Chipset and hardware (Page 2)
News related to Chipset and hardware.
The Signature 27 is Motorola’s last chance to get Android updates right
Credit: Motorola Last month, Motorola announced that the Signature 27 was on its way. Unlike its predecessor, the new ultra-high-end model will be available globally, including in the US. The Signature series represents Motorola’s best, with cutting-edge specs like a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme SoC and a high-end cooling system. Another major difference is its much more ambitious Android update policy.
You can now easily find and add textbooks in Gemini Notebook
TL;DR Google has added a new “Textbooks” feature to Gemini Notebook. It lets users add textbooks from OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S. Chand Publishing as sources. The feature is rolling out to users in the US and India. Google is making Gemini Notebook ( previously called NotebookLM ) even more useful for people looking to use textbooks as reference sources. The company announced “ Expert Intelligence ” last…
Deadly Intel Fab 28 explosion causes two-week shutdown, to cost $600 million and severely disrupt server chip manufacturing for six months — 10nm Xeon shipments stall during largest shortage in memory
The explosion at Intel's Fab 28 near Kiryat Gat, Israel , that happened earlier this month forced Intel to shut down the whole facility for two weeks, and now the company expects that it will cost it approximately $600 million in lost revenue over two quarters. The disruption is expected to affect server processors manufactured using Intel's 10nm-class process technologies and will reduce the company's shipments in…
Intel says it’s selling every affordable laptop chip it can make
During Intel's latest earnings call , CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips "is outstripping supply." According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold out. Zinsner said Intel has "seen significant growth in Wildcat Lake. It's coming exactly at the right time because it's cost-optimized and we're seeing a lot of focus in that regard." As shortages of RAM and other components…
Intel confirms Nova Lake will use advanced 18A-P node, more details at CES — company says it's taking Panther Lake capacity offline to build more Granite Rapids data center CPUs
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop processors will be the first client product to use Intel's enhanced 18A-P node, CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed in the company's Q3 2026 earnings call. The chief executive also said that the company intends to share more about Nova Lake at CES in January. The company's chief financial officer shared that Intel intends to take Panther Lake capacity offline to build more Granite Rapids data…
Report: Trump did nothing with intel that China planted spy close to Nvidia CEO
Donald Trump apparently is so aligned with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—who has become the president’s key advisor on AI —that he ignored intelligence indicating that Huang was the target of a “Chinese spy plot,” and did so partly to protect Nvidia’s stock. The New York Times spoke with people briefed on US intelligence agencies’ surveillance and granted them anonymity to discuss findings drawn from “classified…
Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass
Prime Intellect has released Prime Mega MoE , a training extension of DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. DeepSeek’s kernel only ran the forward pass. Prime Intellect added a fast, overlapping backward pass. That makes the fused kernel usable for training, not just inference. In its prime-rl trainer, full training steps on Qwen3 MoE models run up to 34% faster. Against TorchTitan, the gain reaches 55%. For teams…
U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 prices hit $2,000, costing more than the RTX 5090 did at launch and with limited stock available — original $999 MSRP long forgotten, with prices now 2-3x higher
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, Nvidia's second-fastest GPU from its current generation, now costs as much as the RTX 5090 did, on paper, when it launched. Prices have reached $2,000 and higher, with most of the available stock online limited to third-party sellers. If you can find it in stock, it may end up costing you two to three times as much as it did when it launched. The cheapest, in-stock RTX 5080 available to…
Anthropic is asking Wall Street to believe in AGI
Today on Decoder , I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the numbers of the Anthropic IPO filing — a document known as an S-1. Anthropic just filed its S-1 to go public on the Nasdaq, and it could start trading as soon as next month at a valuation of anywhere between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion. That would immediately make it…
Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times
US intelligence agencies believe an executive in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's circle is an informant for China. The article Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times appeared first on The Decoder .
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of a spy plot through 'Chinese intelligence asset,' report claims — exec from firm under investigation for smuggling banned AI chips to China accused of being a spy, was also feeding information to Beijing
Multiple sources claim that a top executive at a Singapore AI firm suspected of steering Nvidia AI GPUs to China and who has close business ties with Jensen Huang was apparently passing information to Beijing as a Chinese intelligence asset. According to The New York Times , U.S. intelligence has been aware of her activities for over a year already and has even briefed President Donald Trump on the situation…
Our first step at defining a CPU benchmark for agentic AI
Agentic AI has set off a firestorm in the world of CPUs over the past six months, yet it’s an area of performance that still doesn’t have solid, repeatable benchmarks to evaluate where the latest hardware falls. We’ve been working on an internal set of tests to evaluate at least one aspect of contentious agentic loops end-to-end, isolating CPU and memory performance from the accelerator to understand how these…
Score a huge $1,250 saving on this Alienware gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB DDR5 right now — big Newegg price drop means you can grab this 4K-ready rig with a 24-core Intel CPU and 1TB SSD for $2,599.99
You don't have to settle for huge price rises in the PC hardware market. Thanks to Newegg, there's a $1,250 discount right now on a 4K-capable Alienware Aurora DACT1250 gaming PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 RAM for $2,599.99 . ● Check out this deal at Newegg This is Dell's premium brand for gamers and, as you can expect from a premium brand, the prices are usually towards the top end. The…
Save $234 on 32GB of DDR5 RAM with this 3-item AM5 Newegg bundle
Newegg is offering a stellar deal on this 3-item AM5-based combo. For only $1,069 ($234 off) you get a quality Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wi-Fi 7 motherboard, one of the fastest gaming chips around with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and the piece de resistance, 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 NeoX DDR5-6000 CL36 RAM. With the massive $234 discount, the RAM comes down to $336, a great price for the sad times we’re in. Check out…
Anthropic’s IPO filing shows most of its compute goes to R&D, not serving customers — company details massive $800 billion in TPU and GPU contracts
Anthropic spent less than a third of its $8.9 billion first-half compute bill on serving customers, with most of the rest going into training, research, and running Claude internally, its S-1 filing shows. It has meanwhile signed up for hundreds of billions of dollars more in TPU and GPU capacity. By our math, it has meanwhile signed up for roughly $800 billion more in TPU and GPU capacity, and revenue per compute…
This beefy Android handheld quietly got a gigantic, 10,000mAh battery
Credit: MANGMI TL;DR The MANGMI Pocket Max has quietly received a battery capacity upgrade, going from 8,000mAh to 10,000mAh. This means it might have the largest battery out of any Android handheld on the market. The handheld otherwise offers a Snapdragon 865 chip, a 7-inch 144Hz OLED screen, and a base 8GB/128GB model for $230. The MANGMI Pocket Max is one of the most notable large Android handhelds on the market…
GitHub says massive influx of AI-generated code required extra 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage to manage — a sixfold increase to 7.4 billion monthly commits in one year
Is most programming code now made by AI? That's not hard to believe given the number of testimonies, but we now have exact figures behind that statement. GitHub, the world's largest code repository, says that over the course of this year, it added 4 million CPU cores, 160PB of storage, and 50 Tb/s of networking capacity to keep up with the influx of AI-generated code. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages (Image…
Samsung teases Galaxy S27 plans as its phone business slips into the red again
Credit: Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung expects to ship fewer smartphones in 2027, particularly in the mid-range and entry-level segments, as higher memory and component costs push prices up. The company is banking on “Intelligent Eyewear” in Q4 and is researching Glass, TriFold, and other new form factors for 2027. Samsung is also prioritizing a more distinctive Galaxy S series, better battery life and…
Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch
On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a fully domestic supply chain." Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would be a surprise, because no
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over
Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just two weeks after Argon with gains across the board
Just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind is releasing Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points. Google says the model is built for extended agent workflows and the full cyber defense lifecycle. Because of those advanced security capabilities, access is limited to selected security experts at first. The article Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just…
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR vs MacBook Pro: Here’s every difference
Apple just unveiled its new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, which joins the lineup alongside the existing MacBook Pro using the same M5 Pro and Max chips. Here’s an in-depth comparison of the two models. more…
Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model that scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro. Access starts with vetted cyber defenders, at $2/$10 per million tokens.