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Without access to leading-edge chip production tools, SMIC remains committed to 5nm and 3nm process technologies.

ChatGPT chip design team has now successfully fabricated the QTCore-C1 chip they designed - and you can watch it powering a Christmas light show.

Phison's E26 'Max14um' SSD provides our first look at the upcoming PCIe 5.0 drives that will top out at 14 GB/s of throughput. We have the drive in house and will be putting it through its test paces in the coming days, but here's a look at the work that went on behind the scenes to hit such high levels of performance in an M.2 drive.

Microsoft has deprecated Windows Mixed Reality, and the software will be removed from a future version of Windows.

ASML on Thursday announced that it had begun shipping the industry's first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool with a 0.55 numerical aperture (High-NA) to Intel.

A Toshiba exec believes that hard drive technology will continue to improve, enabling HDDs to be used well into the future admist growing energy costs.

The HP FX700 takes a winning formula and drops in new QLC NAND, creating an efficient and cool-running SSD that lacks high performance but makes for a good secondary drive.

I'm not kidding when I say this is one of my favorite-looking PC cases. You can pick up the Fractal Design North PC case on sale for just $119.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H gets benchmarked under Linux against the Ryzen 7 7840U and the Core i7 1280P, revealing significant improvements over past-generation iGPU architecture.

Some retailers have listed Ryzen 8000G desktop APUs ahead of launch, and the prices could be high.

Artur Pkosz has created a custom cinewhoop drone that uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to relay video feed to FPV goggles.

A yet-unreleased Intel Core i3-14100 was listed on the ShopBLT platform, priced within a few dollars of its 13th Gen counterpart.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has publicly characterized Nvidia's AI industry success as purely accidental, and if his Larrabee project hadn't been canceled, Intel would be reaping the rewards.

As unit shipments of Sony's PlayStation 5 hit 50 million, the company says it is gaining momentum despite price hikes.

The WeCreat Vision features a powerful 20 watt diode laser with a unique auto-focus system that can quickly and safely cut through a variety of materials. Combined with the optional fume extractor and rotary engraver, the Vision has everything you need to start creating custom laser engraved products today.

Investigations into a 1977-era transparent chip from HP have concluded it was fabricated on a sapphire substrate. HP used these for various purposes in the 70s but they suffered from low yield and high cost.

Samsung and Naver team up for power-efficient inference chips, tout eight times higher efficiency compared to Nvidia's GPUs.

Intel cuts hundreds of positions at its Folsom and Santa Clara sites.

Guangdong province in China sets up $1.5 billion fund to finance local semiconductor industry.

MSI's Optix G321CUA is large gaming monitor that also offers a high-resolution UHD display and high refresh rate, at a reduced price.

Intel is gearing up to be high-NA EUV lithography champ with orders for six additional Twinscan EXE machines.

Die shots for Meteor Lake's SoC and GPU tiles have just come out, and it's the first time we've seen detailed images of the TSMC-made tiles.

Thanks to HWInfo's update details, it looks like upcoming graphic architectures for future CPUs with new iGPUs and discrete solutions are shaping up!

We tested Intel's new AI-friendly chips on real-world inference workloads such as music and image generation. The results may surprise you.

Xe-HPCVG and Ponte Vecchio VG make an appearance in Intel's latest LLVM compiler update, but there are scant details.

Milos with Element14 has created an Arduino-powered ornament robot that uses a winch motor to raise and lower itself from the Christmas tree.

A 1-bit CPU packing super low performance computer' has been launched, offering a very limited scope of use, but may be a fun DIY project.

Lian Li's Uni Fan TL LCD fans look great and start at under $50. But you'll have to decide which side you want the screen on before buying the fans, and you can't mix LCD and non-LCD fans together, which is a shame.

Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group claims to have developed a 28nm-capable lithography machine for chip manufacturing, a breakthrough for the Chinese tech industry.

Samsung's Odyssey Neo 57 G9 can only be called extreme with DUHD (7680x2160) resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10+ with a 1,000-nit Mini LED backlight, 1000R curve, wide gamut color and 2,392 dimming zones.

Sipeed unveiled its Lichee Pocket 4A handheld gaming platform, using a RISC-V processor and running Debian Linux.

NASA successfully was able to transmit a UHD video with minimal or no degradation from its spacecraft using lasers, indicating it can receive a high-quality video stream over great distances.

We visited the Cooler Master HQ in Taipei just as the firm was preparing to send piles of new products to Las Vegas for CES 2024.

Back to the lowest price I've seen since the sales in October, this powerful Dell Alienware laptop is back on offer and is a much more affordable proposition this holiday season.

Now that AMD released the FSR 3 source code, modders are now hacking FSR 3 into many games that come with baked in DLSS 3 support.

The AOKZOE A2 is another Ryzen 7840U gaming handheld with power similar to the AMD Z1 Extreme inside the ROG Ally. Both handhelds are more powerful than the Steam Deck, but what sets apart the A2 in such a competitive handheld market?

Intel adds support for unannounced Gaudi2C AI accelerator to Linux drivers.

Edatec's latest Raspberry Pi 5-based PC comes with integrated SSD options and will be shipping to consumers in early 2024.

Attacks on Read Sea shipping are causing companies to re-route, putting pricing pressure on goods including PCs and components, as well as many other essential products and commodities.

Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000 remains the company's most powerful.

With so many DDR5-6400 memory kits on the market, can the Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5-6400 C38 prove that it's one of the best?

Wizards in Winter has created a beautiful Christmas village that uses a few Raspberry Pis to operate the lights.

MSI has expanded its Spatium M570 SSD family with the new Spatium M570 Pro Frozr PCIe 5.0 SSD in 1, 2, and 4 TB capacities. The 2 TB model has a $299 MSRP.

IBM's Quantum Summit 2023 showcased an energized company that feels like it's opening up the doors towards a quantum-centric supercomputing era. That vision is built on the company's new Quantum Processing Unit, Heron, which showcases scalable quantum utility at a 133-qubit count, and already offers things that are beyond what any feasible classical system would. Breakthroughs and a revised understanding of its own roadmap have led IBM to present its quantum vision in two different roadmaps, prioritizing scalability in tandem with useful, minimum-quality rather than monolithic, hard-to-validate, high-complexity products.

This odd yet useful dongle takes advantage of USB Type-C's form factor to relieve mosquito bites and similar stings, controlled with an app made for both Android and Apple