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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: free, instance, instances

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Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: free, instance, instances

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AMD plummets 8% in premarket trading despite beating expectations (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: amd, nvidia, data center

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A less powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is now officially a thing (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite gen 5, qualcomm, redmi k100 pro

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16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gpu vram, steam hardware, amd resurgence

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Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Pinterest Engineering | tags: kubernetes, pinterest, ray

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AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors could fix microstutters and improve 1% lows in games — Next-gen CPUs tipped to feature per-core optimizations for thermal and power budgets (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd zen 6, ryzen 10000, cpuc performance control

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30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware — looking back on three decades of processors, from the Pentium II to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, intel, ryzen

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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Paul Alcorn | tags: intel, nvidia, 3dfx

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Save $900 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC from MSI in this limited-time Woot deal, now $1,399 — grab a huge saving on this Codex R2 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: msi, rtx 5070, nvidia geforce

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Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Laurentiu Raducu | tags: logic gates, cpu, chip builder

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I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Laurentiu Raducu | tags: logic gates, cpu, chip builder

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Microsoft laptop with Nvidia RTX Spark leaked and benchmarked before launch (techspot.com)

2026-07-28 | by Daniel Sims | tags: nvidia rtx spark, microsoft surface, redmond washington

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Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-27 | by Keegan Sheedy | tags: agentic ai, virtual cpu, system performance

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Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028 as its sales rise 25% year-over-year (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-24 | by Anton Shilov | tags: intel, 14a, tsmc

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AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-24 | by Jake Roach | tags: nvidia vera, amd zen 6, spec cpu 2026

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Intel rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years, but shares sink (cnbc.com)

2026-07-24 | by Kif Leswing | tags: intel, server processors, cpu

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Intel just posted its best growth in 15 years – and burned billions to make it happen (techspot.com)

2026-07-24 | by Rob Thubron | tags: intel, data center, ai accelerators

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Geekbench 7 is out with overhauled performance tests for CPU and GPU workloads (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-23 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: geekbench 7, primate labs, cpu gpu benchmarks

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Intel's stock jumps as chipmaker rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years (cnbc.com)

2026-07-23 | by Kif Leswing | tags: intel, ai infrastructure, server processors

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Intel's stock jumps 11% as chipmaker rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years (cnbc.com)

2026-07-23 | by Kif Leswing | tags: intel, ai boom, server processors

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Intel stock is down 27% from June record highs. How the chipmaker can reverse the slide (cnbc.com)

2026-07-23 | by Natasha Abellard | tags: intel, ai server cpu, hyperscalers

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Geekbench 7 will push your computer or phone even harder for better benchmarking (theverge.com)

2026-07-23 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: geekbench, primate labs, cpu

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Nvidia reveals Vera CPU details, claims its custom Olympus cores outperform AMD Epyc Turin (techspot.com)

2026-07-23 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: nvidia, vera cpu, olympus cores

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Everyone should know SIMD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: simd, zig, cpu

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Everyone Should Know SIMD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: simd, cpu, zig

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GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: gigatoken, huggingface, rust

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Nvidia details its next-generation Vera CPU for AI, setting up challenge to AMD and Intel (cnbc.com)

2026-07-21 | by Kif Leswing | tags: nvidia, vera cpu, amd

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Nvidia has shipped 'hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers’ — GPU firm pivots messaging as CPUs take center stage in agentic data centers (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Jake Roach | tags: nvidia, grace servers, cuda

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Nvidia deep dives Vera CPU for AI data centers — SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks revealed, Olympus architecture specifics, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Jake Roach | tags: nvidia, vera cpu, olympus architecture