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 […]
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 […]
Beyond Moore’s Law: Why chiplet-first designs will dominate 2026
Transistor scaling is slowing, but the industry has another gearbox. Chiplets and advanced packaging turn one huge die into multiple smaller, easier to yield dies […]
Samsung’s HBM3E breakthrough sets the stage for the real fight: HBM4 in 2026
Samsung has finally passed Nvidia’s HBM3E qualification, ending an 18 month slog that cost it design wins and credibility. It is a milestone that matters, […]
AMD Zen 6 And AVX-512: What PC And Server Buyers Should Really Expect
Every time AMD says anything concrete about future Zen cores, the same questions pop up. What does it mean for desktop, what does it mean […]