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14 stories · updated Sep 10

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AMD's new $99 six-core costs less than the stick of DDR4 it needs

On the day AMD revived AM4 for budget builders, tested DDR4-3200 was trading about two-thirds above DDR5 per 16-gigabit die on TrendForce's spot board.

Sep 10, 2026

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Apple's first 2nm phone chip doubles the Neural Engine after three flat years

Sep 9

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AMD shipped the fix for these TPM flaws in May. On a Minisforum HM80 there is nowhere to put it

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Arm shipped a kit for its customers' chips and a customer list for its own, on the same day

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Nvidia's 800-volt data centre now starts with one rack in the building you already have

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LG Innotek showed a package substrate bigger than eleven reticle-limited dies

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TSMC will not touch High-NA lithography until 2030. Intel has already run a million wafers on it

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Qualcomm handed Amazon a warrant for 25 million shares to sell it server chips

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Somebody outside Google finally measured a TPU, and the headline is not the interesting number

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A 1.6Tbps switch now costs $1,100 and runs on 123 watts, because AI clusters moved onto desks

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Nvidia is making money from the chips built to replace it

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AMD says ROCm 10 is 3.3x faster than ROCm 7. Its own footnote says neither side ran ROCm 10

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Nvidia's new CPU rack is sized at exactly one agent sandbox per core

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Nvidia stopped telling investors how big its networking business is, in the quarter it mattered most

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