Hardware & Chips
Intel Xeon 6+ Hits 288 Cores on 18A, Beats Epyc 30% [2026]
Intel spent Computex 2026 trying to prove it can still ship leading-edge silicon. For about twenty minutes on Monday, the market didn’t care. Shares of Intel and AMD…
Intel, AMD Drop 4.2% as Nvidia Unveils PC Chip [2026]
Intel Corporation (INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) opened the week on the back foot. Shares of both chipmakers fell roughly 4.2% in Monday’s premarket trading, according to…
AMD Ryzen 5 5500F Hits $99 as DDR5 Prices Spike [2026]
AMD used a quiet Thursday to answer a problem that has been building all year: DDR5 memory got too expensive for budget PC builders to ignore. On September…
HIVE Crosses $1M/Day as BUZZ HPC Hires Mark Volk [2026]
HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. (TSX: HIVE) (NASDAQ: HIVE) (BVC: HIVECO) told investors on September 10, 2026, that it has crossed a threshold few Bitcoin miners have publicly claimed:…
STL Ships 48-576F Fiber Trunks for AI Data Centers [2026]
STL, the Indian fiber and networking supplier formerly known as Sterlite Technologies, said on September 10, 2026 that it has secured US certification for a new line of…
Apple iPhone Duo Foldable Launches at $1,999, Ships Oct. 23 [2026]
Apple ended a decade of speculation on September 9, 2026, when it walked onstage at Apple Park and introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone. The announcement,…
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 30B Free, 4x Faster [2026]
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on August 11, 2026, an open-weight AI model the company says anyone can download, run, and modify without paying a license fee or…
Claude Vibe-Codes Windows 3.1 Shell in 1 Hour [2026]
A Japanese developer built a working clone of the Windows 3.1 Program Manager using Claude Code in about an hour, then spent the following days polishing it into…
Emerald AI Raises $150M to Power Santa Clara’s FLIP [2026]
Nvidia’s hometown just changed the rules for how AI data centers get plugged into the grid. A report submitted to the Santa Clara City Council on September 8,…
GPT-6 Astra Hits 100,000-GPU Training Run [2026]
OpenAI shipped its newest flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, on September 3, 2026, and the detail that stuck wasn’t a benchmark chart. It was a compute number. Astra is…
