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NVIDIA RTX Spark Officially Launches at Computex 2026: 20-Core Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB Unified Memory Coming From Six OEMs This Fall
NVIDIA officially unveiled the RTX Spark Superchip at Computex 2026 — a 20-core Arm Grace CPU paired with a Blackwell GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, launching in laptops from six OEMs in fall 2026.
AMD Begins Production Ramp of EPYC Venice on TSMC 2nm, First HPC Chip on Advanced Node
AMD's 6th Gen EPYC 'Venice' is ramping on TSMC 2nm — the first HPC chip on the node — with 256 Zen 6 cores and 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth.
Fractile Raises $220 Million Series B to Build In-Memory AI Inference Chips, Reaches Unicorn Valuation
London-based Fractile closes a $220M Series B led by Accel, Founders Fund, and Factorial Funds to tape out SRAM-based inference chips promising radically faster and cheaper AI output generation.
NVIDIA Set to Unveil First Arm Laptop Chip at GTC Taipei, Entering a Market Dominated by Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD
NVIDIA will reveal the N1/N1X SoC at Jensen Huang's June 1 GTC Taipei keynote, a Blackwell-GPU Arm chip co-developed with MediaTek targeting Dell and Lenovo laptops.
AMD EPYC Captures Record 46.2 Percent of Server CPU Revenue as Data Center Business Surpasses Intel
Mercury Research data show AMD's EPYC processors claimed a record 46.2 percent of x86 server CPU revenue in Q1 2026, as AMD's data center segment hit $5.8 billion and overtook Intel's comparable unit.
Cerebras Prices IPO at $185, Pops 68% on Nasdaq Debut and Closes With a $5.55 Billion Raise and a $106.75 Billion Fully Diluted Valuation
AI chipmaker Cerebras priced its IPO $25 above the upgraded range on May 13, opened at $350 on Nasdaq the next morning, and closed its first session at $311.07 before slipping roughly 10% on Friday.
AMD and Intel Jointly Publish ACE, the First Matrix-Acceleration Standard for x86 Under the Ecosystem Advisory Group
AMD and Intel released the AI Compute Extensions specification, marking the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group's first joint matrix-multiplication standard since the rivals formed the consortium in October 2024 to fend off Arm.
Meta Signs Multibillion-Dollar Deal for Tens of Millions of AWS Graviton5 Cores as Agentic AI Reshapes the CPU Market
Meta will deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to power CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership that AWS describes as one of its largest Graviton commitments to date and that extends Meta's push to diversify beyond Nvidia.
Intel Foundry Demonstrates World's Thinnest GaN Chiplet at 19 Micrometers, Merging Power and Logic on a Single Die
Intel combines gallium nitride power transistors with silicon digital logic on an ultra-thin 19-micrometer chiplet harvested from 300mm wafers, targeting AI data center power delivery and 5G/6G infrastructure.
Intel Demonstrates Heracles, a Purpose-Built Chip That Accelerates Encrypted Computing Up to 5,000 Times Over Standard CPUs
Intel's Heracles processor, developed under DARPA's DPRIVE program, performs computations on fully encrypted data without decryption, achieving speedups of 1,074 to 5,547 times over a 24-core Xeon.
TSMC Begins Mass Production of COUPE Silicon Photonics Platform as AI Data Centers Shift from Copper to Light
TSMC's Compact Universal Photonic Engine enters volume production in 2026, with NVIDIA's Spectrum-X Photonics switches and AMD's new $280 million R&D hub positioning optical interconnects as the successor to copper wiring in AI infrastructure.
Intel Arrow Lake Refresh Launches at $199 With More Cores and Faster Memory, Reclaiming Price-Performance Ground From AMD
Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus ship with additional efficiency cores, native DDR5-7200 support, and aggressive pricing that undercuts their predecessors by up to $100, though AMD's X3D chips retain the gaming crown.