NPU vs GPU vs CPU Explained: Understanding the Brains Behind Modern Computers

For years, buying a laptop or desktop was simple. You checked the processor, looked at the amount of RAM, maybe considered ...

The Paradigm of Privacy Confidential Computing Explained

Get confidential computing explained. Learn how hardware-enforced trusted execution environments (TEEs) fully protect ...
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Russian Refinery Disruptions Ripple Across Central Asian Fuel Markets

Fuel prices are rising across Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as disruptions at Russian refineries reduce regional supplies. Governments are seeking alternative fuel imports from countries ...
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Duke starts construction on data center near Central Campus

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 ...
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CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators: The chips powering AI

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 ...
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Nvidia debuts the Groq 3 language processing unit, a dedicated inference chip for multi-agent workloads

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 ...
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Nvidia's GTC will mark an AI chip pivot. Here's why the CPU is taking center stage

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 ...
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AI’s workhorse: What is a GPU? How does it work? | Explained

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 ...
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AI PCs rely on NPUs. So what exactly are these newfangled chips?

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 ...
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Tsavorite’s OPU promises 10x faster AI processing with just 10% of the energy use

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 ...
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Tsavorite takes on Nvidia with composable AI chiplets based on Arm’s Neoverse architecture

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.