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Nvidia's Hopper and Blackwell GPU architectures introduced spatial scheduling through warp specialization, requiring developers to divide pipeline work between different warp groups for data movement and computation. Thi…
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said Monday at Nvidia's GTC conference that the global memory chip shortage will persist for another four to five years, with wafer supply lagging demand by over 20%. Chey warned that an in…
Espressif has launched two new development kits for its dual-core RISC-V ESP32-S31 chip, designed for advanced IoT and edge AI applications. The ESP32-S31-Function-CoreBoard-1 offers 16 MB of PSRAM, wired Ethernet, and a…
Belgian semiconductor research institute imec announced the world's first quantum dot qubit device fabricated using High-NA EUV lithography, a breakthrough that could align quantum computing manufacturing with the same r…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar suggested at a November 2025 Wall Street Journal event that the company sought a federal "backstop" to finance chip and data center investments, a remark she and CEO Sam Altman retracted within 24 …
A developer successfully offloaded automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a Home Assistant voice pipeline from CPU to the Intel NPU on a Core Ultra 7 265K processor, achieving 3-6× faster inference and 10-22× less energy…
Amazon has dropped the PNY RTX 5070 Ti Epic-X ARGB to its lowest-ever price as part of the retailer's Memorial Day Sale. The graphics card offers strong 1440p and 4K gaming performance with 16GB of GDDR7 memory and DLSS …
Apple's 2026 MacBook Air 15-inch with the M5 chip has dropped to its lowest-ever price in a Memorial Day deal. The laptop, which features a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD, is now available at a…
HP has discounted its Omen 45L gaming desktop to $5,399, a 10% price cut, for a configuration featuring an Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card, an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor, and 64GB of DDR5 RAM. Only three units remai…
NVIDIA's InfiniBand became the dominant networking fabric for AI datacenters because it was purpose-built for lossless, high-throughput GPU-to-GPU communication. The shift to AI training fundamentally changed datacenter …
Intel and AMD jointly released the AI Compute Extensions (Ace) for x86, a new instruction set architecture designed to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads directly on central processing units. The specification …
Huawei announced Monday a chip design breakthrough that it claims will enable production of cutting-edge 1.4-nanometer equivalent chips by 2031, bypassing U.S. sanctions that have restricted China's access to advanced se…
Amazon has dropped the price of the MacBook Air M5 to $899.99 for Memorial Day, marking the lowest price ever for the laptop at an 18% discount from its original $1,099. The deal applies to the 13-inch model featuring Ap…
Google Search, which once directed users to external websites, is now keeping them within its own ecosystem through a new AI Mode feature. The shift represents a fundamental change in how the search giant delivers inform…
Amazon’s Memorial Day sale has reduced the price of the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe SSD to $389.99, a 39% discount from its $639.99 list price and a savings of $250. The deal brings the drive back to price levels seen earli…
Samsung Electronics semiconductor workers have called off their strike and returned to work after reaching a tentative agreement with management that includes significant pay raises and the potential for performance bonu…
AMD's Vivado 2026.1 free tier (ML Standard/WebPACK Edition) is reportedly dropping official Linux support, threatening automated FPGA development pipelines that rely on the toolchain in containers and CI systems. The cha…
The discrete GPU market in May 2026 is defined by three distinct strategies, with NVIDIA dominating the high-end and AI/ML segments via its RTX 50-series Blackwell architecture, while AMD offers the best overall gaming v…
Lambda Chief Commercial Officer Robert Brooks IV argued that computing power is becoming one of the most strategically important resources in the AI economy, with his company building supercomputers for superintelligence…
Memory's share of AI chip component costs rose from 52% to 63% between Q1 2024 and Q4 2025, according to an analysis of Nvidia, AMD, Google, and Amazon chips. Total component spending on AI chips grew from approximately …