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Tech companies are spending more on AI-focused employees even as the rest of the industry is laying off hundreds of thousands.

China has quietly mandated that at least 50% of equipment used for new semiconductor capacity be domestically sourced. However, as China's industry cannot produce enough lithography tools, authorities tend to get flexible and allow foreign alternatives in.

This $2,499 Skytech gaming PC is an elite-level rig for gaming at 4K, fitted with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 and an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, along with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD.

When copper is not enough and yet optical interconnections are overkill, waveguide-based cables can do the job.

A maker has shared their take on the Makeyo MK01 3D printed PC case, implementing several worthwhile mods.

D7VK has added experimental Direct3D 6 support, opening up near-native performance for older PC games without emulation.

Asus teases forthcoming Neo AM5 motherboards supporting AMD's Ryzen processors, to be officially announced at CES 2026.

China's first 6nm-class discrete GPUs, the G100 series from Lisuan, has apparently started to ship out to customers, months after their initial announcement. These GPUs, if as performant as claimed, hold the potential to fuel China's self-reliance ambitions in producing homegrown alternatives to Nvidia and AMD.

Rainbow Six Siege has recovered from yesterday's attack, with servers now fully operational once again. The only issues players will experience re-entering the game are a possible wait queue.

EUV lithography era in chipmaking began in 2019 and there are no signs that this is going to stop as process technologies are getting more complex. However, there are fundamental reasons why TSMC's quotes are rising quicker than its costs and its customers are not leaving for other foundries.

Intel has officially sold over 217 million of its common stock to Nvidia in a historic equity investment worth $5 billion. The stake was originally announced in September, after the U.S. government had invested its own $8.9 billion into Intel. Following FTC approvals in early December, the sale has now been completed.

An IDC report revises earlier guidance, warning of a shrink in the PC market that could approach 9%.

AI has run havoc through the entire industry and as we suffer the drying inventories of RAM and storage, we might as well see what it's all going to, right? Well, some of it is being used to generate custom backgrounds for Thermaltake's "AI Forge" feature present on its latest MagFloe AIOs and screens, which uses Dall-E and/or JiMeng.

A mismarked 8TB SSD at Micro Center is sounding the alarm on surging SSD prices in response to demand from AI data centers.

Boost your targeting skills with a mechanized mousepad-driven aim assist system

Anycubic's upcoming Kobra X 3D printer boasts impressive capabilities, and you can lock in an early adopter price right now.

Thrustmaster is offering up to 40% off its popular racing wheels on Amazon, including a $125 discount on the high-end, direct-drive T598.

If you've been looking for a high-performance laptop that comes with a modern OLED screen, end your search with the Lenovo Legion 5 (Gen 10). It's the cheapest we've ever seen an OLED laptop with an RTX 5070, saving you over $500 right now on both its base spec and the upgraded one we recommend.

Yesterday, the ground shook off the coast of Taiwan, slamming the country with the strongest earthquake in 27 years. The seismic wave registered 7.0 in Taiwan's scales, or 6.6 to 6.7 according to the USGS standard. Thankfully, according to reports, TSMC's factories are all intact, saving the world from yet another spike in chip prices.

Fully programmable, autonomous robots 'smaller than a grain of salt' have been developed by research teams from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.

A retro 'VHS tape' ReShade present targeting Cyberpunk 2077 is earning glowing plaudits on social media.

HKC is bringing a 1,080 Hz gaming monitor to CES under its AntGamer brand, showing off a native 1440p 540 Hz panel that can use dual-mode to switch to a blistering 1,080 Hz at 720p. It's a Fast TN panel that is supposed to have DP 2.1 UHBR20 support.

An electronics technician succeeds in the most intricate gaming laptop motherboard repair we have seen completed.

Unknown entities have seemingly taken control of Rainbow Six Siege, giving away billions in credits and other rare goodies to random players. Ubisoft took down all online services, with servers still unavailable at the time of writing.

As we face an unprecedented memory crisis, some vendors are still upping the ceiling, introducing higher capacity RAM kits for eye-gouging prices. This time, though, it's registered ECC server memory not meant for consumers, and therefore, asking the price of a borderline luxurious car is justified here.

A two-year-old cold case has reawakened as GPU OEM Zephyr has said it has replaced several dying Navi 21 cores on RX 6000 series graphics cards. Previously, this was an isolated incident that never got much attention, so this is our first outside confirmation of the high-end RDNA 2 GPU dies going poof and being RMA'd.

GameStop just released a press release saying that it will help Valve co-founder Gabe Newell learn how to count to three.

OpenAI is reportedly still working on baking in ads into ChatGPT's results despite Altman's 'Code Red' earlier this month.