The Hot Take: Nice if that's the case, and big trouble for Qualcomm too.
Internal tests of the Exynos 2700 have Samsung LSI buzzing – the chipset outperformed Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (both of them, actually), according to anonymous insiders. The testing was pretty thorough and included CPU, GPU, NPU and power efficiency benchmarks.
First, let’s clear this up – Qualcomm has officially confirmed that there will be two Elite chips in the next generation. They are tentatively being called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. This is separate from the non-Elite Gen 6 chip, by the way.…
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| August 26, 2026 | Hardware, Nvidia
The Hot Take: Not good, and I hope they get prosecuted the to full extent of the law.
Taiwan has indicted nine people—reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country—who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls.
On Monday, Reuters reported that prosecutors in Keelung did not release any names but confirmed that the suspects were “charged with breach of trust and document forgery.” One suspect linked to a related case remains at large, accused of the “siphoning of funds from a distributor…
The Hot Take: I wonder if Lenovo's help will get them to accept more than just Pixel and Lenovo devices. We can only hope.
It's now clearer just when you can expect GrapheneOS' privacy-oriented Android ROM to be available beyond Pixel devices. The GrapheneOS team has finally shared more details on when its software will come to Motorola phones.
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| August 25, 2026 | ARM, Hardware
The Hot Take: This is RISC with RISC, I'm wondering if we'll get a CISC with RISK chip hybrid from Intel or AMD.
IBM's next-generation chip will combine dual ISA within the core, enabling the execution of Z and Arm software simultaneously. IBM Is Sending The World's First Dual-ISA Processor Core For Tape-Out Soon IBM's Christian Jacobi (IBM Fellow & CTO, IBM Systems Development) presented the Hot Chips 2026 talk in which he announced the first Dual-ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) Core for IBM Z and LinuxOne generation. The dual architecture allows IBM to execute both Z- and Arm-based software. IBM states that this isn't putting two different core…
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| August 24, 2026 | Hardware, Memory
The Hot Take: How can you even call that a warranty?
The days when it was easy to just purchase a separate RAM kit are over, as the memory shortage means customers will adopt austerity measures to keep their PC hardware alive and kicking for as long as possible. A 16GB Patriot DDR4 RAM owner started experiencing errors with one of his sticks, prompting him to take advantage of the “lifetime warranty.” Unfortunately, that meant he’d have to ship over the RAM, which is more than 80 percent of the cost of DDR4 memory. Due to the customer’s location, it becomes a necessity to ship the DDR4 RAM to…
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| August 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Hot Take: Interesting, wonder if that is infact the case or not. We'll see how long it lasts with NY Taxes....
fjo3 shares a report from SFGATE: The San Francisco Bay Area, epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom, is home to a massive amount of tech workers employed by some of the world's most valuable companies, from Apple to Nvidia. But for the first time, New York has eclipsed the Bay Area as the home of the largest "tech talent workforce," a report by real estate and investment firm CBRE shows. The firm has published the annual report for 13 years. Last year, the New York Metro Area's tech talent workforce reached 394,300, surpassing the Bay…
The Hot Take: RGB controller have always been a sore spot with me. The controllers always seem to mess with windows performance. I usually try to keep it simple with keeping it a static color.
Like clockwork, it's a new month and a new OS-breaking bug has been discovered in Windows 11's latest monthly update, KB5121003. Users reported random system instability, with games freezing or outright crashing, and even BSODs in worst-case scenarios. Microsoft investigated the issue and reached a vindicating conclusion — RGB software installed on affected PCs was interfering with core system components, causing Windows 11 to become unstable.Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers(Image credit: Microsoft)The data center cooling state…
The Hot Take: Must be bad if they're not giving any details.
Microsoft has fixed a maximum-severity vulnerability in Entra ID that attackers were already exploiting in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-69836, the vulnerability carries the maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code remotely in Microsoft's cloud identity service. Microsoft disclosed the flaw on Thursday, along with the unwelcome news that exploitation had already been detected. Entra ID, formerly known as Azure Active Directory, sits at the heart of identity and access management for Microsoft…
The Hot Take: So we going to have a price fixing storage class action coming up that they'll make this off by default?
Bad past incidents can lead to good outcomes, and one of the best examples is the new recovery tools in Windows 11. After major issues in 2025 and earlier, Microsoft pledged to make it easier to recover a broken PC, creating features like Point-in-Time Restore, which will now be enabled by default for everyone in Windows 11 26H2.
In an updated support document, Microsoft said it’ll turn on “Point-in-Time Restore” by default for PCs running Windows 11 26H2 or newer.
“Starting with Windows 11, version 26H2, it will be enabled by default,”…
The Hot Take: Long enough to finish OH I'm sure of. As long as it doesn't get in the way of defense manufacturing of course.
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Intel’s next two CPU generations could make life nastier for AMD by hogging more of TSMC’s tight 2nm capacity.
According to Jukan, Chipzilla is reportedly planning to use TSMC for parts of its Nova Lake and Razor Lake processor families. That will not cheer AMD, which already has to fight for space inside TSMC’s increasingly rammed fabs.
Intel is expected to start mass production of Nova Lake around January 2027. The chips were once expected to rely on…