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Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse — shareholders now suing founder

Xiangdixian Computing Technology (XCT), the company behind China's homegrown Tianjun GPUs, is reportedly facing financial trouble after laying off employees and being sued by its shareholders.

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Intel Core Ultra Series 2 comes to the Dell XPS 13

The Dell XPS 13 9350 uses Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 processor for up to 28W of performance and longer battery life, but the chassis is unchanged.

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Intel launches Lunar Lake: claims Arm-beating battery life, world’s fastest mobile CPU cores

Intel finally revealed its performance benchmarks for its Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V-series processors, touting ‘historic x86 power efficiency’ coupled with the world’s fastest mobile CPU cores and 30% faster gaming performance than competing processors.

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Taiwan accuses Chinese chip manufacturing tool companies of poaching engineers from Taiwanese companies

Taiwanese intelligence says that Naura Technology and others illegally poach engineers from Taiwanese high-tech firms to boost the Chinese semiconductor industry.

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Taiwan chip industry heavyweights form SiPhIA to energize the photonics industry

Over 30 Taiwanese tech industry heavyweights have formed a new Silicon Photonics Industry Alliance (SiPhIA), demonstrating that this branch of semiconductor development is getting serious attention. Leading semiconductor firms like TSMC, ASE, Foxconn, and MediaTek are in the new collective.

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Leaker says RTX 50-series GPUs will require substantially more power, with the RTX 5090 TDP jumping by over 100 watts

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Intel to establish advanced chip R&D center in Japan — a collaborative venture with Tokyo's Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Intel and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology to establish semiconductor R&D center to advance Japanese chip industry.

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Raspberry Pi 5 powers personal cloud server in a custom laser-cut case

Michael Klements has created a cool Raspberry Pi 5-powered personal cloud server and made a slick laser cut case for it using an Omtech Polar.

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Scientists create optically switchable photonic units, aiming to power the future of logic gates and microchips

A research team from the University of Bayreuth and the University of Melbourne have successfully used optical logic gates to read, write, and erase binary information, marking one of the first successful applications of light to input, process, and output data.

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Pentium processor turned into a Navajo weaving — Ken Shirriff finds a piece of CPU history

This Navajo rug weaved in the likeness of the first Pentium die, a gift commissioned by Intel, is currently on display in the National Gallery of Art. Ken Shirriff, curator of online tech oddities, tracked down the history of Intel's relationship with the Navajo reservation.

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Khadas lists modular Intel Lunar Lake AI mini-PC development kit for $1,199

Khadas has a new Lunar Lake development PC that can be connected to a variety of accessories including a GPU dock featuring a desktop RTX 4060 Ti.

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Icy Dock unveils 4-bay M.2 adapter for PCIe 5.0 SSDs: up to 56 GB/s

Icy Dock reveals ExpressSlot MB204MP-B adapter for four M.2-2280 SSDs.

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China spent more on chipmaking equipment than South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S. combined — $25B in investments in the first half of the year

A Nikkei report says that China bought more chipmaking tools than the U.S., Taiwan, and South Korea combined.

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Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update

Windows 11's Recall AI feature cannot be disabled despite a toggle in the current version.

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Intel CEO will reportedly present plans to cut assets at an emergency board meeting — chipmaker may put $32B Magdeburg plant on hold and sell off Altera

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is expected to meet with the board of executives this month to share potential plans on what to cut from Intel to turn around the company. Intel's Foundry wing will not be on the chopping block, but Intel's in-progress Magdeburg fab will likely be canceled.

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Nvidia revamps GeForce RTX badge with AI slogan — new logo reads "GeForce RTX Powering Advanced AI"

Nvidia has updated its case badge for GeForce RTX graphics cards, including the new tagline "Powering Advanced AI." OEMs, including PNY, have already begun adopting the new branding.

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RGB-infused direct die cooling block arrives for Intel LGA1700 CPUs — Thermal Grizzly claims six degrees Celsius lower temperatures

High-performance cooling specialist Thermal Grizzly has launched the Intel Mycro Direct-Die Pro RGB V1. This is a direct-die (delidded) CPU cooling block for liquid-cooled setups. Compared to its predecessor, this ‘Pro’ model, with the added sparkle of RGB lighting, delivers ‘up to 6 degrees Celsius lower temperatures.’

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Palit and Gainward release 'Nvidia SFF-ready' Infinity 3 and Python 3 Nvidia RTX 4000 series GPUs

Both Palit Group-owned brands Palit and Gainward have released new RTX 40 series graphics cards to comply with Nvidia's SFF-ready standard, while both brands use the same design with triple fan cooling.

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Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey

Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system strode past a major market share milestone in August. The newest version of Windows gained an impressive 3.36% market share, according to the newest Steam Hardware Survey data, to reach 50.81% share.

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Intel Panther Lake processors could pack up to 16 cores, maximum of four performance cores according to leak

Panther Lake's top configuration to feature up to four high-performance cores and up to eight efficiency cores

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Windows preview build teases searching your audio and video content — 'intelligent media search' referenced in newest build

Windows Insider Canary Channel build 27695 brings with it references to an "intelligent media search" function. If users opt in, the tool would train an AI model on all audio and videos on your device and make them searchable from Windows search.

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AMD 128-core Zen 5-based EPYC 9755 'Turin' tested: 2X faster than 128-core predecessor

AMD's 128-core EPYC 9755 is two times faster than 128-core EPYC 9754 processor in a compression/decompression benchmark.

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This Raspberry Pi Pico drives tiny level crossing lights for a model train

Brendan McGrath is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to operate his little level crossing lights for model train projects.

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'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated — buyers beware

TechTuber Der8auer has highlighted the plight of one of his fans who was scammed into buying a fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor. The expert overclocker talks viewers through some of the outward signs that this chip was a fake, which could prevent others for falling for scams like this.

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Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled

A Houston resident discovered that their recyclable trash isn't being processed when the AirTags they used to track the recyclables show them sitting in a private open-air lot.

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