AMD's Q1 2026 CPU statistics are out, with its server side scoring a mighty 46.2% revenue share as EPYC sales continue to gain momentum. Q1 2026 Results for AMD are rock solid, with server & Client CPU Segments Seeing Record Revenue Gains Mercury Research has shared the latest CPU statistics results for Q1 2026, showcasing AMD's superb performance in the x86 segment. AMD's total CPU unit share reached 30%, up 5.6 points versus last year, while its overall revenue share increased to 38.1%. The full highlights from Mercury Research (via AMD) are as follows: Breaking down the per-segment revenue and […]

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TSMC's constraints have pushed Apple to make a chip-making deal with Intel, & is likely to produce two chips on 18A-P & 14A process technologies, as per rumors. Apple's Next-Gen MacBook & iPhone Chips Rumored To Be Made At Intel Using 18A-P & 14A Process Technologies Last week, it was revealed that Apple and Intel have signed a preliminary chipmaking agreement in which Apple would tap into Intel's Foundry business to produce its chips. The agreement is said to have been signed back in December 2025, as per GF Holdings, and plenty of other factors also forced Apple to go […]

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Foxconn has reportedly shipped the entirety of its Co-Packaged Optics racks to NVIDIA as it quintuples its shipment estimates for 2026-2027. You May Not Be Able To Find Any Foxconn Co-Packaged Optics Rack At Computex, As The Entire Supply Is Shipped To NVIDIA NVIDIA is accelerating its co-packaged optics development ahead of the Feynman launch in 2028. The next-gen CPO racks solve major infrastructure connectivity & scale-out bottlenecks with AMD all-in on the race too. As per rumors in the Taiwanese industry, Foxconn has apparently shipped all of its CPO racks to NVIDIA ahead of schedule. NVIDIA is Foxconn's major […]

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GPUs are in big demand due to the AI Supercycle, and even five-year-old chips are seeing price bumps as NVIDIA CEO calls it "Good Wine". NVIDIA's Fine Wine Moment: GPU Demand So High That Five-Year-Old Chips Are Rising In Prices Fine Wine, a terminology that has long been associated with GPUs since the AMD Vega days, is now being used for NVIDIA's GPUs, and the reason is quite the opposite of how we think about Fine Wine when talking about chips. Previously, the term was associated with GPUs when they saw a massive uplift in performance through optimizations to the […]

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NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, is now confirmed to accompany President Trump on his China visit along with Elon Musk, Tim Cook & other tech execs. US President Trump's High-Profile China Visit Can't Be Complete Without The Country's Leading Tech CEOs, & That's Exactly Why NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, Has Boarded Air Force One US President Donald J Trump will visit China this week from 13th May to May 15th May. During this visit, Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping. All eyes will be on this visit as it will mark the first time in nearly a decade that a […]

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Intel has just confirmed that its chips will be powering Googlebook, a premium & powerful laptop that combines Android & ChromeOS under one hood. Google's Googlebook Laptops Will Be Powered By Intel CPUs In Premium & Powerful Designs [Update - 5/13/2026] - Googlebook will also feature Qualcomm and Mediatek-powered designs in addition to Intel. A few hours ago, Google announced its brand new laptop lineup at its annual I/O event, called Googlebook. The new laptops are aimed to be premium and powerful devices designed for AI intelligence, such as Gemini. While Google isn't revealing a whole lot of details at […]

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Micron has started to ship its fastest DDR5 RDIMM memory modules, which feature 256 GB capacities & up to 9200 MT/s speeds. Micron Offers 40% Boost Vs Current "In-Volume" DDR5 RDIMM Memory Modules, Brings 256 GB Capacities With 9200 MT/s Speeds As Agentic AI requirements grow, memory makers are rolling out faster and higher-capacity memory kits to meet the demands of AI firms. JEDEC is also pushing the DDR5 MRDIMM standard up to 12,800 MT/s, and today, Micron has announced that it is sampling its 256 GB DDR5 RDIMM modules with up to 9200 MT/s speeds. The main highlights include: […]

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NVIDIA is reaching for the stars, literally, as the company plans to build its future AI datacenters in outer space as terrestrial resources become a major constraint. Our Planet Might Not Be Able To Sustain Future AI Datacenter Demands. That's Why NVIDIA Is Looking Into Space As The Next Horizon For AI Chips Outer Space is becoming the new real estate gold mine for AI datacenters. Building data centers in space can be costly, but as commercial spaceships such as SpaceX's Starship and Falcon Heavy become viable, companies are seeing outer space as the new frontier to scale out their […]

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As CPU demand continues to rise on the AI hyperscaler front due to Agentic workflows, NVIDIA is seeing massive demand for its Vera CPU racks with several major customers lining up as early adopters. China's Alibaba Among The List of Early Adopters For NVIDIA's Agentic-AI Focused Vera CPU Racks Some major names have emerged for NVIDIA's upcoming Vera CPUs, which will usher in a new era of performance and efficiency at scale in AI. The Vera CPU, accompanied by the Groq 3 LPX "LPU," has tremendous potential for Agentic AI workflows, and this has led AI firms to secure early […]

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Applied Materials partners with TSMC in a $5 billion EPIC Center to advance semiconductor technologies for AI-driven innovation and efficiency. Applied Materials and TSMC Partner at the EPIC Center to Accelerate AI Scaling Press Release: Building on more than 30 years of collaboration, Applied Materials, Inc., today announced an innovation partnership with TSMC to accelerate the development and commercialization of semiconductor technologies required for the next era of AI. Working together at Applied’s EPIC Center in Silicon Valley, the companies will co-innovate to advance materials engineering, equipment innovation, and process integration technologies designed to deliver energy-efficient performance from the data center to the […]

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Sipeed has unveiled its new RISC-V powered SBC platform, the K3 series, which can run up to Qwen3.5 35B AI LLMs and start at $299. The Sipeed K3 SBCs Pack A Punch For AI LLMs In a Compact "Pico-ITX" Form Factor, Up To 32 GB Memory Support Chinese manufacturer, Sipeed, has partnered with SPACEMIT to launch its brand new K3 series SBCs or Single-Board Computers (such as the Raspberry Pi). These PCs are normally aimed at AI, Edge, and Networking applications. Sipeed has leveraged SPACEMIT's Key Stone K3 AI CPUs, which are based on the RISC-V architecture, and offer some […]

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Zyphra has partnered with AMD to launch its brand new open-source AI platform that rivals DeepSeek & is based in the US, all powered by MI355X GPUs. Zyphra Cloud - The DeepSeek of China Is Here & It Is Powered By An All-AMD Powerhouse With 15MW of Compute Through MI355X & Expansion To Future GPUs The Zyphra AI Cloud platform is an inference-optimized service for frontier open-weight models such as DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.6, and GLM 5.1. The platform combines custom kernels, novel long-context inference algorithms, and advanced parallelism techniques to deliver high-throughput, low-latency AI performance, perfect for agentic, deep […]

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Korean customs export/import data has been updated, showcasing the massive DRAM & NAND price surge that will affect global memory and SSD markets. NAND & DRAM Demand Has Swollen To Record Levels & Korean Semiconductor Firms Are Earning Big Time Due To Memory & SSD Price Surges The latest data from the Korean customs import/export department, specifically focusing on DRAM and NAND segments, has been released. As per the new data, DRAM & NAND demand surge can clearly be seen, which has affected all major tech components, with their prices seeing a massive hike of up to 63% in a […]

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AMD has introduced a new plugin called vLLM-ATOM, which supercharges AI LLMs while supporting its Instinct MI350 and MI400 GPUs. AMD Offers Big Boost To AI LLMs With Its vLLM-ATOM Plugin That Works Seamlessly With vLLM & Accelerates AI Inference Performance The vLLM-ATOM is a purpose-built plugin that aims to improve inference performance across various AI LLMs. It is designed around AMD's high-performance Instinct GPU accelerators, such as the MI350 and MI400 series, running both as a standalone inference server or through seamless integration as a plugin backend. This allows users to take full advantage of AMD's native model and […]

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