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Chinese tech firm Cambricon looks to step into Nvidia void, triple AI chip production next year — seeks to rival Huawei, but production remains a concern

Chinese tech firm Cambricon Technologies has plans to triple its production of domestic AI chips in 2026, targeting the market dominance of national giant Huawei. Primarily set to rely on Semiconductor Manufacturing International for fabrication, it's not entirely clear how Cambricon will get enough wafers to achieve its goals.

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First ARM-supported 3D driver for discrete gaming GPUs emerges from China — Lisuan 7G106 runs 3DMark on a Windows 11 ARM machine

Lisuan's 7G105 discrete GPU was spotted running 3DMark in an ARM-based machine, revealing that Lisuan has quite possibly built the first 3D graphics driver that supports ARM machines that works with a dedicated graphics card.

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Ancient 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics card coaxed into working in modern AMD Ryzen 9 9900X-powered Windows 11 system — 12MB relic from 1998 successfully runs Quake 2 but crumbles in SLI configuration

1998 3D accelerator uses an experimental 64-bit driver from 2006, to run on a PC using an OS from 2011, powered by a processor from 2024.

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Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act

The U.S. House shelved the GAIN AI Act, blocking a rule that would have forced AMD and Nvidia to put U.S. buyers ahead of China for advanced GPUs, though Beijing's own limits blunt the impact.

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Asus reportedly halts ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments — $4,000 halo card could be dead in its tracks for now due to quality control issue (Updated)

Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments halted due to QC issue (Updated)

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Micron is killing Crucial SSDs and memory in AI pivot — company refocuses on HBM and enterprise customers

After 29 years, Micron decided to wind down its Crucial consumer business amid switching resources to HBM memory and enterprise-grade hardware.

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Segotep's Titanload 12V-2x6 cables use heavier-duty pins to prevent meltdowns — brute-force approach purportedly drops peak temps by up to 72%

Segotep's Titanload family of 12V-2x6 cables use higher-capacity pins to try and reduce the risk of meltdowns under heavy GPU load.

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IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar AI data center buildout is unsustainable — says there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used an appearance on The Verge’s Decoder podcast to question whether the capital spending now underway in pursuit of AGI can ever pay for itself.

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GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era

Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series

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Customer buys RTX 5080 from Best Buy, but got rocks instead — $1,200 GPU arrived in tampered box with broken seal

A Redditor who purchased an Asus TUF RTX 5080 from Best Buy for $1,200 received rocks inside the box, which itself was already tampered with. Upon reaching out to customer support, Best Buy told our victim that nothing could be done, and no refund would be issued, despite not getting…

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Enthusiast adds OCuLink port to Framework 16 Laptop — offering PCIe 4.0 x8 bandwidth for big GPU performance gains

The project has been bandied about for years, but has finally come to fruition thanks to the dedicated efforts of one modder.

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AI data-centre buildout pushes copper toward shortages, analysts warn — only 70% of 2035 demand could be met, 2025 deficit thought to be 304,000 tonnes

Copper producers and market analysts are starting to outline a supply gap that arrives just as hyperscale AI campuses ramp toward record power draws.

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Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB, thanks to the help of PC port veterans — ditching HDD optimization, 85% size reduction accomplished by de-duplicating game data

The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression.

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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"

A user used Google Antigravity to build an app, but it ended up deleting their entire D: drive instead of just their project's cache folder.

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Enthusiast modder creates the smallest-ever PlayStation using genuine chips for console's 31st anniversary — redesigned PCB is less than a quarter size of the already dinky PS One revision

An enthusiast has managed to shrink an already dinky PS One motherboard down to a quarter of its size. Working prototype uses all original ICs.

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Reviewer records first drop in overall brightness after 21 months of burning in his QD-OLED monitor — but the 2% decrease isn't likely to be noticeable

After 5000 hours of torture testing over 21 months, Monitors Unboxed has shared the latest effects of that stress on an MSI MPG 321URX OLED monitor. Beyond burn-in, the display is beginning to exhibit signs of gradual brightness degradation

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Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel

Linux usage has hit an all-time high in the latest Steam hardware survey, indicating the small but growing popularity of SteamOS and its derivatives.

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New rumor suggests 8GB Radeons could get $20 price hikes, 16GB $40 — rising GDDR6 spot prices add fuel to the GPU pricing fire

AMD's MSRPs for Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards may increase by $20 - $40 amid rising GDDR6 prices depending on the model, if new rumors are true.

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GPU prices are threatening to climb, but at least tariffs won't make it worse - 25% import tax on Chinese-made electronics suspended once again

The White House has once again extended the exemption for its 25% tariffs on GPUs and other Chinese-made computer components.

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HPE adopts AMD’s Helios rack architecture for 2026 AI systems — new rack form factor gets its first major partner ahead of 2026 availability

AMD and HPE are expanding their long-running partnership with a new agreement that will bring the AMD Helios rack-scale AI architecture into HPE’s product portfolio from 2026.

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Taiwan hits Japanese firm with indictment in TSMC data theft saga — Tokyo Electron charged with failing to prevent its staff from stealing trade secrets

Taiwanese prosecutors are seeking financial compensation from Japanese semiconductor company, Tokyo Electron, claiming that it didn't take appropriate measures to prevent staff from trying to steal sensitive data from TSMC.

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U.S government awards Gelsinger-backed EUV developer xLight with $150 million in federal incentives — company to develop new electron-based light source for lithography tools

U.S. government to inject up to $150 million in xLight, a startup developing EUV light source based on a particle accelerator, with the first CHIPS and Science Act grant by the Trump Administration.

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OpenAI declares ‘Code Red’ as Google’s Gemini AI outpaces ChatGPT in industry benchmarks, report claims — Sam Altman sets all hands to the pump on flagship LLM, parks other projects

OpenAI's Sam Altman announced in an internal memo that the company is in 'Code Red' status, putting every other project on the backburner in favor of ChatGPT.

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China issues first batch of ‘general’ rare-earth export licences to magnet makers — country's stranglehold over industry continues, but tensions are easing

China has issued the first round of streamlined rare-earth export licences to at least three permanent-magnet manufacturers, allowing them to accelerate shipments to selected overseas clients.

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Latest GPU market analysis shows Nvidia losing ground to AMD — and Intel cracks the 1% share milestone for the first time

Intel breaks through 1% graphics card market share. AMD is also rising. Both gain at Nvidia's expense.

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