Intel “Panther Lake” reveal is imminent
Media at Intel’s Tech Tour expect a Panther Lake client CPU reveal around Oct 9 — watch for architecture and platform details rather than raw […]
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Google Rolls Out New Gemini For Home App
Google is rolling out Gemini for Home, a major revamp of its smart-home stack that replaces Google Assistant on speakers and displays, upgrades cameras with […]
Meta to acquire Rivos to accelerate in-house AI silicon
Meta plans to buy RISC-V startup Rivos to deepen its custom accelerator stack — a step toward reducing reliance on merchant silicon. What’s new Meta […]
Samsung & SK Hynix sign on for OpenAI’s “Stargate”
Seoul says Samsung and SK Hynix signed letters of intent to supply memory for OpenAI’s Stargate buildout — a big signal for 2026–27 HBM demand. […]
Arm will appeal Qualcomm’s final-judgment win
After Delaware entered final judgment in Qualcomm’s favor, Arm says it will appeal. The immediate legal overhang on Snapdragon X and Oryon shrinks, but it […]
Qualcomm vs ARM: Qualcomm officially wins in court (for now?)
A Delaware federal judge has entered final judgment in Qualcomm’s favor in its licensing fight with Arm, effectively locking in last December’s jury win and […]
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme: 18 cores and 48GB on-package
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme demo unit pairs an 18-core CPU with 48GB of LPDDR5X on-package over a 192-bit bus. The early numbers look good—just […]
Minecraft “CraftGPT”: a 5M-parameter LLM built from 439M blocks
“CraftGPT” is a fully in-game computer that runs a ~5.1M-parameter small language model inside Minecraft using roughly 439 million redstone blocks. It’s a glorious engineering […]
Zhaoxin KH-50000: China’s 96-core chiplet CPU aims at AMD EPYC
Zhaoxin’s Kaisheng KH-50000 steps into modern server territory with a 96-core chiplet design, 12-channel DDR5, and 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0. On paper, it mirrors […]
The Hidden World of NPUs: Do You Really Need AI Engines in Your PC?
The Hidden World of NPUs: Do You Really Need AI Engines in Your PC? “AI PC” is the slogan; the NPU is the silicon behind […]