Intel says Nova Lake, its next major CPU architecture, is coming to desktop PCs before servers
Nova Lake will bring a new core design to consumers before it reaches the data center
Samsung says Claude Code can cut chip design work from weeks to days, but it still makes serious mistakes
The tool has made unauthorized changes and masking errors
Apple's A20 Pro production is going smoothly, except DRAM supply is bottlenecking iPhone assembly
TSMC is sitting on $1 billion worth of finished iPhone chips with nowhere to go
Ripple effect: In the run-up to the launch of the foldable iPhone Ultra, iPhone 18, and iPhone 18 Pro, Apple and its assemblers are working to secure enough mobile DRAM. Apple leans heavily on Micron for these chips and also buys from SK Hynix and Samsung. People involved say they still expect to meet initial demand, but they worry online wait times could stretch and store inventory could run out quickly if the shortage continues.
Google plans to produce up to 15 million AI chips by 2028, rivaling Nvidia's total accelerator volume
Intel Foundry reportedly secures orders to help produce millions of Google chips
Samsung is locking in five-year chip deals as AI demand shows no signs of slowing
Samsung's chip business is booming, but its phone division just posted its first loss
Samsung lands Broadcom AI chip deal worth more than $200 billion through 2030
The long-term partnership spans chip manufacturing, HBM memory, and advanced packaging
Qualcomm's chip price hikes could make phones, wearables, and laptops even pricier
Double-digit price increases begin September 1
Intel's Starfire SoC combines 18A CPU, Intel 3 GPU, and NPU for space-grade computing
Starfire is built to operate between -55°C and 125°C while resisting radiation-induced data corruption
AMD's Zen 6 Epyc chip packs 256 cores, promises up to 1.7x faster AI
It also provides a glimpse of the architecture that will power future Ryzen chips
First look: AMD will give its first public look at Epyc Venice CPUs this month, showcasing the new Zen 6 architecture at the Advancing AI 2026 summit in San Francisco on July 22. The demonstration will highlight performance for AI workloads, with AMD claiming a major speed increase over current Epyc chips.
Apple is reportedly skipping M6 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips to fast-track AI-focused M7 Macs
Apple's next Mac chips could pack 1.5TB of memory, all in the name of AI
Samsung is building a dedicated AI chip for PCs, and HP and Lenovo are already testing it
Samsung wants back into PC silicon with a new NPU, coming in through the AI side door
Intel's troubled 18A chip process is finally running smoothly
The node now produces about 30,000 wafers per month across two fabs in Arizona and Oregon
IBM unveils sub-1-nanometer chip architecture that stacks 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized processor
It's a research milestone for now, but the company expects it to become an industry standard within a decade
OpenAI debuts Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip to cut ChatGPT costs and reduce Nvidia dependency
The Broadcom-built ASIC is optimized for AI inference
Google is spending billions to turn its TPU chips into a real challenger to Nvidia
Google backs $3.2 billion data center deal to get its chips into Anthropic's hands, mirroring Nvidia's playbook
Samsung's foundry is booming as TSMC struggles with demand – bags Nvidia, Tesla, and Qualcomm as new clients
Google and AMD could also get their next-generation chips manufactured by Samsung
Intel could launch 'Raptor Lake Next' in 2027 as DDR4 makes a comeback
Industry sources say Intel will keep its older platform in the market
The PCIe 5.0 tax: Intel's Z990 chipset for Nova Lake runs hotter and uses more power despite shrinking
The motherboard designs can handle faster I/O and more demanding hardware
Intel launches Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest with 288 E-cores on 18A node, teases Diamond Rapids for 2027
Intel just shipped its most ambitious server chip yet, Diamond Rapids promises PCIe 6.0 and twice the memory bandwidth next year
Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops
Nvidia wants to make your Windows PC an agentic and creator powerhouse
Why it matters: Nvidia just announced what it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built. RTX Spark is a Grace Blackwell system on a chip, 70 billion transistors on TSMC 3nm, with a Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Arm CPU built with MediaTek, and up to 128GB of unified memory. It is purpose-built for agents, and it runs full RTX gaming and creation on the same thin-and-light laptop. It is a genuinely impressive piece of silicon.
Moore's law is hitting a wall, so researchers are stacking silicon chip layers instead of shrinking them
University of Illinois team stacks three active silicon layers on a single chip, achieving 98-100% transistor yield
Forward-looking: For years, the chip industry has chased better performance by shrinking transistors and squeezing more of them onto a flat slice of silicon. That strategy is running into hard limits. A group at the University of Illinois thinks the next gains will come not from going smaller, but from going vertical.
SK Hynix is embedding cooling into HBM memory to stop AI chips from overheating
New iHBM with cooling structures is said to cut thermal resistance by over 30%
Huawei says it can build 1.4nm chips without ASML's most advanced machines
Cut off from advanced lithography tools, Huawei is betting on stacked chip architectures and new packaging methods
Researchers built a switch 1,000 times faster than today's AI chips, and it barely generates any heat
University of Tokyo's antiferromagnetic spintronic switch operates at picosecond speeds
Intel CEO promises partnership with Nvidia will produce "exciting new products"
The chipmakers are developing SoCs with x86 CPUs and RTX GPUs