Hot Chips 2026: High Bandwidth Flash promises massive bandwidth and capacity, but its usability is extremely limited — new memory format strikes a balance between HBM and NAND flash
Hot Chips 2026: High Bandwidth Flash promises massive bandwidth and capacity, but its usability is extremely limited — new memory format strikes a balance between HBM and NAND flash

OXMIQ presented its High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) use-case scenarios at Hot Chips 2026, which dramatically narrow the circumstances under which HBF makes sense.

Crucial SSD owner offered $200 refund for 4TB drive now selling for over $500 — company finally caves to warranty demands after protracted back-and-forth

Micron initially told a customer that no replacement Crucial X9 4TB SSDs were available and offered a refund based on last year’s purchase price, but a firm pushback ultimately resulted in a replacement.

Montech Titan PLA 750W power supply review: A powerful and stunning all-white Seasonic-built Platinum unit
Montech Titan PLA 750W power supply review: A powerful and stunning all-white Seasonic-built Platinum unit

The Montech Titan PLA 750W is a Seasonic-built Platinum unit with extraordinary power quality, a rare full-bridge LLC topology at this wattage, and a white aesthetic that genuinely sets it apart.

Hot Chips 2026: Arm details AGI server CPU with two 70-core N3P chiplets — touts 2 TB/s UCIe fabric link and 12-channel memory controller
Hot Chips 2026: Arm details AGI server CPU with two 70-core N3P chiplets — touts 2 TB/s UCIe fabric link and 12-channel memory controller

Arm reveals more details about its AGI processors with up to 136 cores, but fails to disclose performance.

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth

Samsung detailed the industry’s first LPDDR5X-PIM at Hot Chips 2026, adding logic directly to memory to speed up data-intensive workloads like AI inference.

Hands-on with Hyte’s Y50 RGB case: Premium looks at an affordable price
Hands-on with Hyte’s Y50 RGB case: Premium looks at an affordable price

Hyte’s Y50 RGB is an affordable option for anyone looking to get a glass chassis with included ARGB fans.

Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $70 and start your AM5 gaming rig with this bundle — $568 for Ryzen 7 7700X3D, 16GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM, Asus TUF B650-E motherboard, and free AIO
Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $70 and start your AM5 gaming rig with this bundle — $568 for Ryzen 7 7700X3D, 16GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM, Asus TUF B650-E motherboard, and free AIO

568.99 ($200/26% off) gets you a 3-item Newegg combo: a Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus B650 board, 16GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000, and a free 240mm AIO thrown in — a inexpensive avenue into AM5.

Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake — value-focused 18A chips necessitated UCIe integration
Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake — value-focused 18A chips necessitated UCIe integration

Intel’s Wildcat Lake is competing in the budget laptop market, but it takes a very different approach, leveraging a UCIe interconnect and Intel’s latest 18A node.

Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt
Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt

At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed more about its Crescent Island AI accelerator, which uses the Xe3P architecture. The accelerator will use liquid-cooled chips and HBM4 memory to serve inference workloads in data centers.

Apple launches new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple silicon chips — debuting in new Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Apple launches new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple silicon chips — debuting in new Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Apple has announced new M6 and M5 Ultra chips, a new Mac mini, and a new Mac Studio.