IBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding
Premium Headquartered in Albany, New York, Anderon will operate a 300mm quantum wafer fab and offer its manufacturing services to competing quantum hardware vendors.
Imec builds world's first High-NA EUV-fabricated quantum dot qubit device
Premium Imec may have revealed quantum computing’s clearest path to industrial-scale manufacturing
Analyst says Nvidia poised to capture two-thirds of the x86 server CPU market from Intel and AMD with expected $20 billion in revenue
Premium Having become the main supplier of AI accelerators, Nvidia is now on track to outsell AMD and Intel with Vera CPUs and become a leading supplier of processors.
AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development
Premium Automated analysis and design, powered by AI, could help the chip design process… with caveats.
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We tested Arctic’s entry-level Freezer 36-S with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and it did better than you might expect for a single-tower air cooler.
Autonomous ErgoChair Pro Review: Comfortable, but that's it
A comfortable but ultimately lackluster chair
Acer Nitro 65 review: Solid gaming performance, but skimping on some features
The Nitro 65 excels in gaming, but it’s an AIO cooler away from being a truly excellent rig.
Graphics Cards
Nvidia is finally ditching its Control Panel after 20 years
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Features
AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development
Premium Automated analysis and design, powered by AI, could help the chip design process… with caveats.
PC Components
Tryx launches new liquid AIO cooler with holographic display
The Holo 360 replaces conventional LCD layering with a floating hologram-like image effect.
Desktops and PC Building
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
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
You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!
Deals
Get your hands on a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD for under $390
Deals Save $250 (39%) and pick up one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 SSDs at a reasonable-for-the-times price.
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