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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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.| 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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| 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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| Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them “built for agentic AI” — Unusual memory choice brings lots of AI data closer to the chip for efficiency — At Computex 2026 …
More: Financial Times, The Information, DatacenterDynamics, VideoCardz.com, Intel, and Crypto Briefing. Forums: r/hardware
| 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.
More: The Register, VideoCardz.com, Guru3D, Nikkei Asia, and DatacenterDynamics
| 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 … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands — Nvidia (NVDA.O) plans to work with humanoid robot makers in the U.S., Europe and South Korea in addition to China's Unitree … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data — Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open AI world model designed to help robots, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems better understand and predict real-world environments.
More: GamesBeat, Nvidia Newsroom, Gizchina, Crypto Briefing, and The Deep View
| 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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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into “full production”, with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement — Nvidia Corp. said early Monday at the Computex conference in Taipei that it's gearing up the production …
More: Nikkei Asia, GamesBeat, Seoul Economic Daily, The Deep View, NVIDIA, and Telecompaper
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
AI startup Runway, most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by the end of 2028 — American AI company Runway is planning a major expansion in London, CNBC has learned, following in the wake of Anthropic …
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| 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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| 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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| Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: |
A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed one in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale — AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren't good enough. — Basically every recent, high-profile accusation …
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