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June 30
- Apple considers external AI partners to boost Siri smarts — Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly in early talks to replace in-house models
- Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches
- New 3D printing tech fuses hard and soft structures in a single print — novel resin can create both with different light sources
- Steam and Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case'
- AI boom drives explosive demand for leading-edge process nodes — 7nm and below nodes set to expand by 69% in three years
- Windows 95 on a PlayStation 2 kind of works — but this modded PS2 couldn’t play Doom
- Apple reportedly working on a cheaper MacBook with iPhone chip — analyst says to expect A18 Pro in a 13-inch laptop
- Nvidia is giving away free Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions with access to all software — one month for RTX 30 and 40 series owners, two months for RTX 50 series owners
- Nintendo reportedly pulled products, including Switch 2, from Amazon U.S. because of alleged sales dispute — both companies deny claims
- Desperate PC DIYer appeals for help after spending $20,000 on a build that doesn't work despite returning multiple parts – misfortune began with a failed BIOS update attempt
- China could be the world's top semiconductor foundry hub by 2030 — despite US curbs, nation to hold 30% of global installed capacity, surpassing Taiwan
- $650 buys lucky eBay shopper two Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs instead of the 3080s they ordered — scoops Dell OEM cards worth thousands for a fraction of the price
June 29
- Anthropic’s AI utterly fails at running a business — 'Claudius' hallucinates profusely as it struggles with vending drinks
- New portable cassette player comes loaded with modern features like Bluetooth, USB-C, and a rechargeable battery
- Here’s a behind the scenes look at how a CPU air cooler is made — DeepCool gives a start-to-finish tour of its main production facility
- AI-powered Catlog smart collar now notifies you if your cat feels stressed
- Microsoft says it still has 1.4 billion monthly active users (Updated)
- Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2
- FLSun launches delta-style T1 Max 3D printer for affordable $479 — specialized model geared for print farms
- Bitcoin firm says police shouldn't saw open Bitcoin ATMs to seize cash for scammed customers, will seek damages for destroyed machines — firm claims seizures are criminal and victimize the company
- Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community
- Nvidia’s RTX 50 Super lineup leak hints at increased VRAM of up to 24GB and 415W TGP
June 28
- Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model
- Safer, faster, and cheaper way to extract gold at 99% purity from electronic waste detailed — new method for recovering gold from PCBs uses a sanitizing reagent and a novel polymer
- Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
- Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gives Japan's new leading-edge chipmaker advice, says Rapidus needs unique tech to compete with TSMC
- Asus makes branded burgers with KFC China, meal deal includes free limited-edition keycaps — ‘Fortress of Faith’ collaboration with fast food chain launches with $5.60 combo
- Even upscalers can't resuscitate a $10 GPU—13-year-old GTX 660 is so slow that FSR can't give it a boost
- Latest 3D printing tech and combat robotics showcased at the OG 3D printing festival, MRRF 2025
- $28 hard drive from Amazon turns out to be legit despite the price — questions about the 500GB HDD's longevity remain, though
- Fortnite cheater fined $175,000 for using cheats to win $6,850 in competitive tournaments — Epic bans player forever
- SpaceX launches UK satellite to create semiconductors in low Earth orbit — sub-zero temps and vacuum of space could advance AI data centers and quantum computing
- Asus's new BTF GPUs can now be used in standard systems courtesy of a detachable 1000W power connector — New 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti models have a dual personality
June 27
- 689 different Brother printer models all use the serial number to create default password — ridiculous security flaw baked in from manufacturing, can't be fully remediated with firmware
- Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shipping in August
- Cooler Master NR200P V3 Mini-ITX case can house an RTX 5090 — $150 chassis features cutout for optimized GPU airflow, and PCIe 5.0 support
- PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
- Gigabyte says its 'revolutionary' Ultra Turbo Mode can boost frame rates by 35% — BIOS level enhancement exclusive to Intel Z890 motherboards
- China to pivot $50 billion chip fund to fighting U.S. squeeze as trade war escalates — country to back local companies and projects to overcome export controls
- Microsoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback — in-house chip now reportedly expected in 2026, but won't hold a candle to Nvidia Blackwell
- 2,000-GPU data center launches powered exclusively by reusable batteries — 12-megawatt storage system built on hundreds of repurposed EV batteries
- Windows Blue screen of death axed after 40 years, but BSOD still remains — will be replaced by new black Windows 11 'unexpected restart screen'
- Top semiconductor toolmaker launches talent competition in China — ASML is looking for 16 skilled lithography engineers
June 26
- Micron 2600 QLC SSD uses flexible caching to offer TLC-like performance—7,200 MB/s reads and 6,500 MB/s writes push the limits of PCIe 4.0
- AI disruptor DeepSeek's next-gen model delayed by Nvidia GPU export restrictions to China — short supply of AI GPUs hinders development
- New homegrown China server chips unveiled with impressive specs — Loongson's 3C6000 CPU comes armed with 64 cores, 128 threads, and performance to rival Xeon 8380
- Micron samples ground-breaking EUV-based memory — new DRAM process slashes power consumption by 20% and boosts performance by 15%
- Bargain of the century? Lucky Goodwill shopper pays $30 for a PC, finds $1,200 RTX 3080 Ti and $400 Ryzen 7 inside
- OpenAI's gargantuan data center is even bigger than Elon Musk's xAI Colossus — world's largest 300 MW AI data center could reach record 1 gigawatt scale by next year, threatens grid stability
- Dell's new 'Premium' laptops are the XPS in all but name — Intel Core Ultra Series 2 arrives in 14 and 16-inch sizes
- FTC to give $126 million back to Fortnite players who were charged for unwanted items — 950,000 payments refunded, and the deadline to claim your cash was just extended
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang begins sale of $925M worth of Nvidia stock — sale of 6 million shares barely dents his $123 billion in shares
- AMD’s next-generation mobile processors 'Gorgon Point' spotted in shipping manifests — HX 475 and 465 to use 10-core and 12-core CPU designs, respectively
- Intel hosts Direct Connect Asia event in Seoul — company tries to lure Samsung Foundry clients in its own backyard
- Fedora Linux ponders dropping 32-bit packages, which could impact support for Steam gaming — change could also force Bazzite to shut down, according to its creator
- Laser-cooled GPUs get buy-in from the U.S. military — government beams cash to Maxwell Labs to cool AI processors
- New single-molecule magnet tech could unlock hard drives with 100x more capacity — drives could store half a million TikTok views on a hard drive the size of a postage stamp, or three terabytes per square centimeter
- Insane DDR4 price spikes mean last-gen RAM loses its value luster versus DDR5 — prices have nearly tripled in just two months
- RTX 5060 eGPU prototype brings Blackwell to handheld PCs — unit crams desktop-class power into the palm of a hand
- Semiconductor industry faces critical talent crisis — one million additional skilled workers needed by 2030
- Nvidia explains why its desktop RTX 5050 only uses GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR7 like the laptop version — 'G6 is the best choice for desktops and the more power efficient G7 is the best choice for laptops'
June 25
- China vows to retaliate against Taiwan for blacklisting Huawei, SMIC from chip tech — "Such despicable acts are utterly contemptible" says China spokesperson
- Switch 2 has a 120 Hz screen with response times that are too slow for 60 Hz gaming, tester claims
- Gigabyte prepares a low-profile RTX 5050 GPU — Designed for SFF and aging gaming rigs
- Australian authorities say top crypto ATM users are scam victims and money mules — most transactions from victims or mules forced to deposit money into the machines
- Before Windows 10 goes EOL, I'm testing three alternative Linux distros to save my 6-year-old laptop from the landfill
- Man behind $245m Bitcoin theft has bizarre tale that includes kidnapped parents, fraud, and money laundering — suspect now faces up to 24 years in prison, half-million-dollar fine, and possible deportation to India
- University shakes hands with the past - 3D printing replicates 500-year-old prosthetic
- DLSS Transformer Model for DLSS 4 is out of beta as Nvidia looks to officially incorporate new model to improve image quality and efficiency
- WinRAR exploit enables attackers to run malicious code on your PC — critical vulnerability patched in latest beta update
- Intel lays off hundreds of engineers in California, including chip design engineers and architects — automotive chip division also gets the axe
- Blacklisted Chinese GPU makers line up to file for IPOs as US sanctions and trade war take toll on AI hardware market
- Western Digital's $500 million penalty for patent infringement reduced to a mere $1 — court says recipient failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to damages
- HDMI 2.2 is here with new 'Ultra96' Cables — up to 16K resolution, higher maximum 96 Gbps bandwidth than DisplayPort, backwards compatibility & more
- Massive $40 quad-fan JF15K Diamond CPU cooler wields dual-heatsinks for up to 280W TDP cooling capacity — Jiushark's latest spans the entire width of a standard motherboard
- AMD researchers reduce graphics card VRAM capacity of 3D-rendered trees from 38GB to just 52 KB with work graphs and mesh nodes — shifting CPU work to the GPU yields tremendous results
- 27-year-old Easter egg found in the Apple Power Mac G3's ROM— creating a RAM disk with the name 'secret ROM image' unveils a hidden file
June 24
- Microsoft fixes Windows Vista boot sound bug in latest Windows 11 Insider Build — adds Recall Homepage and customizable system indicators
- Mini PC 'violently' smashed with a sledgehammer, dragged behind a motorbike, and spun in a washing machine - Geekom PC still works after the company's extreme torture testing
- Nvidia launches $249 RTX 5050, putting Blackwell within reach of more gamers — entry-level 50-series arrives in late July
- Rare Franken-GPU has both AMD and Nvidia branding — AMD Radeon GeForce RTX 9070 XT is the new ultimate midrange gaming champ
- Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots
- Noctua’s highly anticipated second-gen NF-A12x25 G2 120mm fans hit retail at $34.90 — redesigned fan blades and hub boost cooling performance
- Sony faces class action over expensive digital game and DLC prices — ‘Sony tax’ means digital games cost ‘an average of 47% more’ than those on disc, group alleges
June 23
- Microsoft tests Xbox app with Battle.net integration — updated app brings third-party game library aggregation
- Asus RTX 5090 BTF 2.5 GPU successfully pulls over 1,900W in extreme test — proprietary metal power connector kept its cool, unlike plastic 16-pin alternative
- Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations boosts compute performance — 20% uplift from setting change that even Intel employs, despite unknown security risk
- Intel's laptop version of its Nova Lake processors will use Panther Lake-HX BGA2540 packaging — will smooth over transition for notebook makers moving to the next generation
- Someone turned a Steam Deck shell into a DIY PC controller using 3D-printed connectors — features dual touchpads and Nintendo Switch 2-esque split design
- Rubin telescope to collect up to 500,000 TB of data from 3,200-megapixel camera over ten years — each image is 6.4 GB, facility has its own data center for data storage
- PC gaming figures fall again in Germany, down to just 13.1 million — marking a 20% decline since 2019
- Chinese AI firm DeepSeek reportedly using shell companies to try and evade U.S. chip restrictions — allegedly procured unknown number of H100 AI GPUs after ban, but Nvidia denies the claim
- Power utility built $95 million 500-megawatt power substation for Intel's $100 billion Ohio fab, but six-year delay leaves substation capable of powering 500,000 homes idle
- Gigabyte's latest RGB firmware upgrade is bricking some motherboards, including Z790 series — dynamic lighting and RGB failures, rogue CPU fan usages, and more reported
- Nvidia RTX 5090 beats RTX Pro 6000 in tests after shunt mod to a staggering 800W — consumer flagship barely scrapes past the $10,000 Pro despite eye-watering power modification
- Intel details 18A process technology — takes on TSMC 2nm with 30% density gain and 25% faster generational performance
June 22
- Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day
- MIT researchers repair bridges by 3D printing steel onto corroded beams — Tech uses compressed gas to heat and accelerate powdered steel particles
- New US restrictions could prevent leading chip manufacturers from installing chipmaking tools in their China fabs — TSMC, Samsung, and SK hynix potentially impacted
- Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner — 'No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner'
- Unreal Engine 5.6 up to 30% faster than the infamously bad version it succeeds -- better graphics fidelity promised, too
- Authorities saw open Bitcoin ATM to recover scammed money — almost $32,000 seized from machine
- User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any legitimate recourse'
- Nvidia GPU owners may be losing performance because of a simple setting that's disabled by default — enabling Resizable Bar with Profile Inspector can enhance GPU performance by up to 10% in 3DMark
- Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses — no more products or branding in your everyday life
- China's first 6nm gaming GPU matches 13-year-old GTX 660 Ti in first Geekbench tests — Lisuan G100 surfaces with 32 CUs, 256MB VRAM, and 300 MHz clock speed
- TP-Link releases $250 Wi-Fi 7 access point that can be submerged in 1.5 meters of water without issue — the heavy-duty wireless router boasts an IP68 rating, six antennas, and PoE
June 21
- Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a now-defunct torrenting site 10 years ago — Greece goes tough on torrenting
- 3D-printed drill press can drill through metal — costs around $45 to create your own drill press
- Truly ‘iconic’ WinRAR Messenger bags are available — at $150, they cost more than five WinRAR licenses
- MSI announces beautiful Toy Story 30th anniversary PC — plastered in branding from the GPU down to the CMOS battery
- Massive DDoS attack delivered 37.4TB in 45 seconds, equivalent to 10,000 HD movies, to one victim IP address — Cloudflare blocks largest cyber assault ever recorded
- Nintendo Switch 2 motherboards with chips are already available for $124 in China — PCBs sourced directly from the production line
- Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later — patch squashes first bug report after 25 years
- Chinese researchers invent silicon photonic multiplexer chip that uses light instead of electricity for communication — CCP says China's early steps into light-based chips precede 'major breakthroughs' in three years
- Intel to outsource marketing to Accenture and AI, resulting in more layoffs
- New display hits 1 million FPS — display and high-speed camera could enable 1 Terabit per second communication speeds, beating current network interfaces
- Nvidia reportedly books entire server plant capacity through 2026 to build Blackwell and Rubin AI servers, pushing out other potential customers
- Even PowerGPU's founder can't escape thermal gel leakage from the Gigabyte RTX 50-Series Master GPU
- Windows updates might finally be getting better — Microsoft to remove legacy drivers from Windows Update to boost security
June 20
- Even Nvidia's China-specific RTX 5090D falls victim to the infamous 16-pin melting issue
- Scam RTX 5090 bought for $2,000 missing entire GPU chip — crooks lifted the GPU die and memory right off the board
- 3D printed structures 10 times thinner than a human hair — 'extremely intense' laser pulses bring 3D printing closer to Ant-Man's Quantum Realm
- Trump and TSMC pitched $1 trillion AI complex — SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son wants to turn Arizona into the next Shenzhen
- How AMD’s partnership with Microsoft could help Team Red stay competitive against Nvidia
- White House crypto and AI adviser warns China catching up to the U.S. — 'Before DeepSeek, people thought that Chinese AI models were years behind and we realized that they are only months behind'
- This Language AI company says it can now translate the entire internet in just 18 days — 194-day task slashed by deployment of Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200
- Nvidia products could be made using humanoid robots for the first time ever — company in talks with Foxconn to deploy them in Houston factory building GB300 AI servers
- AMD teases custom chip roadmap following next-gen Xbox partnership announcement with Microsoft — company says it will create a full roadmap of gaming-optimized chips powered by Ryzen and Radeon
- AMD leaks new entry-level Ryzen 5 9600X3D CPU — new gaming-optimized 3D V-Cache chip expected before the end of the year
- Windows 11 24H2 updates are still failing on Western Digital's SN770, despite the fact that a fix came out 8 months ago — here's what to do if you're stuck
- ASRock preps Radeon RX AI Pro R9700 Creator for AI and workstation users — blower card packs massive 32GB of GDDR6 memory, adopts 16-pin connector
- Huawei's brute force AI tactic seems to be working — CloudMatrix 384 claimed to outperform Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1
June 19
- Asus' costly AMOLED liquid cooler suffers from cooling degradation — company offers replacements for affected units
- 16 billion accounts exposed in one of the largest data breaches in history — enormous data haul holds two accounts for every human alive
- Chinese manufacturers of Bitcoin mining rigs are moving production to the U.S. to sidestep tariffs and sanctions — 'This goes beyond tariffs — it’s a strategic pivot toward ‘politically acceptable’ hardware sources'
- Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers
- Maker of world's largest AI chips was hit by a crypto scam — Cerebras confirms coin launched in its name is fake, X account retaken after being compromised by hackers [Updated]
- Somebody turned a Nintendo Switch into the world's slowest iPhone, and the results were a disaster — boasts 20-minute boot times, kernel panics, and no working apps
- Lucky PC builder pays just $146 for 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD, receives 9 — Amazon blunder so unbelievable some people think it's a marketing conspiracy
- Apple explores using generative AI to design its chips — executive says 'it can be a huge productivity boost'
- Alchip responds to report that Nvidia is reportedly keeping prized NVLink tech closely guarded (Updated)
- Measuring 'fake' frames — Steam beta in-game overlay now detects DLSS/FSR frame generation and reports both framegen and native frame rates
- Elon Musk's xAI is projected to lose $13 billion in 2025 — AI project burns $1 billion a month in expenditures
June 18
- Enthusiast hacks FSR 4 onto RX 7000 series GPU without official AMD support, returns better quality but slightly lower fps than FSR 3.1
- Malaysia investigates Chinese use of Nvidia-powered servers in the country — trade minister verifying reports of possible regulation breach following reports of smuggled hard drives and server rentals
- Texas Instruments commits $60 billion to U.S. semiconductor manufacturing — includes planned expansions to Texas, Utah fabs
- Imec's next-gen high-speed chip transistor addresses manufacturing concerns — outer wall forksheet design simplifies production, but may sacrifice density
- MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures
- Expert asserts Mario Kart World is a 'fake HDR' Nintendo Switch 2 title — ‘Mario Kart World reveals that even the highest caliber of developers aren’t taking HDR seriously’
- $1.4 million worth of Switch 2 consoles stolen from semi-truck — 2,800 consoles were en route from Nintendo of America HQ to a GameStop store in Texas
- VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality — enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos
- Nvidia planning new RTX 5090 'DD' variant for China — 24GB card with tweaked GPU latest attempt to comply with strict export restrictions
- Sam Altman says Meta is offering obscene $100M bonuses to poach AI employees and even bigger salaries — OpenAI CEO says ‘none of our best people decided to take them up on that’
- Corsair says audible clicking noise from its PSU is completely safe — will give you a new one anyway
- AMD reveals benchmarks of Ryzen Threadripper 9000 — claims it's up to 145% faster than rival Xeon in some tests
- Misguided copper thieves plunge LA into internet blackout — perps cut lines only to find fiber-optic cables
June 17
- Asus' $10,000 ROG Astral Dhahab RTX 5090 gets a less-elite 5080 version with wider availability
- AMD to design processor for Xbox Next: Team Red extends long-standing Microsoft partnership
- Microsoft has broken Windows Hello facial recognition — it no longer works in the dark
- The CPU Core Wars return — Intel Nova Lake leak teases monster 52 cores, DDR5-8000, and 32 PCIe lanes rumored, would rival AMD's finest
- 'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
- After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash — popular cartridge allows Switch 1 games on the new console, but users say they're only using their own ROMs
- Cyclist with 'devastating injuries' one of the first patients to receive 3D-printed face repair — new features made with PEEK printer
- Intel Foundry layoffs could impact 'more than 10,000' factory workers — one fifth of employees affected by 'enormous cutback'
- New Lossless Scaling update can reduce GPU load by 2x — Version 3.1 could be the most potent FSR/DLSS alternative yet
- 'There is no way a Borderlands game is that demanding' — Borderlands 4 users furious as PC requirements reveal RTX 3070 minimum GPU, 3080 recommended
- Anthropic fires back at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says it has never claimed only Anthropic can build safe and powerful AI
- Future AI processors said to consume up to 15,360 watts of power — massive power draw will demand exotic immersion and embedded cooling tech
- Nvidia calms fears and hypes Europe's impending AI future
June 16
- GPU-disabled Ryzen 9000F support suspected in AGESA firmware update
- Intel Nova Lake specs leaked — Up to 52 cores and 150W of TDP for Intel's AMD Zen 6 rival
- The U.S. Navy is selling MSRP Nvidia RTX GPUs — 5070, 5080, and even 5090 spotted at Navy Exchange
- The GPU 16-pin melting fiasco is getting ridiculous — now this entire Nvidia RTX turns into a red ring of death when it is incorrectly plugged in
- I've been gaming on Windows for over 30 years, but now I'm giving Linux a shot
- 3D-printed homes tested against earthquakes for the first time — 'Dramatic leap forward' hailed for potential use in earthquake-prone countries
- China launches first-ever invasive brain-computer interface clinical trial — Tetraplegic patient could skillfully operate racing games after just three weeks
- $124 million armored truck crypto money laundering operation busted — Australian perps apprehended, could face life in prison
- HBM development roadmap revealed: HBM8 with a 16,384-bit interface and embedded NAND in 2038
- Nintendo Switch 2 gets a CT scan that shows off internals layer-by-layer, including a scan of the Nvidia Tegra SoC
June 15
- Taiwan bans chip exports to Huawei, SMIC — ban comes after Huawei tricked TSMC into making two million AI processors despite US restrictions
- $3,000 Steam Deck prototype disassembled — concept units had discrete GPU support, smaller joysticks, circular touchpads
- First reverse engineered Sony PS1 motherboard enables fixing broken systems — bare PCBs for $40, boards with chips for $95
- AMD partners roll out new BIOS updates to patch TPM vulnerability — error with AMD CPUs addressed with AGESA 1.2.0.3e
- Windows 11 Insiders surprised by return of Vista startup sound — it’s a bug not a feature, says MS exec
- Customer sends four RTX 4090s to a repair technician, finds out three are fake — new counterfeiting technique uses modded 30-series chips
- Unreleased Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti 20GB Founders Edition engineering sample sells for $1,999 on eBay
- Beginner's 3D-printed winged VTOL drone can fly for 130 miles — enthusiast with little 3D printing and CAD experience builds long-range drone from scratch
June 14
- Nvidia CEO slams Anthropic's chief over his claims of AI taking half of jobs and being unsafe — ‘Don’t do it in a dark room and tell me it’s safe’
- Nintendo Switch 2 screen survives being smashed with pliers 50 times — destructive testing finds the Switch 2 to be exceptionally tough
- Patent reveals Huawei's quad-chiplet rival for Nvidia's Rubin AI GPUs could use packaging tech that rivals TSMC — Ascend 910D rumors have seemingly solid foundation
- AMD quietly launches a budget gaming beast — AM4 is alive and kicking with the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, but it has limited availability
- Intel's new ‘no frills, just thrills’ budget gaming CPU leaked — Intel Core 5 120F finally brings Bartlett Lake to gaming rigs
- ASML's Impasto Project creates 3D digital twins of Vincent van Gogh's art with 100 gigabytes of data per scan — nanometer-capable chipmaking tech used to create ‘Google Maps for paintings’
- PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won't arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some time
- Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings
June 13
- SMI CEO claims Nvidia wants SSDs with 100 million IOPS — up to 33X performance uplift could eliminate AI GPU bottlenecks
- ChatGPT touts conspiracies, pretends to communicate with metaphysical entities — attempts to convince one user that they're Neo
- Intel adds more Arc GPUs to end of life — A750 Limited Edition rides into the sunset 3 years after launch
- The U.S. Army is 3D-printing drones and repairing them — will soon have the capability to make 'the vast majority' in-house
- Intel to lay off fab workers in mid-July — company aims to refocus on more engineering talent
- Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers
- RTX 5050 could use the same 20 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM as the RX 9070 XT and RTX 4070 — Nvidia's budget card to leverage fastest GDDR6 possible
- Milestone one billionth Github Repo is just the word 'sh*t'
- The end of an era — DDR4 production to essentially end this year, Micron the final domino to fall
- Expert pours cold water on Apple's downbeat AI outlook — says lack of high-powered hardware could be to blame
- Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam
- University researchers tout using smartwatches to steal data from air-gapped systems — SmartAttack paper proposes using wearable as a covert ultrasonic signal receiver
- AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance
- AMD unveils ROCm 7 — new platform boosts AI performance up to 3.5x, adds Radeon GPU support
June 12
- AMD unwraps 2027 AI plans: Verano CPU, Instinct MI500X GPU, next-gen AI rack
- AMD EPYC Venice boasts 256 cores and bandwidth galore — next-gen server CPUs arrive in 2026
- AMD RX 9070 XT GDDR6 sources have a small effect on performance — testing reveals 1 - 2% delta
- [UPDATED] AMD says Instinct MI400X GPU is 10X faster than MI300X, will power Helios rack-scale system with EPYC 'Venice' CPUs
- AMD announces MI350X and MI355X AI GPUs, claims up to 4X generational performance gain, 35X faster inference
- ARM CEO joins Nvidia in stance against US export controls — Rene Haas says narrower access 'not good' for industry or consumer
- Copilot Vision is live on Windows in the US — AI companion can see two apps at once
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Huawei will take advantage if AI chip restrictions continue — 'our technology is a generation ahead of theirs', but not for long
- Micron starts to ship samples of HBM4 memory to clients — 36 GB capacity and bandwidth of 2 TB/s
- This open-source generative AI tool converts 2D images into 3D part meshes for 3D printing in seconds
- 3,800-hour test could show OLED burn-in is on the decline — MSI MPG 321URX shows only 'minor' issues after 15 months of worst-case scenario use
- Mig Flash V2 shown working on Nintendo Switch 2 — could pave the way for Switch 1 games on latest console
- Lian Li's new PC fans are completely wireless — cableless speed and RGB controls show promise, but the battery only lasts 30 minutes
- China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture
- Disastrous MindsEye launch plagued by performance issues — even an RTX 5090 can't deliver 60 fps despite 19GB VRAM usage, developer working on a fix
- PCIe 7.0 spec finalized with up to 512GB/s speeds — PCI-SIG targets 1TB/s for 8.0 as 'exploration' phase begins
- SMI CEO Wallace Kou on the future of SSDs: PLC NAND and PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs aren't coming any time soon.
June 11
- Massive privacy concern: over 40,000 security cameras are streaming unsecured footage worldwide
- AMD's Instinct MI355X accelerator will reportedly consume 1,400 watts
- Scalpers list ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition GPU for as much as $22,900 on eBay
- Banned China chipmaker YMTC sues Micron again, now over serious defamation claims — Micron funded anti-Chinese tech misinformation campaigns to get ahead, says YMTC
- AMD says zettascale supercomputers will need half a gigawatt to operate, enough for 375,000 homes
- Nvidia is building the 'world's first' industrial AI cloud—German facility to leverage 10,000 GPUs, DGX B200, and RTX Pro servers
- CHIPS Act beneficiaries 'mired in NIMBY fights and two-year permits' — delays to Micron, Amkor, and SK hynix NY fabs costing $5M per day
- Maingear's new Ultima 18 laptop pairs a 4K screen with top-end RTX graphics in a Clevo-designed chassis
- Despite $2M salaries, Meta can't keep AI staff — talent reportedly flocks to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic
- Nintendo Switch 2's 3.5 million opening weekend sales smashes brand's console record — beats Switch 1's opening month by almost a million in four days
June 10
- AMD supercomputers take gold and silver in latest Top500 as Chinese HPC remains shrouded in secrecy
- GeForce RTX 5050 listed with 2,560 CUDA cores and 2,250 MHz boost clock
- 3D Printer Simulator could take the guesswork out of printing — Virtual 3D printer mirrors physical machine's quirks, like stringing, supports multi-color printing
- 'In the last 10 years, AI has advanced 1 million times' — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hails 'incredible' speed of industry change
- IBM is building a large-scale quantum computer that 'would require the memory of more than a quindecillion of the world's most powerful supercomputers' to simulate
- EVGA motherboard owners furious over modern GPU issues — DIY users resort to taping over pins to fix RTX 50 Series problem on Z690 boards
- TSMC slows down global plans due to soft demand, but accelerates Arizona fab plans by six months for A16 / N2 production
- 1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date
- 'Our single chips still lag behind the US by a generation' — Huawei CEO says Washington has exaggerated its achievements, saying the company isn't that powerful
- Starlink shut down on United regional jets — Reports of radio interference on Embraer E175 aircraft prompt switch off
- Nvidia's 20-core N1X leaks with 3000+ single-core Geekbench score — Arm chip could rival Intel and AMD's laptop offerings
- Frantic manufacturers are pushing RTX 5090s out the door to beat tariffs — MSI and Gigabyte lead race to get ahead of 'the biggest uncertainty for the rest of the year'
- Vital chipmaking software access restored to China — shift follows high-level call between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping
- Open source Switch 2 adapter brings M.2 NVMe SSD to Nintendo's latest console — MicroSD Express and NVMe share a similar pinout that could even theoretically support an eGPU
June 9
- macOS Tahoe is the last release for Intel Macs — Apple Silicon-exclusivity will mark end of Hackintoshes
- Apple says generative AI cannot think like a human - research paper pours cold water on reasoning models
- Custom PC company stuffs a NUC inside a GPU — GeeFarce 5027 POS packs 2X more memory than Nvidia's RTX 5090
- Apple debuts macOS 26 Tahoe at WWDC with 'liquid glass' redesign
- Plans to shrink particle accelerators by 1,000x could speed chipmaking by 15X - Inversion Semiconductor proposes 'tabletop' particle accelerators with petawatt lasers
- Nvidia RTX 5050 won't use GDDR7 memory— entry-level GPU tipped to use Samsung & SK hynix GDDR6 modules instead
- Gigabyte revives striking orange Force motherboard series — B850 for AM5 offers DDR5 up to 9,600MT/s, Wi-Fi 6E, and a throwback PS/2 port
- ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic
- Micron balks at court order to share 73 pages of sensitive data with China's banned YMTC chipmaker — Micron strives to protect IP from Chinese chip firm on the entity list
- Xbox Series X|S expansion card from Seagate now comes in 4TB — quadruple your storage for $499
- Qualcomm acquires Alphawave Semi for $2.4 billion – says its leading high-speed wired tech will accelerate data center expansion
- If you deleted that mysterious Windows file Microsoft told you not to, there's a new script to restore it
June 8
- Asus partners with Microsoft launch first Xbox gaming handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X
- AMD unveils Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme with AI processing NPU, expands family with two new chips for handheld gaming consoles
- Bambu Lab removes third-party app support for P and A series 3D printers
- Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company'
- Researchers convert old phones into 'tiny data centers' — deploy one underwater for marine monitoring
- ChatGPT used to disable SecureBoot in locked-down device – modded BIOS reflash facilitated fresh Windows and Linux installs
- YouTube is expanding its ad-blocking powers — closes loopholes that allowed some users to bypass restrictions
- Microsoft 'Xbox PC' branding surfaces in game dev publicity materials — Xbox App also sees big changes
June 7
- Steam Deck internals crammed inside an Apple Magic Keyboard create a portable gaming PC
- Razer's HD haptic gaming cushion allows you to experience every in-game explosion for $299
- FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out
- New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc
- Zotac launches a new fragrance line just for gamers — the company’s April Fool’s joke turned to reality
- Relive the days of unhinged GPU box artwork — new book catalogs 300 retail boxes with both horrors and delights
- New leaked Bambu Lab 3D printer images may show the next model — decoding the images reveals interesting details
- Alienware releases a PC Lego set — Area-51 kit has 318 bricks, builds NUC NUC-sized PC
- Tesla details how it finds punishing defective cores on its million-core Dojo supercomputers — a single error can ruin a weeks-long AI training run
- Kioxia preps XL-Flash SSD that's 3x faster than any SSD available — 10 million IOPS drive has peer-to-peer GPU connectivity for AI servers
June 6
- ASE adopts AMD CPUs — largest independent chip packaging and testing firm also begins evaluating Instinct MI300-series GPUs for AI
- Aorus RTX 5090 package from Amazon was allegedly filled with macaroni, rice, and an old obsolete GPU — it's an impasta!
- 'Brain-inspired' supercomputer with no GPUs or storage switched on — SpiNNaker 2 mimics 150-180 million neurons
- AMD RX 9060 XT still available at MSRP at most retailers post-launch — 8GB and 16GB versions still in stock
- ASRock tailors budget-friendly AMD A620 mini-ITX motherboard to SFF enthusiasts
- 'Rising ASIC coalition' seeks to jettison Nvidia — Industry report claims firms are accelerating development in order to reduce dependence on the giant
- Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS
- AMD's desktop GPU market share hits all-time low despite RX 9070 launch, Nvidia extends its lead [Updated]
- Groundbreaking 3D-printing tech developed — dual-light system can print two different materials from the same resin
- New Nintendo Switch 2 units show potential signs of tampering — UK customers report receiving unsealed products from multiple retailers
- Cheapest 5090 ever? Lucky PC builder finds RTX 5090 for 'just' $1,679 at Walmart, saving $1,520 — card has worked 'flawlessly' ever since
- AMD scoops entire Untether AI chip team — Canada AI inference outfit will cease product support
June 5
- Graphene thermal pad for AMD CPUs promises 17X better conductivity than thermal paste, 2X improvement over Thermal Grizzly
- AMD RX 9060 XT 16GB flies off shelves, 8GB lingers - GPU launch highlights demand split between variants
- Hacker who breached 5,000 accounts to mine crypto arrested — 7-year cryptojacking scheme incurs $4.5 million in damages
- GameStop Nintendo Switch 2 customers hit with punctured screens after store employees staple receipts to the box (Updated)
- Intel draws a line in the sand to boost gross margins — new products must deliver 50% gross profit to get the green light
- HighPoint's Gen5 M.2 NVMe PCIe card is here — promises 50 GB/s+ speeds for less than $1,000
- Would you buy this? $44 PC promises "powerful performance" and "striking visuals"
- The Nintendo Switch 2 may face steeper repair costs — Japanese listings show up to a 92% increase in prices for replacement parts
- Trump admin renegotiating Chips Act contracts, needles China over lowly advanced chip output
- DDR4 prices continue to surge — reportedly increased by 50% in the second half of May alone
- Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its own advanced chip packaging factory in Texas – 700mm x 700mm substrate size purported to be the largest in the industry
- Scientists print 'world's smallest violin' in platinum with nanolithography — UK physicists push toward nanoscale computing
- Nvidia planning its most affordable 50-series GPU yet – RTX 5050 reportedly launching in July with 8GB VRAM and 130W TDP
- Asus responds to concerns over 9,000+ routers compromised by botnet — firmware updates and factory reset can purge routers of persistent backdoor
- AI drone beats human champions for the first time at Abu Dhabi racing event – new deep neural network sends control commands directly to motors in significant leap
June 4
- Light gun support comes to LCD monitors — new G’AIM’E gun controller comes with bundled Namco titles via Kickstarter
- Nintendo Switch 2 gets disassembled — Nvidia chip gets its close-up
- GlobalFoundries announces $16 billion U.S. chip production spend — striking spending boom follows demand from domestic customers
- This setup uses ‘true wireless power’ for PC monitor, peripherals — RF generator supplies up to 100W of wireless power
- Ancient CD ripping tool updated for the first time in 16 years, now supports Windows 11
- This one-of-one 3D-printed motorcycle is inspired by the 1988 film Akira
- GPU frequency overclocking world record broken using integrated Intel graphics — Arrow Lake outpaces discrete GPUs in clock speed competition
- Nvidia accused of poaching TSMC engineers in Taiwan – up to $180,000 salaries offered for talent
- Unreal Engine 5.6 promises 60 FPS Ray Tracing on current hardware – features Hardware Ray Tracing enhancements and eliminates CPU bottlenecks
- Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly get a GPU overhaul — Xe3 Celestial and Xe4 Druid IPs used for graphics, media, and display
- Crazed modder straps CPU cooler to Nvidia GTX 960 with a 3D-printed bracket, breaks 3DMark benchmark record
- TSMC could charge up to $45,000 for 1.6nm wafers — rumors allege a 50% increase in pricing over prior-gen wafers
June 3
- AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card roundup: Every announced card from every AIB partner
- Compact Thunderbolt 5 and OCuLink eGPU flaunts RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
- Thermaltake’s new AIO liquid cooler features a 3.95-inch LCD display and swappable reverse-blade fans
- T-Mobile Fiber Home Internet officially launches in U.S. — Up to 2 Gbps covering 500,000 households
- Zen 6 Ryzen spotted in AIDA64 — latest software beta adds 'preliminary support' for next-gen AMD desktop processors
- Next-gen Intel CPUs break cover - Nova Lake-S/U and LGA 1700 Bartlett Lake-S appear in official docs
- Google is killing the web with AI Overviews – I made an extension to block them
- Nintendo Switch 2 has 'the most advanced graphics ever in a mobile device' – Nvidia CEO hails custom chip efforts ahead of launch
- MSI unveils one of the tiniest RTX 5060 GPUs yet — Single-fan Inspire RTX model measures just 145 x 120 x 45mm
- U.S. ban on EDA software hits Chinese tech companies hard — Xiaomi, Lenovo among affected
- Nvidia RTX 4000 and 5000 series owners instructed to lower quality settings in Hell is Us demo — Developer urges users to turn down settings and disable DLSS during cinematic intro to resolve crashing issue
- U.S. extends China GPU tariff exemption until August 31 — Motherboards also listed in Section 301 exclusion
- TSMC quashes UAE fab rumors, but says AI demand remains fierce in the face of tariff pressures
June 2
- This RTX 50-series GPU design hides its custom L-shaped 16-pin power cable behind a magnetic shroud
- AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB shadows the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in leaked benchmarks — only 5% slower despite big price difference
- Alleged RTX 9060 XT prices listed at retailers ahead of launch – AMD targets 5060 series with aggressive pricing
- Could water-soluble plastic be the answer to better recycling of 3D prints?
- AMD RX 9060 XT overclock potential revealed – pushed to almost 3.5 GHz with less than 200W
- Switzerland is now home to the world's tallest 3D-printed building – Tor Alva measures 98 feet and features 32 sculptured columns
- $29.5 million home of Intel founder who invented Moore's Law goes up for sale – Gordon Moore's 9,000 sq ft home includes 25 acres of land, wine cellar, pool, and one very strict rule
- Chip news live: All the latest in the semiconductor industry
- Nvidia reportedly developing new AI chip for China that meets export controls – B30 could include NVLink for creation of high-performance clusters
- Someone hacked an Apple Network Server to run DOOM – $10,000 IBM AIX unit from 1996 runs the game
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite variant rumored to have 50% more CPU cores — New chip with 18 cores and 64GB RAM is reportedly already in testing
June 1
- Damage-sensing and self-healing artificial muscles heralded as huge step forward in robotics
- RTX Pro 6000 crowned the ‘new gaming king’ — but its $10,000 price tag makes the all-gold Dhahab RTX 5090 seem cheap
- RX 9060 XT 16GB graphics cards with faster clocks than 8GB models appear to be in development
- TSMC reopening discussions with Washington to build chip manufacturing plant in UAE — report
- More affordable Strix Halo model emerges — Early Ryzen AI Max 385 Geekbench result reveals an eight-core option
- Microsoft promises it is 'ending USB-C port confusion' with updated Windows 11 certified program
- Intel and SoftBank collaborate on power-efficient HBM substitute for AI data centers, says report