Computers & Gadgets

The Chip China Banned Itself Into Building

On September 22, Alibaba's chip unit T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900 at the company's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou — 216GB of on-package memory, a 1,200GB/s interconnect, and clusters scaling to 500,000 units, which CEO Eddie Wu called "the most powerful AI chip in China today." The obvious story i

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Computers & Gadgets

The Same Box, a Lot More Inside

Apple's new Mac Studio ships September 22 with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips, up to 512GB of unified memory, and the same 7.7-inch-square case it's shipped since 2023. I've always liked Apple machines, and I was expecting a smaller redesign — it isn't one, and the real story turns out to be better than

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