Valve upgrades AMD's 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves But still only in 23rd place, natch. PC Gamer · Jun 18
Donald Trump says Apple to partner with Intel on US chip design, production A partnership with Intel helps Apple diversify its manufacturing base as it seeks additional chip capacity. The iPhone maker relies heavily on TSMC, whose advanced production lines are in high demand from AI chipmakers such as Nvidia and AMD. The Economic Times · Jun 18
Citi Upgrades AMD Stock to ‘Buy’ on Massive Meta GPU Sales Potential Citi upgrades AMD stock to Buy, raises price target to $575, citing massive GPU sales potential at Meta and a booming agentic AI server CPU market worth over $137 billion. Barchart · Jun 17
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer publicly dismissed Chrome as a 'rounding error'—but Google’s CEO says he used the jab as fuel to win the browser-wars Before leading Google to a $4.5 trillion empire, Sundar Pichai had to rally his Chrome team after a public jab from Microsoft's CEO. Fortune · Jun 17
First official details of AMD's next-gen 'Mustang Peak' Threadripper CPUs come into view — chips feature DDR5, PCIe 6.0, and a new socket We now have the first confirmed details about AMD's Zen 6-based Threadripper CPUs, code-named Mustang Peak. Tom’s Hardware · Jun 17
SMI says Nvidia is driving its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap, not AMD and Intel — RTX Spark agentic AI platform fuels a hunger for storage bandwidth Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention. Tom’s Hardware · Jun 17
AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change AMD has reportedly stripped TSME from consumer Ryzen processors after years of working support, with testing suggesting newer AGESA firmware disables the memory-encryption feature while Pro and EPYC CPUs remain unaffected. Tom’s Hardware · Jun 17
China wants to spend nearly $300 billion on a national data center grid — all powered by domestically made silicon and looking to outperform the US China plans a $295 billion AI data center grid relying heavily on domestic chips, telecom operators, and government-backed financing structures. TechRadar · Jun 17
Nvidia desperately wants to sell its latest Vera CPU to China after its market share 'effectively fallen to zero' but can it beat AMD, Intel, and Huawei? Nvidia has begun pitching its Vera CPUs to clients in the Chinese mainland even as it contends with direct and indirect state pressure that has seen its GPU sales to China virtually collapse. TechRadar · Jun 16
RXT Stock Spikes as Rackspace Strikes a Deal With AMD Rackspace stock rallies on a major partnership with AMD. Here’s why the team-up is largely bullish for RXT shares. Barchart · Jun 16
Why Cathie Wood Is Selling AMD Stock Cathie Wood is trimming AMD to fund a bigger bet on SpaceX, even as the chipmaker's AI growth story remains intact. Barchart · Jun 16
"Context matters a lot": New Steam Machine CPU benchmark numbers are underwhelming, but they're far from the full picture New Geekbench 6 CPU performance numbers from the Steam Machine have appeared online, and compared to gaming handhelds already on the market, they're perfectly middling. Here's why I'm not worried. Windows Central · Jun 16
Intel's first chip with Nvidia graphics is coming in early 2028 according to the latest leak and it could mark a new era for handheld PC gaming Nvidia's second-gen RTX Spark is also due in 2028 and AMD has new chips coming, too. PC Gamer · Jun 16
3 AI Stocks With Moats That Could Outlast Summer Volatility AMD, TSMC, and Analog Devices each posted strong Q1 2026 results, reflecting durable structural positions in the AI supply chain that go beyond momentum. MarketBeat · Jun 16
Tom’s Hardware · Jun 16 Enthusiast hacks Valve’s AMD-first gaming OS to run on Intel hardware — SteamOS boots on Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but it takes a Radeon card, installer workaround, and Resizable BAR fix A Reddit user has shown SteamOS running on an Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but the early proof of concept required a Radeon-assisted install workaround and Resizable BAR to recover performance.
Tom’s Hardware · Jun 15 AMD takes over MEXT for memory tiering tech that enables flash to appear as DRAM to applications — tech to 'address growing memory constraints' in the data center AMD acquires MEXT to get Predictive Memory Engine that offloads infrequently accessed data from DRAM to NAND storage.
TechRadar · Jun 15 MacBook Neo comes under fire in AMD's latest marketing campaign — but it's a poorly thought-out attack 'Imagine if 'Macs don't game' is the best you've got, lol. I'd fire my marketing team': AMD's going after the MacBook Neo in a very confusing manner.
PC Gamer · Jun 15 It looks like more handhelds will soon be able to run SteamOS if this MSI Claw gameplay test is anything to go by A new beta lets the OS run on Intel handhelds.
Barchart · Jun 15 Meta Is Unwinding Its $2 Billion Deal With Manus. What That Means for META Stock. Meta stock inches down as the company begins unwinding Manus acquisition. Here’s how you should play META shares following the announcement.
PC Gamer · Jun 15 Gears of War: E-Day system requirements are here and it might be bad news for GTX 10-series cards and, well, storage in general 130 GB is a whopper and a half.
AAP · Jun 15 GEEKOM Launches Biggest Summer Sale of 2026 with Storewide Discounts and Prices Lower Than Prime Day TAIPEI, June 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- GEEKOM is set to launch its biggest Summer Sale of 2026 on June 15, bringing storewide discounts to its lineup of mini PCs. Every product will be available with at least 15% off, while selected models will receive discounts of 20%, 25%, or more.…
TechRadar · Jun 15 AMD denies researcher $10,000 bug bounty reward — despite spotting critical-severity issue The company updated its bug bounty disclosure rules retroactively.
TechRadar · Jun 15 AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is more popular than you may think — at least according to Steam's latest survey The GPU market is still dominated by Nvidia despite its recent focus on AI, but AMD's flagship Radeon GPU is putting up a decent fight.
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MarketBeat · Jun 14 What to Expect From Q2 Earnings as Tech Strength Broadens S&P 500 companies posted nearly 29% earnings growth in Q1 2026, and Q2 estimates of 22% EPS growth are expected to top 30%, with energy and tech leading gains.