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    Intel Xeon 8 Coral Rapids Brings Hyper-Threading Back in 2028

    Intel is putting simultaneous multithreading back on its long-term server roadmap, a consequential reversal that signals the company no longer sees ever-higher physical core counts as a complete substitute for more flexible per-core throughput. The feature, marketed as Hyper-Threading, is set to...
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    AMD EPYC 7532 Beats Xeon E5 for Modern Server Builds

    The “12 Best CPUs for Servers (August 2026)” label is premature and, more importantly, misleading. A guide published on July 23, 2026 cannot reliably represent an August buying list, and a closer look at its recommendations reveals a deeper issue: most of the highlighted processors are...
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    Intel and AMD CPU Shortage in 2026 as Agentic AI Needs More Server Compute

    Intel and AMD are being pulled into a new supply squeeze in mid-2026 as agentic AI workloads increase demand for server CPUs, turning what looked like a GPU-and-memory boom into a broader data-center compute shortage. The important shift is not that CPUs have suddenly become fashionable again...
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    Qualcomm’s AI Data Center Push: Dragonfly, Azure HBC, and Modular $3.9B

    Qualcomm used its June 24, 2026 Investor Day in New York to announce a full data center push built around Dragonfly server CPUs, AI accelerators, High Bandwidth Compute, a Meta server deal, a Microsoft Azure architecture agreement, and a $3.9 billion plan to acquire Modular. The message was not...
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    Agentic AI Threatens NVIDIA: The 2026 CPU, ASIC, and Foundry Systems War

    NVIDIA’s AI computing dominance is being challenged in 2026 by a converging field of server CPU makers, custom ASIC builders, hyperscale cloud operators, and foundry challengers, as agentic AI shifts more work from pure GPU acceleration toward orchestration-heavy, power-sensitive...