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IBM ships first sub-1nm chip: 0.7nm (7Å) at Albany, ~100B transistors on a nail-sized die
IBM unveils a 0.7nm (7-angstrom) chip — humanity's first sub-1nm node. Density 2× its own 2nm, ~100B transistors on a nail-sized die. Mass production in ~5 years.
AMD FSR 4.1 lands on RX 7000 in July — INT8 version claims quality parity with FP8
AMD's FSR 4.1 expands from RX 9000 to RX 7000 in July. The INT8 build claims quality parity with the FP8 version. RX 6000 and Steam Deck GPU come early 2027 with shader-based inference.
Computex 2026's oddity: a brand new 6×HDMI card based on the 2018 RX 580
At Computex 2026, in a hall full of RTX 50 and RDNA 4, Maxsun showed off a 6×HDMI 8GB card based on the 2018 RX 580 2048SP — meant for signage and monitoring walls.
AMD pours $10B+ into Taiwan — Helios AI servers ship H2 2026
AMD commits over $10B to Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem on May 21 — partnerships with ASE and SPIL for advanced packaging, and Helios rack-scale AI platform shipping H2 2026.
AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 — first x86 chip to run a 300B model locally
AMD's new Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 (Gorgon Halo) bumps unified memory from 128GB to 192GB, up to 160GB dynamically assignable as VRAM. First x86 chip to run 300B+ parameter LLMs locally.