Intel is on a roll today as it has not only managed to bag a deal with Apple, but its cutting-edge Oregon Fab also got a visit by Elon Musk. Intel's 18A Fab in Oregon Sees a Surprise Visit by Elon Musk, Paving the Way for AI Chip Supply Allocation Ahead of TeraFab Bring-Up? A deal with Apple and now a visit by Elon Musk, today seems to be Intel's day. It is reported that Elon Musk has toured Intel's state-of-the-art Oregon fab, which is part of its Foundry business & producing cutting-edge chips such as Panther Lake CPUs on […]

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Intel and Apple have just entered a "preliminary" chipmaking deal, which will see the production of the A21 chips for MacBook Neo. Apple Wants Extra Supply For Its Highly Successful MacBook Neo Laptops & Intel Is Here To Save The Day Currently, Apple uses TSMC's N3B process technology to make its A18 chips, the ones that power the MacBook Neo and its iPhone 16 series. But the recent surge in MacBook Neo demand has prompted Apple to diversify its chip production strategy. As per the latest announcements just minutes ago, both Apple and Intel have reached a "preliminary" chipmaking deal […]

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SK Hynix is being crushed by massive memory demand, but investors are offering assistance to increase its production capacity. SK Hynix Memory Demand Swells, but It Is Wary of Investments Towards Its Production Capacity While Agentic AI shifts gears from GPUs to CPUs, the DRAM demand continues to remain high as both components require memory. SK Hynix, being one of the leading DRAM makers, is already facing severe production constraints. At the same time, SK Hynix is being approached by tech firms to invest in its chip production capabilities. As per Reuters, it is reported that tech firms, mainly in […]

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AMD's EPYC CPU has boosted the company's data center revenue to new heights, surpassing Intel for the first time. As Agentic AI Rages On & CPUs Become The New Favorite, Both AMD & Intel Are Seeing Big Successes Due To Overwhelming Demand In the race for Data Center CPU revenue, there could be only one winner. While both Intel and AMD are enjoying their reignited demand thanks to Agentic AI, the Red Team has managed to grab the largest share, surpassing its rival for the first time in the first quarter of the year. As per DigiTimes, AMD saw its […]

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Gigabyte has launched its revolutionary AORUS RTX 5090 Infinity graphics card, featuring a dual-flow throw cooler & a huge overclock out of the box. RTX 5090s Are Expensive As Hell, But Gigabyte's AORUS RTX 5090 Infinity Is Worth Checking Out Earlier this year, Gigabyte's AORUS Design Lab unveiled a rather interesting GeForce RTX 5090 custom model, which it called Infinity. The graphics card has been designed to offer a premium yet compact form factor that packs advanced thermals and offers the full performance of an RTX 5090 and then some more at a remarkably small footprint. The following are the […]

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Intel's recent comeback has been spearheaded by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who has turned around the company & made it the center of tech conversation. Winning Over President Trump & Elon Musk Was Just The Start, The Real Opportunity of Intel Lies Ahead As CEO Lip-Bu Tan Focuses on "Leadership Through Execution" Intel's success didn't come overnight. Just a year ago, the company's share was a mess, and it was facing internal and external crises at the same time. However, decisions made by former CEO Pat Gelsinger on the Foundry front and a solid roadmap framework, along with current CEO Lip-Bu […]

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Windows 11 will soon see boosted performance through a new feature that Microsoft is working on, called Low Latency Profile. Maxing Out CPU Clocks For Short Duration Could Help Speed Up Windows 11 Apps & UI Microsoft is actively working towards refining the user experience within its Windows 11 operating system. There have been talks about some major changes underway, which will help reduce bloat, cut back AI features, and also improve gaming performance. These changes are part of the "K2" project. While Microsoft hasn't shared any specific plans or timelines on when these improvements would roll out to end […]

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A Taiwanese company has announced its new PCIe AI accelerator card that can run 700B LLMs locally at just 240W, ending the need for large GPU clusters. Taiwanese Company Unveils Its PCIe AI Accelerator That Devalues Large-Scale AI Installations By Running 700B LLMs on A Single Card Skymizer, a Taiwan-based company specializing in AI software and hardware, has announced its brand new solution, the HTX301. The HTX301 is designed for On-Prem AI, offering a PCIe Add-in-Card design and offering large-scale levels of AI performance at sub-250W TDPs. Some of the highlights of the card include: The company says that the […]

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AMD has announced its brand new Instinct MI350P PCIe GPU accelerator, which is the first PCIe design in years and is aimed at AI workloads. The Instinct MI350P PCIe GPU Takes The MI350X Chips, Cuts It Into Half For 128 CUs, 144 GB HBM3E & 600W Power With the Instinct MI350P PCIe GPU, AMD gives enterprise users an option to expand their AI computing capabilities without having to invest in expensive infrastructure. The PCIe design of the MI350P makes it an easy-to-use and drop-in solution that brings lots of performance in a standard dual-slot and server-focused design. Designed to help […]

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AMD's Instinct MI430X GPU will be the fastest FP64 chip, delivering up to 6x the performance of Rubin in classic HPC workloads. AMD Delivers The Biggest Leap In FP64 Compute With MI430X, 6x Rubin Performance & Deployment In The Discovery System at ORNL By 2028 The AI segment continues to push up compute FLOPS in the exascale range through low-precision formats such as FP4, FP6, and FP8. These formats lead the AI spectrum, and while they are important for neural networks, higher-precision formats such as FP64 still hold a lot of value in High-Performance Computing workloads. AMD has always been […]

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GALAX will continue making GPUs under its new leadership at Palit as it addresses the recent confusion caused by miscommunication. GALAX Is Alive & Kicking Under Palit, Working on Current & Next-Generation GPUs A few days ago, we exclusively broke the news that Palit had taken full control of GALAX, handling their entire business and RMA support. The initial messaging between different GALAX teams suggested that the GPU vendor was ending its PC business and would be dissolved under GALAX; however, that's not true. As per new statements, Palit has confirmed that GALAX is not leaving the graphics card market […]

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Rambus wants to address ongoing AI bandwidth problems with its new PCIe 7.0 Switch IP that features Time Division Multiplexing. Rambus Introduces PCIe 7.0 Switch IP with Time Division Multiplexing for Scalable AI and Data Center Infrastructure Press Release: Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today announced the Rambus PCIe 7.0 Switch IP with Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), a new addition to its advanced interconnect IP portfolio designed to address the rapidly escalating bandwidth, latency, and scalability requirements of AI, cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. As AI infrastructure grows in scale and architectural complexity, […]

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SpaceXAI has announced that it will provide Anthropic access to its Colossus 1 supercomputer with 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and is also planning orbital compute clusters. From Land To Space, SpaceXAI Has Offered Anthropic With Multi-Gigawatt Compute Capacity For Its AI Needs Anthropic is starving for more compute for its AI requirements. The company is expanding its capabilities at a scale like none other, while reportedly making in-house chips & working with some big chipmakers. The company also announced a partnership with Amazon for a 6GW Trainium chip capacity for its Claude AI models, among several other partnerships. Today, SpaceXAI has […]

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It's one thing to partner with either one or two major names in the AI segment, but OpenAI got AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Microsoft, & Broadcom to accelerate large-scale AI training. OpenAI Announces Mega-Partnership With AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Microsoft & Broadcom To Accelerate AI The new announcement from OpenAI comes as a supercomputer network partnership that aims to accelerate large-scale AI training. For this purpose, AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA are working with the firm to develop a new protocol called MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) with the goal of improving GPU networking performance and resilience in large training clusters. OpenAI […]

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Biostar is the first motherboard vendor to confirm that next-gen AMD motherboards will be displayed at Computex, possibly made for Ryzen "Zen 6" CPUs. First AMD Ryzen "Zen 6" Motherboards Could Be Shown off at Computex, Or They Could Be A Further Refresh of Existing Designs Out of all the AMD motherboard vendors, it is Biostar that has decided to use the term "next-gen" for its upcoming products during Computex 2026. The company doesn't tell what it means by "Next-Gen" AMD Motherboards, but we can make a few guesses. First of all, we all know that AMD is working on […]

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Before RTX, there was GTX, and the last GTX family, the GeForce 10 "Pascal" series, has its own fan base to this day, as it offered one of the biggest GPU performance jumps. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 "Pascal" GPU Was Solid, But The 1080 Ti Killed AMD's Vega A Year Later And Retained Dominance For Years In May 2016, NVIDIA unveiled its first Pascal GPUs to the world, the GeForce GTX 10 series. Today marks 10 years since the iconic launch, and while a lot has changed in the gaming graphics segment, we all still have beloved memories of the […]

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AMD expects that overall PC and Gaming demand will decline in the second half of this year due to rising memory and component prices. RAMpocalypse Is The Primary Reason Why PC and Gaming Demand Will Decline In The Second Half of This Year, Says AMD In its Q1 2026 earnings, AMD's Client and Gaming segment saw a 23% increase in revenue versus the prior year, reaching $3.94 billion, while declining 9% versus the previous quarter. AMD states that its client side, which includes desktop and laptop segments, saw great traction through a strong portfolio of products, which includes its latest […]

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AMD's MI450 GPUs are now being sampled to customers, and there's already huge interest in the MI500 series within AI Inference data centers. Customers Are Lining Up To Deploy AMD's MI450 GPUs As Sampling Begins, Next-Gen MI500 Also Gains Traction In The "AI Inferencing" Segment During the Q1 2026 earnings call, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed that they have started sampling the first Instinct MI450 GPUs to "lead" customers, and the chips remain on track for deployments at various data centers in the Helios rack, which will see production shipments commence in the second half of this year. Several […]

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AMD has just announced its earnings for Q1 2026, posting a record revenue of $10.3 billion driven by strong demand for its EPYC CPUs & Instinct accelerators in the AI segment. AMD Delivers An Outstanding Q1 2026, Driven By Strong Sales of EPYC CPUs & Instinct Accelerators While Tackling Supply Constraints In The Agentic AI Era AMD's CEO outlined an "outstanding" first quarter for the company, with revenue of $10.3 billion, a 38% increase versus the previous year. This growth was driven mainly by strong demand in the data center and AI segments, which were up 7% year over year […]

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