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.
Reviews
Arctic Freezer 36-S Review: Small size, effective performance, low price
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.
Super Flower Leadex 2800W ATX 3.1 power supply review: Top-notch build quality, exceptional efficiency
Delivers extraordinary efficiency and an internal design that leaves nothing on the table
Autonomous ErgoChair Pro Review: Comfortable, but that's it
A comfortable but ultimately lackluster chair
Graphics Cards
Nvidia is finally ditching its Control Panel after 20 years
Nvidia has finally retired its 20-year-old control panel for GeForce GPUs. From now on, new GeForce drivers will only include the Nvidia App.
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
Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch
Sandisk prepares to launch 520 and 320 SATA SSDs with capacities up to 4TB.
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
Your gaming chair and desk deserves an upgrade this Memorial Day with up to 80% savings at FlexiSpot
Deals FlexiSpot is holding a special Memorial Day sale at its online store, with up to 80% off many products.
At 48% off, this $21 TP-Link Ethernet Switch is the perfect upgrade for 4K streaming and gaming at home at an almost record-low price
Deals This 8-port unmanaged TP-Link Ethernet switch is on sale, down to just $20.86 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking eight extra ports for your network at almost half its usual price.
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Leaks reveal US authorities concerned about the rise of ‘anti-tech extremists’ as AI data center issues become increasingly contentious
Law enforcement agencies are warning that protests over AI and data centers could boil over and turn into civil unrest.
Your gaming chair and desk deserves an upgrade this Memorial Day with up to 80% savings at FlexiSpot
Deals FlexiSpot is holding a special Memorial Day sale at its online store, with up to 80% off many products.
At 48% off, this $21 TP-Link Ethernet Switch is the perfect upgrade for 4K streaming and gaming at home at an almost record-low price
Deals This 8-port unmanaged TP-Link Ethernet switch is on sale, down to just $20.86 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking eight extra ports for your network at almost half its usual price.
Chinese university builds 3D chip design tool tailored to Huawei's ‘LogicFolding’ architecture
The announcement came two days after Huawei presented LogicFolding and its accompanying Tau Scaling Law at ISCAS 2026.
Wide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability with 8.8 CVE rating allows for code execution
Wide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability allows for code execution and has an 8.8 CVE rating, hundreds of millions of machines potentially vulnerable
Samsung Display announces world's first 360 Hz 4K QD-OLED panel
How much GPU power do you need to drive that many pixels?
ASRock BC-250 used for Steam Machine duty gains third-party hack to unlock all 40 CUs — mining board now has more CUs than a base PS5
Enthusiasts of ASRock's BC-250 server board have figured out a way to unlock all 40CUs inside the system's PS5-derived SoC, giving it more GPU cores than a base PS5.
