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Semiconductor analyst theorizes that China might want to destroy TSMC instead of capturing it — Chinese invasion of Taiwan would destroy supply chains, cripple South Korean chipmakers

The current prevailing thought is that TSMC's existence and the threat of its destruction are among the things holding back China from invading Taiwan. But what if we're wrong?

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Mysterious quantum computing restrictions spread across multiple nations — UK cites national security risks and refuses to elaborate

Four EU states have all issued identical bans on the export of quantum computers with more than 34 qubits and error rates below a certain threshold. The nature of the bans is a mystery, with states declining to elaborate per national security concerns.

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Insider says Nvidia almost sold itself to AMD, but Jensen Huang wanted to be CEO of the merged company

A fresh account of AMD's failed attempt to merge with Nvidia offers insights not only into the GPU war, but also AMD's rise, fall, and rise again as a CPU and GPU manufacturer.

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Elon Musk's liquid-cooled 'Gigafactory' AI data centers get a plug from Supermicro CEO — Tesla and xAI's new supercomputers will have 350,000 Nvidia GPUs, both will be online within months

Elon Musk and Charles Liang of Supermicro are teaming up to make Elon's Tesla and X supercomputers greener machines. Supermicro's DLC liquid cooling is supposed to help heavily reduce the power draw of the AI-heavy Tesla Gigafactory and xAI supercomputers.

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Asus launches the first-ever ROG NUC with up to Core Ultra 9 and RTX 4070, prices start at $1,629

The Asus ROG NUC with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H/RTX 4060 or Intel Core Ultra 9 185H/RTX 4070 is now available from $1,629 to $2,199.

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AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report

As AI companies increase their investments in infrastructure, their revenues are not growing that fast, financial analysts note, implying that AI could become a bubble.

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Per-core thermal throttle reportedly coming to next-gen Intel CPUs — Arrow Lake leverages Fast Throttle for enhanced overclocking

Fast Throttle, a per-core thermal throttling mechanism, is reported to be coming to Arrow Lake processors in the future.

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The most-delayed video game ever is finally out — Kien releases after 22 years for Game Boy Advance

Kien, an Italian video game from AgeOfGames has finally released 22 years after development began on the Game Boy Advance. The delay came not from production troubles, but capitalistic misfortune.

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Nvidia to make $12 billion selling AI GPUs to China — firm to sell over one million sanctions-compliant HGX H20 in 2024

According to experts, Nvidia's HGX H20 and other processors outperform Huawei's Ascend 910 series and can be shipped without a license to China.

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Ryzen AI 7 Pro 160 bests previous-gen Ryzen 9 — chip hits Geekbench with three Zen 5 and five Zen 5c cores

A new Ryzen 7 Pro-series Zen 5 mobile CPU has been spotted on the Geekbench browser, boasting performance better than AMD's previous generation Ryzen 9 CPUs.

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New Microsoft ads tout unavailable Recall feature, don't mention it was indefinitely delayed due to privacy concerns

Microsoft has been running new ads exclusively about Recall functionality since July 1st. The new ads directly from the Windows X account raise questions about the future of Recall, which has been indefinitely cancelled for weeks.

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China beat the U.S. in generative AI patents by 6-to-1 for the past ten years — almost 10,000 Chinese patents filed last year alone

China has more patents than the six top nations in generative AI research.

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Pentagon says it's impossible to ditch Huawei telecom gear — officials beg Congress for waiver from Chinese sanctions

As Congress readies the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon is reminding lawmakers it needs a waiver from provisions included in the 2019 version of the act.

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Huawei says China's AI progress will not be stopped by US sanctions on GPUs and chipmaking tech

A high-ranking Huawei executive asserts that the lack of Nvidia GPUs and limited access to advanced process technologies will not stop China's AI progress.

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China's new laws encourage chipmakers to merge instead of going public — policy shift comes after tens of thousands of Chinese semiconductor firms went out of business

Chinese semiconductor companies shift focus from IPOs to mergers and acquisitions as Chinese authorities are looking forward to building strong companies rather than a huge number of weak companies.

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Microsoft is inexplicably running ads for Copilot+ PCs featuring its canceled Recall feature — the indefinitely delayed AI feature fueled an intense backlash

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OpenAI was hacked, revealing internal secrets and raising national security concerns — year-old breach wasn't reported to the public

As hacker gains access to OpenAI's secrets, concerns rise that Chinese spies can do it too, leading to threats to national security.

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Sony Playstation 4 chip helped AMD avoid bankruptcy — exec recounts how 'Jaguar' chips fueled company's historic turnaround

AMD exec Renato Fragale recalls 'helping AMD avoid bankruptcy' when he managed the team that developed the PlayStation 4 processor.

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Stripped-down Windows 11 'Enterprise G' ISO investigated — made for the Chinese government, associated organizations

Youtuber 'Some Ordinary Gamers' explores an alleged Windows 11 Enterprise G ISO that it is made exclusively for the government while warning it is illegal to operate.

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Teardown finally reveals the secretive Huawei chip powering Raspberry Pi competitor — Orange Pi Kunpeng Pro SBC tested

Orange Pi's Kunpeng Pro has made its way out of China and into the hands of a techtuber who explores the physical layout of the SBC and its capabilities.

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Custom Linux-powered Smart TV breaks free from ads and tracking, enables ultimate customizability — EarlGreyTV straps a laptop to the back to unlock unlimited control

Software engineer Carl Riis has announced his first hardware project, dubbed EarlGreyTV. This is a Smart TV project that differentiates itself from the usual ‘idiot box’ dominating your living room by leveraging the wonders of Linux and Firefox, plus an old laptop.

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Nvidia's RTX Remix goes open source —chipmaker adds Rest API to interface with ComfyUI for AI remastering or generating new graphics in real time

RTX Remix goes open source and gets yet more ambitious with AI features.

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Snapdragon X Elite with liquid metal thermal paste yields disappointing results

A notebook reviewer swapped the thermal paste application on his X Elite laptop to liquid metal to improve thermals. Sadly, the liquid metal application did little to enhance thermals, only lowering max temps by two degrees Celsius.

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Intel's next-gen Arc Battlemage GPU lineup shipping starts — manifests point to BMG X2 and BMG X3 GPUs

Intel may take a page from its Arc 'Alchemist' product family to form its next-generation Arc 'Battlemage' lineup.

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Throwback workstation emulated on a business-card-sized board you can (almost) carry in your wallet — DECstation emulation using RP2040

A maker has developed a DECstation emulation built into a credit card-sized single-board computer.

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