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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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