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Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake
Premium Intel's Wildcat Lake is competing in the budget laptop market, but it takes a very different approach, leveraging a UCIe interconnect and Intel's latest 18A node.
Apple launches new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple silicon chips — debuting in new Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Apple has announced new M6 and M5 Ultra chips, a new Mac mini, and a new Mac Studio.
Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia breaks down 88-core Vera CPU
Premium Nvidia has provided more color on its Vera CPU for agentic data centers at Hot Chips 2026, showcasing the benefits of spatial multithreading and the power benefits of the LPDDR5X memory system.
Hot Chips 2026: Intel Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' comes with up to 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of last-level cache
Premium Intel has pulled back the curtain on its next-gen Diamond Rapids Xeon CPUs, packing up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 TB of last-level cache.
Hot Chips 2026: IBM's first dual-ISA core natively executes ARM and z/Architecture in the same core; all cores run at 5.7 GHz base frequency
Premium IBM is vastly expanding softwarte support on its mainframes with its first dual-ISA CPU core that natively supports z/Architecture and ARM instructions.
Two Intel chips break Amazon's top 10 CPUs for the first time in months
AMD has dominated the DIY space so thoroughly over the last few years that an Intel chip appearing in the top 10 at all is notable, but it's not really that surprising if you look at the details.
Desktop CPU shipments crater 20% amid high component costs, but AMD gains record share despite 'ugly' desktop processor market
As Intel boosts output of data center and notebook CPUs, AMD manages to outgrow it and keep capturing market share from its arch-rival.
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips may skip bLLC for mobile SKUs and debut on Razor Lake-HX instead, leaker claims
bLLC might remain exclusive to desktop for Nova Lake family.
