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As part of its 2025 Holiday Bundle, Intel is letting you pick between Battlefield 6 and Assassin's Creed Shadows as a free game when you purchase a qualifying Intel CPU or GPU. If you fancy yourself a high-end gaming laptop then you can avail the Platinum offer and get up to three free games.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview that he has some AI chips in inventory that he cannot use because he has nowhere to plug them in.

TrashBench manages to break the 3DMark Time Spy performance record using a water pump and a 50/50 glycol mix.

Rendezvous Robotics' autonomous tile-based modules, built using Project TESSERAE tech, will potentially power Starcloud's plans to build massive data centers in space. The company is partnering with Nvidia to build a 5-gigawatt facility in orbit, and Rendezvous can help make that distant future a reality.

International automakers can now apply for licenses to resume chip deliveries from Nexperia China.

U.K. and Chinese authorities must work out a system to return stolen funds converted to Bitcoin, but the process is expected to be complicated.

An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.

Prusa is having a month-long Black Friday sale and there are some great deals on the best of the best 3D printers

SpaceX will reportedly deliver 600 satellites for Trump's Golden Dome missile shield project.

A U.S. startup is developing a compact particle-accelerator-based X-ray lithography system that could surpass ASML's EUV scanners in resolution and cut wafer costs tenfold by the end of the decade, but its plan to build its own fabs rather than sell tools means it must reinvent the entire semiconductor production supply chain from the ground up.

AMD has backtracked on putting RDNA 1 and 2 into a maintenance mode that wouldn't include game optimizations, telling Tom's Hardware new features will be included based on "market needs."

The fallout of the Nexperia ownership scuffle between the Dutch government and Chinese business interests is spilling overseas, with German automotive parts suppliers slowly reducing production due to semiconductor shortages. Meanwhile, Nexperia's Dutch facilities have now blocked exports to its Chinese facilities.

AMD ended mainstream driver support for its RDNA 1 and 2 GPUs in a new update that sought to focus on the RX 7000 and 9000 series for day-one optimizations for new releases. This could mean trouble for handhelds that rely on tuning to achieve their full potential on Windows, and without AMD's driver to back them up, they might be left high and dry.

Minisforum is increasing the prices of its items that come with DDR5 memory and SSDs, although the cost of barebones products remains unchanged.

A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very practical release, right now.

Already under intense scrutiny for alleged ties to China, TP-Link, a now-U.S.-based and operated company is on the verge of being banned. In a new proposal concocted by the Department of Commerce, and backed by the Department of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, TP-Link routers might no longer be allowed to be sold in America.

Samsung finally launches the P9 Express microSD Express cards, available in 256GB and 512GB options, for Nintendo's latest Switch 2 handheld gaming console.

Intel's ex-CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has praised the news that Nvidia's latest graphics chips are now in full production on American soil. Highlighting how important the silicon supply chain is for national security, he said that he hopes this will allow Nvidia to go harder and faster in its future developments, too.

Intel opens pop-up stores in New York City, London, Munich, Paris, and Seoul to show off some of its latest laptop tech.

The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI router integrates an NPU to make your network way smarter.