Google TPUs garner attention as AI chip alternative, but are only a minor threat to Nvidia's dominance
Premium Meta’s reported deal with Google shows a growing interest in alternative AI hardware, but Nvidia says its platform remains unmatched.
Taiwan's $3.2 billion plan for 'AI island' with data centers, quantum hubs and AI robotics labs faces risks
Premium Taiwan has confirmed it will allocate over NT$100 billion — around US$3.2 billion — for a multi-year national AI infrastructure plan, to become a global leader in AI compute and hardware by 2040.
TSMC's CoWoS packaging capacity reportedly stretched due to AI demand
Premium As TSMC hits a supply-side wall with CoWoS, Intel may be positioned to provide reprive with EMIB and Foveros.
IBM and Cisco agree to lay the foundations for a quantum internet
Premium IBM and Cisco have announced plans to jointly build a distributed quantum computing network capable of linking fault-tolerant systems over long distances.
Huawei's Ascend AI chip ecosystem scales up as China pushes for semiconductor independence
Premium Huawei’s in-house Ascend processors and their surrounding supplier network are being positioned as the foundation of a national effort to build an independent, fully domestic semiconductor ecosystem.
Reviews
Titan Army P2712V 27-inch dual-mode 4K gaming monitor review: Solid performance and value
Delivers 4K gaming in 160 Hz and 27 inches
Atari Gamestation Go review: 200+ Atari classics in your hands, supported by a unique selection of physical controls
But perhaps the $180 price makes it a stretch, even for retrogaming diehards.
Kingston NV3 2230 2TB SSD Review: The Budget King is Back
The Kingston NV3 2230 is Kingston’s budget take on this form factor, offering decent all-around performance and power efficiency at a good price.
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CPUs
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUs allegedly feature up to 144 MB of bLLC only on unlocked SKUs
The bLLC is allegedly part of the compute tile.
Graphics Cards
Nvidia RTX Pro 6000D squeaks ahead of RTX 5090D in Geekbench OpenCL—China-tailored AI card still performs well despite regulatory woes
Nvidia's harried China-specific RTX Pro 6000D graphics card has been tested in Geekbench's OpenCL benchmark, delivering performance similar to the server edition of the RTX Pro 6000.
Features
The web's infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outages
Premium First it was AWS. Then Azure went down – and with it, large chunks of the web, apps and services we use every day. Are hypescaler cloud providers a victim of their own success?
PC Components
Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its lab
Seagate is squeezing as much capacity out of its HAMR technology as it can
Desktops and PC Building
Monstrous SSD cooling solution strapped to iPhone 17 Pro Max delivers unparalleled performance
A smartphone performance enthusiast has shown pictures of their PC SSD cooler-boosted iPhone 17 Pro Max on Reddit.
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