A Weibo leak from Digital Chat Station claims Qualcomm's upcoming flagship chip, model SM8975, will be branded Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and built on TSMC's 2nm process with two prime cores at 5.01GHz plus three performance and three efficiency cores, paired with an Adreno 850 GPU. The same leak details MediaTek's rival Dimensity 9600 Pro, also on 2nm, using dual 4.55GHz cores alongside performance and efficiency cores and a Mali G2 Ultra GPU.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-08-25
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT share the same 16GB GDDR6 memory, 256-bit bus and 64MB Infinity Cache, but differ in core count and clock speed, with the XT offering 14% more cores and an 18% higher boost clock. Since launch, pricing between the two has fluctuated significantly, sometimes narrowing the gap enough that the cheaper non-XT model has become a more compelling buy.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-25
Nvidia said its Groq 3 LPX rack has entered full production and will be deployed with Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs at cloud provider Nebius later this year. The rollout follows Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition of Groq's assets in December, its largest purchase to date, and packages 256 Groq 3 chips per rack delivering 3,400 tokens per second per an Artificial Analysis benchmark.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-24
Philips co-founded ASML in 1984 and was TSMC's largest shareholder through the late 1990s with roughly a quarter of each company. It also owned NXP outright as its internal chip division before selling it to a private-equity consortium in 2006. By the late 2000s Philips had exited its ASML and TSMC stakes entirely.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-24
Prosecutors in Keelung, Taiwan have indicted nine people, including employees of Nvidia and Super Micro, for allegedly conspiring to illegally export high-end AI servers to China. Officials say the group knowingly circumvented the companies' export compliance procedures for personal profit, raising corporate compliance costs and damaging Taiwan's international standing.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-24
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