Hardware

AI smarts builds smarter chips.

RAM frequency records are also set at 12066 MT/s

Llama 4 slated to have new modalities, stronger reasoning, and faster performance

The U.S. is funding the EUV research needed to build the next generation of chips and processors.

Are power grids ready?

The thinness of silicon wafers is important because it reduces resistance and power loss. Current-gen wafers measure 40 to 60 micrometers thick. By roughly halving the wafer's thickness, Infineon has managed to slash substrate resistance by 50 percent. This, in turn, leads to over 15 percent less power loss compared to other solutions.

Loongson is finally competing directly with the likes of Intel and AMD

It's an impressive build that v2 may make better.

The 7900 XTX was able to run the glmark2 benchmark.

All the U.S. government's efforts have largely been in vain.

Qualcomm engineering director Trilok Soni recently confirmed that the company's Linux team published Linux kernel updates for the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. Qualcomm unveiled the SoC earlier this month, targeting a new generation of flagship phones and tablets supporting Android and Linux.

In a clip posted to YouTube by Barcade, we see Shadow the Hedgehog racing through the opening levels of the game on what looks like a fairly standard graphing calculator display.

Broadcom set to help OpenAI to build its AI inference chip.

The Central Taiwan Science Park has issued an ultimatum to the golf club: resolve your issues by December 15 or face compulsory acquisition.

We've previously covered how this same talented individual (Eta Prime) converted a busted Steam Deck into a mini gaming PC. But this newer build stands out as it's an actual PC build packing an Intel i7 chip and even a dedicated GPU – AMD's Radeon RX 6400. Fitting that GPU into the compact Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q chassis is quite the achievement. The previous Steam Deck conversion relied on the handheld's original motherboard, limiting it to the AMD APU sans a discrete GPU.

It's probably good that previous-generation CPUs will be the leading solution for upcoming GeForce RTX 50series-equipped gaming laptops.

The core concept behind SOM is using unique chalcogenide materials that perform double duty as both the memory cell and the selector device. In traditional phase-change or resistive RAM, you need a separate component, like a transistor, to act as the selector to activate each cell. Conversely, the chalcogenide material in SOM switches between conductive and resistive states to store data.

8BitDo opened pre-orders for its Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller this week, with shipping to start November 29. The attachable gamepad comes in black or white and clamps onto any Android phone or tablet between 3.9" to 6.6" in length. Unlike the ever-popular Backbone One, it connects over Bluetooth instead of the phone's data port, so it needs a battery.

But implicated Chinese firm Sophgo denies any Huawei links.

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab have developed a new type of optical memory that stores data by transferring light from rare-earth element atoms embedded in a solid material to nearby quantum defects. They published their study in Physical Review Research.

Study: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033170

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D brings the Zen 5 and 3D V-Cache firepower.

But is India's power grid prepared for that?

Does Arm's latest move – canceling a Qualcomm license – imply they're willing to take the very risky step of pushing this lawsuit all the way to a jury trial? At the most basic level, this lawsuit is essentially a contract dispute: Qualcomm pays one rate, and Arm thinks Qualcomm should pay a different, higher rate. But this cancellation clearly implies that Arm could cause deeper problems for Qualcomm, should they choose to.

Docking Station supports NVMe Gen 4 SSDs or Wi-Fi attachments, can supply up to 600 Watts of Power

90 minutes of playtime, but you can play and charge