The Hot Take: ARM seems to be breaking out from everywhere. Fujitsu, Nvidia, AWS and ARM. Qualcomm seems to be playing catch up in the server market from the looks of it.
AWS has provided a first look at its next-generation Graviton5 processor, a custom server CPU developed by Annapurna Labs for deployment across the company's cloud computing platform and AI inference infrastructure.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Interesting. Will it pull people back is the real question.
Microsoft has announced that Edge will be moving to a two-week release cycle for major versions of the browser, matching Chrome.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: We dearly need this competition...
Intel's Arc Pro GPU journey began with the first-generation Alchemist A-series products, and last year, the company introduced its Battlemage B-Series products. The first generation of products was aimed at the budget segment, offering good perf/$, and while the positioning continues with the Battlemage lineup, it looks like Intel is slightly moving towards a higher-end segment with its Arc Pro B60, B65, and B70 series. This move comes at a time when AI is the talk of the town, and local AI agents are becoming more and more popular. Also, Intel's recent workstation lineup, the Xeon 600 series, makes getting […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/review/maxsun-intel-arc-pro-b70-32g-graphics-card-hands-on-impressions/
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Now we know why M$ is trying to squeeze out every ounce of performance in Windows 11.....
Microsoft says you’ll be able to run Windows 11’s local Language Model APIs on non-Copilot+ PCs as long as you meet the new hardware requirement: an RTX 30+ GPU with 6GB of VRAM. It’s a major change, as it means Copilot+ PCs’ advantages are getting “thin,” and I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft drops the NPU requirement entirely in the future. Copilot+ PCs officially debuted on June 18, 2024, and they’ve been driving sales for PC makers. However, it’s not because of the “Copilot” or “NPU” factor. It’s largely because newer PCs are now sold as “Copilot+ PCs,” so even a regular laptop purchase gets counted as proof that AI PCs are taking off. For a PC to meet the “Copilot+ PC” requirement, it would need to have 16GB of RAM, an SSD, and at least a 40 TOPS NPU. For those unaware, an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) is a chip designed to run AI models, specializing in efficiency rather than raw power. On the other hand, a GPU is a heavy-duty processor designed for massive parallel tasks. What is a “Copilot+ PC?” Microsoft sold you Copilot+ PCs as the only way to run local AI, but that was never…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Well look at that, it's very interesting that Microsoft is suddenly knocking out all these windows 11 issues. Kinda like they're afraid Linux will take their user base.
The Windows 11 June 2026 Patch Tuesday update, KB5094126 brings Low Latency Profile, Shared Audio, Multi-App Camera, and a handful of other noteworthy changes. Buried deeper in the changelog, without much fanfare, are two improvements to the Microsoft Store, one addressing a long-standing download speed problem and another fixing a frustrating gap in error reporting for managed devices. Neither of these fixes will generate hype the way the CPU boost feature does. But for anyone who has watched a 500MB app update crawl through the Store for twenty minutes while the same file would download in under two minutes through a browser, at least one of them will feel this improvement was overdue. This feature is being rolled out gradually, and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks. Microsoft Store downloads were throttled for years, and the June update fixes it For a significant portion of Windows 11 users, downloading apps and updates from the Microsoft Store has been noticeably slower than downloading the same files from almost any other source. The Store would throttle to a fraction of the available connection speed, pause mid-download for no apparent reason, and occasionally get stuck in a pending state…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Question is, do I go HPDT with Z990 or Consumer Z970? I guess I'll have to see the benches on if HPDT does anything for Gaming.
The Z990 PCH for Nova Lake motherboards is apparently 22% smaller than Z890, despite featuring a higher power maximum power draw of up to 14W. The leaked picture of the PCH shows a 11.15 x 6.5mm die and 25 x 24mm package, but we're unsure what motherboard it actually comes from.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: CISC muscle on display... When you don't care about how many watts your cpu consumes ARM/RISC will never touch the raw throughput of these chips.
AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: What about that small file handling, any better on that yet?
Microsoft admitted that File Explorer on Windows 11 is slower than the previous version and is taking steps to make it faster, but the performance improvements extend beyond just UI surfaces. I’m told that Microsoft is internally testing a major performance boost for file operations, starting with batch deleting files. When you select dozens or hundreds of smaller files, or a few large files, and delete them all in one go, the speed depends on both the SSD/HDD and Windows. Windows file system overhead matters as well because the OS has to update NTFS entries, permissions, indexes, thumbnails, metadata, and a bunch of other items when you delete or bulk delete files. Of course, I’m not saying a faster Windows alone can magically purge files faster. Hardware still matters, especially the SSD’s random I/O speed when you’re dealing with many small files. But it’s also wrong to say the speed only comes down to SSD I/O. If Windows handles file operations more efficiently, bulk delete can still get noticeably faster. Microsoft also confirmed that a combination of hardware and software advancements could help make file operations faster on all PCs. According to Microsoft, bulk delete…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Ai will consume ALL THE THINGS!!
The massive AI gold rush has a new bottleneck set in its sights, CPUs. But what's driving the demand? We interview industry experts to find out.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Motherboard bending = BAD.
Intel appears to be cooking up a beefier Nova Lake socket clamp to stop its future desktop chips getting bendy or crispy. If you are a hardware enthusiast, you probably know Intel’s independent loading mechanism, or ILM, can warp CPUs over time. The ILM is the retention clamp that holds the CPU in the socket, which sounds dull until your chip starts looking like a Pringle. According to Hot Hardware Chipzilla released a reduced-load version of the ILM with Arrow Lake, which mostly fixed the issue, but made it optional. Now Chipzilla appears to have another ILM variant coming with Nova Lake. This one looks less about correcting curvature and more about dealing with high current. Older processors used pin grid array sockets, or PGA, where the pins sat on the CPU itself. Modern chips use land grid array sockets, or LGA, where the pins live in the socket instead. LGA has plenty of advantages, including denser pins, better electrical performance and CPUs that are less likely to be mangled by ham-fisted builders. The downside is that it needs a precise compression force to ensure the CPU and socket contact each other properly. That is why Intel uses ILMs, while…
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