… "AI is creating unprecedented opportunities at the edge, driving a sea change in client computing and physical AI systems," said Lip-Bu Tan, Intel CEO. "Alex brings deep technical expertise, strong operational discipline, and decades of experience building and scaling global compute platforms. …
… NVIDIA and its CEO/co-founder Jensen Huang are betting big on the era of AI agents, and that's the driving force between NVIDIA's push into PCs beyond just GPUs . To put it plainly, NVIDIA is on a mission to "reinvent Windows PCs" with Microsoft on board. "The PC is being reinvented," Huang said. …
… Packing 88 cores with support for 176 threads, the platform is tailored specifically to anchor the company's next-gen Vera Rubin AI platform. …
… It also features 18MB of L3 cache, an onboard NPU capable of 50 TOPS, and integrated Arc B390 graphics, pushing the platform's total TOPs to 180 CPU + GPU + NPU . …
… "Ramping ‘Venice’ on TSMC 2nm process technology marks an important step forward in accelerating the next generation of AI infrastructure," said Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO, AMD. "As AI and agentic workloads scale rapidly, customers need platforms that can move from innovation to production faster. …
… "The impact of Intel's supply constraints—and AMD's long chain of incremental share gains—was far more obvious in the on-year comparison, as AMD's unit shipments increased by nearly 17% compared to a year ago, while Intel's shipments declined by more than 10%, resulting in a 5.6 point increase in o… …
… There was a rumored variant of Nova Lake known as "Nova Lake-AX" that was mooted to be a direct challenge to AMD's Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" CPUs, with a double-wide memory bus and a massive integrated GPU, but it was said more recently to have been canceled. …
… However, there is a 1,000W Extreme mode accessible via MSI Center that pushes it further to 2,775MHz for around a 15.3% gain compared to NVIDIA's reference boost clock. …