CPU Performance Declines for First Time in 20 Years: What Happened?
For the first time in PassMark’s 20-year history of tracking CPU benchmarks, average processor performance declined year-over-year in 2025. Desktop CPUs dropped 0.5%, ...
RAM Prices Surge 60%: Memory Shortage Through 2028
The Price Shock Samsung has raised memory chip prices by 60% since September 2025, and ...
Valve’s 9-Year ARM Gaming Secret: FEX Emulator Funding
Valve revealed this week it’s been secretly funding ARM gaming technology for nine years. Pierre-Loup ...
Google Willow Quantum Chip: Error Correction Breakthrough Over Hype
Google’s Willow quantum chip just solved a computational problem in under five minutes that would ...
Marvell Bets $3.25B on Photonics to Solve AI’s Memory Wall
Marvell Technology just bet $3.25 billion that AI’s biggest problem isn’t chips—it’s the wires connecting ...
Semiconductor Industry 2025: $700B AI Chip Boom Faces Talent Crisis
The semiconductor industry is projected to hit $701 billion in 2025, marking 11.2% year-over-year growth fueled by a fundamental market shift: artificial intelligence ...
Samsung AI Megafactory: 50,000 GPUs Make Chips to Make AI
Samsung just announced it’s deploying 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to build an “AI Megafactory” where artificial ...
IBM-Cisco Quantum Network Targets 2030: Internet vs Scale-Up
IBM and Cisco announced November 20 a partnership to network quantum computers by 2030, betting ...
Solar Radiation Corrupts Flight Controls on 6,000 Planes
6,000 Aircraft Grounded After Solar Radiation Corrupts Flight Controls Airbus just ordered an emergency software ...
Qualcomm Breaks 20-Year ARM Pattern with Same-Day Linux Support
On September 24, 2025—one day after announcing the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform—Qualcomm ...