Trailing-edge foundry roadmaps for GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC
Premium We explore Globalfoundries, UMC, and SMIC's individual trailing-edge roadmaps, as each company is pursuing a fundamentally different strategy shaped by geography, regulation, and technology choices.
AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report
Premium Microsoft and Uber are both considering refining their AI strategies as costs mount.
IBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding
Premium Headquartered in Albany, New York, Anderon will operate a 300mm quantum wafer fab and offer its manufacturing services to competing quantum hardware vendors.
Imec builds world's first High-NA EUV-fabricated quantum dot qubit device
Premium Imec may have revealed quantum computing’s clearest path to industrial-scale manufacturing
Analyst says Nvidia poised to capture two-thirds of the x86 server CPU market from Intel and AMD with expected $20 billion in revenue
Premium Having become the main supplier of AI accelerators, Nvidia is now on track to outsell AMD and Intel with Vera CPUs and become a leading supplier of processors.
Reviews
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x review: Snapdragon X2 Elite makes its case
The Yoga Slim 7x brings Snapdragon performance, long battery life, and an OLED display provided you’re fine with ARM apps and USB-C everything.
Asus ROG Crosshair 2006 motherboard review: 20 years of ROG
Dark Hero goes retro: Crosshair 2006 combines throwback styling with modern underpinnings
Arctic Freezer 36-S Review: Small size, effective performance, low price
We tested Arctic’s entry-level Freezer 36-S with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and it did better than you might expect for a single-tower air cooler.
Graphics Cards
You can still run the original Nvidia Control Panel by grabbing it from the Microsoft Store today — app remains useful to adjust a handful of RTX Pro and Quadro features, and may be handy for troubleshooting
The old Nvidia Control Panel is now a separate, optional download, but is it worth grabbing?
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Trailing-edge foundry roadmaps for GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC
Premium We explore Globalfoundries, UMC, and SMIC's individual trailing-edge roadmaps, as each company is pursuing a fundamentally different strategy shaped by geography, regulation, and technology choices.
PC Components
Orpheus II ISA soundcard returns due to ‘popular demand’ — aimed at DOS and early Windows users, this card includes hardware to support every major audio standard
Want real Sound Blaster, Gravis UltraSound, OPL3 FM synthesis, and MPU-401 MIDI support? You got it.
Desktops and PC Building
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software
You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!
Deals
Get your hands on a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD for under $390
Deals Save $250 (39%) and pick up one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 SSDs at a reasonable-for-the-times price.
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New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding
A new cryptocurrency called Pearl has set off a short-lived GPU mining rush.
The 'ultimate mosquito killer' uses lasers and AI
A computer vision and robotics expert has created and trained what he boasts is “the ultimate mosquito killer” using machine learning and a laser.
Bill Gates once starred in a bizarre Doom promo to push Windows 95 back in 1993 — tech mogul wore a trench coat, wielded a shotgun, and shot a demon, saying 'Who do you want to execute today?'
Bill Gates gives a possessed Doom heavy weapon dude both barrels in a rediscovered Windows 95 plus DirectX gaming presentation.
California Assembly passes 3D printer bill that would criminalize bypassing mandated gun-blocking software
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A robot startup is wreaking havoc on short-term rentals in San Francisco
A $12,000 lawsuit has been filed by one of the hosts.
