Tom's Hardware's Premium subscription service published a weekly digest covering Anthropic's pre-IPO filings, Cadence's new LLM suite for EDA tools, Nvidia's AI supply chain moves, Vera CPUs in the cloud, and a TP-Link update. The issue also features CPU expert Jake Roach's early work on defining agentic AI CPU benchmarks, plus a new primer explaining AI terms like inference, quantization, context, and KV cache for locally-run models.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-31
Intel is shifting manufacturing capacity away from consumer PC chips toward data center CPUs, citing surging AI-driven demand. The company is expanding Fab 24 in Ireland to produce more Xeon processors, has started equipment installation at Fab 62 in Arizona ahead of schedule for 18A chips, and is growing advanced packaging capacity in New Mexico and Malaysia. CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Intel's Data Center and AI unit posted $7.3 billion in Q3 2026 revenue, up 17% sequentially and nearly 80% year-over-year.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-31
Akamai announced Thursday that Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion on its cloud infrastructure over seven years, dwarfing a $1.8 billion deal reported in May. The agreement, contingent on Akamai meeting delivery and availability benchmarks, is the largest in Akamai's history and centers on CPU capacity rather than the GPUs more commonly associated with AI training. Akamai also issued Anthropic a warrant convertible into up to roughly 5% of its common shares, with additional spending commitments unlocking more equity.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-25
AMD's newly released Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 are now available on Amazon, but both are selling for $20 more than AMD's suggested prices—$120 for the 5500F and $210 for the 7500. Notably, these listings come directly from Amazon as a first-party seller, not third-party markups, despite the chips officially launching nearly two weeks ago.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-21
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