1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (563+ words) Si Five's P570 Gen 3 targets the useful middle of RISC-V compute Si Five has announced the Performance P570 Gen 3, along with an updated P550 Gen 3, extending its out-of-order RISC-V CPU IP portfolio for customers building power- and area-sensitive So Cs. John Ronco, Si…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (370+ words) Server CPUs were up 3% from last quarter. TIBURON, CA (May 11, 2026) " Jon Peddie Research reports that the global client CPU market expanded for four quarters in a row, and in Q126, it dropped -15%, more than seasonality would predict from last quarter, while…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (628+ words) Europe wants its own AI stack Semidynamics (Barcelona, Spain) and Si Pearl (Maisons-Lafitte, France) "have formed a strategic partnership to develop a European rack-scale AI compute platform for cloud and enterprise deployments. Si Pearl will provide Arm-based CPU technology for…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (416+ words) PCIe accelerator enables scalable on-prem AI inference The MI350 P targets inference workloads, including agentic AI and RAG pipelines. It is not intended to replace dedicated GPU clusters but to extend existing CPU-based systems with incremental acceleration. This approach allows enterprises…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (1009+ words) CUDA, Tensor Cores, and NPUs rewrote computing history. The GPGPU Era (20062012) It was a 2012 competition that forced the entire machine learning field to pay attention. The broader AI community took time to recognize what CUDA had made possible. Between 2006 and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (396+ words) The evolution of Intel discrete graphics: A strategic pivot. The Alchemist and Battlemage eras Figure 1. The Arc A770 Limited Edition (Alchemist), the flagship reference design for the first generation of Arc desktop GPUs. (Source: Intel) Table1. Intel discrete GPU release history & roadmap....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (257+ words) If you're familiar with Direct X 8 and Larrabee, you can skip this and go to part II, Intel's GPUs. Intel's path through this evolution was slower and more complicated. Intel's first discrete graphics effort, the i740 in 1998, predated programmable shaders entirely....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (204+ words) If successful, it could mean a third player to challenge Nvidia and AMD's duopoly. Imagination Technologies has published its clearest roadmap yet for desktop, workstation, and cloud graphics, describing the work as "essential for mainstream PC gaming." A Direct X…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (159+ words) China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveiled Line Shine, an all-domestic exascale supercomputer built entirely from Chinese chips, networking, and storage. The system targets 2 EFLOPS of computing performance, which would place it among the fastest systems in the world'and make…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (746+ words) Qualcomm has a strong quarter and points to custom silicon. (Source: Qualcomm) Qualcomm used its fiscal second-quarter earnings call to draw a line between the company it has been and the company it wants investors to see next. Revenue was…...