Hardware & Chips
MINIX N304-AI Mini PC Ships With 24 TOPS NPU [2026]
MINIX has launched the N304-AI, a mini PC built on Intel’s newly introduced Wildcat Lake platform, positioning the compact desktop as an entry-level option for on-device AI workloads.…
Samsung Builds 8-Layer HBM4E for Nvidia at 18Gbps [2026]
Samsung Electronics is building a custom 8-layer version of its HBM4E memory specifically for Nvidia, according to a report from Seoul Economic Daily that circulated across finance and…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Hits 6 OEMs, $2,899 Price Leak [2026]
NVIDIA and MediaTek have locked in the launch plan for RTX Spark, the AI-first chip platform set to reshape the Windows laptop market this fall. Six OEMs, ASUS,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
