The Hot Take: Everyone wants a piece of the Ai pie!
Japanese carmaker Toyota has decided to have a crack at the market for AI processors. Toyota is the major shareholder in a company called AISIN, a manufacturer of automotive components. Both companies are aware that cars are increasingly reliant on tech like image recognition, and that robotics and other forms of âphysical AIâ will need parts that overlap with cars. AISIN thinks existing chips arenât a good fit for such roles, because they rely on external memory to store AI models and then generate a lot of traffic between a processor and theâŚ
The Hot Take: Out of left field Samsung comes out with Exynos 2700 to best Qualcomm? Interesting.
Back in August, insiders claimed that the Exynos 2700 beat Qualcomm's next flagship chips in internal testing. Those Snapdragons have since become official, and Samsung has reportedly put its upcoming chip up against them once again. The Exynos 2700 is expected to power at least some models in the Galaxy S27 series, which should arrive early next year.
This time, the tests were allegedly run against the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max and its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The Exynos 2700 reportedly scored around 13,000 points in the Geekbench 6.5âŚ
New details surrounding the Exynos 2700 talk about the chipsetâs internal tests allegedly outperforming the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in both CPU and GPU workloads. The latest claim paints Qualcommâs top-end SoC in a negative light, indicating that its transition to TSMCâs 2nm node and Offset PoP packaging didnât help matters. However, weâve noticed a trend on foreign outlets where the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6âs capabilities are being downplayed, likely to hype up the Exynos 2700. While this is a decent strategy when discussingâŚ
AMD's first Arm-based CPUs in over a decade, codenamed Soundwave, are heading to Surface laptops from Microsoft. AMD Soundwave APUs To Bring Arm's Competitive Value To Surface Laptops As Apple's Pressure Mounts on Microsoft The AMD Soundwave SoCs were first spotted back in 2024, when they were listed as a next-generation 3nm APU design. Few details were known back then, but a year later, we learned about Soundwave being AMD's attempt at the Arm ecosystem. Initially primed for a 2026 launch for Microsoft's 2026 Surface lineup, the plans changedâŚ
The Hot Take: Doubling the CPUs in the rack yes will be better performance per watt, but is also stacking it against the competition. If you focus on CORE vs CORE, AMD and CISC/x86 still beats it in my eyes.
Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers nearly twice AMDâs EPYC Turin performance per rack, thanks to its higher server density.
Research outfit Signal65 tested early Arm systems against AMDâs Zen 5-based EPYC 9755 across seven workloads. Arm commissioned the study, and it seems reasonably pleased with its purchase.
The headline result is an average of 1.99 times the modelled performance per rack, with individual results ranging from 1.43 to 3.19 times AMDâs performance. That distinction between measured processor results and modelled racksâŚ
The Hot Take: That seems skewed against the victor.
Qualcomm has won two claims against Arm in a Delaware court, collecting a princely $2 while both companies proclaimed victory.
According to Notebookcheck the jury found Arm breached its licensing agreement and intentionally interfered with Qualcommâs business relationship with Meta Platforms. After a five-day trial, it awarded nominal damages of $1 for each successful claim.
The verdict gave both corporate publicity departments enough ammunition to declare success, although neither company has finished fighting. Arm shares fell about a perâŚ
The Hot Take: Microsoft going all in on Nvidia it seems. Xbox next?
Software King of the World Microsoft has confirmed that Nvidiaâs RTX Spark platform will be featured at its 7 October Windows event, with new hardware announcements expected.
The event, taking place in San Francisco, will include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Vole says the event will feature âRTX Spark and new experiences designed to unlock more possibilities for developers and builders.â
Nvidia has shared a fresh teaser ahead of the event, suggesting that the twoâŚ
By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 21, 2026 | Apple, ARM, Hardware
The Hot Take: Well now....
A supposed Geekbench result for an unreleased M6 Pro chip surfaced this week, but it is likely fake.
Geekbench creator John Poole informed MacRumors that he uncovered "internal inconsistencies" that lead him to believe that the M6 Pro result might not be legitimate. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman previously reported that Apple plans to skip M6 Pro and M6 Max chips entirely.This article, "M6 Pro Chip Result on Geekbench is Likely Fake" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 18, 2026 | ARM, CPU, Hardware
The Hot Take: ARM seems to be coming along as a server chip. This one is on the Top500 list too.
Fujitsu will start selling its Monaka processors, and servers packing them, in November. The Japanese giant started talking about Monaka way back in 2023, when it teased the processor as being derived from the silicon it designed for the Fugaku supercomputer, but adapted for datacenter use. Fugaku was the worldâs most powerful supercomputer from 2020 to 2022, and remains in ninth place on the Top 500 list six years after its debut. Who wouldnât want the tech that powered that behemoth in their datacenter? Yet as The Register reported earlierâŚ