AI Hardware News

Product launches, GPU shortages, and market shifts tracked since October 2025.

September 2026

Sep 9
OpenAI says its next-generation processors could be made at Samsung — double-sourcing with TSMC hints at massive volume requirements

OpenAI deepens chip cooperation with Samsung, possibly prepares to Double source AI ASICs from two foundries in a bid to get more in-house silicon to its data centers.

Sep 8
TSMC, Samsung commit to ASML’s newest chipmaking tools as AI drives demand

TSMC and Samsung will adopt ASML’s High NA EUV tools for advanced chipmaking as AI drives demand for smaller, more complex semiconductors.

Sep 8
German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless

Graphics card scams without the core and memory chips are spreading worldwide, with the latest report coming from Germany.

Sep 4
Why Nvidia's 'defensive move' to acquire Hugging Face is about much more than chips

Nvidia’s $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal could protect its open AI ecosystem, deepen ties with developers and keep the platform from rivals.

Sep 4
Minisforum launches local AI solutions at IFA 2026 — AI Agent NAS N5 and AI Mini Workstation MS-S1 use AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processors designed to run models locally

Minisforum unveiled the NAS N5 Max-P495 and MS-S1 Max-P945 at IFA 2026. The NAS and mini-PC are powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, which can be configured with up to 192GB of unified memory and packs a Radeon 8065S integrated GPU.

Sep 4
AMD RDNA 5 GPU Boost Clock May Reach 3.4GHz, up 14% on the RX 9070 XT

Most board partners expect the next-generation GPUs to launch toward the back half of 2027.

Sep 3
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform

Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.

Sep 3
Nvidia PAIR utility joins every GPU in your home into a cluster for agentic AI tasks — tool uses spare cycles to keep agent swarms from hammering one GPU

Nvidia's Personal AI Router (PAIR) clustering utility lets agentic AI workloads take advantage of every spare GPU cycle on a home network, potentially making for faster execution and more private inference.

Sep 3
Lenovo ThinkCentre X Ultra packs Gorgon Halo — AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 shows up in mini workstation

AMD's Gorgon Halo chips are breaking cover. Ahead of IFA, Lenovo showed off the THinkCentre X Ultra with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495.

Sep 2
We explored early DLSS 5 performance with community mods — and the limits of the 12V-2x6 power connector may hold it back on the RTX 5090

DLSS 5 officially releases later this week, but we tested it on the RTX 5090 using community mods to see what kind of performance drop and extra power draw you can expect.

Sep 1
Nvidia pours $3.5 billion into MediaTek — company will adopt NVLink Fusion for its custom AI accelerators

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek as the companies expand their partnership into custom AI infrastructure with NVLink Fusion, local AI computing, and automotive platforms.

August 2026

Aug 27
Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billion — CEO Jensen Huang says AI 'has reached its inflection point'

Nvidia's Q2 FY2027 revenue tops $96 billion as the company commits to buy up to $160 billion worth of memory, increasing its total commitments to $279 billion ahead of a major demand bump.

Aug 27
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report says

Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy open source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as the chipmaker expands deeper into the AI ecosystem.

Aug 27
Nvidia’s 70% growth forecast puts it on track to become tech’s No. 2 company by revenue

"Our demand is much greater than 70%," CEO Jensen Huang said on the earnings call.

Aug 25
SpaceXAI will deploy standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs for Grok's agentic workloads — will use optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 in space with Starmind satellite

SpaceX and xAI say Grok's agentic workloads will run on standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs, with a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 rack carried by the Starmind satellite design from Q4 2027.

Aug 25
Hot Chips 2026: Intel Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' comes with up to 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of last-level cache — next-gen 18A-P CPU also brings AVX 10.2 and uses UCIe-S instead of EMIB

At Hot Chips 2026 Intel detailed Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids', its 18A-P P-core server CPU: up to 256 cores per socket, 1.28 GB of last-level cache, 1.6 TB/s of memory bandwidth and AVX 10.2 alongside AMX matrix acceleration.

Aug 25
Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt

At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed more about its Crescent Island AI accelerator, which uses the Xe3P architecture. The accelerator will use liquid-cooled chips and HBM4 memory to serve inference workloads in data centers.

Aug 25
OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast

128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin

Aug 25
NVIDIA’s Groq 3 LPU Accelerators for Heterogeneous AI Compute at Hot Chips 2026

The newest member of NVIDIA's AI hardware family, at Hot Chips 2026 NVIDIA is diving into the use of LPUs as part of Vera Rubin clusters. The specialized chips from acquihire Groq are being tapped to offer significantly lower latency in the decode phase of inference

Aug 25
AMD Helios MI400 System Architecture at Hot Chips 2026

AMD showed off its MI400 Helios AI rack-scale infrastructure at Hot Chips 2026 going into some detail around how the rack operates

Aug 24
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs

Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry

Aug 23
Samsung Evolving HBM Base Die at Hot Chips 2026

At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung discussed how it plans to evolve the HBM base die to free up more package area for more efficient compute.

Aug 22
Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble

Nvidia has taken an undisclosed minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a 2024-founded developer of land and power for AI datacenters. The Register reads the deal as the latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble: its newer GPUs need liquid cooling and power that most existing datacenters cannot supply, so it is funding the capacity that buys its chips.

Aug 21
Nvidia denies report it will ship Groq-based LPUs to China by year-end — says there is 'no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap'

Nvidia has rejected a report published by The Information that it plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026.

Aug 19
First Nvidia H200 shipments reach China, ByteDance and Tencent take deliveries as Beijing loosens its import block — most licensed chips must stay in Hong Kong, which can't power them

Beijing wants most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland.

Aug 19
Marvell's stock pops 10% on AI chip deal that lets Google buy up to $12.2 billion in shares

Google and its competitors have been pursuing custom chips to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on Nvidia.

Aug 19
Cerebras Intros Faster WSE-3 Turbo Processor and First Rack-Scale CS-4 System

Cerebras this week has introduced a major upgrade to its hardware ecosystem. The company is launching their first rack-scale AI inference system, the CS-4, which is powered by the upgraded WSE-3 Turbo processor.

Aug 19
Nvidia plays matchmaker in Nordics, sources tell CNBC, as AI data center deals boom in region

Nvidia is trying to connect GPU customers with Nordic data-center operators as cheap power and available land fuel the region’s AI infrastructure boom.

Aug 18
China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD

China could become almost self-sufficient in high-end AI accelerators in 2026 as Chinese IHVs led by Huawei expected to supply 90% of AI processors used domestically.

Aug 18
Nvidia's AI moat is shifting from chips to capital

Nvidia still has dominant market share in AI chips, but with competition picking up steam, the company is taking greater advantage of another key asset.

Aug 18
AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030

AMD says its 2025 rack-scale AI system is 4X more energy efficient compared to its 2024 AI solution, though does not produce actual benchmark results.

Aug 17
Intel says it will launch new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in data center — VP Robert Hallock hopes enthusiasts ‘do the math’ compared to AMD

Intel’s Robert Hallock says he hopes enthusiasts “do the math” compared to AMD, highlighting that the company’s new core architecture will release in consumer processors before the data center.

Aug 17
Nvidia's stock has started to come alive. Here's 3 reasons why it can continue

The leading AI chipmaker has rebounded since late July.

Aug 17
PC Partner warns of rising GPU prices and budget card shortages — analyst suggests makers are hiking prices beyond memory costs

PC Partner warns that graphics card prices will rise further in H2 2026 as memory costs climb and supplies tighten and entry-level boards will gain the most. This is how they gain money, says Jon Peddie.

Aug 15
Nvidia turns $5B Intel stock bet into $30B windfall — filing reveals new $21B SpaceX stake and complete exit from Arm stock

No surprises on inflation and new financing developments in the artificial intelligence trade drove the record-breaking action on Wall Street last week.

Aug 15
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D faceoff — seeing double with Zen 4 X3D

We review the Minisforum N5 Max, a 64GB AMD Strix Halo system that combines 10GbE, a 5-bay NAS, and more into a single box The post Minisforum N5 Max Review with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Aug 15
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026 — Testing the BC-250, our interview with Intel's Robert Hallock, and a big week for optical

This week, we tested AMD's BC-250 in gaming workloads, published an unredacted interview with an AMD executive, and published a slew of articles surrounding a new flashpoint in the ongoing AI buildout: optical interconnects.

Aug 14
Nvidia Jetson chip found in Russian cruise missile, Ukraine claims — presence in S-71 'Monochrome' weapon may indicate use of AI tech

Ukraine intelligence claims that Russia's latest S-71 'Monochrome' cruise missiles use Nvidia's Jetson Orin NX modules with AI capabilities, allegedly for terminal guidance.

Aug 14
Older Raptor Lake CPUs are a ‘core part of the portfolio’ for years to come, says Intel — there’s been a ‘sudden inrush of demand’ for LGA 1700 chips due to DDR5 prices

Intel has seen a “sudden inrush” of demand for Raptor Lake CPUs, and it says they’ll remain a part of the company’s lineup for desktop builders “for years to come.”

Aug 14
Intel VP Robert Hallock sets Nova Lake expectations, teases return to Raptor Lake for DDR4 platforms — our full 1:1 interview transcript

We speak to Robert Hallock, Intel VP & GM of Enthusiast Channel Business, about Nova Lake rumors, how the company is focusing on DIY builders during RAMageddon, and how Raptor Lake refresh induced a paradigm shift for the company.

Aug 12
Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?

NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream

Aug 11
Intel upsizes stock offering to $20 billion at $95 per share as AI demand accelerates

Technology giants have shelled out trillions to support insatiable AI demand and the infrastructure buildout.

Aug 11
Intel raises $19.7 billion to help fund future projects as 14A production looms — share sale attracted $100 billion in demand, report claims

Intel is raising $19.7 billion through a stock offering to strengthen its finances as it expands manufacturing capacity, develops next-generation process technologies, and is trying to attract major external foundry customers.

Aug 11
Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests

The 20-core SKU of the RTX Spark that we've known to exist for a long time scored 2,570 points in the single-core test and 23,126 points in the multi-core test. The second, 18-core cut-down SKU scored 2,541 points in the single-core test while its multi-core was 21,776 points.

Aug 11
Minisforum N5 Max Review with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395

We review the Minisforum N5 Max, a 64GB AMD Strix Halo system that combines 10GbE, a 5-bay NAS, and more into a single box The post Minisforum N5 Max Review with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Aug 11
Why Jensen Huang’s $500 billion AI financing plan faces a big risk from China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pitching GPUs as long-term collateral to unlock $500 billion in funding. The question is how fast will his chips depreciate?

Aug 11
AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch

AMD's marketing director shared a screenshot of the Amazon CPU best sellers list, but the four-year-old, $80 Ryzen 5 5500 was at the top of the charts.

Aug 10
GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions

Swapping the executable of a game with a modified file will fool Steam into thinking it's opening that game when it's really just giving you unrestricted desktop access. This is against GeForce NOW's terms of service, though, so you run the risk of getting banned.

Aug 10
Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that because its hardware is broadly adopted, flexible and transferable, lenders can underwrite compute as revenue-generating.

Aug 10
GeForce RTX 50-series GPU prices spike as much as 39% as Blackwell price hikes hit the US — RTX 5070 gets a 36% hike, RTX 5060 up 27% at the median of Newegg listings

After recent news of price hikes on RTX 50-series GPUs in other regions, those same increases now appear to have come Stateside, as Newegg prices for some Blackwell cards have spiked as much as 39% compared to June 2026.

Aug 8
Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites —two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit

Intel’s orbital data center architecture uses powerful higher-orbit satellites to manage LEO constellations, reducing reliance on terrestrial control centers.

Aug 8
China's memory-making champion smashes DDR5-8800 barrier on AMD platform — CXMT chips close the gap with SK hynix

Colorful shows off the overclocking potential on new memory kits equipped with CXMT integrated circuits.

Aug 7
Anthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs — Samsung reported as manufacturing partner for Claude maker

Anthropic has announced its building a team to co-design custom ASIC chips for AI inferencing workloads. This will give it greater control over its compute buildout and allow it to make its AI models specifically more efficient for its designs.

Aug 6
Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price

Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.

Aug 6
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon

AMD announced that it will acquire Taalas to build future model-specific AI inference chips that are purpose built to accelerate single models The post AMD to Acquire Taalas for Model Specific AI Inference Chips appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Aug 6
SoftBank gets $8.2 billion boost from Intel as OpenAI takes a backseat

SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations.

Aug 6
SoftBank posts profit beat boosted by $8.2 billion investment gain from Intel

SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations.

Aug 6
Save $1,400 on this RTX 5090 gaming PC from HP with 64GB DDR5 right now; RAM and GPU cost $5k alone — $5,599 sale price for top-spec Omen Max 45L rig with 24-core Intel CPU and 2TB of SSD storage

You can save $1,400 right now on this Omen Max gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5090, 64GB RAM, and 2TB SSD storage, and on sale for $5,599.99.

Aug 5
SoftBank jumps 10% as Asia tech stocks track Wall Street AI rally

Asian technology stocks rallied on Wednesday after Wall Street's record-setting session fueled optimism around artificial intelligence and growth stocks.

Aug 5
Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.

Aug 5
Frore claims its LiquidJet can drop Nvidia Rubin GPU temperatures by 10°C — can also boost performance by 15% as hyperscalers eye using delidded GPUs in production environments

As cooling becomes a crucial element for economic efficiency of AI data centers, Frore claims that using is LiquidJet coldplate could increase efficiency of token generation by 15%.

Aug 5
Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA

SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti

Aug 5
SoftBank jumps 13% as Asia tech stocks track Wall Street AI rally

Asian technology stocks rallied on Wednesday after Wall Street's record-setting session fueled optimism around artificial intelligence and growth stocks.

Aug 5
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.

Aug 4
AMD doubles data center revenue year over year, but gaming revenue plunged by 31% — CEO Lisa Su says prices have 'weighed on' consumer demand but is 'optimistic' about client market

AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.

Aug 4
Lenovo LOQ Essentials 15 Gen 11 Review: A good display meets a low-power RTX 5060

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 takes the long-running business notebook line into a new Intel Core Ultra generation. Our model 21V7006EUS pairs an Intel Core Ultra 7 355 with 32GB-class memory and integrated Intel graphics in a system The post Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Review appeared…

Aug 2
Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage — optimizations to reduce OS memory footprint have begun

While the company's minimum OS specifications officially say 4GB, most PC builders know that 16GB is the bare minimum for a smooth experience on Windows 11. However, the memory chip shortage and the resurgence of 8GB laptops are likely forcing Microsoft to optimize Windows.

July 2026

Jul 31
We're raising our Apple price target, seeing plenty of good despite the memory crunch knocks

It was a good but not great quarter as Apple worked to mitigate the memory shortage, which impacted the reported quarter and guidance.

Jul 31
AI Hosts And Sandboxes Save Intel’s Datacenter CPU Cookies

This MSI Codex R2 gaming PC is on sale at Woot for $1,399.99 right now, delivering you a rig with a 10-core Intel Core i5-14400F, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.

Jul 30
Are your motherboard's M.2 heatsinks making good contact with your SSD? We tested 20 modern Intel and AMD motherboards to verify

We tested 20 motherboards for proper M.2 contact and were surprised at the results – not all make good contact.

Jul 30
Save 33% on this 27-inch LG OLED 1440p gaming monitor with an ultra-fast 280Hz refresh rate, now just $399 — limited-time deal nets you a big discount on this high-spec panel with Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync support

This 27-inch LG OLED gaming monitor with a 280Hz refresh rate has dropped is on sale right now for $399.99 in a deal that'll save you $200.

Jul 30
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech

High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows

Jul 30
Nvidia's fastest graphics cards get US price increase at Best Buy, Amazon — Astral RTX 5080 now costs more than 5090's MSRP, flagship card now commands more than $4,300

Premium Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards are once again selling far above MSRP, with some Asus and MSI models climbing close to $5,000.

Jul 29
Nvidia employee implicated in escalating Supermicro smuggling scandal, but demand only intensifies for Nvidia hardware

An Nvidia employee has been implicated in the Supermicro smuggling scandal, with his home and desk searched. He's been detained over allegations of forgery and breach of trust. Meanwhile, Nvidia is collapsing its buyer list in order to root out potential smuggling chains.

Jul 29
GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS

A GPU repair shop in the UAE is promising to upgrade the VRAM capacity of an RTX 2080 Ti from 11GB to 22GB by swapping the 1GB GDDR6 modules with 2GB chips and modifying the strap resistors to recognize the new VRAM.

Jul 29
Testing laptops on battery and AC power — Comparing Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, and AMD

We tested laptops with processors from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple to see the differences in how they perform on and off the charger.

Jul 29
MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG review: Panther Lake in an understated mini PC

The MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG is a compact, understated design, providing an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H in a tiny desktop. It’s easy to upgrade and relatively quiet but could do with a few more ports at the back and a more attractive price.

Jul 29
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

Jul 28
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared on the Relentless podcast that artificial intelligence has entered the technological singularity.

Jul 28
Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of chip smuggling probe — held on suspicion of falsifying business documents, company says smuggling 'a nonstarter'

Taiwan's prosecutors say they've detained a man surnamed Chang on suspicion of falsifying business documents, after investigators searched his home and workplace.

Jul 28
Re-examining the DDR4 gaming gap with Intel’s LGA 1700 CPUs in mid-2026 — performance drops of 14% on average, and up to 25% in some games

Given the unprecedented surge in memory prices, we’re looking back on Intel’s LGA 1700 stack of CPUs to see how DDR4 and DDR5 match up with our modern gaming suite in 2026.

Jul 28
Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the site

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease SB Energy's 10 GW data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, with Nvidia in discussions to guarantee roughly $250 billion of the financing behind it.

Jul 28
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch

With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads - but gone before they arrived

Jul 28
Apple touches $5 trillion market cap for first time

The jockeying between Apple and Nvidia reflects a debate about the future of AI that has preoccupied investors this summer.

Jul 28
Apple plans to lease iPhones for $17.99 a month through partnership with Klarna

Apple is announcing an iPhone lease option weeks after raising iPad and Mac prices due to the global memory shortage.

Jul 27
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach

Industry leading tech companies have formed an "Open Secure AI Alliance" that will build open-source models, agent harnesses, and cybersecurity tools, arguing that defenders need locally controlled AI after closed-model safeguards reportedly obstructed analysis of the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach.

Jul 27
Apple ends day as world's most valuable company, passing Nvidia

Nvidia had held the top spot as the most valuable company since June 2025, when it took the crown from Microsoft.

Jul 26
This Senao SA9832v2 is an Intel Amston Lake-Powered Cloud SASE Gateway

At Computex 2026 Senao was showing off its latest wired SASE gateway, the SA9832v2, which is powered by Intel's elusive Atom X7 "Amston Lake" SoC The post This Senao SA9832v2 is an Intel Amston Lake-Powered Cloud SASE Gateway appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 25
'RAM Machine' case probably costs more than the entire build — Nvidia RTX 5060, Core Ultra 5 CPU, and 32GB DDR5-8200 RAM are hiding inside

A Redditor is giving away an RTX 5060 gaming PC that's covered by RAM on the outside and has 32GB of RAM on the inside. You can join the sweepstakes simply by leaving a comment on the post.

Jul 25
Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake's View u2660T-170 slashed by 33%

Thermaltake has a no-brainer deal up on Woot right now where it'll let you have an $1,800 PC for as little as 1,177. For that price, you're getting an RTX 5060 Ti (8GB), a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 1TB M. 2 NVMe SSD, and a nice ARGB case.

Jul 25
Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion AI partnership — plan to supercharge AI infrastructure with next-gen memory and massive AI factories

Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion strategic partnership focused on long-term memory supply, 2 GW AI data center, and future AI infrastructure

Jul 25
Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support

Geekbench 7 is out with major overhauls to scoring, CPU and GPU benchmarks. We have already been testing with it The post Geekbench 7 is Out with a Major Overhaul appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 24
AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts embedded Ryzen AI 'Strix Halo' chips into robots – APUs for physical AI bring Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake

Countering Intel’s recent moves, AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs to the realm of robots, and physical AI. Designed for 24/7 operation and a 10-year embedded lifecycle, X100 will also be offered as a Kria System on Module (SOM) robot developer platform.

Jul 24
Nvidia and 24 other companies sign open-weights letter as Washington weighs Chinese AI model ban — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google absent from the list

Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter.

Jul 24
AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’

Nvidia took the first stab with its Vera results earlier this week, and now AMD is biting back with SPEC results for its Zen 6 ‘Venice’ CPUs, as well.

Jul 24
AMD and Cerebras partner on low-latency, high-throughput AI inference — EPYC processors in Helios rack-scale infrastructure paired with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) solutions

When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.

Jul 24
Oil spurs a sell-off, Trump's new tariffs, Intel earnings and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Jul 24
Intel rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years, but shares sink

Intel's revenue jumped 25%, the most robust growth for any period since the third quarter of 2011.

Jul 23
Nvidia deep dives Vera CPU for AI data centers — SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks revealed, Olympus architecture specifics, and more

We go into a framework for normalizing NVIDIA Vera benchmarks from its latest whitepaper to some of AMD EPYC Turin's other parts The post Normalizing NVIDIA Vera Benchmarks to AMD EPYC Turin A Framework appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 23
Google reportedly developing 'Frozen v2' chip with Gemini's architecture etched into the silicon — engineers project 6 to 10 times more tokens per watt than latest TPUs

Google is developing a server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2," that would etch part of its Gemini model's architecture directly into the silicon.

Jul 23
IBM lowers full-year forecast after earnings warning

IBM is now looking to improve productivity with artificial intelligence, including with a new coding tool called Bob.

Jul 23
AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center

AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.

Jul 23
AMD’s 256-core Epyc 9996 ‘Venice’ claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon competition, 20% over Nvidia Vera – Zen 6 comes with up to 1024MB of L3, 16-channel memory, and 5GHz+ clock speeds

After over a year of teases, AMD has finally provided details on its 256-core Venice CPU with the Zen 6 architecture, now known as the Epyc 9996.

Jul 23
AI memory shortage is now increasing the price of cars — GM warns of vast cost increases, BYD hikes driver assistance prices 20%

GM CFO Paul Jacobson says that the company's costs are expected to increase by $1. 5 to $2 billion, primarily due to increasing memory chip costs. The move comes as the RAM shortage is affecting the automotive industry, right as cars are requiring more memory and storage due to infotainment and ADAS features.

Jul 23
Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon

Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on.

Jul 23
Intel's stock jumps as chipmaker rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years

Intel rallied after the company reported blowout earnings and guidance.

Jul 23
Intel stock is down 27% from June record highs. How the chipmaker can reverse the slide

The report comes at a critical time for optimistic investors like us at the Club.

Jul 22
TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027, report claims — plans to raise baseline prices by 5% to 10% on advanced nodes

TSMC reportedly intends to increase prices of wafers it processes citing demand, rising costs, and increased investments in new capacity.

Jul 22
Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised several points against the rising sentiment in Washington that U. S. firms should be prevented from accessing Chinese AI models.

Jul 22
AMD to supply Anthropic with 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs — will invest up to $5 billion in the Claude developer, which is already using MI355X GPUs

Anthropic's agreement with AMD is the latest in a string of infrastructure deals the company has announced this year to increase its computing capacity.

Jul 22
Nvidia's new Synthetic Video Detector can identify fake AI videos with up to 92% accuracy — microservice based on cutting-edge research looks to combat misinformation in broadcasts with just 22ms processing time

Nvidia has just created an antidote to the virus that is AI misinformation. The company's new Synthetic Video Detector can help broadcasters assess 1080p footage at scale with processing times of just 22ms and up 92% accuracy for uncompressed videos.

Jul 21
Nvidia shows off DLSS 5 with three AI modes for different levels of detail — upscaler can switch between models in real-time

NVIDIA this morning has released a trove of new technical details on Vera, their upcoming server CPU, as well as the Olympus CPU core. The company is also publishing the first SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks, giving us our best look yet at the performance of the chip The post Diving Deeper on…

Jul 21
Behind the scenes at Nvidia's Engineering SuperLab — Vera Rubin NVL72 running OpenAI workloads, 800VDC demonstrated, and more

Nvidia gave Tom’s Hardware an exclusive look inside its previously undisclosed Engineering SuperLab near Nvidia HQ, where we saw Vera Rubin NVL72 in action.

Jul 21
Nvidia details Rubin architectural optimizations for inference – improvements target better performance and efficiency from the GPU to the rack

Nvidia has detailed new features of its Rubin architecture.

Jul 21
Nvidia has shipped 'hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers’ — GPU firm pivots messaging as CPUs take center stage in agentic data centers

As Nvidia continues to roll out Vera, its first custom CPU for agentic AI, it revealed that its last-gen Grace design has seen mass deployments, even as a standalone CPU for non-agentic workloads.

Jul 21
Intel to co-develop and manufacture Fortinet's next-gen firewall ASIC on Intel 4 — node gets its first named external customer

Fortinet is the latest Intel Foundry customer as the companies disclosed that the FortiSP6 will be a collaboration with Intel The post Intel Foundry Nabs A Custom ASIC Win with Fortinet appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 21
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”

Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient.

Jul 20
Microsoft will deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI accelerator ‘at scale’ on Azure – Radeon Instinct MI455X and Epyc Venice power will be available through Redmond’s cloud infrastructure

We have been seeing the AMD Instinct MI350P 144GB HBM3E PCIe accelerator everywhere over the past few weeks as this appears to be a popular GPU The post The AMD Instinct MI350P is a HBM PCIe AI Accelerator That Has Been All Over appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 20
Bezos backs CuspAI as startup teams up with Nvidia to hunt for chipmaking materials

CuspAI is part of a new wave of companies looking to use AI to solve challenges in the physical world.

Jul 19
MSI Slyly Shows off an Upcoming DLC AMD EPYC Venice Platform With CD182-S6091-X2 Servers and Racks

AMD's EPYC Venice is coming, and OEMs are eager to show off their upcoming wares. At Computex we caught MSI's CD182-S6091-X2 (DLC), a liquid cooled dual socket 1OU2N server node The post MSI Slyly Shows off an Upcoming DLC AMD EPYC Venice Platform With CD182-S6091-X2 Servers and Racks appeared first…

Jul 18
AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7700X3D plummets to $279 days after launch — the X3D chip rules the mid-range at its discounted price

The Ryzen 7 7700X3D has suddenly become a solid value thanks to a $50 promo code, knocking its price down from $329 to just $279 on Newegg.

Jul 18
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s trademark leather jacket raises nearly $1 Million at charity auction — bidding makes $60,000 valuation look like pocket change

The high price for the garment is a sign that collectors are looking to bid on artifacts and collectibles from the artificial intelligence boom.

Jul 17
Get AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7700X3D with 16GB of RAM and a motherboard for just $450 — save 31% on a B650M Micro ATX and G.Skill DDR5 for an epic small build

Save over 31% on the price of this Newegg 7700X3D bundle. CPU, motherboard, and RAM combo is just $450 after discounts.

Jul 17
Nvidia's Huang vows to deliver 'giant amounts' of Vera Rubin — company says that 'our roadmap is intact'

Chief executive of Nvidia says the company is on track to produce 'giant amounts' of Vera Rubin-based machines, but fails to address rumored delays of Kyber NVL144 racks from 2027 to 2028.

Jul 17
The AMD Instinct MI350P is a HBM PCIe AI Accelerator That Has Been All Over

We have been seeing the AMD Instinct MI350P 144GB HBM3E PCIe accelerator everywhere over the past few weeks as this appears to be a popular GPU The post The AMD Instinct MI350P is a HBM PCIe AI Accelerator That Has Been All Over appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 17
Leather jacket worn by Nvidia CEO goes for just under $1 million at Sotheby's auction

The high price for the garment is a sign that collectors are looking to bid on artifacts and collectibles from the artificial intelligence boom.

Jul 16
TSMC second-quarter profit jumps over 77%, beating estimates, on high-end chip boom

TSMC announced a second-quarter profit, following its June revenue figures released earlier this week.

Jul 16
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is exclusive to Newegg in North America — $329 CPU won't be available at other vendors until at least Q4

AMD's newest CPU, the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, costs $329 and is available exclusively at Newegg in Canada and the United States till the end of Q3 2026. It's a great gaming performer but there are better options if you want a good all-rounder chip for professional tasks as well.

Jul 16
Nvidia and Japan unveil world's first national AI infrastructure — Noetra consortium to build a 140MW Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs

Nvidia today announced that it's working with Japan's Noetra Corp. to build a 140-megawatt AI factory packing 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs.

Jul 16
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D review: A slower 7800X3D, but not necessarily a cheaper one

The 7700X3D is a 7800X3D with lower boost clock speeds, but it doesn’t deliver the same value as we’ve seen with previous versions of this segmentation.

Jul 16
TSMC commits another $100 billion to Arizona for at least four more 2nm fabs — 2026 capex could hit $64 billion following another record quarterly earnings

TSMC will invest an additional $100 billion in the U. S. to build at least four more chipmaking plants and advanced packaging facilities in Arizona.

Jul 16
TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

Jul 16
Nvidia-backed Fireworks hits $17.5 billion valuation as companies pursue cheaper AI models

Fireworks once relied heavily on revenue from coding startup Cursor, but has diversified in the past year as more companies reach for lower-cost AI models.

Jul 15
ASRock Phantom Gaming and Steel Legend 360 LCD review: An impressive cooling debut

ASRock has entered the cooling market with the Phantom Gaming 360 LCD and Steel Legend 360 LCD AIOs. We’ve tested both liquid coolers with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D to benchmark their thermal proficiency.

Jul 15
Intel's EMIB packaging gains traction as chip designers look to skirt TSMC's CoWoS constraints — Google's reported decision for 9th-gen TPUs highlights Intel's attractive alternative

Google has reportedly chosen Intel's EMIB-T over TSMC's CoWoS-L for its next-generation TPU, codenamed Humufish. But will Google be alone in its alleged decision?

Jul 15
Intel invests $5.7 billion in Ireland fab — aims to boost output of Xeon 6, next-gen Xeon products built on Intel 3 process

We take a quick look at the Noctua NH-U14S DX4677 with the new Intel Xeon 600 series for workstations to see how it works The post Noctua NH-U14S DX4677 Quick Look With the Intel Xeon 600 Series appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 14
US gov't allows Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase Nvidia H200 AI chips — firm joins Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance in access to Hopper tech

The United States has licensed Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase restricted Nvidia H200 AI chips, but Chinese regulators and domestic procurement initiatives may limit the material impact of the change.

Jul 14
AMD FSR Multi-Frame Generation with 8x mode spotted — experimental driver settings could hint at FSR's next evolution

Experimental options discovered in AMD's latest Radeon driver suggest the company is preparing next-generation FSR technologies, but there's no confirmation whether 8x Multi-Frame Generation mode will ever ship in its current form.

Jul 13
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus discloses one more aspect of its strategy: to offer lower quotes than TSMC.

Jul 13
Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days

Pulls AI-powered image tweaker after allowing free-for-all

Jul 13
Tesla's AI5 with 2nm-class node tapes out at Samsung Foundry — production starts soon, months after TSMC tape out

The Samsung PM1763 is a PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD that the company said has entered production to support new AI servers The post Samsung PM1763 PCIe Gen6 Enterprise SSD in Production appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 13
Intel's new space-grade Starfire chip is a Panther Lake SoC that puts an 18A CPU into orbit — chip designed for the US government leverages Intel 3 for the GPU

“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for an orbital data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites in low Earth orbit, 500 to 2,000 kilometers above Earth. And just three days before the IPO, he discussed some initial design specifications for a new AI-1 satellite data center in a video interview.

Jul 13
AMD to Debut First Zen 6 CPUs With Epyc Venice This Month

All eyes on the Advancing AI 2026 event.

Jul 13
ASRock Rack Built an Edge Server Based on NVIDIA’s Thor Industrial SoC

ASRock Rack has developed an unlikely edge server based on NVIDIA's industrial SoC, Thor. The Blackwell-era chip is being used to power the 2UXGI-THOR, a server aimed at the industrial and medical markets The post ASRock Rack Built an Edge Server Based on NVIDIA’s Thor Industrial SoC appeared…

Jul 11
AMD RX 9070 GRE collapses to $499 to save 1440p gaming — RDNA 4 price slips 9% to steal a piece of Nvidia's mid-range pie

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE has received its first price cut since launching outside China, making the 1440p-focused RDNA 4 graphics card a more compelling alternative to Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti 16GB.

Jul 11
SK Hynix says 2027 will be the 'worst year' for memory shortage, forecasts crunch to last until 2030 — CEO shares grim outlook on the day SK Hynix gets listed on Nasdaq

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung says the memory shortage will get even worse in 2027, and claiming the RAM crunch will last at least until the turn of the decade.

Jul 10
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged theft of trade secrets — claims company mentored incoming employees on bringing confidential information

Apple sued OpenAI, including its own former employees, over the theft of trade secrets as both companies build up AI hardware businesses.

Jul 10
Intel's midrange Core Ultra 5 245K is down to its lowest price ever at just $179 on Amazon — save up to 42% on a solid gaming CPU with 14 cores and PCIe 5.0 support

Intel's forgotten 14-core SKU from last year has received a sizable discount on Amazon, making it one of the best value propositions in CPUs right now. It performs amicably in gaming and professional tasks thanks to its 6 P-cores and 8 E-cores that can clock up to 5. 2 GHz.

Jul 10
SK hynix raises a record $26.5 billion in historic U.S. IPO — South Korean memory giant to fund massive HBM manufacturing expansions

SK hynix raised $26.5 billion in a record-breaking Nasdaq IPO, as it plans to channel the windfall from surging AI demand and sold-out HBM supply to fund new fabs.

Jul 10
Micron lifts U.S. spending to $250 billion — company takes $500 million position in America's only 300 mm wafer plant

Micron has said it will invest up to $3 billion in the US semiconductor supply chain, with $500 million of that going to GlobalWafers.

Jul 9
AMD revives aging Zen 2 processor for budget PCs — Ryzen 7 4700LE resurfaces in a new $800 RTX 3050 prebuilt

AMD's quiet revival of older Ryzen processors continues, with the Ryzen 7 4700LE now appearing in a prebuilt gaming desktop priced at $799.99.

Jul 9
Intel preps 28-core Nova Lake-S CPUs for Dunlow workstation platform — Entry-level Xeon chip features LGA1954 socket

Intel readies Xeon 'Dunlow' platform with 28 cores in LGA1954 packaging for entry-level servers and workstations.

Jul 9
AMD's upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Point 10-core APU pops up on Geekbench — chip is faster than Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & even Ryzen AI Max+ 395

A new 10-core engineering sample from AMD has surfaced on Geekbench, being identified as part of the Medusa Point family. It's likely the Ryzen AI 9 565 and its scores easily beat the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and even the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 in certain benchmarks.

Jul 9
Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out

Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.

Jul 9
Micron shares rise almost 5% after company announces billions more in U.S. chipmaking investments

Micron announced a new round of investments aimed at boosting the U. S. semiconductor supply chain.

Jul 9
Meta jumps into AI coding market in effort to chase Anthropic and OpenAI

Meta is upgrading its Muse Spark artificial intelligence model under the leadership of AI chief Alexandr Wang.

Jul 8
South Korea's $880 billion chip and AI plan faces big power and water challenges — a single megacluster requires a quarter of Seoul's total power demand

The ₩1,350 trillion total combines a $520 billion semiconductor program with AI data center and robotics spending, mostly made up of corporate capex.

Jul 8
Nvidia touts Vera CPU's single-threaded performance as its agentic AI advantage, reveals next-gen 'Rigel' Arm CPU cores — frames chip as a 'max single-threaded CPU at scale,' not a parallel monster

Nvidia lifts the veil a little bit more on its Vera CPU and reveals a single-thread performance monster — company claims a 1. 8x uplift versus x86 competition in agentic workloads and 1. 5x in coding.

Jul 8
Unannounced Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs appear in Seasonic PSU calculator — unreleased graphics cards shown with 10-17% higher TGP over original models

Total graphics power figures for Nvidia's unanounced, unreleased RTX 50 Super-series graphics cards have appeared in Seasonic's PSU capacity calculator, revealing potentially higher TGPs of those products.

Jul 8
Nvidia and Intel tout homegrown American chip supply chain prowess as country bolsters local production, but gaps remain — crucial Blackwell packaging steps remain offshore as projects grow in scope and scale

America's AI supply chain now starts and ends in the U. S. , while its most valuable middle steps remain entirely offshore until at least 2028.

Jul 8
Samsung PM1763 PCIe Gen6 Enterprise SSD in Production

The Samsung PM1763 is a PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD that the company said has entered production to support new AI servers The post Samsung PM1763 PCIe Gen6 Enterprise SSD in Production appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jul 7
Chinese memory and storage firm expected to post more than 60,000% jump in profits due to exploding demand — Lexar owner Longsys forecasts nearly $1.5 billion profit for 1H26 compared to $2.1 million last year

Chinese memory and storage manufacturer Longsys expects to post a massive increase in profits due to the AI-driven chip shortage.

Jul 7
Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined, due to increased memory and storage prices — Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world, notches 19x quarterly increase in profit

Brokerage consensus puts Samsung's full-year 2026 operating profit near 300 trillion won.

Jul 7
Broadcom and Apple extend custom silicon pact to 2031

Probably an extension of long-running iThing innards arrangement, not a new custom AI accelerator deal

Jul 7
Amazon raising at least $25 billion in bond sale, won't issue more debt in 2026

It marks Amazon's latest debt raise as it looks to buttress its massive investments in artificial intelligence.

Jul 6
Nvidia's next-gen AI rack system delayed to 2028 on manufacturing snags, SemiAnalysis says

The reported delay adds to concerns that Nvidia's breakneck annual release cadence is colliding with manufacturing limits.

Jul 6
AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

The Ryzen AI Halo is a turn-key AMD local AI box that’s backed up with first-party software support, handy utilities, and plenty of documentation for local AI explorers. But the performance and application compatibility of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (aka Strix Halo) SoC still trails Nvidia’s GB10, and…

Jul 6
Nvidia's Kyber rack for Rubin Ultra reportedly delayed to 2028, stopgap solution also axed due to customer pushback — Analyst firm SemiAnalysis says PCB midplane problems led to the delay [Updated]

The reported delay adds to concerns that Nvidia's breakneck annual release cadence is colliding with manufacturing limits.

Jul 6
China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment — reportedly challenges Nvidia dominance with 'tripled inference performance' of H20 at one-quarter the cost

Huawei is reportedly preparing to enter South Korea's AI accelerator market with its Ascend 950 chips and Atlas 950 SuperPod, challenging Nvidia through aggressive pricing, amid a broader push to expand its AI ecosystem beyond China

Jul 6
Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes — console 'bricked itself' following update in failure that echoes the horror of the Xbox 360's infamous RROD

A Redditor experience the deadly "Red Line of Death" on their Steam Machine, indicating GPU failure. They've just been playing for five minutes and then updated the console before experiencing the issue.

Jul 3
Intel confirms price hikes on select consumer and server CPUs citing supply costs and demand — select Xeon processors now over $1,000 more expensive

Intel confirms price increases for Core Ultra 200S Plus, Xeon 6 processors, cites market dynamics, rising costs, soaring demand.

Jul 3
Intel 18A wafer-to-wafer yield issues fixed, report claims — says production up to 15,000 wafers per month at both sites

Intel reportedly solves one of the key issues that plagued its 18A process technology, but others may still be there.

Jul 2
Amazon is designing its own AI chips for Echo, Fire TV and future devices, exec tells CNBC

SummaryRFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning and inverse design to rapidly create RFICs from scratch. Diffusion models rapidly generate novel or human-interpretable RF layouts, achieving record performance and drastically reducing design time.

Jul 2
SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed

SK hynix announces major plan to spend $712.5 billion in its operations in South Korea, but the only detailed investments are spendings on a new NAND fab and a packaging facility.

Jul 2
Nvidia offers to take a cut of AI cloud revenue on top of hardware sales in new optional financing vehicle — trades tokens for revenue cut

Nvidia has announced a new business model under which it’ll be able to double-dip for revenue on the same silicon.

Jul 2
Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering

Four individuals suspected of smuggling Nvidia AI GPUs into China by using Singapore as a transshipment point are facing multiple charges. Singaporean authorities say they are not obliged to enforce foreign export controls but expects businesses in its borders to abide by them.

Jul 2
Trump bought Apple, Nvidia and other tech giants before tariff reversal fueled rebound

The day before President Donald Trump walked back his tariff policy turned out to be one of his busiest days of 2025 for stock buying.

Jul 1
DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites

AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside

Jul 1
The Space-based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit

“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for an orbital data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites in low Earth orbit, 500 to 2,000 kilometers above Earth. And just three days before the IPO, he discussed some initial design specifications for a new AI-1 satellite data center in a video interview.

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Jun 30
South Korea unveils $520 billion investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip dominance — plan includes four new fabs and HBM facilities, amid strong government support

President Lee unveiled an 800 trillion won ($520B) public-private plan for four new Samsung and SK Hynix fabs, dwarfing the US CHIPS Act tenfold.

Jun 30
AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel's footsteps with new core type for background tasks

AMD confirms plans to incorporate low-power CPU cores into next-generation heterogeneous CPUs to lower power consumption and improve energy efficiency.

Jun 30
Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron sued over alleged DRAM price fixing amid record memory costs — lawsuit claims coordinated HBM shift was cover to curtail DDR3 and DDR4 production

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said years of aggressive pricing pressure left the memory industry underinvested, contributing to today's supply shortages.

Jun 30
Anthropic launches AI drug discovery program, joining tech giants in betting on healthcare

Anthropic will start an internal drug discovery program, part of a new push to sell artificial intelligence tools to drugmakers.

Jun 29
AMD Stretches Server DRAM With Flash Extended Memory

AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside

Jun 27
Nvidia, Alphabet sit out megacap tech bounce as chip stocks sink

SoftBank Group plunged, leading a broad sell-off in Asian technology stocks amid mounting concerns over the rising cost of AI infrastructure.

Jun 26
Onsemi buying cash-strapped Synaptics in $7 billion all-stock deal — smart power meets edge AI hardware

Onsemi and Synaptics to merge in a bid to build comprehensive platforms for robotics, physical AI applications.

Jun 26
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Intel Core i7-14700K faceoff — A new battle for DDR4 supremacy in 2026

We tested both CPUs across gaming, rendering, encoding, efficiency, and pricing to see if the Ryzen 7 5800X3D can keep up with the newer Core i7-14700K with DDR4.

Jun 26
ZTE AIR Core unleashes a new era of agent services beyond connectivity

PARTNER CONTENT: Shifting from legacy "connectivity pipes" to intent-driven intelligent services, the 6G-ready architecture introduces an Agent Service Network designed for the era of AI and human collaboration

Jun 25
Best Amazon Prime Day tech deals live on day three — PC hardware deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more

Find the very best PC hardware deals during Amazon Prime Day.

Jun 25
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D re-review: Maxing out DDR4’s gaming potential

AMD has re-released the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to provide some relief from high DDR5 prices, so we’re re-reviewing the CPU to see how it stacks up to current options around the same price.

Jun 25
Qualcomm plans China-specific data center chips — new Dragonfly lineup will include nerfed AI accelerators that comply with export thresholds

We are at Qualcomm Investor Day 2026 where the company is talking High Bandwidth Compute, its HBM alternative, Its Dragonfly C1000 CPU, and AI accelerators The post Qualcomm Investor Day 2026 Data Center Announcements CPUs, AI Accelerators, and More appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jun 25
Broadcom stock needs a win. The new OpenAI co-designed Jalapeno chip might do the trick

The news involving OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, comes as Broadcom stock fights to get back on track.

Jun 25
ON Semiconductor strikes $7 billion deal for Synaptics in physical AI push

ON Semiconductor said the deal bumps up its total addressable market by $30 billion, to $243 billion by 2030.

Jun 24
Broadcom and OpenAI unveil custom-built Jalapeño inference processor — OpenAI's first chip is a massive reticle-sized ASIC built in an ultra-fast nine-month development cycle

Artificial intelligence is the transformative, strategic technology of the early 21st century. It is significantly reshaping practically every aspect of our lives, including in ways that probably no one anticipated. Its rate of adoption and impact have been unprecedented when compared with other technologies.

Jun 24
TSMC is reportedly hiking prices for 'all advanced nodes,' accounting for 74% of the company’s wafer business — Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and others will face higher wafer costs

TSMC has reportedly told customers to prepare for 5% to 10% price hikes across advanced chip nodes, extending beyond 3nm to include 7nm and some legacy processes.

Jun 24
Geekom Prime Day deals take up to 34% off a new mini PC with our exclusive promo code — Get an AMD or Intel mini PC for less now

Mini PC specialist Geekom has stuffed its Amazon webstore with a multitude of diminutive computers with discounts as deep as 34% off.

Jun 24
China black market Nvidia prices rocket in wake of smuggling crackdown and customs freeze — five-year-old A100 servers triple in price, now fetching up to $82,000

Chinese companies are paying as much as $82,000 for servers built around Nvidia's five-year-old A100 accelerator

Jun 24
Get 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for just $214 right now, thanks to these Newegg bundles — AMD and Intel gaming PC build kits massively undercut $350 market prices

Score 32GB DDR5 RAM from Corsair for as low as $214 in these two Newegg RAM combo deals with Gigabyte motherboards right now.

Jun 24
Qualcomm Investor Day 2026 Data Center Announcements CPUs, AI Accelerators, and More

We are at Qualcomm Investor Day 2026 where the company is talking High Bandwidth Compute, its HBM alternative, Its Dragonfly C1000 CPU, and AI accelerators The post Qualcomm Investor Day 2026 Data Center Announcements CPUs, AI Accelerators, and More appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Jun 24
Micron is tech's new margin king as memory crisis pushes company past Nvidia and Meta

Micron said in its earnings report that its gross margin jumped to 84.9% from 39% a year ago.