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Windows 11 26H1 has just been made official by Microsoft, with its first build released in the Canary channel for Insiders. Unlike what the name might suggest, this is not a feature update, rather a special update meant to roll in support for ARM-based devices, with lots of juicy rumors floating around.

This is what 17 years of smoking could do to your graphics card.

The games we enjoy today would be unimaginably different without the improvements ushered in by DirectX 8 and its programmable shaders. Shader Model 1.0 introduced per-pixel programmable lighting, letting developers write custom code to control how light interacted with objects, rather than relying solely on the GPU's built-in fixed-function logic.

There's a new open source contender being prepared for the 8-bit console arena.

The tiniest GPU' has gotten a big update with the new TinyGPU v2.0 offering interactive 3D rasterization, with transformation & lighting tech.

A proposal to change the USPTO's fee structure from fixed rates to a percentage basis is facing resistance from the semiconductor industry.

The impact of the massive AI demand for storage and memory is now hitting retail stores in Japan.

A fascinating Soviet-era retro electronics artifact has been dissected and micrographed by a CPU collector.

Nvidia RTX 5000 Super series might be canceled due to AI-induced GDDR7 shortage, as rumors suggest that 3GB GDDR7 chips will be hard to come by.

Beijing is suspending the implementation of its tight export controls on rare-earth materials for a year.

Elon Musk said Tesla may need to build its own massive TeraFab" chip plant to secure enough AI processors, a move that would make Tesla one of the world's largest chipmakers, but experts like Nvidia's Jensen Huang warn that creating a modern semiconductor process and fab is vastly more complex than Musk imagines.

The Dutch government is ready to relinquish its control over Nexperia if Beijing allows its China factory to resume exports.

After President Trump and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reiterated that Nvidia will be barred from selling its most advanced chips to China, Jensen Huang has now confirmed that there are currently no active discussions on the matter. In fact, Nvidia also requires authorization from China itself before it can sell GPUs to local firms.

High-purity quartz is crucial for semiconductor manufacturing, and you can only get it naturally from the mine in North Carolina.

Analyst likens Substrate's tech, messaging, and leadership to a fraud.

AMD's Bulldozer-era FX-9590 CPU from 2013 managed to run Battlefield 6 at over 30 FPS at 1080p resolution, boosting to 40+ FPS at lower resolutions on smaller maps. FX-9590, despite being more than a decade old, does support SecureBoot, which was enough for BF6 launch, confirming TPM is not neccesary.