Processors

The Galaxy S26 Edge just crushed Geekbench with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2, leaving last year’s models — and even the iPhone 16 Pro — behind in multi-core power. …

Apple’s 2026 MacBook Pros are getting a serious under-the-hood upgrade. The new M5 chips will debut with advanced LMC packaging, boosting efficiency now and setting the stage for future CoWoS …

MediaTek is set to announce the Dimensity 9500 chipset just one day before Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. Both use TSMC’s cutting-edge 3nm process, but MediaTek sticks …

BofA says Intel’s new ‘demand-first’ game plan could slash costs, cut risks, and make it act more like a fabless chipmaker. Lip-Bu Tan is betting on customer orders before big …

Apple’s iPhone 17 Air could be the thinnest iPhone ever at just 5.5mm—but it might come with a weaker A19 Pro chip, fewer features, and shorter battery life to get …

Samsung’s going big in the US with a $7.2B chip packaging facility on top of $37B already planned for manufacturing. Targeting 2nm and 4nm tech, they’re eyeing big clients like …

Intel’s cheapest Arrow Lake-S CPU yet, the Core Ultra 3 205, has leaked for about $149. It’s rocking 4 Performance and 4 Efficient cores, 15 MB cache, and no hyperthreading. …

NVIDIA’s H20 AI chips just hit another wall in China. State media says the hardware isn’t safe, warning of possible backdoors and even a ‘kill switch.’ NVIDIA denies everything, but …

Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan is walking into the White House to face Trump over allegations of China ties, past Cadence tech sales scandals, and questions about Intel’s global loyalties. With …

NVIDIA and AMD will hand 15% of their restricted AI GPU sales revenue from China to the US government under a new export license deal. NVIDIA’s H20 and AMD’s MI308 …