Other World Computing has unveiled a fully certified 2-meter Thunderbolt 5 cable, promising to deliver the full 80 Gb/s bandwidth, 240W power, and high-bandwidth display support. It’s priced at $79.99 and is expected to ship in early January, targeting complex workstation setups where peripherals ar
The first day of CES 2026 was dominated by AI hardware wars and quirky robots. While chip giants made major announcements, a musical lollipop and waddling robots stole the show’s heart.
Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time at CES. The company plans to have a product version assembling cars at a Georgia plant by 2028, aided by a renewed AI partnership with Google’s DeepMind.
Timekettle is pushing real-time translation tech closer to sci-fi fantasy with a major CES 2026 reveal. Its new AI system dynamically picks the best language model for each conversation, while upgraded hardware captures speech more cleanly. The result is faster, more accurate translations across 43
AMD’s CES 2026 announcements were more about refinement than revolution. The Ryzen AI 400 series laptops get minor clock bumps, a new Ryzen 7 9850X3D arrives, and the company is pushing hard on ROCm software improvements for local AI.
AMD is launching a new AI chip, the MI440X, designed for compact corporate data centers. CEO Lisa Su also previewed the MI500 series for 2027, promising up to 1,000x the performance of its 2023 models. The push highlights AMD’s aggressive strategy to capture more of the lucrative AI hardware market.
Nvidia just pulled the curtain back on its next-gen Vera Rubin AI platform months ahead of schedule. The announcement at CES 2026 signals a major acceleration in the AI hardware race, with Nvidia claiming massive performance leaps.
AMD is expanding its Ryzen AI Max+ lineup with two new chips that lower the CPU specs but keep the powerful 40-core GPU. This move aims to bring high-end gaming and AI performance to more affordable laptops, potentially reshaping the mid-range market in 2026.
Intel just launched its Panther Lake CPUs with a new flagship iGPU, the Xe3-based Arc B390. The performance claims are staggering, putting it ahead of AMD’s best and even Nvidia’s RTX 4050 laptop GPU. But history tells us to be skeptical of Intel’s graphics promises.
Nvidia is making a massive play to own the foundational layer of general-purpose robotics. By releasing open models and simulators, they’re trying to do for robots what Android did for phones. It’s a bold move that could define the next decade of AI.
