Hardware & Chips
Apple M5 Pro, M5 Max Fusion Chips: 7 Months, 614GB/s Later [2026]
Seven months after Apple shipped the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the chips that introduced the company’s new “Fusion Architecture” to the MacBook Pro line, the numbers are…
Microsoft Forms Xbox Labs, Eyes Apple Silicon Ports [2026]
Microsoft formalized a new internal group inside its gaming division on October 13, 2026, called XBOX LABS. The announcement, sent to Team Xbox employees globally and later published…
Apple’s Minions Cuts AI GPU Queue From 10 Hours [2026]
Apple researchers have published a paper describing Minions, a system that turns idle Apple Silicon Macs into a shared virtual GPU cloud for machine learning inference. The paper,…
Modular’s MAX Tops vLLM by 5.5x on Kimi K2.5 [2026]
Modular Inc. says its MAX inference stack ran 5.5 times faster than vLLM at P50 time to first token when serving Moonshot AI’s Kimi-K2.5 model on Nvidia B200…
Intel Crescent Island GPU Ships at 1.3 PFLOPS, 480GB [2026]
Intel put a real name and a real spec sheet on its long-teased inference chip on October 12, 2026. At the Open Compute Project Global Summit, the company…
AMD Helios Rack Debuts: 72 GPUs Beat CPU-Only Claims [2026]
AMD’s rack-scale AI platform, Helios, is now shipping in production form, and the company says it is built to run agentic AI workloads at a scale most data…
RTX 5090 Reportedly Dead, RTX 5080 Jumps to 24GB [2026]
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 may be on its way out. Multiple hardware outlets reported on October 10 and 11, 2026 that the company has stopped feeding new GB202…
KINGPIN: NVIDIA Forced 1 Connector on RTX 3090 Ti Card [2026]
Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido, the extreme overclocker behind EVGA’s most aggressive graphics cards, says NVIDIA tried to strip a power connector off his flagship board right before launch, and…
GB202 Math: Why RTX Pro Beats the $1,999 RTX 5090 [2026]
Nvidia’s best-selling gaming card may be losing a fight it never had to have in public. Reports circulating since October 10, 2026 claim the company is steering future…
Nace.AI Opens Drex 1.5: 9B Model Scores 58.08 [2026]
Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a decision model built to score options instead of writing paragraphs. The company published the weights on September 28, 2026, and the release…
