NVIDIA is winning now, but is it already peaking?
Nvidia is on top of the AI world right now. It owns the accelerator market, prints margins that would make a drug cartel blush, and […]
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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 […]
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 […]
NextSilicon Maverick-2 claims GPU-beating speeds, teases RISC-V based ‘Arbel’ chip
NextSilicon claims its Maverick-2 accelerator outperforms leading Nvidia and Intel GPUs on graph and sparse workloads, while using less power. The company also teased a […]
How to Use Upscaling & Frame Gen For Performance and Image Quality
Upscaling and frame generation can make a mid-range GPU feel high-end—or turn a crisp image into Vaseline with ghosting. This is the practical guide: DLSS, […]
Best Motherboards 2025: AM5 & Intel Picks with Strong VRM, PCIe Mapping, and USB4
This is the motherboard guide that I wish every builder would read if you’re unsure of which motherboard to buy. We’ll decode the VRM marketing […]
CPU Buyer’s Guide 2025: Cores vs Clocks, Cache, Power Limits, and Real-World Performance
This is the CPU buyer’s guide I wish every builder would read before spending all that money. In this deep dive into CPUs in 2025, […]