Intel Kills Mainstream Diamond Rapids Platform: What It Means For Xeon And AMD
Intel has quietly killed its mainstream next-generation Xeon platform. Diamond Rapids is still coming for the high end with sixteen memory channels, but the cheaper […]
Why Intel Still Trails AMD on Power Efficiency
AMD spent the last decade turning power efficiency into a weapon. Zen took them from the value bin to the point where they could bully […]
Intel in 2026: What To Expect Across Client, Desktop, and Xeon
Intel heads into 2026 with a technology stack that finally matches the job at hand. RibbonFET to tidy the device physics, PowerVia to clean up […]
HBM4 and Packaging in 2026: The Bottleneck No One Wants To Own
2026 will not be won by a shinier compute tile, but it’ll be won by the teams that can bolt enough healthy HBM onto a […]
Valve Steam Machine Deep Dive: Specs, Strategy, And Who It Is For
Valve’s Steam Machine is a living room PC that behaves like a console. It runs SteamOS, boots to a controller UI, and targets 4K output […]
NVIDIA Rubin CPX Explained: Disaggregated Inference And The Cost Of Million-Token Context
NVIDIA’s Rubin platform splits long-context prefill from token decode. Rubin CPX handles the compute-heavy front half, standard Rubin handles bandwidth-heavy generation. The NVL144 CPX rack […]
AMD’s Ryzen 5 7500X3D: Budget X3D for AM5, Built for Gaming
AMD’s Ryzen 5 7500X3D brings 3D V-Cache to a six-core Zen 4 part on AM5. This is the budget gaming play for users who want […]
Microsoft’s Fairwater Datacenters: From Power to Tokens
Microsoft’s next wave of AI datacenters is not about who has the most GPUs. It is about who can energize 300 megawatts on time, keep […]
AI PC Reality Check: NPU, CPU, GPU
AI PCs promise big changes. The truth is smaller and more practical. NPUs help in narrow, always on jobs where power matters more than time […]
Intel After Gelsinger: Packaging, PowerVia, and the Real Work Lip-Bu Tan Must Finish
Pat Gelsinger gave Intel what it needed. A modern blueprint that puts chiplets, packaging, and device physics at the center of performance. He also tried […]