Intel announced no fewer than 50 processors this morning, including 28 new mobile and 22 new desktop 12th Gen Core processors. An expanded chipset line-up was also announced, as was some interesting Arc Alchemist discrete GPU news.

NVIDIA GeForce SVP Jeff Fisher kicked off a presentation, which was packed with new PC gaming and graphics disclosures, including new GPUs for gaming laptops and desktop PCs as well.

Today, Qualcomm has allowed independent benchmark test results of a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 prototype device to be published, and the early numbers are promising.

Companies like Synopsys are making great strides to usher in a new era of holistic design approaches for chip technologies, fueled by AI-enhanced automation.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 features significant advancements to virtually every part of the platform.

3D V-Cache is essentially a 64MB SRAM cache manufactured on TSMC’s 7nm node that attaches directly on top of each core complex die (CCD) in a Zen 3-based processor, to effectively triple the amount of high speed L3 cache available to the processor cores.

Intel is laying claim to not only the “world’s fastest gaming processor,” but also major gains in productivity and content creation workloads as well.

The GeForce NOW RTX 3080 tier effectively offers high-end gaming PC-class performance to RTX 3080 members, but from the cloud.

It’s clear that Qualcomm’s Spectra Image Signal Processor and its related software are capable of producing excellent photographs and video, especially when paired with modern sensors.

This year’s Adapt event kicked-off with a diverse array of disclosures regarding the company’s adaptable Alveo FPGA-based (Field Programmable Gate Array) accelerators, Kria robotics platform solutions and its Vitis SDK.

This year, Hot Chips was opened with a keynote presentation by Aart de Geus, Synopsys Chairman and co-CEO, and what he revealed could have significant, lasting implications on chip design moving forward.

We’ve spent a couple weeks with the Pixel 5 a on test drive and can report that Google has once again done more with less, and for less. This phone really shines with a pure stock Android 11 OS driving the hardware, but also one of the most well-optimized Android experiences I’ve worked with in a long time.

We’re sure all of those definitions have some relevance for Intel’s Arc branding that will make for some interesting conversation in the future. Today, however, is about the brand reveal itself.

Foxconn’s Industrial Internet division has launched a new AI-enabled machine vision platform called Gloria. Powered by Qualcomm’s Cloud AI 100 solution, the system is design to support up to 24 high-definition cameras for video analytics applications like traffic analysis, security monitoring and smart retail spaces.

Though it’s logical to consider that the pandemic-driven demand bubble won’t continue indefinitely, some large industry analytics firms are forecasting a near-term decline that doesn’t necessarily add up in my opinion. In fact, some of these firms have been consistently raising their unit sales guidance throughout the last couple of years, and we think the PC industry will continue to prove them wrong.

NVIDIA’s acquisition of Arm could have far reaching implications that resonate throughout the technology industry, due to the pervasiveness of Arm’s IP and the company’s current business model, which licenses core processor architecture innovations to many chip partners. Arm technology is quite literally everywhere, from cellphones to cars, industrial equipment, the IoT, and the data center.

As you might imagine, out of the gate this cross-GPU platform functionality offers game developers significant incentive for adoption of FSR, with a rather large potential install base of gaming hardware (and gamers) that can benefit from the technology.

Today NVIDIA is officially lifting the veil on details and deep dive reviews of this latest high-end PC graphics offering that slots in at an $1199 price point. Here's what to expect.

As detrimental as the current semiconductor shortage is, however, another challenging shortage may be looming, and it’s one that could stall development and innovation of new chips and processors worldwide, without a sea change in how chips are designed.

Snapdragon 778G 5G is the company’s successor to its popular Snapdragon 765G Mobile Platform, and QCOM is announcing broad industry adoption for the new chipset with Motorola, Xiaomi, OPPO, Honor, Realme and iQOO announced support at launch.