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AMD will deliver an opening keynote at IFA Berlin 2026, with Computing and Graphics Group chief Jack Huynh expected to lead the presentation—but reports framing the event as the launch of Ryzen AI Max 400 have the sequence backwards. AMD formally unveiled the Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series on May...

Intel’s decision to pull Intel 14A forward by a full year is the clearest sign yet that its foundry recovery is moving from an aspirational roadmap to a capital-backed manufacturing plan. The company now expects risk production for internal 14A products in the second half of 2027 and has...

At RAISE Summit, AMD’s Mark Papermaster told SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE on July 8, 2026, that agentic AI is forcing enterprises beyond chip-by-chip thinking toward system-level infrastructure optimization across data-center clusters, edge deployments, and AI-enabled PCs, because end-to-end workloads...

Microsoft Surface’s South African channel story shifted on July 1, 2026, as Business Day Spotlight highlighted Core Group’s expanding reseller programme for Surface for Business devices across a market where Microsoft’s hardware reach depends heavily on distributors and downstream partners. The...

Micron reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $41.46 billion and GAAP net income of $28.24 billion for the quarter ended May 28, with record gross margin and multiyear customer agreements driven by the AI memory shortage. That is the plain answer behind the viral question about whether...

Adobe announced on June 25, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, the Texas-based maker of AI image and video enhancement tools used for upscaling, denoising, stabilization, frame interpolation, sharpening, and restoration. The deal is expected to close in the...

Nvidia hired veteran Washington operator Bruce Andrews to lead its government affairs operation in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2026, after Andrews previously served as Intel’s top government affairs executive under former CEO Pat Gelsinger. The move is not a routine personnel shuffle; it is a...

On May 31 and June 1, 2026, Microsoft and Nvidia announced a new wave of Windows PCs built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark silicon, positioning thin laptops, compact desktops, and deskside AI workstations as local platforms for personal AI agents. The pitch is bigger than another Copilot button and...

Nvidia and Microsoft used Microsoft Build 2026 to expand their AI partnership into a unified stack spanning Windows PCs, deskside DGX systems, Azure infrastructure, Microsoft Foundry, and Nvidia’s model and runtime software for agentic AI workloads. The announcement is not merely another GPU...

NVIDIA and Microsoft announced RTX Spark on May 31, 2026, at GTC Taipei, pitching a new class of Windows laptops and compact desktops built around a 1-petaflop NVIDIA superchip, up to 128GB of unified memory, and local AI agents arriving from major PC makers this fall. The headline sounds like...

Microsoft’s AI strategy is under fresh scrutiny after former Microsoft executive Mat Velloso argued in April 2026 that the company had “missed the AI wave,” citing weak Bing share gains, low Copilot usage, underused NPUs in Windows PCs, and heavy infrastructure spending. The accusation lands...