A record rally in chip stocks added $2 trillion in combined value to Micron, Intel and AMD in the second quarter, as the artificial intelligence boom expanded beyond Nvidia to include more suppliers.…
Qualcomm announced a new near-memory compute architecture called high-bandwidth compute (HBC) that stacks DRAM on top of its XPUs to improve AI inference efficiency. The technology, launching next yea…
AMD announced a new kernel family, LDS-Pipelined Split-K GEMM, that accelerates LLM inference on AMD GPUs by optimizing decode-time GEMMs with small M and large N/K dimensions. The technique achieves …
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged over 80% in Q2 as AI demand expanded beyond GPUs to CPUs and memory, with Micron up 239%, Lam Research up 92%, and AMD up 165%. Nvidia rose only 12%, making…
A developer rebuilt a home server using an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU with 96 GB of DDR5 to run local LLM inference alongside NAS and VM workloads. The Radeon 780M iGPU achieves 13-15 tok/s on gemma4 and 9…
B&H is offering limited-time discounts on two top-selling MSI Claw handhelds, the Claw 8 AI+ and Claw A8, following the release of the new Claw 8 EX AI+. The Claw 8 AI+ is reduced by $220 to $1,079.99…
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement to standardize co-packaged optics for AI scale-up networks, settling on a slow-and-wid…
Owner-submitted benchmarks show that memory bandwidth, not TFLOPS, determines local LLM generation speed. An AMD RX 7900 XTX with 122 TFLOPS generates text at 39 tokens per second, while an older RTX …
A user with an AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU, and 24GB RAM seeks recommendations for uncensored AI models capable of reasoning on complex topics, citing dissatisfaction with GPT's increas…
On May 16, 2026, llama.cpp merged Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) support, enabling 1.7x to 2.4x faster local inference for Qwen3.6 27B models with no accuracy loss or extra downloads. The MTP head is em…
ZLUDA version 6 has been released, enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on non-Nvidia GPUs. The update adds support for PhysX and Blender workloads, improves Windows compatibility, and allows …
AMD announced the Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package adaptive SoCs, integrating up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X to deliver 288 GB/s bandwidth in 60% less board area, targeting high-bandwidth applications l…
Amazon is offering an 18% discount on the Gigabyte AERO X16 laptop, reducing its price to $1,699. The ultra-portable laptop features an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, 32…
Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains, with South Korea's Kospi rebounding 1.3% after recent tech-led losses. Oil prices stabilized as the U.S. and Iran agreed to send delegatio…
Newegg has slashed $300 off the Stormcraft Phantom gaming PC, now priced at $2,799.99, featuring an RTX 5080, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and 2TB SSD, making it a compelling deal for 4K gaming during …
The S&P 500 crossed 7,600 for the first time in June and is closing Q2 2026 with roughly 11% gains, powered almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending. The rally is cracking open an IPO and funding…
Fastllm, a C++ LLM inference library, now supports running DeepSeek-V4 and the full DeepSeek R1 671B model on a single GPU with just 10GB VRAM. The library is compatible with Nvidia, AMD, and domestic…
CyberpowerPC's gaming desktop featuring an RX 9070 XT and Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of DDR5 RAM is discounted by $260 to $2,299.99 at Newegg, offering strong 1440p and 4K gaming performance.…
Omen AI, founded by 20-year-old high school dropout Zach Laberge, raised $31 million in Series A funding to deploy miniature spectrometers that detect bacterial contamination in liquid-cooled AI data …
AMD stock surged over 114% year-to-date in 2026, outperforming Nvidia's modest 12-18% gain, as investors bet on AMD's competitive AI chips like the MI350X and its strategy to win hyperscaler contracts…