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GlobalFoundries sharpens its silicon stack

The foundry becomes a fabless-plus.

Qualcomm is loud and proud about Snapdragon X2 at CES 2026

Going head-to-head vs. Intel and AMD in the mobile space.

SiFive adopts Nvidia NVLink Fusion, pushing into AI data-center fabric

SiFive pitches itself as partner for AI heterogeneous systems.

MIPS comes back armed

MIPS to acquire Synopsys’ Arc processor IP business.

Andes and LTSCT RISC-V licensing = platform play

A master agreement signals the next phase of RISC-V commercialization.

Qualcomm automotive at CES: Cloud-to-car agentic AI, whether you asked for it or not

CES 2026: Qualcomm wants to be the car’s compute backplane—and the software factory behind it.

Pocket accelerator vs. desk supercomputers: Tenstorrent picks a different fight

The new local AI arms race: A tale of three boxes.

Nvidia, the everything company

GPUs, cars, networking processors, robots, supercomputers, gaming chips, rice cookers.

AI will be everywhere, and is for everyone

AMD’s Lisa Su shares AMD’s vision and new developments.

AI training vs. inferencing vs. memory bandwidth

Getting closer to very fast memory is the key.

Nvidia makes a dramatic, gigantic acquisition-licensing deal with Groq

As JPR predicted, the biggest private companies will get acquired.

Multiple threads improve GPU performance

How modern GPUs work.