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WiCi Targets Local AI With Wireless GPU Architecture
A startup called WiCi Technology is taking a different approach to client-side AI computing. Instead of putting a high-end GPU inside every PC or edge device, the company wants to make GPUs accessible wirelessly across a local network. WiCi is preparing to launch WiCi One, a dedicated wireless GPU system that combines standard PC hardware […]
Andy Patrizio · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min
Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2026 Features New Hardware, Software
Qualcomm used the opening day of its Snapdragon Summit to outline a broad strategy for everything from smartphone chips to the next phase of artificial intelligence, with agentic AI emerging as the central theme of the company’s latest platforms. The highlight of the opening day was the introduction of two flagship smartphone processors: the Snapdragon […]
Andy Patrizio · Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min
MediaTek’s New 2nm Chip Targets High-End Smartphones
MediaTek has unveiled Dimensity 9600 Pro, a flagship smartphone processor built to deliver gains in AI, gaming and power efficiency as the chipmaker pushes deeper into the premium handset market. The 9600 Pro is MediaTek’s first processor manufactured using TSMC’s 2-nanometer technology. Moving to the smaller manufacturing process allows chip designers to pack more computing […]
James Maguire · Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min
Analog Devices Buys Alif to Boost AI for Physical Devices
Analog Devices has agreed to acquire edge AI chipmaker Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion in cash, a deal that boosts the company’s ability to support AI running directly inside industrial equipment and other physical systems. Pleasanton, California-based Alif develops microcontrollers and fusion processors built for on-device AI, real-time sensor fusion and low-latency inference. Its chips […]
James Maguire · Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min
Rent Out Your Idle PC for AI Inference Workloads
The growing battle for AI inference is opening up on a new front: the millions of computers, gaming PCs and small servers with unused GPUs already sitting in homes and small businesses, with several new companies launching using a rather familiar strategy. A startup from Abu Dhabi named Far Labs is preparing to launch a […]
Andy Patrizio · Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min
Qualcomm Targets $300 Laptop Market With New Snapdragon C Processor
Qualcomm is pushing into a new market segment with the Arm-based Snapdragon C, an entry-level processor designed for laptops priced from around $300 but offering longer battery life and modern computing capabilities at an entry-level price. The company first announced Snapdragon C in May, positioning it for students, families and small businesses that primarily need […]
Andy Patrizio · Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min
Intel Unveils Starfire Space Processor to Bring AI Computing to Orbit
Intel has introduced the Starfire processor, a new system-on-chip (SoC) designed to deliver artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capabilities aboard satellites and spacecraft. The processor, developed for U.S. government and aerospace missions, combines an 18A-based CPU and neural processing unit (NPU) with an Intel 3-based Xe graphics processor in a Foveros 3D package. The design […]
Andy Patrizio · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min
ON Semiconductor to Acquire Synaptics in $7 Billion Physical AI Push
ON Semiconductor Corp. has agreed to acquire Synaptics Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $7 billion, marking the largest deal in the company’s history. The acquisition signals an aggressive expansion beyond ON Semiconductor’s core power and sensing business into the rapidly growing market for physical AI, intelligence that runs locally on hardware rather […]
Jon Swartz · Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min
Arm Steps Up Efforts to Entice Developers to Write Native Windows Code
Arm has stepped up an effort to convince more developers to create Windows applications that run natively on its processors. Dave Whaley, director of strategic partnerships for Arm, said an AppReady for Windows initiative centralizes access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools for scanning code and identifying portability issues, along with access to support and guidance […]
Mike Vizard · Jun 12, 2026 · 2 min
SiFive’s P570 Gen 3 Tests Whether RISC-V Can Challenge Arm in Consumer Silicon
SiFive P570 Gen 3 RISC-V core delivers out-of-order vector execution and RVA23 compliance to challenge Arm in consumer and edge AI silicon.
Brendan Burke · May 13, 2026 · 6 min
Can AMD’s Edge Silicon Scale to the Trillion Dollar Orbital Opportunity?
AMD CTO outlines how the company’s edge AI compute heritage and adaptive SoCs position it for the emerging orbital data center market.
Brendan Burke · May 1, 2026 · 6 min
Will SiFive’s $400 Million Round Unblock the Data Center CPU Bottleneck?
SiFive raises $400M to bring RISC-V data center CPU IP to agentic AI workloads, targeting the memory bandwidth wall with decoupled vector.
Brendan Burke · Apr 10, 2026 · 7 min
MediaTek Analyst Day 2026 – Is the New MediaTek Ready to Move Upmarket to AI PCs and Data Center?
MediaTek data center strategy revealed at Analyst Day 2026, and why its $1B B2B revenue goal faces tough challenges.
Olivier Blanchard · Apr 6, 2026 · 7 min
Qualcomm Unveils Future of Intelligence at CES 2026, Pushes Boundaries of On-Device AI
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus with 80 TOPS NPU targets agentic AI experiences. New Dragonwing IQ10 powers industrial humanoid robots with 18-core CPU.
Brendan Burke · Jan 16, 2026 · 1 min