Nvidia has spent the last several months providing key disclosures about its next-gen Vera CPU for agentic data centers, which it continued at Hot Chips 2026. Although we’ve already learned a lot about Vera

Intel’s Robert Hallock, vice president and general manager of Intel’s enthusiast channel business, told Tom’s Hardware Premium in an interview that the Raptor Lake architecture will be part of Intel’s offerings “for years to come.”

You’re probably already well aware of the three largest memory vendors: South Korea’s SK hynix and Samsung, and the United States’ Micron. There’s a fourth player up and coming in the market, though, and that’s China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies, more commonly known as CXMT

AMD continues to squeeze more life out of its AM4 platform as a newly listed prebuilt gaming PC has been spotted powered by the Ryzen 7 4700LE. This OEM-exclusive CPU is based on AMD’s Zen 2 (Renoir) architecture, all the way back from 2019, and was silently released by the company back in March 2026

Most all you hear about “running an AI model” involves a GPU of some sort, but not every AI task is suited to that hardware. Smaller models or single-user latency-sensitive operations can benefit from running on the CPU instead, as it avoids the overhead of shuffling data to and from the GPU

The PC industry is bracing for a slip back to DDR4 memory among enthusiasts. Tom’s Hardware has learned at Computex 2026 that both motherboard brands and many module houses — the companies that produce the DIMMs you can buy

Intel has confirmed several details about its next-generation Xeon 7 CPUs, codenamed Diamond Rapids, which are now officially slated to launch in 2027. Announcing its E-core-only Xeon 6+ chips at Computex, Intel teased that Diamond Rapids will support PCIe 6.0

AMD is potentially working on introducing a new flagship APU as the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 was recently listed on PassMark’s benchmark database. The unconfirmed chip is expected to be a part of the company’s upcoming “Gorgon Halo” lineup and a successor to the existing Strix Halo flagship

A couple of days ago, Intel, TeamGroup and ASRock came together to unveil the “HUDIMM” spec for DDR5 RAM. HUDIMM use a single 32-bit subchannel instead of populating a 64-bit wide bus with two 32-bit channels.