Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, making it a number two shareholder
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Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs

Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).

AMD bulks up business desktops with new Ryzen Pro chips
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Zen 5 and Zen 4 parts target office drones with AI engines and lower power draw

AMD has expanded its commercial desktop range with new Ryzen Pro 9000 and Ryzen Pro 7000 processors, pitching them at businesses that want performance, efficiency and enterprise features without headaches.

Huawei boasts of 192-core Kungpeng chips by 2026
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192-core Kungpeng chips by 2026 and 256+ cores by 2028

Huawei used its Connect 2025 shindig in China to outline a roadmap for its Kungpeng CPUs and Ascend accelerators, promising to push domestic high-performance computing and AI hardware into gargantuan territory.

AMD shoves Zen 5 into the edge
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EPYC 4005 rolled out

AMD has rolled out its Zen 5-based EPYC Embedded 4005 CPUs, claiming the chips will power everything from firewalls to edge servers without breaking the bank.

Hard drives and SSDs face shortages
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Everyone hoarding petabytes of data

AI is already hoovering up every GPU in sight, and now it’s coming for your storage.