Zen 6 stays on AM5

Intel put LGA1954 on the store

The Design-In Tools listing, spotted 28 August and filed through 30 August, names LGA1954 next to NVL-S. Arrow Lake’s LGA1851 does not carry the next desktop.

XMG puts 240 Hz OLED on the NEO 16

Schenker’s gaming line finally gives the NEO 16 the 240 hertz OLED that used to sit on the FUSION 16. Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, RTX 50-series, from €3,199, order now.

Lenovo ships SteamOS on the Legion Go 2

22.4 cm 144 Hz OLED, Ryzen Z2 Extreme, up to 32 GB. From US$1,199. The Windows box from October now boots Valve's OS.

Nvidia puts Groq 3 LPX into production

24 August at Hot Chips. 256 LP30 chips in a rack. Artificial Analysis: 3,431 tokens a second on Gemma 4 31B. Nebius is first. The $20 billion December deal now has a crate.

Eighty-eight Olympus cores

AWS said on 26 August it is bringing NVIDIA’s Vera CPU to its cloud. NVIDIA’s table against Grace is 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X, and 1.8 TB/s coherent to Rubin.

Fujitsu puts Monaka's cache on its own 5 nm die

Hot Chips, 24 August. 144 Armv9.3-A cores on 2 nm, last-level cache on 5 nm. Samples now. Volume in 2027.

Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU

Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.

Apple puts M5 Max on the MacBook Pro

18-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128 GB of unified memory at 614 GB/s. The 35.6 cm Max starts at US$3,599. Pre-order 4 March, in shops 11 March.