
Arm Claims Agents Need New Silicon - Intel Disagrees
Arm says its 136-core AGI CPU is purpose-built for agentic AI workloads. Intel's data center chief - Arm's former head of solutions engineering - says the claim overstates what's actually new.
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Arm says its 136-core AGI CPU is purpose-built for agentic AI workloads. Intel's data center chief - Arm's former head of solutions engineering - says the claim overstates what's actually new.

At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU - a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta and the company's first owned silicon product in its 35-year history.

Alibaba's T-Head division launched the XuanTie C950, a 5nm 3.2GHz RISC-V server chip that sets a new world record for RISC-V single-core performance and natively runs billion-parameter models like DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.

An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.

Federal prosecutors indicted Supermicro's co-founder and SVP along with two associates for smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI accelerator servers to China using fake hardware and stripped serial numbers.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano 4B packs a Mamba-dominant hybrid architecture, 262K token context, and 95.4% on MATH500 into a model that fits an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano.

NVIDIA opens GTC 2026 with the Vera Rubin platform - six co-designed chips delivering 50 PFLOPS of inference per GPU and 10x lower token cost than Blackwell.

Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.

Figure AI's Helix 02 robot went viral cleaning a living room on March 9 - then Elon Musk publicly questioned whether the demo was really autonomous.

Apple's cheapest Mac ever packs the A18 Pro iPhone chip with a 16-core Neural Engine - but its 60 GB/s memory bandwidth puts a hard ceiling on what local models you can actually run.

NVIDIA will unveil a new inference processor built on Groq's LPU architecture at GTC 2026, with OpenAI as its first major customer allocating 3 GW of dedicated capacity.

Alibaba unveils Qwen-branded AI smart glasses at MWC Barcelona with pre-orders starting March 2, challenging Meta's dominance in a wearable AI market that tripled last year.