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Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion

Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company’s chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.

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3D-printed rocket fuel successfully tested, could enable lighter missiles and faster production rates — new additive manufacturing process tested at 1,800 PSI

Chromatic 3D Materials has successfully tested 3D-printed rocket propellant capable of withstanding 1,800 PSI combustion pressures, potentially paving the way for faster rocket production, more advanced thrust geometries, and resilient distributed defense manufacturing.

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PCIe 8.0 spec hits 1 TB/s of bandwidth and has new connector technology — spec hits 0.5V milestone, final ratification expected in 2028

PCI-SIG announces availability of the first PCIe Gen8 draft, reassures 256 GT/s data transfer rate, maintains backwards compatibility, evaluates new connector technology.

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans

Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft.

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Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50%

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to help partners that deploy its hardware in the U.S. to get enough of optical fiber, grant Nvidia control over a significant chunk of domestic fiber production.

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Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device

Valve just released the 3D CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, allowing gamers and enthusiasts to design and 3D print their own accessories for these gadgets. The company even encouraged everyone to share their creations.

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New Linux StarFighter laptop family debuts starting at $1,878 — Star Labs Systems' laptops arrive with spacious RAM, several options

The StarFighter Linux laptop is finally available for purchase on the website, after months of delays. The startup behind this model is a small team based in rural England and runs out of a barn located some 30 miles southeast of London.

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AMD to broaden and specialize EPYC CPUs, already working on Zen 7 architecture — increased customization to better address evolving AI and cloud needs

AMD plans to expand its portfolio of CPUs for data centers that will be targeted at different workloads.

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SpaceX files for $55 billion semiconductor fab in rural Texas for Musk's Terafab — total chipmaking fab investment could reach $119 billion

The capital figures in this filing far exceed what was disclosed when Elon Musk announced Terafab in March, where the project carried a $20 billion price tag.

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Apple quietly axes 128GB Mac Studio amid supply constraints and local AI frenzy — highest memory capacity reduced to 96GB, two months after discontinuation of 512GB model

Apple quietly pulls high Unified Memory capacity Mac Studios and Mac minis from the Apple store as the memory crunch continues to affect consumer products.

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AMD posts record first-quarter results, driven by skyrocketing data center CPU demand — company expects consumer andgaming revenue to decline in Q2 over rising memory and component costs

AMD sets record data center revenue as demand for CPUs from the AI sector skyrockets and is poised to increase even further as agentic AI gains momentum.

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Global semiconductor sales hit nearly $300 billion in Q1 2026 — chips are on track to top $1 trillion for this year, says report

Sales of chips in Q1 2026 hit $298.5 billion and are on track to exceed $1 trillion this year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

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Google Chrome 'silently' downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy

Security researcher says that Google is likely in violation of EU law and wasting thousands upon thousands of kilowatts.

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Denmark presses pause on new data center grid connections as total requests hit 60 GW — Nordic nation is the latest to put the brakes on AI buildouts

Denmark's Energinet grid operator has pressed pause on new connection requests in the country as potential new data centers and other installations put total demands of up to 60 GW on its docket.

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Microsoft says 'Transformation Paradox' holding back AI adoption in the workplace — 45% of respondents say it's safer to focus on current goals, rather than AI innovation

Microsoft's study says that it's not just enough to give employees access to AI tools for them to make the most of it. Instead, they should revamp their processes and systems to integrate AI use from the top-down.

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Latest Apex Legends update smooths out stutter on Ryzen X3D CPUs — physics algos apparently struggled at high frame rates unlocked by V-Cache

The Apex Legends Season 29 update reduces stuttering by addressing physics calculations that struggled to keep up at high frame rates enabled by modern high-end CPUs.

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Japan using game development engines for urban planning and disaster management — Kimono sales also stretching Unity and Unreal Engine capabilities beyond the small screen

Innovative game engine applications in Japan stretch from civil construction projects and urban planning to 'traditional' 3D avatar clothing.

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AMD expects 20% decline in gaming revenue from 'higher memory and component costs' in the second half of the year — CEO Lisa Su warns of further memory crunch

AMD is expecting the memory crunch to hit its gaming business in the second half of the year, with revenue expected to decline by "more than 20%."

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Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel backs $140M wave-powered AI data center startup — Panthalassa aims to run offshore compute nodes using ocean energy

Panthalassa raises $140M to build wave-powered offshore nodes that generate electricity and run AI workloads at sea, tackling data center energy and cooling challenges.

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Google, Microsoft, and xAI agree to let US government test AI models before public release — OpenAI and Anthropic also on board after renegotiating deals with Washington

OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan.

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JSR to build first Taiwan photoresist plant to co-develop advanced resists with TSMC — multi-million dollar plant could come online as early as 2028

The facility will close a gap that has put JSR at a disadvantage relative to its two largest Japanese rivals.

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Apple considering Intel and Samsung for US chip production, report claims — consumer electronics giant looks to diversify supply chain amid chip shortages

Apple is reportedly in early talks with Intel and Samsung to secure more production for its advanced chips, as the company is constrained by the limited availability of advanced nodes that its SoCs are produced on.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China should not have Blackwell or Rubin AI GPUs — firmly states US should have 'the first, the most, and the best' when it comes to AI hardware

Nvidia's Jensen Huang reiterates that American companies should be able to ship their products globally, but maintains that the latest AI accelerators should remain in America.

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China pushes for 70% homegrown silicon wafer use as domestic firm ramps up 12-inch production — government seeking to localize critical chip supply chain amid AI boom and export restrictions

China is targeting 70% local wafer sourcing as firms like Eswin scale 12-inch production, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers and support growing AI chip demand.

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Notepad++ creator threatens legal action over macOS port of open-source app — developer says port is fine, but branding is too far

Notepad++ creator Don Ho has filed a trademark complaint with Cloudflare and is threatening further legal action against the developer of a macOS port.

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