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AMD fires back at Nvidia, claiming 256-core Zen 6 'Venice' CPU beats Vera by 3.3x in rack-level performance — company shares first estimated EPYC Venice benchmarks
1w agoDemand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible – why the CPU to GPU ratio is more important than ever for hyperscalers
1w agoIntel introduced ‘the first processor in the x86 series and the first 8086 microprocessor’ on this day in 1978 — CPU was designed as a temporary substitute for the delayed iAPX 432 project
1w agoNvidia's RTX Spark could caplitalize where Qualcomm's Arm-based efforts have not — following the expiration of Qualcomm's Windows on Arm deal, Nvidia stands poised to pick up the slack
…RTX Spark's USP is the GPU, CUDA, and the 128GB unified memory pool , hardware aimed at local AI, agents, creators, and gamers rather than all-day portability. Adobe is rearchitecting Photoshop…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming 'a huge issue' — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme
…Amazon employees admitted that they were using AI agents for unnecessary tasks just to stay on the internal AI leaderboard, while Microsoft has reportedly cut back on Claude Code licenses due to…
Intel Xeon 6+ Computex roundtable interview transcript — Kira Boyko and Tim Wilson on 18A wafer allocation, Clearwater Forest, and dropping hyper-threading
…Agentic AI and CPU demand Journalist 2: What are customers telling you about this agentic AI wave, how they're dealing with it, and how Intel plays into that going forward? Kira…
AMD posts record first-quarter results, driven by skyrocketing data center CPU demand — company expects consumer and gaming revenue to decline in Q2 over rising memory and component costs
…Furthermore, AMD raised its long-term outlook for the server CPU market, expecting it to reach $120 billion by 2030 due to increased demand from AI and agentic AI workloads. At the…
AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget
…However, you’d still need the latter if you want to access the full capabilities of these AI models, and this is where budgets start breaking. Powerful agentic AI uses up to…
Nvidia lays out RTX Spark roadmap for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 — three generations outlined, Rubin with LPDDR6 memory, followed by Rosa Feynman
…That multi-generational promise is an important point of trust in Nvidia's commitment to transforming Windows PCs for the agentic AI era. Building a full product and partner ecosystem is a…
TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers
…The move comes in a context where inference-heavy agentic AI is quickly becoming the new normal. The project is seemingly in the concept and design stage, with Reuters' sources claiming that…
AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 ‘Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192GB of unified memory — refreshed APU uses Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5, and can clock up to 5.2 GHz
…Although these boxes are expensive, AMD is framing the Ryzen AI Halo around the “token economy,” similar to how Nvidia has messaged against its data center hardware. AMD says one Ryzen AI…
AMD begins production ramp of 256-core EPYC Venice — first 2nm HPC chip claims 70% performance leap
…Tom's Hardware Premium Roadmaps High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Roadmap Nvidia Enterprise GPU and CPU Roadmap AI accelerator Roadmap Desktop GPU Roadmap 3D NAND Roadmap TSMC began volume production on its N2…