Duke recently began construction on a small graphics processing unit data center, adjacent to Central Campus, that top administrators say will boost the University’s computing capacity while adhering ...

When you're streaming a show, checking your email, or asking an AI assistant for help, different types of computer chips are working behind the scenes. The most important are CPUs and AI accelerator ...

Nvidia Corp. kicked off its annual GTC 2026 developer conference in San Jose today by announcing a number of new chips and computing platforms aimed at data center operators. But though most of the ...

Central processing units (CPUs) are having a renaissance, and Nvidia says they're "becoming the bottleneck" amid surging agentic AI workflows. Intel and AMD remain the leaders in data center CPUs, but ...

The story so far: In 1999, California-based Nvidia Corp. marketed a chip called GeForce 256 as “the world’s first GPU”. Its purpose was to make videogames run better and look better. In the 2.5 ...

CPUs and GPUs are old news. These days, the cutting edge is all about NPUs, and hardware manufacturers are talking up NPU performance. The NPU is a computer component designed to accelerate AI tasks ...

AI startup Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence is betting big on a new computing paradigm. Its Founder and CEO, Shalesh Thusoo, says the company’s newly unveiled Omni Processing Unit (OPU) can deliver up ...

Semiconductor startup Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence Inc. is looking to reinvent the system-on-chip computing architecture for artificial intelligence workloads with its new Omni Processing Unit.

AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Snapdragon produce the most important chips for the vast majority of computers. This guide gives you a brief overview of the four brands, what they do and how they might impact ...

Samsung, Sony, and many Chinese brands rely on Snapdragon chipsets to power their Android devices. Even some portable computers now run on this central processing unit (CPU), with the launch of ...

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