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Intel's Q1 2024 financial results show a 17% year-over-year revenue growth, driven by 11.9 billion in sales from its client computing and datacenter groups. The company's manufacturing unit reported a loss of 2.5 billion due to increased investment in capacity.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 87 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
Two Chinese nationals, Han Li and Lin Chen, have been charged with illegally exporting a semiconductor dicing machine to a Chinese tech company. Han Li was arrested in Chicago, while Lin Chen is believed to be in China. The alleged scheme occurred between May 2015 and August 2018.
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Technology | Rating: 86 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
MSI's Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card supply has dried up globally. All listings have vanished in Australia, the US, Germany, and Italy, except for a single RX 7900 XTX Gaming Trio listing.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 81 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
NorthWestRepair, a tech channel, reports that many Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards are suffering irreparable damage due to poor shipping and improper mounting practices. The flagship cards, which can cost $2,000 or more, are being damaged by cost-cutting measures, leading to a false economy.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 78 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
Canalys forecasts a 60% increase in AI-enabled PC shipments by 2027, with 19% of PCs already AI-capable in 2024. The growth is driven by commercial adoption, expected to impact gaming, business, and consumer markets.
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AI | Rating: 87 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
Gigabyte and MSI have released BIOS updates to address stability concerns with Intel Core i9 processors. Gigabyte's new beta BIOS updates feature a new Intel Baseline profile, while MSI provides a tutorial on tuning its motherboard firmware to run at Intel's default specifications. Updates are available for Gigabyte's Z790 and B760 motherboards.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 84 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
TSMC introduced its CoW-SoW technology at its North American Technology Symposium, enabling 3D integration with wafer-scale designs. Building on its 2020 InFO_SoW technology, CoW-SoW allows for wafer-scale logic processors. Tesla is the only adopter so far, using it for its Dojo supercomputer.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 87 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
Huawei is leading a consortium with a Chinese DRAM maker to develop high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) to overcome Western sanctions. The project aims to improve memory bandwidth for AI and HPC processors, a crucial limitation in compute power.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 79 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
Asus has officially added support for AMD's Fluid Motion Frames to its ROG Ally handheld, allowing for frame generation in nearly any game, even those without full AMD FSR 3 support. This update follows a previous workaround using custom driver software.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 82 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |
Microsoft has added a code to Windows 11 24H2 to display a watermark warning if a PC's CPU does not meet the hardware requirements for AI-powered apps. The watermark will indicate that certain apps cannot be used due to an unsupported CPU, which requires SSE4.2.
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Semiconductors | Rating: 84 | 2025-01-01 09:58:06 AM |