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Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for Apple's newly announced 2026 Mac mini models, starting at $899 for the M6 16GB/256GB configuration, alongside new Magic Keyboard accessories priced from $99. Apple also launched the…
Apple unveiled the M6 chip in the new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, positioning them as AI powerhouses with up to 4x faster AI performance in the Mac mini and 4.3x faster in the Mac Studio. The Mac min…
Dell's Pro Max with GB10, powered by NVIDIA's GB10 chip, delivers performance nearly identical to NVIDIA's reference design but with better sustained throughput before thermal throttling, according to a hands-on review. …
Apple announced the new M6 Mac mini starting at $899 and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio starting at $5,499, with preorders live and shipping set for Sept. 22. The M6 chip, built on a 2-nanometer process, delivers up to four tim…
Nvidia stock (NVDA) rose about 2% to $212 on Tuesday, halting a seven-session losing streak ahead of its fiscal second-quarter earnings Wednesday. The decline was Nvidia's longest since 2022, with shares falling 7.5% ove…
Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold upgraded AMD to Strong Buy from Outperform and raised his price target to $641 from $565, implying nearly 40% upside, citing AMD's AI chip strength and a projected 44% CAGR in the serv…
Samsung Electronics presented its LPDDR5X-PIM processing-in-memory solution at Hot Chips 2026, claiming it is the world's first LPDDR-based PIM product for AI inference. The chip delivers 614 GB/s PIM bandwidth at the x6…
OpenAI reported that its custom inference chip, Jalapeño, outperforms NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs on throughput per watt and latency across several open models, delivering 1.5 to 1.9 times more AI work per watt and 1.7 to 3.…
Nvidia Corp. has warned its largest customers that AI servers built around Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips could cost more than 15% extra in early 2027 as memory prices climb, according to a report. Alphabet Inc., w…
OpenAI claims its new chips can outperform Nvidia processors in tests, according to a report. The claim, made by the company, has not been independently verified. This development could impact the competitive landscape i…
GF Securities forecasts Google's Tensor Processing Unit shipments will rise to 8.84 million units by 2027, up from 2.76 million in 2024, with 2.854 million in 2025 and 4.504 million in 2026. Alphabet's second-quarter cap…
IBM plans to release a dual-architecture mainframe processor that can run Arm-native Linux environments simultaneously with z/OS and Linux on IBM Z, marking the first chip of its kind. The 11-core, 5.7GHz chip includes A…
Nvidia's role as the primary financier of the AI boom creates a risky cycle where capital flows into AI startups, is spent on Nvidia hardware, and depends on those startups generating cash flows to sustain demand, accord…
Alphabet Inc. could see shipments of its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) more than triple to 8.84 million units by 2027, up from 2.76 million in 2024, according to a forecast from GF Securities Brokerage. The projected gr…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) marked the 20th anniversary of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), which launched as a beta on August 25, 2006, with a single instance type (m1.small) in one Region (US East). Over two de…
Apple Inc. announced a new Mac mini featuring its M6 chip or the M5 Pro chip, with a starting price of $899, up from $799 for the previous model. The M6 chip includes a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, and a dual Neural Engine,…
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is rated a Hold at $208.48 ahead of its August 26, 2026 Q2 fiscal 2027 earnings report, with shares down 7.35% over the past week. The company reported Data Center revenue of $75.246 billion last qua…
Arduino S.r.l., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., opened pre-orders for the Arduino VENTUNO Q edge AI platform, powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 Series. The board features a dual-brain architecture with …
AMD presented its Versal Premium Gen2 adaptive SoC platform at Hot Chips 2026, featuring on-package LPDDR5X memory, PCIe Gen7 and CXL 4.0 support, and enhanced security including post-quantum cryptography. The platform t…
SpaceX plans to launch its first AI-focused orbital data centers in the fourth quarter of 2027, moving up its previous 2028 timetable, and has asked the FCC for authority to deploy up to one million AI-capable satellites…