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Gelsinger fires back at recent stories about 18A's poor yields, schools social media commenters on defect densities and yields (www.tomshardware.com)
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Former Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger believes in the company's 18A process technology.

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Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA 3 graphics (www.tomshardware.com)
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Google might be involved in development.

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Weak demand prevents Amazon from deploying AMD's Instinct AI accelerators in the cloud — the company plans to strengthen its portfolio with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
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So, it does not have plans to deploy these accelerators just yet.

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Broadcom unveils gigantic 3.5D XDSiP platform for AI XPUs — 6000mm² of stacked silicon with 12 HBM modules (www.tomshardware.com)
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Monstrous 3.5D processors for AI and HPC are incoming.

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Huawei preps new Kunpeng CPU with HBM — unannounced Kunpeng Arm server chip matches Intel and AMD's tech (www.tomshardware.com)
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Likely to use SMIC's aging 7nm technology.

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Microsoft discontinues lackadaisically updated Surface Studio all-in-one desktop (arstechnica.com)
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This expensive all-in-one’s unique screen was the only thing going for it.

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Ryzen Z2G CPU reportedly powers new $650 gaming handheld — Lenovo Legion Go S packs 8-inch display, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD (www.tomshardware.com)
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A great budget choice for gaming-on-the-go - if priced correctly.

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Nearly 80,000 Anker speakers recalled due to fire hazard (www.theverge.com)
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The speakers were sold exclusively on Amazon.

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NZXT responded to the Flex PC rental program controversy, but it’s not over yet (www.theverge.com)
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The YouTube channel Gamers Nexus now says NZXT’s statement ‘distorts the reality of their predatory rental computer program’ and introduces new concerns.

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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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TSMC could move production of some of Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs to America.

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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Export restrictions may be fatal for this company.

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Apple to shell out $1 billion on a manufacturing plant in Indonesia (techcrunch.com)
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Negotiating with one of the largest companies in the world doesn’t sound easy, but that’s precisely what Indonesia has been doing for the past few weeks with iPhone maker Apple. The backstory here is that after the country required smartphones which are sold domestically to be made of at least 40% locally manufactured parts, Indonesia banned iPhone 16 sales. In November 2024, authorities even confiscated and destroyed recent iPhone models, as shown in the picture above.

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USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG pen testing cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller (www.tomshardware.com)
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A small package with a huge malicious potential.

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AWS building ExaFLOPS-class supercomputer for AI with hundreds of thousands homegrown Trainium2 processors — AWS forges a path without Nvidia GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
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130 FP8 ExaFLOPS?

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TSMC's N2 process has a major advantage over Intel's 18A: SRAM density (www.tomshardware.com)
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SRAM is hard to scale.

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China's largest chip industry associations say it's unsafe to buy US chips — warnings come in the wake of new US sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
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Calls to replace American technology with domestic technology.

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Discrete GPU sales dip while Nvidia continues to dominate — iGPUs increase while discrete GPUs decline (www.tomshardware.com)
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73.6 million iGPUs and dGPUs shipped during the quarter

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RTX 4060 Ti transformed into a 65W GPU with a passive mod — a downclocked GPU and VRAM reduces power consumption from 160W to 65W (www.tomshardware.com)
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Delivers a very worthwhile performance uplift vs. commercial fanless RTX 3050 cards.

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China limits US export of chipmaking materials following sanctions (www.theverge.com)
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It might get harder for the US to get certain materials.

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[Video] Gamers Nexus | Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated (youtu.be)
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - NZXT's PREDATORY PROGRAM
06:15 - H1 Fires, Context, & History
09:08 - Motivated by Greed
11:02 - Bait & Switch
17:18 - Why Names Matter
19:43 - Fraudulent Marketing & Influencer Clowns
24:09 - NZXT's Lies
27:26 - NZXT's Victims
29:49 - Predatory Pricing
32:00 - $15,000 for a 5600X
32:46 - ILLEGAL LOANS
34:43 - CRIMINAL LOANS
36:40 - Aggressive Terms (ft. Lawyer Interview)
37:10 - Lawyer: Punishing Consumers
39:15 - Lawyer: Excessive Billing
43:46 - Lawyer: Major Privacy Concerns
46:32 - MAGIC THE GATHERING LAWYER TANGENT
47:15 - Lawyer: NZXT Protecting Itself vs. Aggression
49:35 - Lawyer: DEATH Waiver
54:19 - Lawyer: No Guarantee on Specs Listed
56:25 - Lawyer: Consumer Rights
58:11 - CONCLUSION

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Gigabyte's new app for enabling its X3D Turbo Mode in Windows is, for some unfathomable reason, called Aorus AI Snatch (www.pcgamer.com)
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Stop sniggering at the back, okay?

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MSI's new Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+ bring Intel Lunar Lake performance to handhelds (www.tomshardware.com)
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A Core Ultra 7 258V, with Arc 140V graphics, in your hands.

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TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers (www.tomshardware.com)
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The higher, the better.

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U.S. ratchets up sanctions to curtail China's AI and military tech — no more HBM memory for China (www.tomshardware.com)
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Third turn of the screw adds 140 Chinese groups to the entity list.

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In a bid to compete with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and Samsung invest $700 million in AI chip startup Tenstorrent (www.tomshardware.com)
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Tenstorrent has plans to manufacture its new AI chips through TSMC and Samsung.

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