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Taiwan National Science Council believes China is 10 years behind TSMC

Although some believe SMIC is just a few years behind TSMC, Taiwan officials think differently.

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Microsoft KB5043145 update wreaks havoc on Windows 11 with multiple reboots and BSODs — company rolls back optional update

The KB5043145 Preview Update causes some Windows 11 computers to reboot multiple times or experience BSODs after installation. Microsoft has released an automatic fix and asks users to restart their PCs a few times to get it.

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Microsoft Defender can now detect insecure Wi-Fi hotspots and enable a VPN — you need to pay for Microsoft 365 and live in a supported region

Microsoft Defender gets some updates, especially to public Wi-Fi VPN functionality.

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Snapdragon X Elite pushed past 100W shows us what the CPU can offer on the desktop — almost 4X more power for 10% to 30% more performance

Benchmarks performed on the Snapdragon X Elite dev kit show that having a lot more power doesn't always mean having a lot more speed.

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Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation

Google Japan announced a new keyboard design that addresses the “big problem” of keyboards only having keys on one side.

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State-owned China Telecom has trained domestic AI LLMs using homegrown chips — one model reportedly uses 1 trillion parameters

State-owned China Telecom claims to have trained two LLMs—one with a 100-billion parameter and another with one trillion—purely using homegrown AI accelerators.

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Microsoft launches Windows 11 24H2 alongside several new Copilot features

Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 24H2, and is introducing its next round of features for Copilot+ PCs, including bringing back Recall.

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Western Digital separates WD.com and SanDisk.com websites, split between HDD and SSD product categories

Western Digital gets a feeling of what is to come after the company is split into two.

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Westinghouse's eVinci micro nuclear reactor for data centers delivers 5 megawatts of power for eight years without refueling — microreactors could power next-gen AI data centers

Westinghouse is taking one step forward to getting approval for its eVinci microreactor.

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Snapdragon X2 Elite processors spotted in testing — Qualcomm's Project Glymur reportedly incoming

First details about Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite emerge as new CPU begins internal tests.

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Doom port runs entirely on your GPU — no rip-and-tear wear on your CPU

Doom can now run almost entirely on the GPU, thanks to the LLVM C library for GPUs.

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Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing

Global quartz supply could be disrupted by Hurricane Helene.

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Non-K Core Ultra 9 285 spotted in Geekbench — Matches 14900K in single-core, underwhelms in multi-core

Intel's Core Ultra 9 285 was spotted in the Geekbench browser with strong single-core performance, but weak multi-core results, unable to beat even the 13th Gen Core i7-13700.

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Noctua's next-gen 140mm fans debut – NF-A14x25 G2s promise improved performance, deliver the same amount of brown

Noctua's NF-A14x25 G2 fans arrive in traditional brown attire.

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Panther Cove will reportedly arrive with big IPC improvements, support for Intel APX

Intel is purportedly working on a very far-out P-Core architecture, dubbed Panther Cove, that will purportedly come with massive IPC improvements and support for APX.

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Despite Intel's woes, the U.S. remains the revenue leader of the semiconductor industry

With $264.6 billion in 2023 sales, the U.S. semiconductor industry remains the largest on the planet, and this will not change anytime soon.

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Seasonic power supplies debut with OptiSink design to improve cooling — Opti Sink touts an 8X increase in thermal conductivity

Seasonic has updated its Focus GX PSU lineup for 2024 with an all-new cooling technology dubbed 'OptiSink' that significantly revamps how the MOS is cooled.

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DIY mini-ITX motherboard lets you play DOS games without emulation — ITX Llama features a Vortex86EX 500 MHz CPU

A DOS enthusiast built a mini-ITX DOS PC based on the Vortex86EX.

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Ryzen 9 9950X hits 7.54 GHz to break numerous world records — Zen 5 flagship raises the bar for 16-core CPUs

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X breaks several new records, including the all-out Ryzen frequency record of 7.54 GHz. Five other benchmarking records were also broken, including in Geekbench 3 and Cinebench R23.

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Laptop packing RTX 4090 desktop weighs in at over 15 pounds — other specs include a Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB DDR5-6800, and Optane P5800 SSD

A Chinese modder and Bilibili creator has shared their design for a full-fat Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 laptop, cramming a power-thirsty desktop RTX 4090 into a portable clamshell luggable.

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AMD boosts Zen 5 official warrantied TDP to 105W, fixes Ryzen 9000 latency issue, launches 800-series chipsets

AMD made a slew of announcements about its latest progress with its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors, with the most important announcement being that the company will now fully support a 105W TDP mode with its Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X models.

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DOOM can now run on a quantum computer with Quandoom port — seminal FPS blood and gore mixed with spooky action

DOOM has been ported to quantum computers, marking another milestone for this seminal 3D gaming title. However, the coder behind this feat admits that there is currently no quantum computer capable of executing (playing) this code right now.

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AMD unveils its first small language model, AMD-135M — AI performance enhanced by speculative decoding

Software-specific optimizations help AMD's MI250 to win in some cases.

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Raspberry Pi AI Camera Review: AI for the masses

Featuring an embedded RP2040, the Raspberry Pi AI Camera's Sony IMX500 handles the AI processing duties itself, leaving the main CPU ready to work on other tasks.

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