Hardware & Chips
Synopsys Signs $1B+ Chip IP Deal With Amazon [2026]
Synopsys and Amazon announced a strategic, multi-year agreement on September 30, 2026, covering silicon intellectual property and engineering software for Amazon’s custom-chip development. The deal is worth more…
Surface Refresh Hits 80 TOPS NPU, Starts at $1,149 [2026]
Microsoft used Qualcomm’s September announcement window to quietly rewrite the bottom of its Surface lineup. The 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop, long the cheapest machines in…
Microsoft Surface Goes 5 Years Without AMD [2026]
Microsoft’s Surface Corporate Vice President, Brett Ostrum, has confirmed what chip watchers have suspected for years: AMD has no place in the current Surface lineup, and the company…
Nvidia GPU Prices Surge 41% in Europe, AMD Up 28% [2026]
European GPU buyers just got hard numbers confirming what their wallets already knew: graphics cards cost dramatically more than they did over the summer. A European GPU-market tracker…
Witcher 3 Remastered Negative Reviews Hit 35% [2026]
Two days after AMD shipped a driver meant to calm the backlash, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered is still losing the review war on Steam. The…
Everspin’s CXL-MRAM Demo Claims 100x Faster Writes [2026]
Everspin Technologies says it has done something no memory maker has managed before: hook magnetoresistive RAM directly into a server over Compute Express Link, or CXL, and let…
CoreWeave’s NVIDIA Vera CPU: 11,264 Cores, 3x Faster [2026]
CoreWeave said on September 30, 2026, that it will add the NVIDIA Vera CPU to its cloud platform, one of the first large commercial rollouts of a processor…
Nvidia’s $150B Buyback Beats Apple, Trails AMD [2026]
Nvidia’s board cleared a fresh $150 billion stock buyback on September 28, 2026, pushing the company’s total remaining repurchase authorization to $235 billion, according to CNBC. The increase…
DRAM Now Costs 54% More Than TSMC 2nm Silicon [2026]
For as long as anyone in the chip business can remember, memory has been the cheap part of the silicon stack. Logic wafers built on TSMC’s most advanced…
Witcher 3 DLSS 5 Mod Fixes Geralt, Costs 30% FPS [2026]
A modder-built tool is doing something CD Projekt Red and Nvidia haven’t officially shipped: running DLSS 5 inside The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered. The result, according…
