Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt

As for the specific applications that Crescent Island will target, Intel highlights the rise of mixture-of-experts models paired with speculative decoding as a new class of workload that Crescent Island can serve well.

Hot Chips 2026: Micron warns HBM wafer penalty is widening with every generation — AI memory uses 3x more silicon than DDR5, company says memory wall is ‘gettin

Micron’s presentation put compute performance scaling at roughly three times every two years and HBM bandwidth at under two times, a divergence Sreeramaneni summarized by saying “the memory wall is still present, and, in…

Hot Chips 2026: Micron warns HBM wafer penalty is widening with every generation — AI memory uses 3x more silicon than DDR5, company says memory wall is ‘gettin

Micron’s presentation put compute performance scaling at roughly three times every two years and HBM bandwidth at under two times, a divergence Sreeramaneni summarized by saying “the memory wall is still present, and, in…

Save $500 on this 1440p-ready gaming PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 right now — MSI Codex R2 pre-built drops below $1,500 with a 20-core Intel CPU, 16GB DDR

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is the best component in this build, and it delivers the power you’ll need to game at 1440p. It’s helped by current-gen Nvidia features like DLSS 4, which give you upscaling and multi-frame ge…

Hot Chips 2026: High Bandwidth Flash promises massive bandwidth and capacity, but its usability is extremely limited — new memory format strikes a balance betwe

Additionally, more local capacity could also reduce communication between accelerators. Conventional expert parallelism distributes experts across GPUs and requires all-to-all communication at every layer. OXMIQ claims t…