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Noctua Lets Intel’s Skylake-X ‘Basin Falls’ X299 Socket Slip, LGA 2066 Inbound

Noctua’s latest announcement is the first official recognition of the rumored LGA2066 socket for the forthcoming X299 Basin Falls platform, which marks a departure for Intel’s HEDT platform. In the past, HEDT processors shared the same socket as the E5 Xeon server family, such as the 2011-3 socket with Broadwell-E. Last year, we discovered the massive LGA 3647 socket that Intel is deploying for Purley (aka Xeon Skylake-EP).

SK Hynix posts record high earnings in Q1 on chip price hikes

South Korea’s memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. posted all-time high quarterly earnings in the first quarter ended March this year, benefiting from the so-called super cycle in semiconductors when prices jump on both tight supply and strong demand to suggest a lengthy boon.

IBM, Stone Ridge Technology, Nvidia Break Supercomputing Record

It's no secret that GPUs are inherently better than CPUs for complex parallel workloads. IBM's latest collaborative effort with Stone Ridge Technology and Nvidia shined a light on the efficiency and performance gains for reservoir simulations used in oil and gas exploration. The oil and gas exploration industry operates on the cutting edge of computing due to the massive data sets and complex nature of simulations, so it is fairly common for companies to conduct technology demonstrations using the taxing workloads.