Hardware

China fires back at Trump’s 10% tariff proposal with a 20% price cut on domestic products — Beijing's policy will negatively affect chipmakers, including Nvidia and Intel
China is putting a 20% price evaluation advantage on its own products when bidding for government contracts.
2024-12-06 16:58
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Samsung's 4K Odyssey G70B gaming monitor plummets to $299 — all-time low is a whopping $300 savings
For just $299 you can pick up this Samsung 4K Odyssey G70B and play your favorite games in Ultra High Definition.
2024-12-06 16:24
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Chinese companies are reportedly reluctant to adopt homegrown chips — domestic solutions are technologically too far behind
Chinese companies are reluctant to adopt domestic silicon from automotive and computing to AI and HPC sectors.
2024-12-06 16:20
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Maxsun makes a GPU with two built-in M.2 SSD ports — Intel Arc B580 graphics card leverages unused PCIe lanes on the PCIe x16 slot
Intel Arc B580 uses only eight PCIe 4.0 lanes, giving enough lanes for two M.2 slots
2024-12-06 15:21
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Supermicro to help Musk scale xAI supercomputer to a million GPUs — Supermicro will set up local operations in Memphis to facilitate operations
Supermicro plans build local operations in Memphis, Tennessee to support Musk's expansion of the xAI Colossus supercomputer.
2024-12-06 15:07
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC performance testing and settings analysis — we tested 23 GPUs, the game is even more demanding than its predecessor
Microsoft Flight Simulator has been the quintessential CPU gaming benchmark for a while, and the 2024 release mostly keeps that pattern. Maxed-out settings tend to be more core-friendly than the prior release, and you'll still want a potent GPU for hig...
2024-12-06 14:51
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US lawmakers fire back at government's chip sanctions against China, alleging glaring loopholes that let China access the latest technology
The primary weakness of the new export rules lies in their reliance on a fab-specific approach instead of an entity-wide strategy, asserts John Moolenaar, the chairman of House Select Committee on the CCP.
2024-12-06 14:32
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Crucial P310 (2280) SSD Review: Same great taste, but with a new look
The Crucial P310 is back, but this time in a longer form factor. Performance and power efficiency are still good, but it’s also still QLC-based.
2024-12-06 13:00
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Seagate's HAMR HDDs qualified by customers — volume shipments imminent
Qualification of Seagate's HAMR hard drives by major customers is complete, mass shipments due in coming weeks.
2024-12-06 11:16
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Intel appoints two new board members with semiconductor backgrounds following Gelsinger exit
Intel strengthens board of directors with two new members from ASML and Microchip.
2024-12-05 21:37
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Polysoft offers $849 8TB SSD upgrade module for Mac Studio — reverse-engineered SSD vastly undercuts Apple's $2,220 price
Polysoft's custom SSD PCBs allow users to easily upgrade the storage on their Mac Studio at a fraction of what Apple charges.
2024-12-05 19:39
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Nvidia bids goodbye to GeForce Experience — Nvidia App officially replaces it in the latest driver update
The GeForce Experience app won't receive updates anymore.
2024-12-05 18:07
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TSMC is reportedly in talks with Nvidia to make Blackwell GPUs in Arizona — Blackwell silicon needs to be shipped back to Taiwan for assembly
If TSMC reaches a deal with Nvidia, it could reportedly produce Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs at its Fab 21 in Arizona.
2024-12-05 16:49
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Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS
Valve has published branding guidelines which make its intentions to deliver SteamOS 3 to a wide range of third party hardware platforms clearer than ever.
2024-12-05 16:12
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3DMark gets new DirectStorage benchmark — GDeflate measures transfer rates from NVMe SSD to GPU VRAM
3DMark adds a DirectStorage feature test benchmark.
2024-12-05 16:00
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Jobs eviscerated at Chinese Arm chip design firm in wake of restrictions from TSMC — lack of access to 7nm node could cause 150 employees to be laid off
Half of Hongjun Microelectronics Technology’s 300 workers might be fired after the server CPU firm lost access to TSMC’s 7nm node.
2024-12-05 16:00
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Scientists develop the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, offering a 5,000-year lifespan — the device uses radioactive decay to generate low power levels
A UK research team built carbon-14 diamond batteries that could potentially deliver power for thousands of years.
2024-12-05 15:37
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With this Raspberry Pi powered mask you can 'become anyone' hidden behind 2,960 LEDs
Sean Hodgins has created a Raspberry Pi-powered mask that's comprised of matrix panels that can play videos and display images of any face you want.
2024-12-05 15:32
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Intel says Arc Xe4 Druid GPUs are already in the works — Software optimization is the only remaining step for Xe3 Celestial as it approaches launch with Panther Lake
Tom Peterson confirms that Intel's hardware division is working on Druid "Xe4" GPUs as the software team optimizes Celestial "Xe3" for launch next year.
2024-12-05 14:30
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USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller
Lumafield CT scanned the O.MG USB-C cable and discovered hidden advanced electronics with a sinister purpose.
2024-12-05 14:10
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