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Updated 2025-12-13 04:15
Nvidia weighs expanding H200 production as new China orders rush in, report claims — ByteDance and Alibaba listed as suitors for 'large orders' in the wake of sanctions lift
Nvidia is evaluating whether to increase production of its H200 data center GPUs after demand from Chinese customers is expected to exceed current supply.
Oracle reportedly delays several new OpenAI data centers because of shortages — tight material and labor supply frustrate expansion plans, possibly by a year or more
Oracle reportedly delays some of the data centers for OpenAI from 2027 to 2028, citing labor and materials shortages.
Jump on $740 worth of hardware, including $410 worth of DDR5 RAM, in this $480 Newegg AM5 bundle — 32GB offering also includes an X870E motherboard and even a free 240mm AIO cooler
Save money on RAM with this Newegg combo deal that pairs 32GB of DDR5 RAM with an X870E motherboard, and free 240mm AIO cooler for just $480
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 9 290K Plus spotted at Indian retailer — listings appear to corroborate prior leaks but don't reveal pricing or new info for upcoming Arrow Lake refre
We've gotten our first retail appearance of the Arrow Lake refresh family, listed at an Indian retailer but with barely any information. The specs mentioned seem regurgitated from existing media coverage and leaks, and there's no price, but at least the vendor is promising a 3-year warranty.
Huawei's latest mobile is armed with China's most advanced process node to date despite using blacklisted chipmaker — Huawei Kirin 9030 mobile SoC made on SMIC N+3 process, but can't compete wit
TechInsights says Huawei's Kirin 9030 is built on SMIC's N+3 process: an incremental, DUV-based extension of its 7nm-class technology that pushes density without EUV but falls well short of true 5nm nodes amid rising yield challenges.
This ginormous 28TB Seagate hard drive offers unbeatable value storage for just under £15 per TB — pre-order this shuckable external HDD for only £419.99 at Amazon
Seagate's 28TB Expansion HDD gives you a huge amount of backup storage for just under 15 per TB.
Framework raises DDR5 RAM upgrade prices by 50% amid DRAM shortage — only for Laptop DIY edition, says prices will likely rise again
Framework, the computer manufacturer, has recently raised the price of the DDR5 memory options available for the Framework Laptop DIY Edition by 50%.
Photonic latch memory could enable optical processor caches that run up to 60 GHz, twenty times faster than standard caches — optical SRAM stores and outputs data entirely as light, but density
Researchers from the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have demonstrated what they describe as the first regenerative photonic memory latch.
Intel tests chipmaking tools from sanctioned China-focused tool maker, report claims — move could raise political and national security concerns, firm was backed by CEO Lip-Bu Tan's investment f
Intel has evaluated wet etch tools from ACM Research for its 14A fabrication process, raising political and national security concerns.
This $549 Acer gaming laptop is simply unbeatable value with Nvidia RTX 5050 GPU and 16GB RAM — rival model also on sale for $50 more, featuring AMD Ryzen CPU and 1200p display
There's a huge discount on two Acer Nitro V gaming laptops right now with one of Nvidia's latest GeForce RTX GPUs, starting from an impossible-to-beat $549.
China mulls $70 billion domestic chip fabrication injection, would be largest of any government semiconductor investment — Huawei and Cambricon among candidates in push to compete with Nvidia, o
China is considering investing up to an additional $70 billion in its domestic chip manufacturers in an effort to better compete with US firms like Nvidia. Although exact figures and investment strategies have yet to be decided, this move would be in line with China's "whole nation" approach to tackling its chip shortages.
Acer Predator X34 X0 34-inch Mini LED 200 Hz gaming monitor review: Ultra wide, ultra fast, and ultra bright
The 34-inch ultra-wide genre gets a new member from Acer, the Predator X34 X0 200 Hz Mini LED Gaming Monitor. It sports 3440x1440 resolution, Adaptive-Sync Quantum Dot color, HDR 1000, and a 1500R curve.
MSI's RTX 5070 GPU falls $50 below its MSRP launch price — grab one quickly via Walmart while stocks last
Grab an RTX 5070 from MSI for just $499, $50 below the MSRP launch price. Limited stock available at Walmart.
Here are the top ten PowerShell commands in Windows that will get you started
PowerShell is a powerful tool and if you want to be a Windows power user, you need to learn it, so here are the top ten PowerShell commands to get you started.
Rivian unveils its own in-house RAP1 AI chip and ACM3 self-driving platform—automaker one-ups Tesla with LiDAR support
Rivian's ACM3 module and RAP1 chip outshine Tesla with LiDAR support
Nintendo Switch 2 RAM prices rise 41%, NAND flash up 8% — console giant shares nosedive in face of increased cost warnings
Nintendo loses $14b market cap thanks to RAM shortage
Cambricon targets 500,000 AI chips in 2026 as China accelerates domestic hardware push — low yields and limited HBM supply could threaten chip ambitions
Cambricon Technologies is preparing one of the most aggressive production ramp-ups attempted by a Chinese AI chipmaker.
'Outlet' RAM sold in Japan as new with huge markups, scuffed packaging — Crucial DDR5-5600 64GB kit commands $600 overseas as AI shortage bites
Japanese retailer Sofmap offloads Crucial's Pro DDR5-5600 C46 64GB (2x32GB) memory kit for $602.74.
Hoto's electric screwdriver set is a hobbyist's ultimate Christmas gift for less than £29 — record-low price for 12-bit precision kit with USB-C charging, perfect for PC builds and DIY
Grab this impressive Hoto NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits at a record-low price
Chinese government wades into Dutch chipmaker dispute — presses Netherlands to resolve Nexperia saga as supply concerns grow
China has called on the Netherlands to move quickly to resolve the dispute surrounding Nexperia after months of supervision measures and a retaliatory export freeze disrupted shipments of components.
Asus' new 5K gaming monitor is so high-end it doesn't even officially support RTX 40-series GPUs — the XG27JCG is a 5K 180Hz beast with 330Hz 1440p dual-mode support
Asus is betting on overpriced GPUs in this ultra high-res and high refresh rate pairing, dubbed the "XG27JCG," a new 5K 180 Hz monitor that can only run on Nvidia's RTX 50-series, officially, or AMD's RX 7600 and up. It supports all the gaming features you could ever want, along with solid color accuracy and HDR support.
CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC packs 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM and an RTX 5080 GPU for $2499 — that's $700+ of RAM in today's market
Procure yourself a gaming PC before the RAM prices push prebuilt rigs beyond reach. CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC with RTX 5080 and 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM is reduced to $2499.
ASRock X870E Taichi OCF Motherboard Review: The right formula for extreme AMD overclocking
ASRock's X870E Taichi OCF is a well-designed motherboard full of high-end features and tools for manual overclocking.
Intel fails to get EU antitrust ruling overturned in longstanding 16-year AMD competition case — chipmaker sees $1.2 billion fine reduced to $278 million
Intel lost its challenge to overturn an EU antitrust ruling on Wednesday, meaning it now faces a fine of $278 million.
TMSC ponders upgrading 2nd Japan fab to 4nm — could pave the way for more advanced chips for Japanese customers
TSMC reportedly mulls making 4nm chips in Japan amid putting construction of Fab 23 phase 2 on pause.
Biwin Black Opal OC Lab Gold Edition DDR5-6000 C28 4x48GB Review: High-Performance Memory For Demanding Applications
Biwin launches a very special DDR5-6000 192GB memory kit from its OC labs. Can the spacious memory kit outperform the current competition on the market?
UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate busted repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer, causing $46,000 in damages — hidden camera sting catches perp causing "sparks to fly out of the laptop," studen
PhD student rivalry extends to repeated physical laptop damage, hidden camera shows.
Score a new Bambu Lab 3D printer for as little as £149 in this massive UK end-of-year sale — savings include up to 20% off printers and 46% off filament, ready for Christmas
Save on these top 3D printers this Christmas in Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale
RAM scalping takes hold on eBay, some DDR5 selling for more than $2,000 — price-gouged kits fetch 7x their original value, adding almost double the markup on already inflated prices
Scalpers exploit the memory shortage to sell memory kits at exorbitant prices on platforms like eBay.
Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic join forces to form Agentic AI alliance, according to report — organization backed by the Linux Foundation is set to create open source standards for AI
The world's leading AI firms are collaborating on a new Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation managed by the Linux Foundation to build open standards around AI agents. The move will focus on three key open source tools to begin with, sharing findings on technical problems.
Dev gambles on 'obviously fake' $8K Grace Hopper system, scores $80,000 worth of hardware on Reddit for one-tenth of the cost — buyer's haul includes 960GB of DDR5 RAM worth more than what he pa
This used Nvidia Grace Hopper system price seemed unbelievable. But it required a lot of cleaning and intricate work to get it running smoothly.
Prusa brings Noctua's iconic beige and brown to 3D printer nozzleheads everywhere — accurately matching 3D printed parts to Noctua gear is now trivial
Prusa releases Noctua color-matched 3D printing filaments
Basement AI lab captures 10,000 hours of brain scans to train thought-to-text AI models — largest known neural dataset collected from thousands of humans over six months
Conduit says it has collected roughly 10,000 hours of noninvasive neural data from thousands of unique individuals" in a basement studio.
China starts list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not
Chinese government began to add government-approved AI suppliers to the Information Technology Innovation List in a bid to accelerate deployment of domestic hardware. But can Chinese semiconductor industry satisfy the needs of domestic AI industry?
User reports claim December Windows 11 security update fixes AMD GPU hanging and driver crashing
A multitude of AMD GPU owners claim the December security update for Windows 11 has fixed GPU hanging and driver crashing, primarily on RX 9000 series GPUs.
Framework puts Dell and Apple on blast over egregious RAM prices — modular laptop maker will be forced to increase memory prices, but won't "gouge customers" like other vendors
Memory prices are rising everywhere, and the latest to be hit in the aftermath of this crisis is modular laptop manufacturer Framework, which just announced its own price hike in a very interesting fashion. The company replied to a tweet showing Dell's allegedly insane markup on RAM upgrades that later turned out to be incorrect.
Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale is live with up to 35% off — score huge discounts on 3D printers and accessories while you can
Save on some of the best 3D printers in Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale
The Nvidia H200 export saga, as it happened — Beijing ponders response and buyers line up, while Blackwell remains locked behind restrictions
The U.S. government has formally approved the export of Nvidia's high-performance H200 AI chips to China, reinstating access to a class of silicon previously barred under national security rules.
Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring
DeepSeek is allegedly involved in a "phantom data center" smuggling scheme to get Blackwell GPU servers into China as part of training its newest LLM generation. While Nvidia refutes the claims as "farfetched", some proof indicates otherwise.
China holds 'emergency meetings' to discuss Nvidia H200 purchases following export rule change, report claims — ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba asked to assess demand
China convened emergency meetings with its largest technology companies on Wednesday to assess how many of Nvidia's H200 accelerators they intend to buy.
Nvidia develops software-based tracking for AI GPUs to quash smuggling concerns — solution devised to prevent shipments to nations with export controls in place
Nvidia has quietly developed a software-based location-verification system for its Blackwell-generation GPUs that can approximate where the hardware is operating, which could prevent smuggling of AI GPUs to China.
This prebuilt MSI gaming PC includes 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and an RTX 5060 GPU for $929 — a superb value system
MSI's Codex R2 gaming PC is just $929, an unbelievable value in the current climate.
Prusa CORE One L 3D printer review: Bigger and better
Prusa Research releases a roomy new bed size.
Microsoft promises to make Windows 11 the best operating system for gaming — says it will focus on background workloads, power and scheduling, graphics stack, and drivers
Microsoft says Windows 11 will receive major gaming-focused enhancements in 2026, including broader support for Xbox Full Screen Experience, Auto Super Resolution for handhelds, expanded Advanced Shader Delivery, and more.
White House U-turn on Nvidia H200 AI accelerator exports down to Huawei's powerful new Ascend chips, report claims — U.S. committed to 'dominance of the American tech stack'
According to a new report, the Trump Administration's U-turn on allowing exports of the Nvidia H200 AI accelerator chip is down to competition from China's native Huawei, which offers comparable power.
Snapmaker Raises Millions as Chinese Big Tech Investors Pile Into 3D Printing
Snapmaker rides its U1 tool changer to the big leagues.
This £849 Asus V16 is the cheapest RTX 5060 gaming laptop you can buy right now — 10-core Intel CPU, 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD make up this brilliant Christmas bargain
This 16-inch Asus V16 gaming laptop features an RTX 5060, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, and all for just 849.99.
Buy a Gigabyte Z890 board and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, get a free Cooler Master AIO and Star Wars Outlaws game for under $650 — incredible Newegg bundle is cheaper than buying the RAM by itself
Avoid outlandish DDR5 prices in this tremendous deal from Newegg. $649.99 buys an enthusiast-class Gigabyte Z890 motherboard, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 360mm AIO, and free Star Wars Outlaws game
Supersonic airline outfit Boom unveils turbine for AI data centers — 42 MW Superpower turbine uses the same tech designed to power Concorde successor to Mach 1.7 at 60,000 ft
Superpower gas turbine will efficiently feed AI datacenters
Secretlab's Christmas Holiday gaming chair deals — up to $249 off select products, including deals on desks and accessories
Save up to $249 in Secretlab's Christmas Holiday sale.
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