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On June 30, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output during its introductory window — less than half the $5 and $25 the flagship Opus 4.8 charges, while scoring 63.2 to the flagship’s 69.2 on the SWE-bench Pro coding benchmark. Roughly ninety percent of the capability…
Read MoreFor two years the data-center story was all about GPUs and the memory feeding them. CPUs were the boring line item: you bought one or two per node to babysit the accelerators and moved on. That assumption broke this spring. On Intel’s Q1 2026 earnings call, Intel’s CFO said the ratio of CPUs to GPUs…
Read MoreArm CEO Rene Haas shared a Computex 2026 stage with NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang to talk about “redefining the PC”. The same week, two things landed at once: NVIDIA’s RTX Spark put an Arm chip inside mainstream Windows laptops, and Arm’s first-ever data center processor, the Arm AGI CPU, was confirmed heading into mass production. That’s…
Read MoreBetween May 15 and May 18, 2026, NVIDIA’s Ian Buck hand-delivered the first production Vera CPU systems to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX AI on Friday, followed by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Monday. It was a literal white-glove launch — a vice president walking server boxes into customer lobbies with a screwdriver in his pocket. The…
Read MoreFor more than two decades, buying a server meant buying Intel. It was less a decision than a default — a reflex baked into procurement checklists, vendor relationships, and enterprise software licensing. Intel’s Xeon processors controlled more than 99% of the server CPU market for much of the 2000s and 2010s, generating operating margins estimated…
Read MoreIf you’ve tried to buy a server CPU lately, you’ve probably noticed something alarming: prices are up, lead times are stretching into months, and the chips you need might simply be unavailable. This isn’t a supply chain hiccup or a temporary logistics snag. It’s the direct result of a seismic shift happening inside the world’s…
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