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This is not a GPU, and it is not trying to be. Spyre is a 75 W single-slot PCIe inference card, designed to fit in IBM Z and Power systems.

Spyre is already shipping in systems. This overview is a summary of a detailed technical disclosure at ISSCC 2026.

The 8-year develop...

Cadence has spent the last several years trying to broaden what EDA means, pushing further up the stack into system design, digital twins, robotics, and now agentic AI. But while much of the wider AI market is still debating copilots, wrappers, and workflow automation, the more interesting question for engineering software is whether these models can actually become part of t...

When people talk about the semiconductor industry, most of the attention goes to the visible parts: the chips, the process nodes, the packaging technologies, the benchmark slides, and the race for more performance per watt. Far less attention lands on the software and infrastructure that makes those chips possible in the first place. But as chip design has become more complex...

There are only a handful of people in the semiconductor industry who can genuinely claim to have lived through nearly every major shift in modern compute from the inside. Pat Gelsinger is one of them. His career stretches back through Intel’s formative decades, an era when CPU performance scaling still defined the direction of the industry, through the build-...

Update 4/4 12:15pm UK: Dylan posted the following on social media addressing the issue.

I want to speak directly about a situation involving a former employee and recent legal filings. This is not something we take lightly.