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Intel announced layoffs of about 24,000 employees (roughly one-quarter of its workforce) as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan cuts projects and halts planned mega-fab factories in Germany and Poland. AMD released the Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, a Zen 5-based CPU with 64 cores and 128 threads that reaches up to 5.4 GHz and costs $4,999, with shipping starting July 31. Micron unveiled the first PCIe 6.0 SSD, delivering up to 28 GB/s sequential read speeds. Apple opened public betas for iOS and iPadOS 19 (working title) and macOS Tahoe, with Tahoe praised for its polish. A web-based Windows XP emulator lets users