News, reviews, articles on the topic Processors
MediaTek's first 2nm flagship chip drops small efficiency cores in a bold bet on TSMC silicon — but early benchmarks show it trailing Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon.
The partnership targets next-generation inference silicon, signaling OpenAI's push to reduce its dependence on NVIDIA's dominant — and expensive — hardware.
This is Intel's third price hike since late 2025, and the deep discounts that softened earlier increases are running out.
Three components now eat up 68% of a laptop's production cost, forcing brands to choose between slashing specs or raising prices by up to 80%.
AMD's workstation-grade processor is now available as a standalone purchase in Germany for €997, raising the question of whether corporate features are worth the cost.
GMKtec is first to announce a mini-PC on AMD's top AI chip, but pricing, specs, and availability all remain unclear ahead of an IFA 2026 reveal.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Gen 6 Pro are set to debut at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii — and the Pro could push Android Ultra phones $150–$200 higher.
Xiaomi has confirmed a new in-house Xuanjie processor is coming, teased from a mystery smartphone that could arrive as soon as Q3 2026.
The Canadian startup's HC1 chip claims to run AI inference at one-fifth the cost of Nvidia's best GPU — but it only does one thing.
At FMS 2026, Samsung unveiled vertical HBM stacking, a 400-layer NAND prototype, and in-memory computing—but most of it remains concept-stage with no production timeline.
Mark Gurman reports Apple is engineering its next flagship chip to support 1.5TB of unified memory, though a global DRAM shortage could prevent the top config from ever shipping.
For the first time since M1, Apple will release only a base chip in a generation — leaving pro users without a performance upgrade until late 2027.
Announced at Computex 2026, RTX Spark pairs a 20-core Arm CPU with a Blackwell GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory — and Qualcomm's stock dropped 10% the same day.
