Brian Westover
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 19
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- Sep 10, 2026
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The A20 Pro Chip Is Apple's High-Stakes Hardware Pivot to Own On-Device AI (opens the original)
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Another Apple September event is in the books, and this time, most people are excited about Apple's new foldable iPhone Duo, or the kicked-up camera features on the iPhone 18 Pro. But I'm here for the chips and AI, and a lot of cool new stuff is coming to the iPhone on this front, too. Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, now frames the iPhone as an "intelligent personal hub," putting Apple's most personal device at the center of its most powerful new capabilities. Translation: The iPhone's processor a
Forget Foldables: Apple's 2nm M6 and Quad-Die Monster Just Reset the AI Race (opens the original)
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While all eyes are on Apple's iPhone 18 event, the company's most aggressive technical leap is happening in Mac desktops. Debuting in September across updated Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, the new M6 and M5 Ultra chips are a generational leap forward for Apple silicon. This latest wave of silicon goes beyond standard speed gains, representing a shift in Apple's architectural roadmap and placing major emphasis on AI. With a new 2nm manufacturing process on M6 and quad-die scaling on M5 Ultra,
Nvidia Wants to Turn Your Idle PCs Into a Personal Home Data Center With 'PAIR' (opens the original)
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Nvidia's latest offering isn't a flagship GPU or a giant AI model, but a free, open-source software tool called PAIR. Short for "Personal AI Router," it's a software tool that connects multiple computers in your home into a coordinated network, sharing computing resources to run local AI seamlessly. By making clustered computing a plug-and-play setup, Nvidia just gave local, private AI a massive power boost using devices people already own. PAIR, announced at IFA 2026 in Berlin, solves a very pa
Nvidia's Hugging Face Buyout: A Brilliant Move or an Antitrust Nightmare? (opens the original)
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It's official: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as formally announced in a blog post by CEO Jensen Huang this morning. While multi-billion-dollar AI acquisitions have become commonplace, a lot of people are scratching their heads over this particular deal. With an estimated annual revenue of around $150 million, Hugging Face is not a cash cow, so why is Nvidia willing to pay 86 times as much to own it? Nvidia is not buying a ready-made income stream. Instead, it's leverag
Nvidia's Hugging Face Buyout: A Brilliant Move or an Antitrust Nightmare? (opens the original)
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It's official: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as formally announced in a blog post by CEO Jensen Huang this morning. While multi-billion-dollar AI acquisitions have become commonplace, a lot of people are scratching their heads over this particular deal. With an estimated annual revenue of around $150 million, Hugging Face is not a cash cow, so why is Nvidia willing to pay 86 times as much to own it? Nvidia is not buying a ready-made income stream. Instead, it's leverag
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