Out of the blue, Apple ended up unveiling its AirTag 2 , and that can only mean the company has a bevy of surprises awaiting us this year. While the M5 Pro and M5 Max launches are expected in the first half of 2026 , some highly interesting information surrounding the M6 has been shared in a new report, mentioning that an unveiling may happen soon. To add fuel to the fire, the same report also says that the launch gap between M3 and M4 was only
NVIDIA "Vera" CPUs Contain PCIe Hardware Compatibility Flaw Impacting non-NVIDIA GPUs
NVIDIA recently released its "Vera" CPUs as standalone SoCsavailable to third parties, positioning them to compete with Intel's Xeon and AMD's EPYC processors. However, the "Vera" generation appears optimized specifically for NVIDIA GPUs, as the SoC contains a hardware bug that triggers errors when paired with non-NVIDIA graphics cards or accelerators. While CPUs traditionally function as general-purpose devices capable of connecting any third-party accelerator to the host platform, this does not appear to hold true for "Vera.
Mac Mini M4 is on sale for just $499, defying the odds as PCs become more expensive — save $100 on performant machine with 16GB of unified memory
Apple’s most affordable computer is currently on sale, bringing its price down from $599. The Mac mini M4 is currently available on Amazon for just $499, giving you a 17% discount and saving you $100 on the purchase price. Despite being Apple's smallest, cheapest desktop offering
Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator "delivers 3 times the FP4 performance of the third generation Amazon Trainium, and FP8 performance above Google's seventh generation TPU." Each Maia 200 chip has more than 100 […]
Apple’s new M6 chip could launch surprisingly soon, per report
Apple’s first M5 products launched just three months ago, but a says we could see the M6 chip debut surprisingly soon.
Yesterday in his Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman offered an overview of what to expect from the Mac in the year ahead.
After mentioning new MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and more, he ended with a curious hint about the forthcoming M6 chip.
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One wrinkle: I think the M6 chip is potentially coming sooner than people anticipate. Not necessarily in these next laptops
Latest Intel chips beat Apple’s M5 in multi-core scores – for maybe two days
Two laptops with the latest Intel chips have beaten out the MacBook Pro with M5 chip – but it’s already clear that this will be an extremely short-lived victory.
Benchmark results show impressive multi-core scores for the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 in laptops from MSI and Lenovo …
Luke Larsen carried out the tests.
I tested two laptops with the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 line of chips, both on the higher-end of the spectrum: the Intel Core Ultra X7 358
M5 Pro And M5 Max MacBook Pro Still Don’t Have A Concrete Launch Timeline, As Latest Report Says That The Newer Models Are Expected To Launch H1 2025
Apple is taking around eight weeks to deliver its higher unified RAM configurations to customers, but that doesn’t appear to be a solid confirmation that the company’s new M5 Pro and M5 Max chipset launches are around the corner. Where we were under the assumption that the Cupertino firm would introduce its updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models to the masses, a fresh report continues to prattle that the machines are expected to launch in the first half of 2025 .
Apple Mac Mini Fly Off The Shelves As Clawdbot Dents The CUDA Moat
Ask any objective vibe coder and they will invariably tell you that Apple has a great ecosystem, albeit hampered by the lack of seamless interplay with must-have resources like NVIDIA's CUDA, a bespoke parallel computing platform and programming model that allows developers to use NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing.
Now, however, as a Redditor was able to port an entire CUDA backend to AMD's ROCm via Claude Code's Clawdbot in just around 30 minutes , significantly denting NVIDIA's heretofore impregnable CUDA moat
The Apple Mac turned 42 this weekend — we are still using the WIMP GUI WYSIWYG computing paradigm in 2026
A youthful Steve Jobs unveiled the original Apple Macintosh 42 years ago. Far more than just yet-another-PC launch, Jobs’ unveiling was a pivot point in the way that humans would interact with computers for work and play. It popularized the intuitive windows, icons, menus, and pointers (WIMP) model of computer interactivity.
Apple is planning a MacBook Pro overhaul for later this year: Three exciting upgrades
It’s long been rumored that Apple will be redesigning the as soon as this fall. This’ll mark the first redesign in around five years. While there is a lot rumored for this redesign, I’ll be highlighting the upgrades that feel the most exciting.
A lot of people aren’t exactly hyped about the fact that the will supposedly be getting thinner, especially after Jony Ive’s disaster that was known as the 2016-2020 MacBook Pro.
That said,