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As Frank Yeary retires from Intel, the company picks an engineer to chair its board
By Luke James published
Premium Intel’s board of directors is getting a new independent chair, effective May 13, following the company’s Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.

Nvidia invests $4 billion into photonics firms in a bid to bolster data center interconnect supply chains
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Into the photonic future.

2026 will bring sharpest PC declines in over a decade — PC shipments to fall 10.4%
By Luke James published
Premium The forecast puts 2026 on track for the steepest device shipment contraction in over a decade, according to Ranjit Atwal, senior director analyst at Gartner.

ISSCC 2026: Rebellions details industry's first quad-chiplet AI solution with UCIe interconnects
By Anton Shilov published
Premium A sign of things to come.

Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, comitting to 2 gigawatts of Trainium silicon
By Luke James published
Premium The investment is part of a $110 billion funding round that values OpenAI at $730 billion pre-money, with Nvidia and SoftBank each contributing $30 billion.

ISSCC 2026: AMD discloses how the Instinct MI355X doubled per-CU throughput despite lower compute unit count
By Luke James published
Premium Taking to the stage at ISSCC, AMD’s Ramasamy Adaikkalavan talked through how AMD managed to fit nearly double the compute throughput into the same die area as its predecessor,

Inside Meta and AMD's $100 billion deal, and why AMD is giving up a slice of the company in return for GPU orders
By Sayem Ahmed published
Premium Deal mirrors OpenAI agreement from 2025.

Sambanova introduces new AI accelerator, partners with Intel to deploy Xeon CPUs for inferencing and agentic workloads
By Anton Shilov published
Premium Intel teams up with a new kid on the block.
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