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Intel has pulled back the curtain on Diamond Rapids, its next-generation Xeon seven server chip, and the numbers are striking. Up to two hundred fifty-six performance cores, one point two-eight gigabytes of last-level cache, and a move to UCIe-S interconnects — all built on Intel's refined eighteen-A-P process and targeting data centers in two thousand twenty-seven.
Meanwhile, IBM is making a quiet but significant architectural bet, announcing dual support for both its own Z architecture and Arm across its Z and LinuxONE server lines. It's the kind of move that signals IBM is less interested in defending turf and more interested in meeting enterprise customers wherever their workloads actually live.
And on a stranger note, a corner of China's internet has been insisting the Tang Dynasty — one of the most documented eras in human history — simply never existed. The claim is spreading as a kind of elaborate online hoax, which raises familiar questions about how misinformation travels, and how historical consensus holds up against coordinated doubt.
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