the bandwidth of Epyc Zen 5.

• Ryzen 7 has been confirmed on track for 2028, bringing with it support for DDR6 memory and the new ACE instruction set for matrix operations.  (WCCFTech)
  
  There is no spoon.  As far as I can see some bugger has nicked the entire cutlery draw.
  
  
  
• There's also the "new" X199 embedded CPU which is AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with a much more convenient name and a power budget of 55W.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's competing with Intel's Panther Lake laptops chips and is unsurprisingly faster, although I'm not sure it's possible to manufacture competitively.
  
  
  
• Patreon has laid off 20% of its workforce.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  CEO Jack Conte blamed AI and not his own malicious incompetence.

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