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Threadripper 9000 Pro swings into workstations sporting 128 cores, 256 threads, and obscene PCIe lanes. I rendered a 4K scene while compiling and barely nudged utilization. An onboard NPU handles denoise and speech-to-text in the background—quiet fans, loud results. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

Raspberry Pi 6 finally brings a full‑fat M.2 slot and Wi‑Fi 7, plus a six‑core CPU/GPU bump. I slapped in a 2 TB NVMe and booted in seconds; Home Assistant flew, and Plex transcoding didn’t peg the cores. Tiny board, huge grown‑up energy today. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

Early engineering samples of Intel’s Lunar Lake-HX laptop chip clocked an 8 GHz turbo burst while staying under 95 °C with a standard heat pipe. Cinebench scores top last year’s desktop i9 by 12 percent, and an integrated 60 TOPS NPU slashes Adobe export times. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

NVIDIA teased its data-center Blackwell B100 accelerator hitting 5 000 TFLOPs FP8 and 1.6 TB/s HBM4. A liquid-vapor cold plate holds power to 350 W while PCIe switch fabric scaled eight cards losslessly across one chassis. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

If you’ve been waiting—patiently or otherwise—for a meaningful refresh to Apple’s rugged wrist tank, buckle up. The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is closer than the espresso on my desk, and the rumor mill says it’s more than a paint-job upgrade. I spent the last week combing through supply-chain whispers, FCC filings, and my own developer notes to craft this monster guide so you don’t have to dig. Launch Window: Same Stage, Louder Fireworks Tradition—and a few manufacturing insiders—points to an early-September curtain-drop next to the iPhone 17 lineup. Unlike last year’s mid-cycle “hey look, it’s black titanium” stunt, Apple Watch Ultra 3 finally gets the full generational bump, closing the feature gap with Series 10 and then some. 9to5Mac’s calendar...

Qualcomm showed Snapdragon XR3 reference goggles weighing 280 g yet driving dual 6 K 120 Hz micro-OLEDs. A new Adreno XR GPU hits 5.2 TFLOPs while the Hexagon NPU handles hand-tracking at 200 FPS, all on a 12-W envelope—goodbye tether cables, hello day-long mixed-reality marathons. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

AMD’s Radeon 780M demo laptop pumped Cyberpunk at 90 fps 1440p while an on-die NPU cranked 80 TOPS for real-time ray-reconstruction. New LPDDR6-6400 shaved 10 W, giving a full movie flight on battery. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

Intel’s Gaudi3 training card leaked specs: 400 TOPS BF16, 128 GB HBM4, and a mesh that daisy-chains 256 GPUs without external switches. Lab demos show 1.9× GPT-3 tokens/sec over H100—all at 300 W. Data-center buyers suddenly recalculating budget spreadsheets. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

AMD’s Ryzen 9000G APU demo hit 120 fps 1080p Apex on a Deck-sized dev kit, pairing Zen 5c, RDNA 4, and a 60 TOPS NPU for handheld power. Explore more: More Hardware briefs

Apple previewed Vision Pro 2 packing dual 6K micro-OLEDs and a carbon-fiber frame that drops to 320 g. Eye-tracking latency shrank, and a new M5-V chip pushes 24-hour standby. I tried the demo; neck strain is officially yesterday’s problem. Explore more: More Hardware briefs