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TSMC ponders upgrading 2nd Japan fab to 4nm — could pave the way for more advanced chips for Japanese customers (Updated)

TSMC reportedly mulls making 4nm chips in Japan amid putting construction of Fab 23 phase 2 on pause.

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Dev gambles on 'obviously fake' $8K Grace Hopper system, scores $80,000 worth of hardware on Reddit for one-tenth of the cost — buyer's haul includes 960GB of DDR5 RAM worth more than what he paid for the entire rig

This used Nvidia Grace Hopper system price seemed unbelievable. But it required a lot of cleaning and intricate work to get it running smoothly.

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UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate busted repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer, causing $46,000 in damages — hidden camera sting catches perp causing "sparks to fly out of the laptop," student arrested on three felony counts

PhD student rivalry extends to repeated physical laptop damage, hidden camera shows.

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RAM scalping takes hold on eBay, some DDR5 selling for more than $2,000 — price-gouged kits fetch 7x their original value, adding almost double the markup on already inflated prices

Scalpers exploit the memory shortage to sell memory kits at exorbitant prices on platforms like eBay.

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Prusa brings Noctua's iconic beige and brown to 3D printer nozzleheads everywhere — accurately matching 3D printed parts to Noctua gear is now trivial

Prusa releases Noctua color-matched 3D printing filaments

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Basement AI lab captures 10,000 hours of brain scans to train thought-to-text AI models — largest known neural dataset collected from thousands of humans over six months

Conduit says it has collected roughly 10,000 hours of noninvasive neural data from “thousands of unique individuals” in a basement studio.

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China starts list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not

Chinese government began to add government-approved AI suppliers to the Information Technology Innovation List in a bid to accelerate deployment of domestic hardware. But can Chinese semiconductor industry satisfy the needs of domestic AI industry?

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User reports claim December Windows 11 security update fixes AMD GPU hanging and driver crashing

A multitude of AMD GPU owners claim the December security update for Windows 11 has fixed GPU hanging and driver crashing, primarily on RX 9000 series GPUs.

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Framework puts Dell and Apple on blast over egregious RAM prices — modular laptop maker will be forced to increase memory prices, but won't "gouge customers" like other vendors

Memory prices are rising everywhere, and the latest to be hit in the aftermath of this crisis is modular laptop manufacturer Framework, which just announced its own price hike in a very interesting fashion. The company replied to a tweet showing Dell's allegedly insane markup on RAM upgrades that later…

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Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring

DeepSeek is allegedly involved in a "phantom data center" smuggling scheme to get Blackwell GPU servers into China as part of training its newest LLM generation. While Nvidia refutes the claims as "farfetched", some proof indicates otherwise.

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China holds 'emergency meetings' to discuss Nvidia H200 purchases following export rule change, report claims — ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba asked to assess demand

China convened emergency meetings with its largest technology companies on Wednesday to assess how many of Nvidia’s H200 accelerators they intend to buy.

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Nvidia develops software-based tracking for AI GPUs to quash smuggling concerns — solution devised to prevent shipments to nations with export controls in place

Nvidia has quietly developed a software-based location-verification system for its Blackwell-generation GPUs that can approximate where the hardware is operating, which could prevent smuggling of AI GPUs to China.

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Microsoft promises to make Windows 11 the best operating system for gaming — says it will focus on background workloads, power and scheduling, graphics stack, and drivers

Microsoft says Windows 11 will receive major gaming-focused enhancements in 2026, including broader support for Xbox Full Screen Experience, Auto Super Resolution for handhelds, expanded Advanced Shader Delivery, and more.

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White House U-turn on Nvidia H200 AI accelerator exports down to Huawei's powerful new Ascend chips, report claims — U.S. committed to 'dominance of the American tech stack'

According to a new report, the Trump Administration's U-turn on allowing exports of the Nvidia H200 AI accelerator chip is down to competition from China's native Huawei, which offers comparable power.

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Snapmaker Raises Millions as Chinese Big Tech Investors Pile Into 3D Printing

Snapmaker rides its U1 tool changer to the big leagues.

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Supersonic airline outfit Boom unveils turbine for AI data centers — 42 MW Superpower turbine uses the same tech designed to power Concorde successor to Mach 1.7 at 60,000 ft

Superpower gas turbine will efficiently feed AI datacenters

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Corsair builds multi-function touchscreen LCD into a $400 case — Frame 4000D enclosure gets a modular Xeneon Edge upgrade

Corsair ensconces a Xeneon Edge touchscreen in its Frame 4000D case

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Nvidia Dawn and Dusk demo PC resurfaces alongside its original FX 5950 Ultra graphics card — state-of-the-art dream machine made gamers' hearts race in 2004

The Dawn and Dusk demo PC, an enchanting artifact dating back to when Nvidia was very firmly a gaming-first company, has resurfaced many years on.

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AMD FirePro S10000 dual-GPU card from 2012 runs Arc Raiders at playable frame rates — but half of its GPU power goes unused in the process

YouTuber turns 2012 AMD FirePro S10000 dual-GPU workstation graphics card into a gaming GPU, capable of running Arc Raiders at more than 40 FPS.

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Intel's upcoming Core Ultra X9 388H is up to 8.7% faster for 1T perf than Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — Panther Lake gains significant ground on Strix Halo in early Geekbench leak

Intel's Panther Lake family is still awaiting release, but the possible flagship chip of the bunch has been spotted on Geekbench. The Core Ultra X9 388H scores 3,057 points in the single-core test and 17,687 points in the multi-core test, racing past its Arrow Lake-H predecessor and AMD's Strix Halo.

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Semiconductor industry enters unprecedented ‘giga cycle’, says report — scale of artificial intelligence is rewriting compute, memory, networking, and storage economics all at once

A growing body of forecasts from AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and major research firms now points toward a semiconductor market that passes the trillion-dollar threshold before the decade closes.

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Latest Steam Client Beta backport keeps Windows 7 and Windows 8 gaming PCs on life support — unofficial solution gives a lifeline to legacy users

Gaming enthusiast Eazy Black has backported the latest Steam beta client (December 4, 2025 build) to support Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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This GitHub script claims to wipe all of Windows 11's AI features in seconds — "RemoveWindowsAI" can disable every single AI feature in the OS, from Copilot to Recall and more

If you've been unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken Windows, offering no meaningful improvements beyond AI and aesthetics, then, well, not much can be done about that. But, at least you can disable all the AI features that seem to have populated every corner of the OS, with a…

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Intel boosts India's chip push with new Tata Group strategic partnership — includes manufacturing and packaging of Intel products for local markets

Intel’s new partnership with Tata signals a transformative step for India’s chip ecosystem, enabling domestic manufacturing, advanced packaging, and enterprise compute solutions.

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Trump approves Nvidia H200 exports to China, with 25% fee attached — report suggests that companies will have to follow strict Beijing rules to import foreign chip, AMD and Intel to benefit from policy shift

The U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its H200 data center accelerators to “approved customers” in China, President Donald Trump announced on Monday.

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