The 1.4nm process was previously reported to be progressing smoothly, with TSMC seemingly facing zero obstacles. However, the semiconductor giant wasn’t experiencing technical difficulties, but its plans to secure the necessary real estate were stalled due to protests from landowners. Fortunately, this little distraction is no longer a problem, as the latest report states that TSMC has secured the land for two 1.4nm plants and one panel-level advanced packaging facility. Pilot production for the 1.4nm process is said to kick off as early as H2 2027; the majority of the land for the plants was owned by the locals The […]

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The arrival of the MacBook Neo has ushered in a wave of affordable Windows 11 notebooks. First, it was Dell’s XPS 13, and now, we have Acer, which is quietly taking pre-orders for the Aspire Go 15, its affordable offering that’s powered by none other than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon C. It also packs the same RAM count as the MacBook Neo, and its listing price is much lower than the latter. At £499, Acer’s Aspire Go 15 is indeed affordable, but there are trade-offs too when comparing it to the MacBook Neo Alongside the 8-core Snapdragon C, the Aspire Go 15 features 8GB […]

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A gaming laptop with a vapor chamber will often deliver superior thermals compared to a machine outfitted with a traditional heatpipe solution, assuming it has been designed correctly. With Razer, a Blade 18 owner reveals that this pricey purchase stopped throwing hot air from the vents, with condensation showing around the vapor chamber, indicating that the cooler had broken. Upon further investigation, it’s revealed that these gaming laptops ship with a major flaw that Razer hasn’t addressed. The vapor chamber “fill port” seal often breaks on Razer Blade gaming laptops, causing the cooler to break down completely There have been […]

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A seismic shift in the DRAM industry has enabled major players like Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron to move away from their volatile and razor-thin margins and enforce a more stable business model that involves locking in long-term supply contracts and strict price floors through 2030. One analysis reveals that these manufacturers are sitting on $38 billion worth of deals, holding immense leverage over customers, but this position of power won’t last forever. Samsung, Micron, and SK hynix have set up a financial position that won’t last forever as time moves on The DRAM supply to a multitude of customers […]

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Windows 11 and its apps being RAM guzzlers isn’t a surprising revelation, but Microsoft has committed to making the OS as efficient as possible for systems housing 8GB of RAM. Unfortunately, that progress is yet to be witnessed as the company’s Weather app can consume a chock-full of memory. This is exceptionally frustrating for those who are trying to find ways to make Windows 11 work with a minimum amount of RAM or those who don’t know their way around the platform. The Weather app in macOS consumes five times less memory and isn’t riddled with ads, Windows 11's app […]

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Modder Crementif has released a new version of the BetterVR mod, greatly improving the experience of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in VR mode and also teasing a Mario Kart 8 VR port. The first version of BetterVR (running on the Cemu emulator) launched around seven months ago. Since then, it's had 20 updates, all of which brought substantial improvements, fixes, and polish to the game. And there are more updates to come, too, as the modder is still planning to add the following features: Existing features for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild include: […]

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Intel Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" CPUs will offer up to 256 cores based on the next-gen P-Core technology to tackle AMD EPYC Venice. Intel & AMD Will Battle Out In The 200+ Core Count "Data Center" CPU Segment, As Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" Set To Launch In 2027 The original plans for Diamond Rapids, Intel's upcoming Xeon platform, were quite ambitious. But it looks like the released chips will be a leaner version of what was initially planned. If you remember our previous reports on Diamond Rapids, we discussed 384- and 512-core count variants, going beyond anything on the market. […]

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Intel Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs are going to rock some impressive iGPU capabilities, with up to 40 Watts being dedicated to graphics alone. Intel Is Aiming To Tackle AMD's Ryzen APUs With Its 12Xe3-Class Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs The Intel Nova Lake-S (Core Ultra 400S) Desktop CPU family is expected to feature a powerful iGPU variant. A few months back, we reported that Nova Lake Desktop CPUs would feature a 12XeP iGPU configuration. It was later unveiled that the 12Xe3P iGPU would come in desktop, Edge, and mobile configurations. The Edge configuration would feature just 8 E-Cores, but the desktop […]

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In a wild experiment, we saw how this modder went from traditional heatsink to a direct water-cooling method to achieve very low temperatures. User Pumps Water Directly on a Running RTX 2060 as the Stock Cooler Wasn't Impressive TrashBench does some crazy things, and this one was a wild experiment. The modder has been doing some amazing mods, such as installing a full-fledged CPU cooler directly onto a GPU, but this one was on another level. The modder wanted to try "direct water" cooling on a GPU, and as you may assume, it's not like the AIO cooling at all. […]

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It can be difficult to purchase an RTX 5090 as a standalone product in some regions, which is why some retailers are now bundling these high-end GPUs with more products. RTX 5090 Goes On Sale With Several Motherboards at Taiwanese Retailer; Bundles Include Motherboards, AMD GPUs, CPUs, and Even Power Supplies Something unusual is going on in Taiwan, and it's tied to the high-end RTX 50 series GPUs. Previously, we saw a Taiwanese retailer selling RTX 5080 in bundles since the product wasn't available as a standalone product. Some retailers been doing this due to GPU shortages and high prices […]

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It's been four years since the AMD AM5 motherboard platform and the 600-series motherboards launched. Since its launch, the platform has seen the launch of several CPUs in the Ryzen 7000, Ryzen 8000, and Ryzen 9000 families. While the 600-series motherboards provide great features & compatibility with newer Zen 5 CPUs, motherboard makers are always looking to enhance user experiences through the latest technologies, so AMD has introduced a new chipset line called the 800-series. AMD also introduced both X870 and B850 series chipsets for high-end and mainstream AM5 motherboards. Both of these chips provide brand-new designs and brand-new features […]

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As AI customers race away with DRAM orders to fuel the ongoing crisis, customers and companies alike would adopt smarter ways to preserve existing computers and hardware so that they would be put to better use instead of landing in an e-waste pile. However, a former employee claims that a technology company he worked for isn’t following any of these procedures and is destroying highly capable MacBook Pro models equipped with 48GB of unified memory. More than 100 M4 MacBook Pro models with a large unified RAM count are being destroyed, when donating is a better option Getting rid of […]

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Prior to NVIDIA’s official announcement of the RTX Spark, the chip named N1X showcased some disappointing single-core and multi-core scores on Geekbench 6, failing to beat Apple’s older-generation M3 Max. Fortunately, a fresh leak shows some improvements from the ARM-based silicon, as it’s managed to narrow the multi-core performance gap with Apple’s 14-core M4 Max. Two RTX Spark laptops tested running Geekbench 7 were operating at the “Balanced” power profile, with the 18-core version slightly slower than the 20-core one Two machines with 64GB of unified memory have been spotted on the Geekbench 7 database, with one of the models, […]

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T-Mobile's CEO has chosen to be dismissive of SpaceX's recent braggadocio, terming the threat posed by Elon Musk's cellular ambitions as "exaggerated" and lacking any particularly strong utility in solving consumer-centric problems. And yet, this seemingly cavalier attitude on the part of T-Mobile might belie its hidden fears. After all, SpaceX possesses a wide array of strategic assets, including well-endowed coffers, a vast constellation of satellites, and Elon Musk's relentless ambition serving as a potent driving force. T-Mobile is seemingly unfazed by SpaceX's plans to turn Starlink dishes into cellular base stations for urban cellular coverage As we detailed recently, […]

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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick was chatty as usual in today's Q1 FY 2027 earnings call, giving a lot of space to GTA 6 (as expected) but also addressing rising hardware costs with optimism about cloud gaming as a solution. When quizzed on the matter, he reckoned that increased hardware prices aren't a significant headwind for Take-Two's games because of strong demand for the publisher's titles (he's mainly referring to GTA and NBA here, in all likelihood). Then, he shared that Take-Two is bullish about streaming taking off "commercially" within three years and basically increasing the installed base tenfold. Look, the […]

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One RTX 4090 owner should consider himself lucky that he chose ZOTAC because never once did the U.S. RMA team refuse an accommodation to entertain a warranty claim. In fact, this person is now the proud owner of an RTX 5090 after the older flagship GPU was sent for RMA four times. Looking at this incident, other companies should take lessons on how to retain loyal customers, especially during the DRAM shortage. Older RTX 4090 was riddled with BSODs, prompting ZOTAC to send him an RTX 5090 NVIDIA’s previous-generation consumer-grade GPU king, the RTX 4090, is still a solid performer […]

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), in partnership with the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taipei, Taiwan, has made a key breakthrough for next-generation transistor design. TSMC and the NYCU have demonstrated that instead of focusing on depositing new materials on the transistor channel, a better approach is to engineer the channel material to create a buffer before adding the insulating material and then the gate to control the electron flow across the transistor. TSMC & NYCU Demonstrate That Depositing Epitaxial Aluminum On Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS₂) Channel Leads To Implementation With Low Scattering Most of today's […]

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I guess we are in an era where the zeitgeist is not to teach the man how to fish, but the AI model, ensuring that the AI lab - Anthropic in this case - would then nosh on a lifetime's worth of customized silicon chips. Anthropic is paying $500,000-$850,000 right now to research engineers who are teaching its AI models how to design silicon chips, but just a fraction of this renumeration to the silicon engineers actually building those chips, and that too with nearly identical skillset requirements We reported back in May that Anthropic's passing remarks on "logic chips" […]

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This might be the thinnest laptop we have ever seen, and according to the images, Lenovo made several adjustments to accommodate USB-C ports. Lenovo Reportedly Prepares ThinkBook "Aeroblade", Featuring an Ultra-Thin Design That Appears Theoretically Impossible Thin laptops are trending due to the lightweight and compact design that helps carry them around effortlessly. Vendors have been competing against each other in producing thin laptops, and we have dedicated lineups from various OEMs that bring unmatched thin-profile notebooks such as Dell XPS, Lenovo ThinkBook/ThinkPad, ASUS ZenBook, HP OmniBook, and similar series. However, the leaked Lenovo laptop might be the thinnest of […]

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