Technology

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 debuts on TSMC 2nm with the first 5GHz mobile CPU, a 35% NPU lift, and on-device agentic AI for premium Android phones.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 debuts on TSMC 2nm with FlexCache, a 5 GHz Oryon CPU, and a Sensing Hub built for on-device AI agents. Market impact, analys

Apple Mac AI Cost pitch lands as $20,000 Mac desktops ship Tuesday, with Johny Srouji telling corporate buyers local inference beats paying tokens to OpenAI or.

Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI chip at Apsara today, with Qwen 4 already in training and a roadmap scaling to 10-trillion-parameter models in 2027.

Apple’s Mac Studio M5 Ultra ships today with 512GB unified memory for local frontier AI models, alongside the first 2nm M6 Mac mini at $899 starting price.

EVAS RISC-V chip startup raises $295M, betting that Swiss-governed open architecture can sidestep US export controls as a backbone for cloud-scale AI.

Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 skips the 5.2 line to target GPT-6 in closed beta at rumored $4 per million input tokens, a 20% cut from Opus 5 ahead of Tuesday.

StepFun launched Step 5 Preview, a 600B sparse MoE model scoring 44 on the Intelligence Index at one-eighth the cost of Claude Opus 5, with weights due Oct 15.

MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro 2nm flagship SoC debuts as the first 2nm smartphone chip, packing 33B transistors and on-device LLM support up to 30B parameters.

D-Robotics Sunrise chip $400M Series C extends the company’s funding to $770M; the FCC ban on Chinese robots, not the chip itself, is the regulatory flashpoint.