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Smuggler packs 200 pounds of meth into PC cases, gets busted — Australian Border Force foil drug smuggling plot

Earlier this month, the Australian Border Force (ABF) found 100kg of methamphetamine hidden inside a consignment of imported PC tower cases. This week, after all the contraband had been removed, the ABF and Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 45-year-old Malaysian man when he allegedly accepted delivery of the imported…

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Analyst firm raises alarm about EUV chipmaking tools — each consumes as much power as a small city, fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030

Leading-edge semiconductor fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts a year by 2030, which is more than some countries consume today.

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Steam game listings must now flag any kernel-level anti-cheat software integrations

Valve requires game developers to now explicitly mention if their game features anti-cheat tools that operate in the kernel.

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SRAM scaling isn't dead after all — TSMC's 2nm process tech claims major improvements

TSMC's N2 fabrication process shrinks SRAM bit cell size, increases SRAM density to ~38 Mb/mm^2.

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AMD's gaming-optimized Ryzen 7 9800X3D rumored to cost $479 — $30 price bump over prior-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D

A leak suggests that AMD is eyeing an MSRP of $479 for its new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor launching next week.

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Ubisoft quietly launches blockchain RPG with playable NFTs priced up to $63K

Ubisoft launches free PvP blockchain RPG with NFTs priced as high as $63,000.

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UALink Consortium poised to compete with Nvidia's NVLink — AMD and Intel-led group opens doors to contributor members

The Ultra Accelerator Link, or UALink, Consortium has officially incorporated, becoming a legal entity. The group, made up of AMD, Intel, Meta, Google, and other major tech players, seeks to create a standard to dethrone Nvidia's NVLink for server cluster communication.

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Google now uses AI to write 25% of its new code — Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai underlines the company's role in the AI industry amidst strong Q3 24 financials

Sundar Pichai reports that artificial intelligence is responsible for writing 25% of Google's code.

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Chinese mineral restrictions spur Australia to scavenge waste for new sources of chipmaking materials — country turns to mining waste for rare earths

Australian scientists are developing techniques to extract rare earth metals crucial to semiconductor manufacturing more efficiently from mining waste.

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Supermicro's stock plummets 35% in one day as accounting firm resigns — storm brews after DOJ probe into manipulated finances

Supermicro's stock tanked 35% today after its accounting firm resigned, citing unreliable management and an inability to comply with company expectations and the law.

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Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week

One week after its release, Intel's Core Ultra 200S series still has not sold a single unit on Mindfactory, Germany's largest online PC component retailer. While the chips have sold out on most American retailers, Mindfactory's provided numbers show that Intel sales have plummeted to nearly zero on Mindfactory.

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Linux's true BSOD equivalent, DRM Panic, is now supported by the current AMD GPUs

Recent AMD GPUs now support Linux's BSOD equivalent.

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Apple refreshes MacBook Pros with M4 Pro, M4 Max, and up to 24 hour battery life

Apple has refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup with its M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips.

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TSMC is in a heated tussle with a golf course to build the most advanced 2nm chip plant on the planet

The Central Taiwan Science Park is having some issues with the land acquisition for its phase 2 expansion that will house TSMC's 2nm fab.

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OpenAI reportedly builds custom AI chips as it embraces AMD — company also abandons plans to build its own fabs

OpenAI is advancing the development of an inference chip with Broadcom but abandons plans to build a fab network.

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Ryzen AI 300 takes big wins over Intel in LLM AI performance — up to 27% faster token generation than Lunar Lake in LM Studio

A new AMD blog post shows off Ryzen AI 9 HX 375's performance on LM Studio, a desktop app for hosting powerful LLMs locally. The Ryzen chip handily beats the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V in a bevy of performance tests.

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'Jensanity' continues in Taiwan, Mini-Jensen Huang cosplayer sports massive Nvidia GPU for Halloween

The Jensen Huang Halloween costume shows his continued popularity on the island country of Taiwan.

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Intel rolls out microcode fix for crashing 13th/14th Generation processors through the Linux Kernel

Intel's latest microcode fix for Raptor Lake CPUs is now available at the Linux Kernel level.

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AMD rakes in cash with best quarterly revenue ever amid datacenter business rise, but gaming business craters

AMD records its highest quarterly revenue ever, but the modest guidance disappoints investors.

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AMD says RDNA 4 GPUs are coming in early 2025 — RX 8000 will deliver ray tracing improvements, AI capabilities

AMD confirms RDNA 4 incoming in early 2025, bringing AI, graphics, and ray tracing improvements.

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AMD research suggests plans to catch up to Nvidia using neural supersampling and denoising for real-time path tracing

AMD appears to have plans to use a neural network to perform denoising and reconstruct scene details. It's not yet available, but it sounds a lot like Nvidia’s Ray Reconstruction feature in DLSS 3.5.

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Nvidia's future Blackwell Ultra GPUs reportedly renamed to the B300 series

Nvidia will reportedly rename its Blackwell Ultra GPUs for AI and HPC to the B300 series to better differentiate them from existing offerings.

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Despite US sanctions, China has enough AI processors to build the world's largest AI training cluster: Report

Despite export restrictions, enough AI processors have been smuggled into China to build world-class AI supercomputers. Workarounds including proxies and imports via other countries haven't stopped China from procuring large quantities of modern equipment.

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Intel Processor N-series CPU specifications leaked — Intel dishes up paltry clock speed improvements

Intel is preparing to refresh its Alder Lake-N series of processors, but it appears that the company will reutilize the same architecture with minor bumps in frequency.

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RISC-V CPU demoed with RX 7900 XTX GPU in Debian Linux — AMD flagship GPU paired with Milk-V Megrez board and SiFive P550 cores

RISC-V firm Milk-V demonstrated that it can get AMD’s RX 7900 XTX graphics card to work on one of its RISC-V boards.

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