Lip-Bu Tan nearly walked away from semiconductors, but one plea to ‘save Intel’ pulled him back as CEO; now hiring top CPU and GPU architects.
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NVIDIA Blackwell sweeps every MLPerf 6.0 benchmark with no competition in sight, while GB300 systems run up to 60% faster than GB200. wccftech.com/nvidia-blackwel…
Intel’s 18A-P debuts Power Boost, an industry-first dual-contact transistor that squeezes more frequency from the same chip footprint.
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AMD’s next-gen Threadripper “Mustang Peak” confirmed: built for the TR6 platform, bringing 2nm Zen 6 cores and PCIe Gen6.
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Microsoft risks Trump’s ire by abandoning costly OpenAI and Anthropic models for China-based DeepSeek V4 in enterprise workloads.
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Google sent a broken Galaxy S22 Ultra as a replacement for a defective Pixel unit, with one customer finding out the hard way.
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The Steam Machine is likely in testers' hands, as 2 fresh SteamOS benchmarks leak. 🔗 wccf.tech/1knfh
One interesting thing to note is that the single-core score is about twice that of the PlayStation 5 CPU (2334 vs 1218), indicating how the Steam Machine should fare better than Sony's current generation in CPU-intensive scenarios.