Intel's Xeon 7 "Diamond Rapids" seems to have made its first public appearance as actual silicon. Intel had two packages on display at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen on October 29, one showing the heat spreader and the other flipped to show the contact side, though photos of them are only now making the rounds. These chips are meant for the massive LGA 9324 socket on Intel's Oak Stream platform, and the bottom side shows a huge pad area to match.

The specs themselves aren't new, since Intel detailed the package design at HOT CHIPS back in August. The flagship packs up to 256 Panther Cove P-cores without SMT, spread across 16 compute chiplets built on Intel 18A-P, along with 1.28 GB of last-level cache. It also gets 16 memory channels with MRDIMM support up to 12,800 MT/s and 128 PCIe Gen 6 lanes. At the event, Intel pitched Diamond Rapids as a CPU designed for agentic AI infrastructure and reportedly announced joint development with Tencent Cloud for its CVM instances. The new Tencent Cloud instances launched at the same event, however, run on Xeon 6+ "Clearwater Forest" chips.

Photos from Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, courtesy of ComputerBase, confirm the company is pushing advanced packaging format as hard as silicon this generation: the top-tier X2E-96-100 was shown with LPDDR5X memory arrays stacked on-package around an 18-core Oryon 3 cluster. This layout is designed to reduce latency and increase sustained throughput for demanding AI and media workloads. Qualcomm appears to be offering three distinct X2 configurations to balance performance, memory bandwidth, and power: a SiP (system-in-package) Extreme with very wide memory channels for peak sustained bandwidth, plus two off-package variants that rely on narrower channels but still aim for high single-thread and burst performance.

The pictured Extreme SKU, X2E-96-100, is an 18-core part with a minimum of 48 GB and a maximum of 128 GB+ of on-package LPDDR5X memory in a 12-channel configuration, delivering 228 GB/s bandwidth. It features a CPU top clock of around 4.6 GHz with a two-core boost to 5.0 GHz, and a peak GPU clock of near 1.85 GHz. The X2E-88-100 retains the 18 cores but utilizes off-package memory on an 8-channel bus at 152 GB/s, featuring base clocks of nearly 4.0 GHz and a 2-core turbo boost up to 4.7 GHz. The more compact X2E-80-100 drops to 12 cores, also featuring off-package 8-channel memory with a bandwidth of around 152 GB/s, a 4.0 GHz baseline, and single-core and dual-core bursts of up to 4.7 GHz and 4.4 GHz, respectively. The chip is built on a 3 nm node from TSMC and offers up to a dozen PCIe Gen 5 lanes, dual PCIe 5.0 lanes for NVMe, USB4, and 3× USB-C, as well as Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity. It uses a Spectra ISP and an Adreno VPU capable of multi-8K encode/decode and simultaneous 8K workflows.

Logitech announced the launch of MX Creative Console, a new product category that allows digital creators to focus on their artistry. With instant access to essential controls and ultimate customization, the MX Creative Console streamlines workflows and automates repetitive tasks.

"Digital creativity is undergoing a massive transformation, constantly evolving the way people create. The MX Creative Console is designed to help people redefine their workflow, enabling them to work smarter and faster," said Anatoliy Polyanker, general manager of the MX Business Unit at Logitech. "With the latest additions to the Logitech MX Ecosystem, the MX Creative Console and recently-announced MX Ink, we are tapping into the key trends of democratizing digital creation, 3D design and spatial computing, and AI-enabled workflows."

Since its launch in 2015, Google Photos has used AI to help you get the most out of your memories - from automatically organizing and resurfacing your photos to helping you edit them with advanced tools like Magic Eraser and Photo Unblur. Today at I/O, we gave a sneak peek of Magic Editor, a new experimental editing experience that uses generative AI to help you reimagine your photos and make editing even easier.

Reimagine your photos with AI
With Magic Editor, you'll be able to make complex edits without pro-level editing skills. Using a combination of AI techniques, including generative AI, it will help you make edits to specific parts of an image - like the subject, sky or background - so you have even more control over the final look and feel of your photo. Sometimes the difference between a so-so picture and the perfect shot comes down to getting the framing just right. Magic Editor will help you improve the overall composition of your photo by allowing you to reposition the subject of your shot to the best spot.