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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AMD Zen 5 RDSEED bug puts Ryzen 9000 security under the spotlight
Zen 5 has barely settled onto retail shelves and it already has a serious security headache. AMD has confirmed a high severity bug in the […]
Qualcomm AI200 and AI250: rack-scale NPUs that want to undercut Nvidia on inference TCO
Qualcomm has spent a decade dominating smartphone and laptop SoCs. With AI200 and AI250, it wants a piece of the data center too. These new […]
AMD’s RDNA 1/2 “maintenance mode” isn’t a death sentence, but the messaging was
AMD has moved its RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs into what it calls “maintenance mode,” prompting a predictable backlash from owners of Radeon RX […]
Qualcomm jumps into rack-scale AI with AI200/AI250 to undercut Nvidia and AMD on inference
Qualcomm has announced two rack-scale AI products—AI200 and AI250—marking its first serious swing at data center inference hardware. The pitch is familiar but pointed: win […]