HPC News Bytes 20260112: Big Chip News at CES, TSMC’s Arizona Expansion, Sandia’s Neuromorphic News

 

A good January day to you! There was major chip news last week, most of it coming out of the big CES show in Las Vegas, along with other interesting developments, here’s a fast (11:10) run-down of recent goings on:

– CES 2026

– NVIDIA Vera Rubin, in-house co-design

– AMD Helios, the upcoming MI400 series and hints at MI500

– TSMC’s burgeoning GigaFab in Arizona

– Positive news regarding Intel Panther Lake and the 18A fab

– Sandia National Lab reports “shocking” neuromorphic PDE math

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