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TSMC could be inching closer to making 'all American' chips — report says it is accelerating an advanced packaging facility in Arizona

TSMC may be accelerating its advanced packaging facility in Arizona to package the first processors as early as 2028, ahead of its partner Amkor.

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Zotac denies RTX 5070 Ti fan-related RMA and then offers to dispose of the GPU free of charge — the company claims 'irreversible' PCB damage and 'limited tools' for repair

Zotac denied an RMA repair for an RTX 5070 Ti after claiming PCB damage, despite what appears to be wear-and-tear.

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Ryzen 7 9850X3D edges past Ryzen 7 9800X3D in PassMark benchmark — upcoming X3D chip shows up to 4.7% higher performance

A new PassMark entry has surfaced for AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 9850X3D, giving the first look at how the chip compares against the current 9800X3D.

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TSMC claims 4.2X efficiency gain over a decade from N7 to A14 fabrication process

TSMC clarifies A14 specifications: Even more performance, but better tools might be needed to extract the full potential of the latest process technologies.

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AMD's imminent Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip shows up on Geekbench with 5.6 GHz boost clocks — Scores slightly lower than 9800X3D in multi-core tests, higher in single-core

Two new Geekbench listings for the upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip have been uncovered, both from mid-November, that show the CPU posting higher single-core numbers than the existing 9800X3D while being beat in multi-threaded results. The chip boosted up to 5.6 GHz as expected, but was running on slow 4800…

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Two GTX 580s in SLI are responsible for the AI we have today — Nvidia's Huang revealed that the invention of deep learning began with two flagship Fermi GPUs in 2012

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in a recent Joe Rogan podcast that the inventors behind deep learning ran the world's first machine learning network on a pair of GTX 580s in SLI in 2012.

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Benevolent Facebook trader exchanges 192GB of DDR5 worth $2,200 for one RTX 5070 Ti worth roughly $800 — says selling at such a high price would have been 'unethical' despite huge loss

PC builder generously trades 192 GB of DDR5 for an RTX 5070 Ti.

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3D-printed part failure causes light aircraft crash after plastic air intake melts during flight — pilot escapes with minor injuries

A light aircraft crashed in the U.K. after its engine intake melted while on final approach.

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Asus quotes customer $3,350 repair bill for RTX 5090 with microscopic 'surface irregularity', more than the entire card's value — offers 50% discount after months of haggling

Redditor shares his ongoing struggle to get Asus to RMA an expensive ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card.

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1950s mechanical calculator crumbles in the face of divide-by-zero conundrum — relic spins its gears uncontrollably in 'chaotic loop' of endless motion

Divide by zero is one of computing’s most notorious error conditions - and an old mechanical calculator doesn't handle it gracefully.

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'World's first scalable DNA data storage offering' announced offering a staggering ‘60PB in 60 cubic inches,’ enough to hold 660,000 4K movies — Atlas Data storage claims its solution is 1000x denser than LTO-10 tape

Atlas Data Storage, a DNA-based storage tech startup, has announced its first commercial offering.

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Russia allegedly still using Starlink-guided drones in Ukraine, report claims — Starlink Mini strapped to grounded drone points to ongoing issue, despite U.S. DoD claims threat was blunted

Russian drones are still flying into Ukrainian airspace to strike their targets with Starlink hardware clearly strapped to them, say Ukrainian media reports.

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Intel admits it needs more Core Ultra 200-series wafers — 'If we had more Lunar Lake wafers, we would be selling more Lunar Lake'

Intel needs more Core Ultra 200-series 'Arrow Lake' and 'Lunar Lake' wafers from TSMC as demand exceeds supply.

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son wants to build ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ across the nation, report claims — project proposes using federal land to build manufacturing sites for data center infrastructure

SoftBank proposes building multiple industrial parks across the U.S. on federal land to manufacture semiconductors and other AI infrastructure.

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AMD CEO Lisa Su 'emphatically' rejects talk of an AI bubble — says claims are 'somewhat overstated'

AMD CEO Lisa Su used her appearance at WIRED’s Big Interview conference in San Francisco to push back against growing speculation that the AI sector is overheating.

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Dell and Lenovo set to increase server and PC costs by as much as 15% as soon as this month, according to industry sources — DRAM and AI demand create tight market for businesses and consumers

Artificial intelligence has seemingly put the entire PC industry in a chokehold, with even large manufacturers like Lenovo and Dell at the mercy of drying production lines. Lenovo has reportedly warned its clients to book orders before the next price hike on New Year's, while Dell is already considering a…

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IBM unveiled its Deep Blue chess supercomputer prototype 30 years ago today — two years later in its second attempt, it defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov

On November 5, 1995, IBM took the wraps off its Deep Blue prototype, a supercomputer designed to beat the world’s greatest chess players.

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Cloudflare says it has fended off 416 billion AI bot scrape requests in five months — CEO warns of dramatic shift for internet business model

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that blocking AI bots and giving website owners the option to license their content to AI companies could help maintain online publication's viability as a business in the future.

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Senators lobby for SAFE Chips Act, which would curb leading-edge AI chip exports to China — proposed bill would restrict AMD and Nvidia to H20/MI308-class accelerator sales until 2028

The SAFE Chips Act proposed by a bipartisan group aims to lock current export rules into law, preventing AMD and Nvidia from selling any AI accelerators based on the latest architectures to China for the next 30 months and forcing companies to compete with H20 and MI308 against China's latest…

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Intrepid modder builds an M4-powered 4K iMac G3 with 3D-printed parts — guts 90s all-in-one and replaces internals with a Mac mini and an OLED screen

YouTuber Zac Builds used an M4 Mac mini to upgrade an old iMac G3 into a modern all-in-one computer.

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Nvidia replaces entire $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 graphics card of stricken user who broke it in transit — company offers to ship replacement and troubleshoot busted GPU

Nvidia responds to NorthridgeFix and is replacing one of its customers' damaged RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards worth $10,000, even though the damage was not Nvidia's fault and was done accidentally by the customer.

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AI gadget makers are chasing problems that don't exist, Logitech CEO says — also details supply chain and pricing strategy

Logitech chief executive Hanneke Faber used an interview with Bloomberg, marking her second anniversary in the role, to question the rush toward standalone AI hardware.

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AI boom forces delays on Transcend SSDs, SD cards and flash drives — SanDisk and Samsung short on supplying NAND chips

Transcend's wares on hold due to AI-induced NAND chip shortage

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Upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D has 120W TDP, leaked shipping manifest states — Zen 5 X3D refresh will maintain the same power draw as 9800X3D

AMD is refreshing its X3D lineup, with new chips part of the Ryzen 9000 family, one of which is the updated Ryzen 7 9850X3D. As the name suggests, it's pretty much the same as the existing 9800X3D, but with 400 MHz higher boost clocks, which have now been confirmed won't…

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Windows 11 update designed to improve dark mode greets users with a flashbang — preview build stuns unsuspecting eyeballs

Windows 11 preview update flashbangs users with bright white

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