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Intel Crescent Island specs: 480GB of LPDDR5X on one air cooled card

Intel Crescent Island specs from Hot Chips 2026: 32 Xe3P cores, up to 480GB of LPDDR5X, 350W and air cooling. Here is why Intel skipped HBM4 memory ...

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A 20-Year-Old's startup wants to keep a solar plane in the sky for a year

A startup called Alteon, founded by a 20-year-old in India and backed by former Stripe exec Lachy Groom, is developing autonomous aircraft that ...

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How to check if your server is exposed to the internet in under an hour

How to check if your server is exposed to the internet, in seven steps that cost nothing and take about an hour. Built for homelabs and small ...

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AMD Helios vs Nvidia Vera Rubin: The memory number decides this one

AMD Helios vs Nvidia Vera Rubin comes down to memory, not FLOPS. AMD claims 31TB of HBM4 per rack against Nvidia's 20.7TB, and builds the whole thing ...

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What is HBM4, and why your AI accelerator is starving rather than thinking

What is HBM4 memory explained in plain terms: how stacked memory works, why bandwidth beats raw FLOPS for AI inference, and why only three firms can ...

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AMD crosses 30 percent of x86 client CPUs for the first time

AMD vs Intel market share in 2026: AMD reached 30.3 percent of x86 client CPUs in Q2, its first time above 30. Plus the Arm caveat most coverage ...

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Why NVIDIA is betting big on South Korea as its next AI stronghold

In the space of a few weeks, NVIDIA has announced a research lab at South Korea's leading university, a 500-billion-dollar partnership with SK Group.

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What the global AI infrastructure build-out actually looks like from the inside

There is a version of the AI infrastructure story that gets told in press releases and earnings calls, full of billion-dollar numbers and national.

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A2A vs MCP: What each agent protocol actually does

A2A protocol vs MCP explained: MCP connects an agent to tools and data, A2A connects agents to each other. What each covers and who governs them.

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Mac mini M6 vs Mac Studio M5 Max vs M5 Ultra: Which one actually runs local models

Mac mini M6 vs Mac Studio for local LLM work. Unified memory is the real constraint, not core count. Here is the sum that decides which Apple desktop ...

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Google took a 12.2 billion dollar option on Marvell, and Broadcom lost its seat

The Google Marvell custom AI chip deal hands Google a warrant on 58.97 million shares worth 12.18 billion dollars. Broadcom fell more than 5 percent.

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Wistron opens its first US factory in Fort Worth to build NVIDIA AI systems

Taiwan-based Wistron, one of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturers, has opened its first manufacturing plant in the United States.

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Wi-Fi 7 vs Wi-Fi 6E: Is the upgrade worth it in 2026?

Wi-Fi 7 vs Wi-Fi 6E, is it worth it? One speed test on your wired connection settles the question. For most homes the honest answer is not yet, and ...

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Instagram is getting a midnight curfew, and it cost Meta $16.68 billion

Meta settlement teen time limits explained: a $16.68 billion deal forces Instagram night mode, a two hour daily cap and blocked school hours ...

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The world is building AI factories and Wistron's Fort Worth plant shows who actually makes them

There is a story that often gets missed in all the excitement about AI models, AI chips, and AI cloud services: someone has to actually build the ...

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NPU vs GPU vs CPU: What actually runs your AI

NPU vs GPU vs CPU explained: what each chip actually runs, what a TOPS number does not tell you, and why memory bandwidth decides local AI speed.

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Apple Put a 2nm Chip in the 899 Dollar Mac mini

The Mac mini M6 starts at 899 dollars with Apple first 2nm chip and two Neural Engines, built for running AI models locally on your own desk.

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Nvidia skips new gaming GPUs, ships DLSS 4.5 instead

Nvidia is not launching a new gaming GPU generation in 2026. Instead it shipped DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, a transformer model that folds denoising ...

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Intel is building a stripped-down Panther Lake chip for gaming handhelds

Leaks point to a budget Panther Lake variant from Intel with eight CPU cores and four Xe3 graphics cores, aimed squarely at gaming handheld makers ...

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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE trims VRAM to chase a wider market

AMD has launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE globally, a trimmed-memory variant of the RX 9070 aimed at expanding its reach in the mid-range rather than ...

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Snapdragon C puts Arm Windows laptops in the budget aisle

Snapdragon C debuts in the Acer Aspire Go 15, pushing Arm Windows laptops into the entry tier with up to 8GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E and dual USB-C ports.

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Apple Intelligence adds real-time translation to FaceTime and iMessage in iOS 20

Apple's approach to AI has always been different from everyone else's.

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Wigner crystal explained: Physicists just watched one move

Wigner crystal explained: electrons locking into a repeating pattern through mutual repulsion alone, and the Basel and Munich team who finally ...

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Nvidia RTX Spark: A petaflop and 128GB of memory on a desk

Nvidia RTX Spark specs: a 20 core Grace CPU, a Blackwell RTX GPU, up to 1 petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory in a desk-side box this ...

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Cloudflare Kitesurf is a browser with no tabs, because no human will use it

Cloudflare Kitesurf is a browser built only for AI agents. No tabs, no themes, no extensions, and 3 to 7 times less CPU and memory than Chromium.

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