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Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions
This year’s show was dubbed “AI Together," so there was, of course, plenty of focus on that monstrous marketing term and all-consuming tech trend. But because of AI’s continuing…
Intel warns it has 'a healthy dose of paranoia' over Nvidia entrance into PC market — company says RTX Spark is 'great for the market' while touting the virtues of x86
…As one of the most valuable companies in the world and the clear forerunner in the AI space, Nvidia demands attention. To that end, and for just one example of its commitment…
Intel tells PC makers to adopt 18A CPUs or lose their supply, report claims — Intel 7 supply dries up, pressuring notebook and PC manufacturers in the US, China, and Taiwan
…As AI-driven demand for data center CPUs surged through 2025, Intel deliberately shifted Intel 7 wafer starts toward its Data Center and AI group, where Xeon parts can bring higher ASPs…
Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM —non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat
…The problem is that switching states requires energy, and almost all of that energy eventually becomes heat. That reality is becoming increasingly problematic in the AI era. Modern AI accelerators process enormous…
New Microsoft Surface for Business PCs pair Panther Lake chips with as little as 8GB of RAM — 13-inch Surface Laptop goes light on memory but still starts at $1,299
…with a maximum brightness of 600 nits across SDR and HDR content. The 13.8-inch model also gets a software-driven "integrated privacy screen" that can obfuscate content on your screen…
Musk's Colossus 1 AI supercomputer's inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn't be used to train Grok, so Anthropic's using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO
…an AI cloud infrastructure provider. That would not be entirely surprising. xAI has already launched Grok Business and enterprise-focused offerings featuring APIs, security controls, audit logging, and corporate integrations. This also…
Standard 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is likely dead thanks to AI, expert warns that AI can weaponize patches in 30 minutes — LLM-assisted bug-hunting ushers in a new cyberworld order
…AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies…
Nvidia's RTX Spark could caplitalize where Qualcomm's Arm-based efforts have not — following the expiration of Qualcomm's Windows on Arm deal, Nvidia stands poised to pick up the slack
…The chip carries up to 128GB of unified memory, a claimed 1 petaflop of AI compute, and 6,144 CUDA cores, and it ships this fall in laptops and compact desktops from…
Imec builds world's first High-NA EUV-fabricated quantum dot qubit device — breakthrough could pull quantum computing onto the same manufacturing roadmap as next-gen AI processors, compressing timelines
…not yet standard, already essential High-NA EUV is the semiconductor industry’s next major lithography transition, developed primarily for future sub-2nm processors, advanced AI accelerators, and dense memory technologies. The…