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Qualcomm's chip price hikes could make phones, wearables, and laptops even pricier
Posted on Saturday July 25, 2026
Qualcomm issued a letter to its clients on Friday warning that its chips will soon become more expensive due to rising supply costs. The company develops chips that power most Android devices, numerous wearables, automotive systems, and a rising crop of Arm-based laptops, so the impact is expected to be...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD's Helios rack is finally shipping, and it's coming for Nvidia's AI dominance
Posted on Saturday July 25, 2026
That challenge hasn't deterred AMD. If anything, it seems to have sharpened the company's focus. At its recent Advancing AI event in San Francisco, AMD rolled out an unusually dense wave of announcements spanning AI infrastructure for the cloud and enterprise data centers, AI-powered client devices, and physical AI for...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations
Posted on Saturday July 25, 2026
Microsoft recently announced a brand-new addition to Key Management Service (KMS), a standard feature for mass activation of Windows devices in enterprises and other large-scale organizations. The KMS feature will soon rely on hardware-based security, using TPM's encryption "brain" to verify the legitimacy of the server hosting KMS data.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD confirms Zen 7 Epyc "Florence" for 2028 and previews Zen 8 Epyc "Ravenna" for 2030
Posted on Saturday July 25, 2026
In her keynote speech, AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed that Zen 7 will debut in 2028 with the 7th-generation Epyc "Florence" processors for enterprise and AI data centers. The new core architecture will be divided into classic (Zen 7) and compute-optimized (Zen 7c) versions, with both expected to be manufactured...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Leak details Ryzen 7 9800HX3D, AMD's first affordable 3D V-cache laptop CPU
Posted on Saturday July 25, 2026
Prominent tipster Golden Pig Upgrade claims that AMD is developing a new Zen 5 laptop CPU equipped with 3D V-cache. The chip's tentative naming suggests it could land in relatively affordable mid-to-high-end gaming laptops.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel just posted its best growth in 15 years – and burned billions to make it happen
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Intel reported second-quarter revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% year over year and well ahead of Wall Street's expectations. Adjusted earnings reached $0.42 per share, almost double analysts' forecasts, while the company expects current-quarter sales of between $15.8 billion and $16.8 billion.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia is challenging 20 years of datacenter CPU design with its new Vera chip
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Vera is built around the Olympus core, the first custom CPU core Nvidia has ever brought to the datacenter and the first custom core the company has designed anywhere since the Denver and Carmel efforts of the Tegra era nearly a decade ago.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft steps in after LG monitors were found auto-installing apps with McAfee ads
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
The controversial advertising partnership between LG and McAfee has apparently come to an end after Microsoft got involved in the matter.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
What was the first consumer device powered by a Li-ion battery?
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Lithium-ion batteries changed tech forever, but the first consumer device to use one may surprise you.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia's Jensen Huang joins X, defends Chinese AI: "Open-source models that are excellent should be used"
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Update (July 24): Jensen Huang has taken his open-model campaign to X, creating an account and using his first post to share an industry letter signed by Nvidia and two dozen other technology companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Mozilla, Hugging Face, and Palantir.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »