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Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall
Windows 11 adds Intel APX performance toggle ahead of Nova Lake CPU launch
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Scythe Magoroku Review: excellent RAM thermals, but needs improvement elsewhere
Intel Core Ultra 4000 Nova Lake-S leak: 24-core CPU beats Core Ultra 9 285K in single-thread test.
The highest result attributed to a 24-core Nova Lake-S processor reaches 5,210 points in the single-thread test, followed by another submission scoring 5,191 points. For comparison, we selected baselines from existing processors with overall CPU Mark scores close to their published PassMark Averages. The Core Ultra 9…
Nintendo Switch games now run natively on Apple Silicon Macs, Monster Hunter Rise hits 60 FPS on M1
HUB - Radeon RX 9070 XT vs. 7900 XTX: 50+ Game Benchmark
Xanadu Plans Photonic Quantum R&D Push with up to $10M Pending from DARPA
[Hardware Canucks] The best new air coolers of 2026
Leaked footage shows Chinese factories converting hundreds of RTX 5090s into dual-slot GPUs for AI servers, using their GB202 chips and GDDR7 memory
Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) Systems
Samsung Exynos 2700 reportedly beats flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 by up to 20% in new tests
Samsung Prepares Next-Gen 8nm Foundry Technology with Major Improvements
Nvidia's RTX Spark has an NPU it barely mentions, and I spent a week figuring out what it actually is
Silverstone has unveiled a AIO with a standard 120mm form factor VRM fan mount
S.Korea to fast-track semiconductor complex permits, compensation and design simultaneously
AMD Zen 6 (6c) delivers huge single-threaded gains in Geekbench 7, up to 25.7% single-threaded gains over Zen 5 with its new Zen 6c cores
5 Years Later, Radeon Finally Delivers - FSR 4.1 on RDNA 2 Tested
Compound Memory Models
Intel Tried Their Own 18A Process for Nova Lake's Compute Tile, But Had to Capitulate to TSMC N2P
This is based on a rumor from Jaykihn and MLID. There is no confirmation. The headline is specifically claiming N2P for the compute tile, as other tiles still are rumored to be 18AP. HWCooling calls 18A as 1.8nm.
Qualcomm: "Introducing Adreno Neural Fusion SDK for Snapdragon mobile platforms"
Samsung Orders More Equipment to Expand 2nm Capacity at Taylor Fab 1 Putting 20,000 Wafers per Month Within Reach by H2 2027
Global PC Shipments Plunge 21% in Q3 2026; Q4 Decline to Deepen to 27%
Micron reveals DDR6, LPDDR6, HBM and NAND roadmap as AI memory demand keeps climbing
Samsung to Equip Galaxy S28 With 2nm 5G Modems to Boost Battery Life
Samsung Reportedly Eyes Over 10% Output Increase for 2nm Exynos 2700 vs 2600 to Revive Non-Memory Business
Amazon's Nvidia Chips Are Sitting in Warehouses Without Power as AI Spending Soars, Business Insider Reports.
Modder ports macOS 27 to Snapdragon X2 laptop, now available for download
The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Asus A16 now can run Windows,Linux and MacOS. MacOS support was made largely through the use of genAI
Open Source high performance RISC-V CPU "Kunminghu v3" has reached SPECint06/GHz > 21.7 on nightly build this week, which is better than ARM's V3, Intel's Sapphire Rapids and close to Zen 5 in terms of performance.
This dashboard has weekly and nightly performance regressions for those interested. On nightly build, Kunminghu v3 has hit GEOMEAN(INT) of 21.706 with gcc, which keeps going up as the platform nears validation and release phase in Q1 2027. SPECint06/GHz on xscc is 21.924. SPECint17/GHz is 2.321, which also compares…