New chips, new designs, and bold prototypes defined PCs at CES 2026

In some ways, it's easy to see why. After all, it has become the show where the biggest PC chip suppliers (AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm) all ...
EDN

The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI

The RISC-V Summit North America, held on 22-23 October 2025 in Santa Clara, California, showcased the latest CPU cores featuring new vector processors, high-speed interfaces, and peripheral subsystems ...
TweakTown

Apple's monster M5 Ultra chip rumored for new Mac Studio: with separate CPU, GPU core counts

TL;DR: Apple plans to launch advanced Mac Studio systems powered by the high-end M5 Max and flagship M5 Ultra processors in 2026, featuring separate CPU and GPU blocks for customizable performance.
Android

Samsung Returns to Custom CPU Design for Exynos 2800 After Mongoose Disaster

Samsung is going back to making its own custom CPU cores with the Exynos 2800, which will make all of its hardware independent. After the Mongoose architecture had problems with efficiency and heat, ...
CRN

Qualcomm To Bring Custom CPU Used For Snapdragon X Chips To Industrial PCs

The move stems from Qualcomm’s $1.4 billion acquisition of chip design startup Nuvia in 2021, a deal that has supported ongoing efforts to diversify its business beyond mobile chipsets by giving it ...
The Next Platform

AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs

We have been expecting a new Arm server CPU design out of the Annapurna Labs folks who create the CPUs, XPUs, DPUs, and scale up switches for Amazon Web Services since the launch of the Graviton4 ...