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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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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The Hot Take: Very good news, ratchet up that heat in competition for TSMC & Samsung.
Intel is a bundle of positive tailwinds these days, especially in relation to its next-gen 14A chip fabrication process, as evidenced by an increasing likelihood of a firming order book for the process, and a defect density curve that is running ahead of the comparable trajectory for the current-gen 18A node. If Intel's 14A process simply follows the defect density curve trajectory of the current-gen 18A process from here onward, the chipmaker's next-gen process will likely be ready for its commercial debut by Q2 2028 For the benefit of those…
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The Hot Take: AMD going to make a push for more than mid-range?
New leak points towards noticeably higher frequencies for AMD's next-generation graphics architecture. AMD RDNA 5 GPUs Could Target Up To 3.4 GHz Clock Speeds, Putting the Architecture up to 14% Ahead of RX 9070 XT's Boost Clock AMD's next-generation graphics architecture, RDNA 5, is still far away from the official launch, but we already have some early leaks pointing to the architecture's capabilities. As you might know, the RDNA 5 architecture is going to power AMD's next-gen graphics stack, including dedicated graphics cards and iGPUs on…
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The Hot Take: NICE, may buy flat out unlocked device to use with GrapheneOS.
After years of waiting, Google might finally listen to Pixel fans.
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By ckasprzak | TkOut
| September 5, 2026 |
Software
The Hot Take: I updated then saw these, was glad I updated.
Plex is urging users to update Plex Media Server and Plex Desktop after vulnerabilities were discovered in earlier versions of the company’s software. Plex has not yet published technical details about the security issues, including their severity, the number of vulnerabilities involved, or how they could be exploited.
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