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China's top chip execs claim ASML alternative 'small, fragmented, and weak' — Chinese industry titans call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools

China's most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML.

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‘CPUs are cool again,' Intel and AMD reporting spikes in CPU demand due to agentic AI, shortages — Lisa Su says business exceeded expectations while Intel is looking at long-term agreements with potential customers

Both AMD and Intel reports increased demand for CPUs, driven by AI agents' need for general computing power.

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Labubu sues 3D printer maker Bambu Lab for items made by its users — MakerWorld design repository in hot water over IP theft by its users

While Bambu Lab builds tools to protect creators, a Chinese court case over 3D-printed Labubu fakes turns the tables on the 3DP giant.

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AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer [Updated]

A new vibe-coded operating system performed as woefully as expected during a 9-point check process.

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China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take 'extraordinary measures' to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs — new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance

China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust "response mechanism" to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its "competitive advantages in rare earths."

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Spiralling memory spot prices could trigger 'industry cycle collapse,' report warns — NAND wafer costs surge 25% in a single month

DDR5 16G (2Gx8) chips averaged $39, up 7.4% month-over-month, while 1Tb TLC flash wafers jumped 25% to $25.

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Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims — game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive

The lack of storage capacity on the Nintendo Switch 2 and increasing game sizes are forcing some Switch 2 owners to reconsider shopping for game titles, especially as microSD Express Card prices skyrocket due to the global memory and storage chip shortage.

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OpenAI building GitHub alternative after frequent platform outages and disruptions — a public OpenAI code repository would directly compete with one of its biggest investors

OpenAI is building its own code repository, prompted by a rise in GitHub outages and disruptions that left its engineers unable to work for hours at a time.

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Nvidia reportedly working on RTX 5050 with 9GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus, featuring 28 Gbps GDDR7 modules — RTX 5060 with cut-down GB205 GPU also planned

Nvidia is reportedly working on a new RTX 5050 with 9GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up from 8GB GDDR6 on the existing model. Moving from 20 Gbps chips to 28 Gbps chips, the memory interface is also said to be reduced to 96-bit, from 128-bit on the original. Moreover, an RTX…

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Intel CEO embraces its 18A node for external customers as 18A-P gets 'inbound interest' — company cites increasing yields

Intel sees 'inbound interest' for 18A-P process technology despite 18A process variability.

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Publication Notebookcheck reports that Chuwi is shipping a different processor in the Chuwi CoreBook X than the one advertised.

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Europe achieves record-breaking gigabit per second data transfer between a geostationary satellite and an aircraft

The European Space Agency has successfully tested a 2.6 Gbps data transmission from a laser satellite orbiting Earth 36,000 km away.

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EA's Javelin anti-cheat is coming to Arm-based systems soon — new job listing for Windows-on-ARM driver anticipates Nvidia N1/N1X debut and pivotal shift in PC gaming

A new job listing for a Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer has revealed that EA is working on bringing its Javelin anti-cheat software to Arm-based devices. The timing aligns nicely with the purported launch of Nvidia's N1/N1X SoCs that are also Arm-based. The role also involves future development for Linux/Proton.

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Taiwan expects power demand to increase by more than 5GW by 2030, enough to power nearly 4 million homes — rise in electricity consumption driven by semiconductor manufacturing and AI data center deployments

New semiconductor fabs and data centers are fueling Taiwan's growing power demand, with the island expected to require more than 5GW of new electricity sources and power infrastructure to keep up.

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Apple announces $599 MacBook Neo running A18 Pro chip — budget laptop features 16-hour battery and comes in fun colors

Apple announces $599 MacBook Neo running A18 Pro chip

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Trump summons tech giants to White House to pledge power payment commitments — ‘ratepayer protection plan’ will make data center operators negotiate discrete payment structure for electricity use

Some of the U.S.'s biggest AI tech companies are expected to go to the White House to sign the "ratepayer protection pledge" that promises they will pay for all of their electricity usage and not pass on the burden of increased rates to the average American.

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Trump administration weighs forcing China's Tencent to sell its stakes in Epic Games, Riot Games, and Supercell — meetings held over security risk ahead of China summit with Xi Jinping

The Trump administration is actively debating whether to allow Chinese tech giant Tencent to keep its ownership stakes in several major gaming companies, including Fortnite creator Epic Games.

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Arm's $250 million deal with Malaysia probed by anti-corruption authorities — $1.27 million seized from safehouse of prominent politician, former army chief arrested

Malaysia's anti-corruption body is investigating the former Economy Minister who spearheaded the $250-million Malaysia-Arm Holding deal, raising concerns that the probe will impact the agreement.

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Nvidia driver 595.71 reportedly limits overclocks on some GeForce GPUs, but not all — troubled driver release seems to stifle voltages on RTX 40- and 50-series cards

Users report that Nvidia's latest 595.71 driver is creating artificial voltage limits on many RTX 40- and 50-series GPUs, causing some products to lose as much as 200MHz in overclocking headroom.

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Micron sampling first 256GB SOCAMM2 memory packages to customers — 2TB of RAM per CPU is now in reach of datacenter players

Micron is now sampling 256GB SOCAMM2 units, enabling capacities of up to 2TB of LPDDR5X per CPU in AI servers.

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Gemini API key thief racks up $82,314 in charges in just two days, victim 'facing bankruptcy' — affected devs call for basic guardrails against 'catastrophic usage anomalies'

A Google Gemini user has taken to Reddit 'in a state of shock and panic' after getting an $82,314 bill.

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Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors

The man who tried to split Intel retires from the board of directors.

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Seagate begins shipping 44TB hard drives with HAMR tech to data centers — Mozaic 4+ platform expands to 10 platters

Seagate has begun shipping its 44TB Exos HDDs based on its HAMR technology to two hyperscale customers as others qualify the all-new Mozaic 4+ hard drive platform.

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AI memory crunch forces DRAM market into 'hourly pricing' model, report claims — small and medium-sized businesses fighting for survival

According to DigiTimes, these companies began struggling to absorb soaring memory costs in the second half of 2025.

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Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU — multi-chip monster sports 12 channels of DDR5-8000, Foveros Direct 3D packaging tech

Intel formally announces Xeon 6+ CPUs with up to 288 cores that are made on 18A process technology.

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