Hardware & Chips

Tim Cook’s Last Day as Apple CEO: Ternus Takes Over [2026]

Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO is today, August 31, 2026, closing out a 15-year run that took the company from a $350 billion firm still mourning…
By Dr. Heinrich Vogel · Aug 31, 2026

ASUS, MSI RTX Spark Laptops Sell Out, Order 100K More [2026]

ASUS and MSI have both burned through their first production runs of NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops before a single unit reached a retail shelf. According to a report…
By Dr. Heinrich Vogel · Aug 31, 2026

OpenAI Buys, Anthropic Rents: Apple’s AI Server Pivot [2026]

OpenAI has spent the past several months buying tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, according to a report from The Information relayed by…
By Marcus Bell · Aug 31, 2026

OpenAI Buys 10,000s of Macs as RTX Spark Sells Out [2026]

OpenAI has spent the past several months quietly buying up tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, according to a report from The Information,…
By Marcus Bell · Aug 31, 2026

Nvidia Posts $96.2B Record Quarter as Rivals Circle [2026]

Nvidia closed its second fiscal quarter of 2027 with $96.2 billion in revenue, more than double what it booked a year earlier, and the number landed at the…
By Laura Bennett · Aug 30, 2026

DLSS 5 Modded to Run on RTX 4090, No Nvidia Fix [2026]

A leaked build of NVIDIA’s next-generation upscaler is running on hardware it was never meant to touch. Reports from TechPowerUp and GameGPU describe a patched DLSS 5 DLL,…
By Dr. Heinrich Vogel · Aug 30, 2026

Nvidia Hikes AI Server Prices 15%+ on Memory Crunch [2026]

Nvidia has told the contract manufacturers that build its AI servers to expect price increases of more than 15% on systems shipping in early 2027, according to reports…
By Priya Anand · Aug 30, 2026

Nvidia Hub Deal Sparks Bias Fears at $12.9B Price [2026]

Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion move on Hugging Face has landed exactly the question the AI industry didn’t want to answer this week: can the world’s default home for…
By Daniel Roth · Aug 30, 2026

MSI Revives DDR4 for RTX 5070 Laptop as Prices Spike [2026]

MSI confirmed on August 28, 2026 that its Katana 15 HX C14 gaming laptop is now shipping globally, and the spec sheet has hardware watchers doing a double…
By Daniel Roth · Aug 29, 2026

GTA 6 Targets 30 FPS on Consoles, 60 FPS in Doubt [2026]

Rockstar Games has confirmed, through comments attributed to Lead Developer and Rockstar North Co-director Rob Nelson, that Grand Theft Auto VI is currently running at 30 frames per…
By Laura Bennett · Aug 29, 2026

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