Justice Dept. Investigates Nvidia Deal With Groq
The Hot Take: Slaps on the hand...
The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.
Read the full articleIntel-backed auto-overclocking tool Hypertune optimizes individual systems, not test profiles — tool claims FPS improvement of up to 60% on Intel-based systems
The Hot Take: Interesting, given the warranty stances on OC's.
Following an early access period that included over 60,000 participants, auto-overclocking tool Hypertune has released its Gaming Performance Engineering platform, which is built on top of Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK and developed in partnership with Intel. The company claims the utility can boost frame rates by up to 60%, though you shouldn't expect that as the norm. The tool includes automated CPU and GPU overclocking, as well as customizable Windows features, network optimization, and game-specific optimizations. Go deeper with…
Read the full articleMicrosoft Was Slowly Building Its Reputation For Improving Windows 11, But Wastes It All Away With The Latest Move That Uses Your Desktop Wallpaper As Ad Space
The Hot Take: Microsoft is just skirting a max exodus from windows for sure.
An opportunity exists for Microsoft to enter into the goodwill of millions of Windows 11 users, but it just seems like time after time, the software giant continues to throw away these chances. After promising to introduce improvements to its operating system, including making the platform more efficient for 8GB RAM systems, the company takes two steps backward by displaying ads on your desktop. Using the Bing Wallpaper app, Windows 11 users are reporting that a fullscreen ad for a collection of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films appears…
Read the full articleIntel Leaps 2-4 Years Ahead Of Samsung And TSMC On High-NA EUV Lithography After Producing Its 1 Millionth Test Wafer
The Hot Take: GOOD, we needed this.
The fates appear to have turned benevolent towards Intel, especially as its multi-year strategic pivots are now finally on the cusp of paying financial dividends, as evidenced by the chipmaker's rapidly expanding EMIB-T capacity as well as its hefty lead against Samsung and TSMC on high-NA EUV technology. UBS now believes Intel can easily meet MediaTek's growing TPU-related demand for EMIB-T advanced packaging, replete with the ability to package over 2 million substrates by 2028 According to UBS, the wider industry is becoming increasingly…
Read the full articleIntel surpasses one million High-NA EUV wafers processed, outpaces the rest of the industry combined — company also trailblazing giant 6×12 photomasks to speed production and lower costs
The Hot Take: Intel is making headway fast to get back to the top of the manufacturers for sure.
Intel announced on Monday that it had processed more than one million 300-mm wafers using its High-NA EUV scanners, less than two and a half years after its first tool was assembled. For now, the company intends to use industry-standard 6-inch photomasks, which can expose 26×16.5 mm half-fields and therefore require field stitching for larger chips. However, Intel is also working on larger 6×12-inch photomasks that would enable High-NA EUV scanners to expose full 26×33 mm fields without stitching.One million High-NA wafersIntel's one million…
Read the full articleMysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86
The Hot Take: Are we going to have a third player in the x86 market? Reminds me of the days Cyrix 686's back in the day if so. Would help push competition and Intel with an injection of licensing cash.
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), and even x86S as the effort that Intel previously stopped for cleaning up the x86…
Read the full articleAMD Working To 'Push Rust Deep into the GPU Stack'
The Hot Take: Intersting move, I haven't looked into how low level Rust gets compared to C++. Something I need to do I guess.
Phoronix reports: AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust. AMD Senior Fellow Harsh Meno posted this week to LinkedIn about this new effort... And note this AMD job posting that's active for hiring a software development engineer to work on Rust code... "We are building next-generation systems software for AMD GPUs with Rust as a core technical direction. The…
Read the full articleGPU Shipments Rebound as Motherboard Costs Rise and NVIDIA Offers Limited MSRP Cards
The Hot Take: Interesting, is the bubble about to pop?
The latest quarterly figures show a recovery in PC graphics shipments, although the improvement is uneven across the market. Published on September 3, the report puts second-quarter 2026 shipments at 75.
Read the full articleIntel Nova Lake 12Xe Mobile Chip Officially Supports DDR5 at 8000MT/s
The Hot Take: Will there be any DDR5 available at this speed? Because if you go to NewEgg you only see speeds up to 6400MT/s....
Intel has confirmed that its next-generation Nova Lake 12Xe mobile processor with integrated graphics supports DDR5 memory modules up to 8000MT/s CSO-DIMM speeds, according to a September 3 Weibo report from user @金猪升级包.
Read the full articleNova Lake Leak: When To Expect Intel's 52-Core Monster Gaming CPU
The Hot Take: Let's see if Intel comes back swinging.
The refrain in the DIY PC community has been clear for a few years now: if you're doing PC gaming, you need an AMD 3D V-Cache CPU. The degree of necessity is exaggerated—at normal resolutions and settings, you're generally GPU-bound anyway—but it is true that for high-framerate eSports and poorly-optimized game engines, a big last-level cache
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