Scientific American

The AI boom has a memory problem

High-bandwidth memory keeps powerful AI chips fed with data, and demand for it helped Boise, Idaho–based Micron briefly top $1 trillion in market value

How 'Agentic AI' is reviving classic tech stocks like Dell and Intel

Sustained demand for CPUs is proving one of the hallmarks of the agentic phase of systems design, a frequent point in Wall Street analyst commentary.

This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory

South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
PCMag on MSN

AMD resurrects gaming legend Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU and rolls out Radeon RX 9070 GRE globally

The ever-popular Ryzen 7 5800X3D will re-release for $349 on June 25. AMD is also launching its Radeon RX 9070 GRE worldwide to try to keep graphics card pricing down.
Techaeris

NVIDIA RTX Spark deep dive and the list of laptops it will launch in

During a historic keynote at the Taipei Music Center, CEO Jensen Huang announced the NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip.

The memory shortage is driving up the cost of laptops

Memory chip costs are up as AI companies gobble up the hot commodity. Consumer electronics companies like Dell and HP are raising prices.
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Morgan Stanley sees agentic AI driving CPU and memory boom

Morgan Stanley forecasts that the rise of agentic AI — systems capable of autonomous planning and action — will shift AI hardware demand beyond GPUs to CPUs and memory. The firm estimates this could add $32.5–$60 billion to the data-center CPU market ...
ExtremeTech

Clever DIYer Turns Old Memory Chips Into a CPU

Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in a new window) Share on Hacker News (opens in a new window) Share on Flipboard (opens in a new window) Credit: YouTube / MINT If you have bins of old PC ...