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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.

Save 25% on this Intel Arc B580 graphics card, fit for 1440p gaming on a budget.

AMD's rumored upcoming budget CPU, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D, has just been spotted on GeekBench with solid single-core and multi-core results that put it on par with the 7600X3D, while having the same 96 MB of L3 cache. Unfortunately, for value-conscious gamers, the price of DDR5 right now might turn you away from the cheapest X3D chip on the AM5 platform.

Redditor puts the DGX Spark to the test in gaming, specifically CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077.

Google Cloud has launched new Axion CPU and Ironwood TPU instances that combine Arm-based general-purpose computing with 7th-generation AI acceleration. Ironwood-based pods with up to 9,216 chips and 42.5 FP8 ExaFLOPS per pod vastly surpass Nvidia's GB300 systems and form the foundation of Google's AI Hypercomputer for large-scale model training and inference.