CPU and Processor Pulse

Arm's CEO now expresses greater confidence in reaching $2 billion in AGI CPU demand for data centers, lifting shares 8.6% and highlighting the...

• Fujitsu MONAKA 144-core Arm CPU targets sovereign AI with 2nm 3D stacking and dedicated matrix acceleration
• Claims twice the AI inference...

NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72 delivered 3.7x throughput versus GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL in MLPerf Inference v6.1, directly translating to more tokens,...

AMD notified partners of a 10% price hike planned for Q4 2026 after TSMC raised wafer costs.

• Although reports center on AI chips and GPUs, AMD's...

Intel's Xeon 6 processors delivered 2.4x higher Llama 3.1 8B Server throughput and expanded to five models with 35 results, while Arc Pro B70 GPUs...

Ubuntu 26.10 experiments with an AMD64v3 baseline using AVX2, FMA, and BMI2 to cut technical debt from the original x86-64 spec.

• Gains delivered:...

Record $166.3 billion server revenue in Q2 2026 was driven by both rising volumes and sharply higher prices.

• GPU server ASP climbed 43.6% to...

ARM hardware fragmentation means the wrong distro can mean weekend-long driver fights instead of productive use.

• No universal boot standard: Unlike...

OpenVDB 13.1 introduces a new SIMD framework using Agner Fog's VectorClass Library for explicit x86 intrinsics up to AVX-512, initially accelerating...

Intel's vendor testing shows the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus beating the Ryzen 7 9700X across all five games at 1080p High.

• Wins reported in Battlefield...

Early Geekbench 7 results position the 36-core M5 Ultra as a workstation contender, scoring 3,774 single-core and 52,516 multi-core—within 6% of a...

• Compact design packs Intel Core 5 320 (6-core) or Core 3 304 (5-core) Wildcat Lake CPUs into 0.63-liter chassis weighing just 1 kg.
• High memory...

Agentic AI is driving renewed demand for CPUs as agents execute code and software tools beyond GPU-based inference.

• Nvidia's Vera CPU targets this...

Anyon Computing's NVQLink-based control system makes QPUs full co-processor nodes alongside GPUs and CPUs in one shared RDMA fabric, closing...

Linux 7.4's AMD P-State driver updates introduce Zen 6 client CPU tuning via new ACPI EPP values for performance, efficiency, and low-power cores plus...

TSMC is scaling 2nm output 22% to 110,000 wafers monthly by mid-2027 and 3nm by 16% to 210,000, while converting lines and building Arizona 3nm...

• First 2nm mobile chipset combines all-big-core CPU layout with dedicated agentic AI hardware to power premium phones.
• 2+3+3 all-big-core design...

• 144-core 2nm Arm processor with 3D stacking launches globally November 2026
• 5nm cache/I/O sections plus ultra-low-voltage tech boost efficiency...

A Linux kernel patch now corrects under-reported TLB sizes on AMD Zen 5 CPUs by checking the new multiples-of-32 bit that AMD introduced, ensuring...

• Core tech: Armv9-A architecture on 2nm compute dies with 3D-stacked packaging and 5nm I/O/SRAM dies delivers high density at lower power
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