AMD has officially launched its EPYC Venice CPU family, spanning several chips, with performance leadership in Agentic AI with Zen 6 cores. The Industry's First 2nm HPC CPU Is Here, Meet EPYC Venice Family, Packing Up To 256 "Zen 6" Cores & 203 Billion Transistors One component that is really shaping up as the king of the Agentic AI era is the CPU. AMD is leveraging its brand new Zen 6 core architecture that will be used on its 6th Gen EPYC CPUs, codenamed Venice. AMD's EPYC Venice chips are the first HPC product to enter volume production on TSMC's […]

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NVIDIA says that it will be able to make 1,000 Vera Rubin Racks per day following the success of its Grace CPUs in AI markets. Vera Will Be A Monumental Success For NVIDIA After Grace As The Firm Races To Build 1,000 Racks Per Day Since its inception, NVIDIA has been known as a GPU maker, but the company has slowly started to move away from that, and now recognizes itself as a full-stack system provider. That is why the company is making extra efforts to accelerate its CPU roadmap, and while Grace was its first full-on take on a […]

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NVIDIA's Vera CPU trounces x86 chips, such as AMD's EPYC, in Agentic AI workloads, delivering a 6x performance gain with 40% lower latency. NVIDIA Vera's Monolithic CPU Design & Architectural Changes Achieve Over 2x Performance Gain Over x86 CPUs Such As AMD EPYC With Just 88 Cores, Beating 128 Cores Today, NVIDIA is going all out by sharing its full performance disclosure of the Vera CPU against x86 offerings. We just talked about the architecture in detail over here, and now, we will look at the performance capabilities that this chip has on offer. NVIDIA is evaluating Vera across four […]

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Qualcomm has introduced its first-ever CPU designed for Data Centers, the Dragonfly C1000, which leverages the Oryon architecture. Qualcomm Enters The Agentic AI CPU Race With Dragonfly C1000 Chip, Oryon-Based With Over 5 GHz Clocks, Over 250 Cores, & Aims To Achieve Single-Core Leadership One of the biggest announcements by Qualcomm today was its first release of a CPU for the data center segment, called the Dragonfly C1000. This is a chip purpose-built for Agentic AI & General-Purpose workloads, delivering best-in-class power efficiency and TCO. As per Qualcomm, the Dragonfly C1000 is based on a custom-designed Oryon core architecture that […]

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OpenAI has just announced its first custom chip called Jalapeño, which is aimed at AI Inference workloads & produced by Broadcom. OpenAI Designed & Built Its First Custom AI Silicon, The Jalapeño Chip, For Agentic AI Today, OpenAI announced that it has built and designed its first AI chip, which they are calling Jalapeño. Interesting choice of name for a chip that came fresh off the baking ovens at Broadcom, who are responsible for producing this chip. The Jalapeño Intelligence Processor and its first wafer were shown off by OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, and Broadcom's CEO, Hock Tan. This chip […]

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Google is working with MediaTek to bring its next-generation TPUv9 chip, codenamed Triggerfish, to the Agentic AI market. MediaTek-Developed Google TPUv9 "Triggerfish" Packs A CPU That Should Accelerate Both AI Training & Inference Workloads A few months back, Google unveiled its latest TPU family, which included the Inference-optimized v8i "Zebrafish" developed by MediaTek, and the training-optimized v8t "Sunfish" developed by Broadcom. For its next-generation TPU, Google aims to deploy both Inference and Training capabilities on a single chip. The chip is internally codenamed "Triggerfish" and will be part of the upgraded TPUv9 series. Based on the latest report by FundaAI, […]

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The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is entering data centers soon, and the rise of Agentic AI also comes with a mammoth rise in costs. NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Data Centers Will Be Expensive To Build & Will Consume Lots of Power, A Single GigaWatt Installation Could Cost Roughly $50 Billion The Vera Rubin era is upon us. The first systems are already being shipped to major cloud providers who are validating and testing them before bringing them up on scale. With the full volume production already going on, NVIDIA is eyeing an even bigger success than Blackwell. But as these systems are […]

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Intel CEO, Lip-Bu Tan was about to retire from the semiconductor industry, but was asked to do one more thing: save Intel. Lip-Bu Tan was on the Intel Candidate List Back in 2021, But Made The Final Decision To Become CEO After Being Convninced By His Wife & Friends Ever since Lip-Bu Tan joined Intel as CEO, we have seen some radical changes in the structuring of the company. Lip-Bu has turned Intel around. Most of the groundwork was laid by Intel's former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who set the company's Foundry plans and current product line, but Lip-Bu is creating […]

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AMD has announced the acquisition of MEXT, a pioneer in AI-driven memory optimization technologies to help lower TCO. AMD & MEXT To Accelerate Memory Deployment Through Optimizations & Lower TCO For AI Data Centers As memory requirements continue to jump with Agentic AI adoption, major firms are looking towards key technological innovations that can not only optimize the usage of memory but also lower TCO in huge AI deployments. Today, AMD announced that it has acquired MEXT, and this marks a major step for them to accelerate memory deployments while addressing one major challenge: memory access. With MEXT, AMD aims […]

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Amazon says that its AWS Graviton5 is the fastest and most efficient CPU it has ever built and is now generally available for AI and other use cases. AWS Graviton5 Starts Rolling Out To Customers, Offering Better Performance With Latest Technologies Including PCIe Gen6 Today marks the official "General" availability of AWS's next big chip, the Graviton5 CPU. The chip is said to be much faster than the existing generation of AWS CPUs, and also expand their capabilities with the latest IO features. Starting off with the performance, Amazon AWS claims that Graviton5 CPUs will offer up to 25% faster […]

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At Computex 2026, MSI showcased a wave of new OLED monitors, including the MEG X, a new flagship "Agentic AI" model with a host of interesting features (and a name you can actually remember). MEG X, The World's First Agentic AI QD-OLED Gaming Monitor The MSI MEG X is based on a 5th-gen Penta Tandem QD-OLED panel, with a resolution of 3440x1440 at 360 Hz and RGB Stripe subpixels for extra text clarity. In addition to the standard features we now expect from an OLED monitor, such as proximity sensors and burn-in prevention, MSI has now added a litany of […]

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The AI surge has not only led to a global supply problem, but it's also driving record revenue in the NAND segment; however, the PC market has taken a big hit. NAND Suppliers Earn Record Revenue In Q1 2026 With China's CXMT Climbing Up To 13% of the Global Share The latest market report shared by Counterpoint Research shows us the extent of the global NAND demand. As of Q1 2026, the NAND market has seen a massive 3.5x surge in global revenue, driving the tally up to 46 billion US dollars. The strong demand is driven primarily by Agentic […]

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AMD's EPYC Venice CPUs have entered volume production, making them the first HPC product to achieve the milestone on TSMC's 2nm process tech. AMD & TSMC Enter Volume Production On The Industry's First 2nm HPC Chip, 6th Gen EPYC Venice The Agentic AI boom is driving the CPU market up, unlike anything that came before. High-Performance CPUs are seeing massive demands, and AMD, being a leader in HPC, has just achieved volume ramp of its next-generation EPYC Venice CPUs based on the Zen 6 core architecture. The volume ramp was achieved on TSMC's cutting-edge 2nm process technology. Looking ahead, AMD […]

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NVIDIA has started shipping the very first Vera CPUs to major AI firms, marking the official beginning of production to accelerate Agentic AI forward. NVIDIA Vera CPUs, Purpose-Built For Agentic AI, Are Now In Full Production As The Company Hands Out First Chips To Several AI Firms The Vera CPU is the next chapter for NVIDIA's Agentic AI ecosystem, setting the stage for its next multi-billion dollar frontier. Today, NVIDIA's Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, Ian Buck, hand-delivered the first Vera CPUs to four major AI firms who are accelerating Agentic AI forward, these include OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, […]

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LPDDR memory demand in the AI & server segment is going to outstrip smartphone demand massively in 2027, with next-gen platforms such as NVIDIA Rubin and AMD MI400 requiring way more DRAM to meet the needs of AI firms. AI LPDDR Demand Is Going To Push Back The Smartphone Market Massively, NVIDIA Rubin's Demand Alone To Exceed Both Samsung & Apple Incoming memory demand from Agentic AI use cases is going to be insane. We know that DRAM is going to retain its crucial status in powering upcoming AI servers, and future platforms are going to house more capacity as […]

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Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.

AI is great for many tasks, but the costs to run AI are also exponentially higher than those of human workers, says NVIDIA. NVIDIA Highlights Large Cost of Running AI Versus Human Employees, While Suggesting That Humanity's Future Revolves Around The Adoption of AI As AI becomes part of every single IT domain, the costs to keep the entire ecosystem up and running have also grown rapidly. AI firms are spending trillions of dollars in upgrade costs of their existing AI factories while setting up new ones in multi-Gigawatt projects. At the same time, NVIDIA, the pioneer of AI advancements, […]

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As agentic AI now dominates the conversation when it comes to AI computing, investment bank Goldman Sachs is out with a report that agentic computing will drive a jump in token consumption. The bank believes that token consumption will grow 24 times by 2030 compared to 2026's figures as AI queries jump from five billion to 23 billion, driven particularly by non-human agents. Goldman Sachs Out With Optimistic Report About Agentic AI The central theme in Goldman Sachs' report concerns a rapid growth in the use of agentic AI. Agentic AI involves the use of software bots that compute through […]

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