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Intel announces McLaren F1 partnership, will battle AMD-powered Mercedes — deal includes chips for aerodynamic analysis, vehicle-dynamics simulation, race strategy analytics, and more

… Specific calculations that F1 engineers spend their days optimizing for include "performance-critical workloads, including computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamic analysis, vehicle-dynamics simulation, and race strategy analytics." As well as real-time data, F1 support computers are used to sift … …

May 14, 2026 · Mark Tyson
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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 8, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech

… With the release of the modestly priced Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 Flash-0731 over recent weeks, the emergence of competitive, cheap Chinese AI models has now forced companies like OpenAI, which launched GPT 5.6 Luna back in June, to cut prices by a staggering 80% in the wake of the competitive open-w… …

Aug 7, 2026 · Sayem Ahmed
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AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center

… AMD calls the MI455X “by leaps and bounds the most advanced AI accelerator we’ve ever built,” and from what we’ve seen, it’s the most competitive product at both the chip level and at rack scale that AMD has ever put up against Nvidia’s thorough dominance of the AI compute race. …

Jul 23, 2026 · Jeffrey Kampman
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › semiconductors

South Korea unveils $520 billion investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip dominance — plan includes four new fabs and HBM facilities, amid strong government support

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday, June 29, announced an 800 trillion won $520 billion public-private investment plan alongside Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to expand the country's chipmaking capacity, a move the government framed as essential to keeping South Korea competitive in … …

Jun 29, 2026 · Etiido Uko