Intel details long-awaited Crescent Island AI GPU at Computex, boasts up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X to combat memory shortages — company shares more details of its Xe3P inference accelerator at Computex

Intel revealed more details of its next-gen Data Center GPU, code-named Crescent Island, at Computex 2026. This inference-optimized chip will feature up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory for efficient handling of massive AI conte…

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Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth

Intel has officially confirmed its next-gen Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs are coming in 2027, featuring 50% higher core counts and twice the memory bandwidth of Xeon 6 in a bid to compete against AMD’s upcoming EPYC Venice CP…

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Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache — new Xeon 6990E+ is 30% faster per thread than 192-core AMD Epyc 9965, says Intel

Intel is putting its 18A node into the data center with new Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, which pack up to 288 E-cores for dense compute.
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AMD’s formerly China-exclusive Radeon RX 9070 GRE goes global for $549 on June 2 — RDNA 4 GPU will bridge the gap between RX 9060 XT and RX 9070

AMD has officially launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE for $549, an RDNA 4 graphics card that was previously exclusive to the Chinese market.
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AMD brings back Ryzen 7 5800X3D, launches Ryzen 7 7700X3D to combat rising component prices — eight-core X3D CPUs arrive under $350 for AM4 or AM5, DDR4 or DDR5

AMD is rereleasing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and introducing the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, both eight-core chips with 3DV-Cache targeting midrange gamers who’ve been under the thumb of rising component prices.
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AMD confirms AM5 support through 2029 — Zen 4 and 5 platform will likely see two more generations, at least

AMD confirmed it will support its current AM5 socket through 2029, extending the timeline by two years and likely lining up at least two more generations on the socket.
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Nvidia’s long-awaited N1/N1X SoC specs leak ahead of Computex launch — N1 to feature up to 20 Arm-based cores, standard N1 equipped with 12- and 10-core configs

The N1X reportedly comes in two SKUs: a top-end 20-core option with 6,144 CUDA cores matching the desktop RTX 5070, and a cut-down 18-core option with 5,120 CUDA cores. The standard N1 also has two configs, one with a 12-c…

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Microsoft veteran recalls the last time Nvidia and Arm was the future of Windows — shares a video of ‘the first time Windows ran on Nvidia Tegra Arm’ from 2010

Microsoft veteran Steven Sinofsky is here to remind folks that excitement about a new PC era fueled by Nvidia and Arm culminated in the Surface RT 16 years ago.
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Orpheus II ISA soundcard returns due to ‘popular demand’ — aimed at DOS and early Windows users, this card includes hardware to support every major audio standard

Want real Sound Blaster, Gravis UltraSound, OPL3 FM synthesis, and MPU-401 MIDI support? You got it.

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You can still run the original Nvidia Control Panel by grabbing it from the Microsoft Store today — app remains useful to adjust a handful of RTX Pro and Quadro features, and may be handy for troubleshooting

The old Nvidia Control Panel is now a separate, optional download, but is it worth grabbing?

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