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Intel expands new game-boosting iBOT software with seven more games, up to a 27% improvement — Team Blue claims 12% average jump in newly-supported titles

… Across the newly-supported titles, Intel claims an average performance jump of 12%, and increases as high as 27%. To unlock support for the new games, you'll need the latest Intel Platform Performance Package . …

Jun 8, 2026 · Jake Roach

Huawei claims sanctions-busting breakthrough with 1.4nm-class chips by 2031, claims 55% higher transistor density — firm claims new LogicFolding chip architecture can bypass EUV restrictions, introduces 'Tau Scaling Law' to replace Moore's Law

… This will provide local alternatives to restricted Nvidia hardware. …

May 25, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Nvidia touts Vera CPU's single-threaded performance as its agentic AI advantage, reveals next-gen 'Rigel' Arm CPU cores — frames chip as a 'max single-threaded CPU at scale,' not a parallel monster

… But AMD had some things to say about the Phoronix test, firing back with its own metrics of a 3.3x performance gain over Vera for the projected output of a 100 kW rack of its hardware. …

Jul 8, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira

AMD begins production ramp of 256-core EPYC Venice — first 2nm HPC chip claims 70% performance leap

… The chip, which packs up to 256 Zen 6 cores and claims a 70% compute performance gain over the current EPYC Turin lineup, is the first high-performance computing product in the industry to reach production on N2. …

May 21, 2026 · Luke James

AMD fires back at Nvidia, claiming 256-core Zen 6 'Venice' CPU beats Vera by 3.3x in rack-level performance — company shares first estimated EPYC Venice benchmarks

… The flagship 256-core model hasn't been detailed in full, but AMD claims it offers 3.3 times the performance of the Nvidia Vera CPU in a rack-scale implementation with a fixed power budget of 100kW. …

Jun 10, 2026 · Jake Roach

Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training

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Jun 6, 2026 · Luke James

Nvidia reportedly cancels quad-die Rubin Ultra GPU in favor of dual-GPU design, report claims — complex design purportedly scrapped over 'manufacturing execution concerns'

… Tom's Hardware Premium Roadmaps High-Bandwidth Memory HBM Roadmap Nvidia Enterprise GPU and CPU Roadmap AI accelerator Roadmap Desktop GPU Roadmap 3D NAND Roadmap Nvidia's Rubin Ultra GPU with four compute chiplets was arguably one of Nvidia's most ambitious projects in recent years, as it not only… …

Jun 30, 2026 · Anton Shilov

Broadcom and OpenAI unveil custom-built Jalapeño inference processor — OpenAI's first chip is a massive reticle-sized ASIC built in an ultra-fast nine-month development cycle

… The two companies also claim that early internal testing indicates that Jalapeño's performance-per-watt is substantially better than 'current state-of-the-art hardware,' although no hard numbers, benchmarks , memory configuration, or other details are disclosed, so again, we will have to take the c… …

Jun 24, 2026 · Anton Shilov

AI cryptomining network's 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’ — GPU rental costs jump 38%, but Pearl’s cards are doing random matrix math, study claims

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Jun 14, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Frore claims its LiquidJet can drop Nvidia Rubin GPU temperatures by 10°C — can also boost performance by 15% as hyperscalers eye using delidded GPUs in production environments

It is not a secret that proper cooling ensures longevity and enables hardware to demonstrate its full potential. But when it comes to data center AI hardware, proper cooling also means higher sustained performance, which directly translates into money earned by the owner. …

Aug 5, 2026 · Anton Shilov

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