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Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made in partnership with MediaTek — Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm. Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm.
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Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall — Microsoft has a new flagship Surface, and it's got Nvidia inside. … But today, it's trying again.
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| Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of “100 FPS 1440p gaming” or running 120B-parameter models — Over 30 laptops and 10 desktops coming this fall with “the most efficent platform ever built”
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will “reinvent the PC”, starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others — Nvidia has emerged as the world's most valuable company by dominating the market for AI chips in the data center.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier $200-$500 eyewear market the way it disrupted the watch market — Also: The latest on iOS 27, iOS 28, new Apple TV and HomePod mini. — Apple isn't just going after Meta with its upcoming iPhone-connected smart glasses.
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel unveils six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E+ has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD Epyc 9965 — Intel's dense Xeon 6+ design marks the first time 18A is being deployed in the data center.| Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on the Xe3P architecture, described as “built for agentic AI”; they use LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM — Unusual memory choice brings lots of AI data closer to the chip for efficiency — At Computex 2026 …
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 — (Un)officially delayed to 2027, Venice comes first. … Intel has confirmed several details about its next-generation Xeon 7 CPUs … | Exponential View: |
AI adoption follows the J-curve path of general-purpose tech, like early US factory electrification, requiring years of investment before noticeable ROI gains — A framework to understand your firm's AI transformation — I had tea with a senior exec at a well-known public tech company last month.
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Twitch rolls out Dual Format, a feature that lets creators stream horizontally and vertically simultaneously, and 2K streaming for partners and affiliates — The company announced the new Dual Format feature alongside other updates at TwitchCon Europe. — At TwitchCon Rotterdam 2026 …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Dell introduces the $699+ Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, rivaling the MacBook Neo — It'll start with just 8GB of RAM and an Intel Wildcat Lake chip. … Dell is making good on its tease from CES and finally announcing a new XPS 13.
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| Bloomberg: |
Beijing-based Vast, which uses AI models to generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised ~$200M at a $1B+ valuation, and says it has 20M global users — Vast, a 3D-modeling startup founded by a 29-year-old gamer, raised nearly $200 million to become the latest Chinese AI outfit to achieve a valuation of $1 billion.
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| Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg: |
TSMC's rally in Taiwan has outpaced its US-listed shares this year, narrowing its ADR premium to 13.7%, a two-year low, driven by local investor optimism — Local investors are driving the premium on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s US-listed shares to a two-year low as they pile … | Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C — Daloopa, which provides source-linked financial data for investment firms, raised $47 million in Series C funding led by Brighton Park Capital … Sponsor Posts
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