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Nvidia has shipped 'hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers’ — GPU firm pivots messaging as CPUs take center stage in agentic data centers

As Nvidia continues to roll out Vera, its first custom CPU for agentic AI, it revealed that its last-gen Grace design has seen mass deployments, even as a standalone CPU for non-agentic workloads.

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Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated library infringes on authors’ rights

The settlement was finally approved by a U.S. federal judge, with a majority of the plaintiffs accepting the amount. A few members of the group refused, citing the small amount compared to the number of infringed titles, and are pursuing a separate lawsuit of their own.

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Intel to co-develop and manufacture Fortinet's next-gen firewall ASIC on Intel 4 — node gets its first named external customer

SP6 will draw on what the companies described as Intel's expertise in disaggregated semiconductor design and advanced packaging.

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Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon

Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on.

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TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027, report claims — plans to raise baseline prices by 5% to 10% on advanced nodes

TSMC reportedly intends to increase prices of wafers it processes citing demand, rising costs, and increased investments in new capacity.

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Intel layoffs to hit Data Center group — division focused on server CPUs, AI chips, and data center architecture to be hit by an unknown number of cuts

Intel plans to cut the employee numbers of its Data Center group, months after announcing record growth since its disastrous announcement in 2024.

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1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine — retro hardware tour de force includes yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescents, endless procedurally generated levels

Developer PaisleyBoxers has released Backrooms 32X, with the strap line 'welcome to the cutting edge of 1994.' This is a Sega 32X game set in the Backrooms, the internet phenomenon given a huge boost with the release of the psychological horror indie film earlier this year.

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SMIC's third-gen 7nm node shows smaller metal pitch than Intel 18A, higher transistor density than TSMC N6 without EUV — analysis of N+3 shows significant advancement for Chinese semi manufacturing

SMIC's N+3 process technology can achieve transistor density comparable to TSMC's N6 without using EUV lithography, but it fails to deliver performance or efficiency of modern production nodes.

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Google reportedly developing 'Frozen v2' chip with Gemini's architecture etched into the silicon — engineers project 6 to 10 times more tokens per watt than latest TPUs

Google is developing a server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2," that would etch part of its Gemini model's architecture directly into the silicon.

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PC modder bolts 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink to RTX 4060 — convection-only cooling seems to work fine in a testbench-style installation

A PC gamer has DIYed a passive Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card system incorporating a 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink.

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Nvidia's new Synthetic Video Detector can identify fake AI videos with up to 92% accuracy — microservice based on cutting-edge research looks to combat misinformation in broadcasts with just 22ms processing time

Nvidia has just created an antidote to the virus that is AI misinformation. The company's new Synthetic Video Detector can help broadcasters assess 1080p footage at scale with processing times of just 22ms and up 92% accuracy for uncompressed videos.

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Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager for allegedly stealing chip secrets for China — first case of its kind links managers to Chinese semiconductor materials analysis company

Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a former TSMC deputy manager on Monday for allegedly copying 21 confidential documents.

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New plugin unlocks granular VRAM temperature tracking on Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs — community cracks open Blackwell's forbidden telemetry sensors

Modders have discovered a method to monitor every single memory module on Nvidia's GeForce RTX 50-series (codenamed Blackwell) graphics cards.

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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models following Kimi K3 launch, citing cybersecurity concerns — downloadable open weights could make an outright U.S. ban nearly impossible to enforce amid growing adoption

The U.S. may be reigniting efforts to push companies away from Chinese open-weight AI models such as Kimi and DeepSeek.

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Dutch chip sector at very high risk of Chinese interference, government-funded study warns — calls for stricter vetting at sites like ASML

The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies has rated the Dutch semiconductor industry as being at very high risk of Chinese foreign interference.

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Microsoft will deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI accelerator ‘at scale’ on Azure – Radeon Instinct MI455X and Epyc Venice power will be available through Redmond’s cloud infrastructure

Microsoft and AMD are teaming up to get Redmond more AI FLOPS for both internal and external use.

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Government can seize private land to make way for new AI data center transmission lines, report says — takeovers could be implemented using eminent domain law when private citizens refuse to sell land

Utilities can use eminent domain to seize private land for new transmission lines needed to power data centers, though public-use and state-law limits still apply.

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Samsung now supplying new VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 laptop displays — Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and MSI set to launch portables with the first 1,600 nits tandem OLED panels

Samsung Display has announced that it is now supplying its first mass-produced VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 monitor panels to laptop makers including Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and MSI.

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3D printing enthusiast resurrects cancelled dbrand Steam Machine Companion Cube as DIY project — project shelved due to copyright can now be made and assembled at home

A 3D printing enthusiast has resurrected dbrand's cancelled Steam Machine Companion Cube as a DIY project.

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AMD's next-gen 10-core 'Medusa Point' APU shows up on Geekbench again, with its best score yet — leaked SKU outpaces every other x86 mobile chip in the single-core test

AMD's next 10-core mobile part from the Medusa Point family is looking a lot faster than its previous two Gorgon Point and Strix Point SKUs, respectively. Early leaks keep highlighting an ever-improving part that has just benched its best score yet.

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Zilog Z80 turns 50 as an open-source replacement heads to drop-in DIP40 silicon — iconic 8-bit CPU launched in July 1976 and was discontinued in 2024

The original Z80 packed 8,500 transistors on a 4μm process and typically ran at 2.5 MHz.

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Memory chip boss admits RAM prices are 'abnormally high' — SK Group chairman considering building a semiconductor plant in the US to expand supply, calm ‘chipflation’

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said that prices for memory chips are "abnormally high" and that the industry must take steps to increase production and reduce prices. If it fails to do that, new entrants could challenge the incumbent leaders and make the market much more competitive, especially once demand…

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‘Phantom Twist’ drone spins so fast that it is nearly invisible — flying device adds motion blur to the real world

Researchers from Northwestern University in Illinois have built a drone that rotates so fast it is cloaked by motion blur.

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Samsung cuts hundreds of US consumer electronics jobs ahead of Texas HQ move — 739 roles affected in New Jersey as chip division posts record profit

Samsung told Reuters that a majority of the affected New Jersey employees received relocation offers, while others were let go.

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Russian drones spotted using screwed-on magnetic compasses as navigation aids — the on-board camera can occasionally tilt down to check bearings if satellite comms are lost

Russian drone troops are adding cheap magnetic compasses to help find their bearings. Crude add-on helps them find their bearings and locate their targets even without GPS.

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