… The company also claims to beat Intel's flagship 128-core Xeon 6980P CPU by as much as 245% in Agentic AI workloads, and also claims to handily dispatch Amazon's Graviton 5 CPU with 192 cores, although it was apparently beating those chips already with its EPYC 9005 "Turin" CPUs. …
… In fact, it's happening in less than two weeks, as AMD CTO Mark Papermaster just confirmed to SiliconAngle's TheCube podcast at RAISE Summit 2026 that the new chips will be launching at AMD's Advancing AI event starting July 22nd. …
… In AI, compute is revenue. NVIDIA compute is not just a chip. It is a complete AI factory platform including accelerated computing, networking, systems software, AI frameworks and a global developer ecosystem," Huang said. …
… Lattner brings serious credibility, having created the LLVM compiler and Apple's Swift language before turning to AI, which counts for a lot in a field where grand promises tend to die in the toolchain. Power and cost set the ceiling for AI now. …
… Because the 'Venice' and Vera figures reflect modeled and projected configurations, results are presented as estimates within the stated rack-power constraint." In other words, there's minimal data here for the interesting chips; the relationship between Turin and Granite Rapids is well-understood … …
… Hopefully things improve next year, because there's a whole lot of hardware that's supposed to launch around CES 2027, and it's going to really spoil the excitement of new chips if there's no RAM or GPUs to pair them with. …
… It's certainly a pricey laptop, there is no getting around that fact. …
… These are the long-awaited "Panther Lake" chips, and if Intel's claims hold up under our own testing, they look impressive. …