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Updated 2026-01-22 07:45
M5-powered iPad Pro breaks cover in GeekBench, scoring 4,133 in single-threaded tests — matches M4 Max and beats every single-core PC chip score
M5 chip beats every PC CPU in GeekBench single-threaded tests
Microsoft slaps Game Pass Ultimate with a 50% price hike — PC Game Pass is now almost 38% more expensive, with hardly any new benefits
Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service is undergoing a significant restructuring regarding its pricing and benefits.
OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output — inks deal with Samsung and SK hynix to the tune of up to 900,000 wafers per month
Samsung and SK hynix have agreed to supply undiced DRAM wafers to OpenAI's Stargate project, which could consume up to 900,000 wafers per month, or about 40% of global DRAM output, as Stargate is gearing up for unprecedented expansion.
Pick up a Ryzen 9 9950X3D for less than a 9800X3D in this Early Prime Day deal bundle from MSI — Tomahawk motherboard deal is cheaper with AMD's flagship than with its top gaming CPU
MSI's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and mobo combo is cheaper than pairing with even the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, saving you $$$ on the best hardware you can buy.
OpenAI's Sam Altman had secret TSMC meeting over future chip supply, report claims — AI pioneer in Asia as South Korea confirms 20MW data center deal with ChatGPT maker
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly held secretive meetings with TSMC and Foxconn in Taiwan as he looks to secure chip production for future facilities and his own internal chip design plans.
Qualcomm scores big win over Arm in contentious lawsuit — U.S. court rejects Arm’s lawsuit, confirms Qualcomm’s can use Oryon cores acquired via Nuvia
The ruling builds on Qualcomm's 2024 trial win, rejecting Arm's attempt to force destruction of Oryon CPU designs.
Intel affirms commitment to $28 billion Ohio project despite delays — company responds to U.S. Senator's hint of 'a charade or potential fraud'
Following life-changing investments from Nvidia, SoftBank, and the White House, Intel has just reiterated its commitment to the ambitious Ohio One project. The fabs, now expected to open their doors in 2030, were questioned by a U.S. Senator over concerns of fraud, but Intel remains confident.
Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors
The White House wants to move at least 50% of U.S.-bound chip production into the United States, but Taiwan says no.
DJI fervently rejects Chinese Military Company designation following court ruling — drone maker says it 'is not controlled by the government and has no ties to the military'
DJI has rejected a court ruling upholding its designation as a ''Chinese Military Company' by the DoD, and says that certain findings by the court affirm it does not have any military affiliaton.
Meta reportedly buying RISC-V AI GPU firm Rivos — acquisition to bolster dev team and possibly replace Nvidia internally
Meta is reportedly set to acquire startup Rivos, according to sources close to the matter. The startup specializes in RISC-V based GPUs for AI workloads, a perfect match for Meta's wishlist.
DeepSeek’s new AI model debuts with support for China-native chips and CANN, a replacement for Nvidia's CUDA — Chinese chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, and Hygon get first-class support
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released its latest large language model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, with first-day optimizations for Huawei's Ascend hardware and CANN software stack.
AMD Fluid Motion Frames 3 spotted in the upcoming AMD Adrenalin driver branch — could lean on AI model used in FSR 4
Data mining has revealed that AMD is working on a third iteration of Fluid Motion Frames, according to developer notes discovered in the preview version of Adrenalin driver 25.20. AFMF 3 will likely incorporate the same ML model used in FSR 4.
$7.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency recovered from newly convicted 'Bitcoin Queen' — funds from fraudster thought to be the largest seizure to date
The Metropolitan Police announced a conviction against the so-called "Bitcoin Queen" from whom they seized approximately $7.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency.
Portable 1TB bamboo SSD is fast, but smells even better due to built-in aroma diffuser — essential oil diffuser billed as bringing harmony to your workplace
Apacer launches the AS712 portable SSD, made from natural bamboo and reservoir silt and featuring an essential oil diffuser.
Early Prime Day deals kick off as Crucial's superfast 4TB T705 PCIe 5 SSD hits a new all-time low price of $320
Crucial's 4TB PCIe 5.0 T705 SSD hits an all-time low price ahead of Amazon's Prime Day sales.
Redditor quoted absurd $11,000 labor fee for $4,000 PC build — bemused customer questions $6,300 labor, $4,700 pre-project labor, and $4,000 cancellation fee
A Redditor received an eye-popping quote for a cute custom PC from a well-known boutique vendor.
New York firm faces China investigation over $17M advanced trading hardware smuggling — accused of installing customized processors and networking hardware at Shanghai Futures Exchange
Tower Research Capital is under fire by a Chinese regulator for using possibly-illicit hardware.
OpenAI might be building its own chip, but it’ll still be dependent on Nvidia — custom chip developed with Broadcom reportedly slips to Q3 2026
OpenAI is widely understood to be developing a custom AI accelerator with Broadcom, part of a $10 billion partnership to design chips specifically for OpenAI's internal workloads.
'Next-gen 3D printing' enables printing with two different materials at once — faster, lighter, and more precise multiplexing nozzle tech demoed by U.S. gov't scientists
A 'next-generation 3D printing system' has been demonstrated by scientists from the ORNL.
Orange Pi AI Studio Pro mini-PC debuts with Huawei Ascend 310 and 352 TOPS of AI performance — also features up to 192GB of memory, but relies on a single USB-C port
Orange Pi's AI Studio Pro mini-PC promises up to 352 TOPS of AI performance with up to 192GB of LPDDR4X 4266 memory.
Microsoft adds Grok 4 to Azure AI Foundry following cautious trials — Elon Musk's latest AI model is now available to deploy for "frontier‑level reasoning"
Grok 4, the latest AI model produced by Elon Musk's xAI, is now available for enterprise customers inside Azure AI Foundry. Microsoft has added Grok 4 to its library after a series of prior internal testing to make sure it doesn't go on tangents again. It has a 128K-token context window and focuses on STEM workloads over basic tasks.
Maingear debuts new premium desktop PCs — Apex Rush, Force models start at $6,259, with top-end model featuring hardline tubing and dual 420mm radiators
Maingear has today unveiled a couple of new desktop PCs, a new Apex Rush and a new Apex Force.
Amid Intel's deals, Intel Foundry Services remains notably absent — 18A and 14A are on the way, but success isn't guaranteed
It has been a busy few weeks for semiconductors, but among various announcements and rumors, IFS has remained conspicuously absent.
Wee Beastie crowdfunding project promises 4.75L fish tank SFF PC packing a 'desktop' RTX 4070 — $699 design features modded 12GB GPU mounted on a circuit board
Compact new 4.75-liter Mini PC packs a 'desktop' RTX 4070 with 12GB VRAM for improved gaming and AI.
Data center boom sends some wholesale electricity prices soaring up to 267% in five years, says report — as global rollout of AI factories continues apace
People living near many of the new data centers being built as part of the AI boom are finding their power costs rising dramatically, in some cases making it hard to afford day-to-day living.
Nvidia's new CPX GPU aims to change the game in AI inference — how the debut of cheaper and cooler GDDR7 memory could redefine AI inference infrastructure
Nvidia has introduced Rubin CPX, a specialized GPU designed to accelerate compute-heavy context phase of long-context inference in large AI models, enabling more efficient handling of million-token workloads by offloading this task from 'Big' GPUs with HBM memory to smaller GPUs with GDDR7 memory.
China's 96-core x86 CPU taps chiplet design to rival AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon — 13 chiplets per processor provide up to 384 cores on a single motherboard, but no word on power consumption
Zhaoxin announces the company's latest KH-50000 series of server processors, leveraging a chiplet design with up to 96 cores.
Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic feedback, circular Action Ring shortcuts
Logitech updates its MX Master 4 flagship mouse with haptic feedback and a quick, customizable Action Ring shortcut circle.
Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — Bluetooth broadcasting flaw is relatively simple to exploit, researchers discover
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found design flaws in Tile location trackers that can be abused to stalk their owners.
Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU — chip armed with core count approaching the flagship AMD Threadripper 9995WX, boasts a 4.8GHz boost clock
A new Granite Rapids-WS CPU has appeared on openbenchmark.org, sporting a 4.8GHz boost clock and a hefty core count.
Amazon and Google tip off Jensen Huang before announcing information about their homegrown AI chips — companies tread carefully to avoid surprising Nvidia, says report
According to a recent report by The Information, Amazon and Google each provide advance notice to Huang before unveiling updates to their custom silicon.
Get a 4TB Crucial P310 SSD for just 5 cents per gigabyte — PCIe 4.0 drive is available now with heatsink for $202
The Crucial P310 PCIe Gen 4 SSD features QLC NAND-flash memory for up to 7,100 MB/s sequential read speeds.
Sandisk launches officially licensed SSDs and MicroSD cards for the ROG Xbox Ally series — up to 4TB of storage for new Asus flagship handheld
Sandisk is launching Xbox-branded storage accessories for the new Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld systems.
Data centers to account for 9% of electricity demand in the U.S by 2035 — Nuclear power could help sate AI demand
Major tech firms building gigawatts of power-hungry new AI data centers are investing in small, modular nuclear reactors as a potential solution for on-site, year-round power without the fluctuations in output of renewables, though questions remain over how long they'll take to receive approval and reach operative capacity.
OpenAI President teases our 10-billion GPU future — says always-working AI future calls for 'every person to have their own dedicated GPU'
OpenAI's vision for world needs 10 billion GPUs
Mobile RTX 2070 with shunt mod nearly eclipses desktop performance — 60W boost provides 15% performance uplift
A PC enthusiast reports successfully shunt modding his Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile GPU for a ~15% performance uplift.
EA acquired by Saudi Arabian investment fund and others for $55 billion — largest ever buyout of a public company
EA has been acquired for $55 billion.
Qualcomm’s 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme dominates in first benchmarks – 18 cores and 48GB of on-package memory on a 192-bit bus look tough to beat
Testing the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme made me wonder how Intel and AMD are going to respond. Qualcomm's new flagship chip looks ready to dominate on all fronts.
'Moscow military spy ship' tracked mapping and surveilling NATO undersea cables — 'She’s following cable lines and pipelines, making stops. We are monitoring her very closely
A new report documents how a Russian military spy ship has been tracked surveilling and mapping undersea cables in Europe's Atlantic coastline.
EU pushes for Chips Act 2.0 investment as it looks set to miss global silicon production targets by a wide margin — seeks quadrupling of semiconductor investment as $50 billion initiative flound
A Dutch coalition has brought together all EU member nations to revise the 2022 Chips Act to encourage greater investment in silicon manufacturing, with estimates suggesting it is on track to miss its 2030 target of 20% of global chip production in the EU by a wide margin.
Legendary Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA card revived by hardware enthusiast — 1994 relic restored to former glory
A hardware enthusiast has repaired an iconic 90s Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA card.
Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks — AI trained to hold conversations, working model runs inference in the game
CraftGPT puts a functioning AI chatbot on a computer built inside Minecraft.
TSMC says Intel didn’t ask for investments — denies existence of talks for partnership, joint venture
TSMC said that it's not considering investing in Intel, contrary to what some sources said.
Jensen Huang says China is ‘nanoseconds behind’ the US in chipmaking, calls for reducing US export restrictions on Nvidia's AI chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China is just nanoseconds behind" the U.S. in chipmaking and that Washington should stop trying to wall off the market.
China's premier memory-maker YMTC struggles amid chokehold of US sanctions — outdated chipmaking tools and lack of new tools have hampered production and development of new tech
YMTC's efforts to expand its presence in the 3D NAND memory market have stalled as US export restrictions prevent the company from acquiring advanced tools needed to scale production.
The cheapest RTX 5060 laptop is just $999 right now at Best Buy — Get $300 off Lenovo's LOQ 15.6" gaming laptop with a Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, and an RTX 5060
If you're looking for a solid gaming laptop that doesn't break the bank, Lenovo has got you covered with the 2025 LOQ 15. It comes with an RTX 5060, Core i7-13650HX, 16GB of RAM and decent battery life. For $999, you can't get better gaming performance with this quality.
High-power microwave system downs 49 drones in one shot – weaponized electromagnetic interference erases drone swarms en masse
US electronics warfare specialist Epirus recently demonstrated its new flagship Leonidas weapon at a live fire trial in Indiana, disabling 'all 61-of-61 drones.'
US Commerce head notes China 'isn't even shy' about its goal to 'take' Taiwan, says US-Taiwan tariff deal coming soon — goal is to have 40% of chips made in America
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Saturday that a major semiconductor deal with Taiwan was coming pretty soon," signaling a potential breakthrough in U.S. efforts to shore up domestic chip production.
U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device
The U.S. government is considering aggressive new semiconductor-related tariffs that aim to force more chip manufacturing onto American soil, but risk triggering inflation, disrupting supply chains, and posing serious implementation challenges.
Judge rules that drone maker DJI is affiliated with China’s defense industry — company to stay on Pentagon’s list of Chinese military companies
DJI sued the DoD, saying that it's not a Chinese military company, but the courts ruled otherwise.
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