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Geekbench 7, released by Primate Labs, switches its baseline machine to an AMD system and introduces modern workloads that mimic actual gaming and AI processing. Because only some tests count toward the multi-core score, careful examination of each score is essential to gauge a chip's true performance.
Intel has committed fully to launching mass production of 14A in 2028. The 2028 timing itself isn't new—what's changed is the management decision to invest in PDK development and manufacturing capacity. External customer adoption and yield verification in 2027 are the next gates.
We examine the claim that Steam Deck OLED sales fell 82% after prices rose as much as 46%. Official weekly rankings moved to 10th, 16th, and 9th place, and confirming the actual scale of the sales decline remains elusive.
On July 23, 2026, the European Commission fined Google €890 million (about ¥165.8 billion) under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing in search and restricting steering on Google Play. It is Google's first DMA penalty and the largest against a single company under the law, and the company has 60 days to comply.
AMD and Cerebras plan to launch a division-of-labor AI inference platform in the second half of 2026, with Helios handling input processing and WSE handling token generation. The claimed up-to-5x figure comes from internal modeling comparing against WSE alone, and disclosure of measured latency and pricing will be the next thing to watch.
AMD has fleshed out the Instinct MI455X, equipped with 432GB of HBM4, and the Helios system with a 72-GPU configuration. After shipping begins in the second half of 2026, the question will be whether theoretical performance can be translated into real-world speed and operating costs.
Reuters reports that Intel and AMD are shifting to long-term contracts with Chinese server customers that lock in purchase volumes but not prices. Some server CPU prices in China have already risen more than 40% since the start of the year, and AMD has raised its 2030 TAM forecast from $60 billion to over $120 billion.
AMD has unveiled the HPC-focused EPYC 9006X. It pairs the same up-to-1,152MB L3 seen in Genoa-X with clock speeds up to 5.15GHz and 16-channel memory, with launch reportedly slated for late 2027.
AMD split its 6th-generation EPYC 9006 into four product families, pushing the flagship EPYC 9996 to 256 cores. We examine the conditions behind the claimed 3.45x performance and the design differences versus NVIDIA Vera.
DRAM inflation has surfaced in GM's combined cost increases and in the price of BYD's driver-assistance option. Automakers and suppliers are expanding long-term supply contracts to prepare for shifts in both supply and price.
