Sapphire has launched a powerful new embedded motherboard designed for AI at the edge. The EDGE+ VPR-7P132 combines AMD’s Ryzen AI Embedded P132 Series with a Versal AI Edge Gen 2 SoC to handle complex, latency-sensitive workloads.
AMD has unveiled its Ryzen AI 400 series laptop processors. They’re a modest refresh of the current AI 300 chips, with slight frequency bumps and a faster NPU in the top models. Laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are due in the first quarter of 2026.
Samsung’s co-CEO TM Roh has acknowledged the severe memory chip shortage driven by AI data centers. He warned of inevitable impacts on consumer electronics, including potential price hikes, as the industry scrambles for supply.
Qualcomm has unveiled two new Snapdragon X2 Plus chips for Copilot+ PCs, boasting the world’s fastest laptop NPU. The 10-core and 6-core variants promise massive performance-per-watt improvements over rivals.
Etron Technology is focusing its CES 2026 showcase on edge AI memory and robotics. The company is launching new platforms and highlighting partnerships, aiming to capitalize on a robotics market it expects to hit “hundreds of billions” in 2025.
According to a new report, AMD and Nvidia are planning significant price hikes for consumer GPUs starting in early 2026. The increases are blamed on soaring memory costs and insatiable demand from AI companies. This could push high-end cards like the RTX 5090 to a staggering $5,000.
A ship is seized in Finland over damaged undersea cables, a critical infrastructure incident. Meanwhile, speculation swirls that Nvidia is on a multi-billion dollar shopping spree not for products, but for elite AI engineering talent.
Nvidia has locked in a massive $5 billion investment in Intel, formalizing a partnership to co-develop next-gen chips. The financial stake has already gained billions on paper, but the long-term play is technical: creating integrated CPU-GPU platforms for data centers and PCs.
According to a Reuters exclusive, China has quietly mandated that semiconductor manufacturers must source at least 50% of their equipment domestically when building new capacity. The policy, accelerated by U.S. export restrictions, is forcing rapid adoption of Chinese tools and fueling massive growt
Samsung is making a major push to compete with TSMC in advanced chip manufacturing. The company has reportedly signed deals with major clients like Tesla and plans to start mass-producing 2nm chips by the second quarter of 2026. This sets the stage for a high-stakes battle in the semiconductor found
