Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X ...

LAS VEGAS — Qualcomm (QCOM) is continuing to push deeper into the PC market at CES 2026, rolling out its newest entry-level chip for Microsoft (MSFT) Windows laptops. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus ...

To improve chatbot performance, Nvidia plans to sell a new kind of processor, an LPU, optimized to run large language models (LLMs). The “Nvidia Groq 3 LPU” chip was among seven upcoming chips Nvidia ...

PCWorld reports that desktop PC performance gains will come at a premium in 2026, with component shortages affecting RAM, SSDs, and GPUs making upgrades more expensive. Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh and ...

It's been a long time since Alice Charton got a good look at a human face. There are plenty of people moving through her world, of course—her husband, her friends, her doctors, her neighbors—but ...

Apple Silicon 2026represents the next evolution of custom Apple chips, combining CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, and I/O controllers into a single, highly optimized die. These designs, tailored specifically ...

As more devices get piled onto computer chips to increase processing power capacity, heat generation becomes increasingly concentrated. This heat must be removed to keep chip performance high, but is ...

A powerful light source bigger than a London double-decker bus has set a record: it can create structures on a silicon wafer that are just 8 nanometres (nm) wide. Those are thought to be the smallest ...