Microsoft attributes $25 billion of AI budget to memory and chip costs
Premium Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion.
ASML's roadmap for chipmaking lithography tools examined — from DUV to Low-NA, High-NA, Hyper-NA, and beyond
Premium ASML shipped 48 EUV lithography systems and 131 immersion DUV tools in 2025, generating €32.7 billion in total revenue and ending the year with a €38.8 billion order backlog.
Talent over tokens: AI models are becoming more expensive to run, and productivity gains are limited
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Meta's multi-billion-dollar Graviton deal highlights intensifying CPU shortages in AI infrastructure
Premium Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.
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Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X Motherboard Review: CQDIMM support with Arrow Lake Refresh
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The Best Wi-Fi Routers We've Benchmarked in 2026 — the best of Wi-Fi 7 from budget to premium
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 APU could arrive with 192GB of unified memory
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ASML's roadmap for chipmaking lithography tools examined — from DUV to Low-NA, High-NA, Hyper-NA, and beyond
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PC Components
Enthusiast creates Peltier thermoelectric cooler from scratch
It works, but the performance results are underwhelming
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Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
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How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software
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Steam Controller scalpers are asking for $300+ on eBay
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Nvidia's exposure to Asian supply chains for components hits 90% of its production costs
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Nvidia accelerates end-of-life for some Jetson AI processors due to memory shortages
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