NVIDIA's BoM for its upcoming Vera Rubin "NVL72" rack shows a massive surge in memory prices that now make up 26% of the total system cost.

Vera Rubin is in production and is confirmed for first shipments in the third quarter of 2026, followed by volume ramp in the fourth quarter. While NVIDIA cooks up its grandest AI platform to date, the pricing is also going to be grand.

Morgan Stanley Research has shared its estimated BoM for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin "

NVIDIA, known for being the world's leading GPU supplier, will also become the lead CPU supplier with its Vera platforms this year.

NVIDIA recently announced that its Vera CPUs were in full production, hand-delivering the first CPU racks to major AI firms such as OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Oracle. Vera is a fundamental component of the Extreme Co-Design ecosystem powering the Rubin platform , but with Vera, NVIDIA is entering into a new market for the first time: Standalone CPUs.

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NVIDIA confirms its next-gen Vera Rubin AI platform timeline, but existing GPUs continue to see major traction from AI firms, leading to price hikes.

Today, NVIDIA announced its with a record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% from the last year. The revenue was driven primarily by the Data Center segment, which held the mammoth share of $75.24 billion, while Edge Computing amounted to $6.3 billion in revenue.

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AMD's Ryzen AI Halo developer platform offers strong Agentic AI capabilities & "leadership" token/$ value with its Halo chips, and will be available for pre-order this June.

Today, AMD is finally lifting the pricing and availability details of its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform , which was first announced at CES 2026, followed by a recent tease at its AI Dev Day.

But before that, let's talk a little bit about the platform itself and its major highlights, which are

AMD has officially unveiled its Ryzen AI MAX 400 SoCs, which feature support for up to 192 GB of memory to tackle 300B+ AI LLMs.

The AMD Ryzen AI MAX PRO 400 & Ryzen AI MAX 400 SoCs are part of the new Gorgon Halo family. These SoCs feature the Zen 5 core architecture, RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture, and XDNA 2 AI NPU. While the architecture remains the same as the Ryzen AI MAX 300 lineup, there

The salivating offer of free phones will always disarm customers into thinking that they’ve obtained a solid deal, but what happens when a representative from AT&T gives out false information to reel in a subscriber, only to have them suffer financially through an endless barrage of monthly payments? That’s what happened with one unlucky soul, and it’s a painful reminder of how customers intending to switch over to a different line must always read the fine print before diving in.

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Apple's MacBook-related price advantage continues to expand, especially in relation to Microsoft's Surface laptops, which keep getting pricier by the minute. In what is especially troubling though, Microsoft is apparently failing to read the prevailing sentiment in the room, and now appears determined to launch a new 13-inch Surface laptop later this year, replete with MacBook Neo-level RAM, but at 2x its price.

Microsoft has just unveiled the of the Surface Pro 13-inch, Surface Laptop 1

Xbox chief executive officer Asha Sharma continues her run of ushering in a new era for the platform, and this latest move could prove to be the most influential one for her tenure. Following the installment of her own leadership team and the dismissal of some of the old guard left behind from Phil Spencer's time, Sharma has now brought in an industry-leading analyst, Matthew Ball , to be the platform's chief strategy officer, and Scott Van Vliet to be chief technology officer, a report from reveals.

Lisuan Tech has launched the latest Gaming Graphics Card for the Chinese markets, the , which is priced around $500.

In March, Chinese tech company Lisuan Tech unveiled its brand new consumer/prosumer lineup based on its 7G106 GPU. The lineup included four models, three of which were aimed at the Pro/AI segments, & just one that was aimed at the gaming segment. The gaming variant was the Lisuan Extreme "LX 7G100" graphics card, which was