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Imec's new post-exposure bake method speeds up EUV chipmaking tools, boosting production for the most advanced chips — 20% gain in photoresist improvement from increased oxygen concentration

Increased oxygen concentration during the EUV lithography post-exposure bake step can increase photoresist performance by 15% - 20%, according to Imec's findings.

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Japanese firm stops production of Blu-ray disc drives — Buffalo says there will be no successors to its current trio of portable USB-attached drives

Further signs that the Blu-ray tide is going out, never to return, come from Japanese peripherals maker Buffalo.

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Razer launches $130 laptop sleeve featuring two wireless charging pads — Base variant with no tech costs $80, supports up to 16-inch devices

Razer has just launched its own lineup of laptop sleeves for devices up to 16 inches. The higher-end variant costs $130 and features two wireless charging pads in its flap. The top pad is capable of charging at up to 15W, while the bottom one's output is limited to 5W.…

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Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity's Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

Finance techie tries cloning Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with AI

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Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm — Naga Chandrasekaran takes charge of the unit

Naga Chandrasekaran promoted to Chief Technology and Operations Officer as well as the general manager of Intel Foundry responsible for development of advanced process technologies and day-to-day operations.

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SK hynix and SanDisk announce new High Bandwidth Flash — speedy HBF standard is targeted at inference AI servers

SK hynix and SanDisk announce speedy HBF flash chip standard

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Nvidia rolls back its latest driver update — Game Ready Driver 595.59 reportedly causes fan issues on RTX 3000, 4000, and 5000-series GPUs

GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 is said to disable one of the fans on Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs, even without third-party apps like MSI Afterburner.

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Researchers discover massive Wi-Fi vulnerability affecting multiple access points — AirSnitch lets attackers on the same network intercept data and launch machine-in-the-middle attacks

A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work.

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Asus ROG Ally receives timely GPU driver update despite rumors of AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme deprecation — new release follows recent speculation that driver support for some Windows 11 handhelds had ended

A new AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU update for the Asus ROG Ally has alleviated some concern about its deprecation, although some questions remain about its longevity.

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Nvidia warns of constrained supply of gaming GPUs, potentially signaling higher prices and shortages to come — 'we do believe for a couple of quarters it is going to be very tight'

Jensen Huang expects the supply of gaming hardware to be insufficient in the next two quarters and has limited visibility beyond that.

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Chipmakers still suffering from rare earth shortages, says report — US-China trade truce apparently still hasn’t eased pressures despite agreement taking place in October last year

Sources told Reuters that some U.S. chipmaking firms are running low on scandium — a crucial rare earth material for making 5G chips — as they suffer delays from acquiring export licenses from Beijing.

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Trump orders Big Tech to generate its own power for AI data centers — reveals new 'ratepayer protection pledge' to curb rising electricity prices in the US

Building upon his Social Truth post from last month, President Trump has formally asked the big tech players to build their own power plants. Data centers have been eating at the national grid, causing electricity prices to rise across the board — for the average household. The "ratepayer protection pledge"…

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HP says memory costs doubled in one quarter, now account for 35% of PC build materials

Interim CEO Bruce Broussard told investors the company has responded by securing long-term supply agreements for the year and has "qualified new suppliers".

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MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis — AM4 emerges as the unexpected hero with RAM prices skyrocketing

MSI launches the Pro B550M-B and B550M-A Pro motherboards for previous-generation Ryzen processors that reside on the AM4 socket.

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LLMs used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher pitted GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches

A researcher made three different AI LLMs the heads of state of nuclear-powered nations and made them face off with each other using historical scenarios. Out of the total of 21 matches, 20 ended with a tactical nuke detonation while three resulted in a full-on strategic nuclear exchange, essentially ending…

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Lucky PC builder orders 32GB Corsair RAM kit for $300, claims they got a box of 10 worth $3,000 instead — plans to sell all the extra units to the community at pre-AI crunch prices

A Reddit user's order for a pack of 32GB Corsair DDR5 RAM turns into a box of 10, totalling 320GB of memory.

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Nvidia posts record $215 billion annual revenue in latest quarterly earnings report — gaming GPUs now only 11.45% of revenue

As sales of gaming GPUs drop quarter-over-quarter, Nvidia enjoys record results amid massive AI craze and lack of rivals for the Blackwell platform.

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Valve says it misreported VRAM capacity on some graphics cards in Steam Hardware Surveys — latest data depicting 30% adoption of 8GB GPUs now foggy

In January's Steam Hardware Survey, adoption of 8 GB GPUs was at almost 30% despite marking a 3.11% decline, while 16 GB GPUs were up an impressive 5.85%. Unfortunately, it seems like Valve misreported those numbers as the latest Steam Client Beta update includes a patch node admitting so.

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Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece

Nvidia begins to ship samples of its Vera Rubin platforms for AI to partners, on track for revenue shipments in the second half of the year.

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Micron joins the 3GB GDDR7 party, introduces 36 Gbps modules for GPUs — lags behind speeds of Samsung and SK Hynix

Micron officially introduces its own 3GB GDDR7 memory module, with an official bandwidth rating of 36 Gbps.

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Microsoft clarifies Windows 11 printer driver policy — support for legacy printers is not ending

Microsoft confirmed today that Windows 11 is not ending support for legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers despite previous reports

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China to increase leading-edge chip output by 5x in two years, report claims — aims to lift 7nm and 5nm production to 100,000 wafers per month, targeting half a million monthly by 2030

Chinese foundries looking to increase 7nm and below capacity to 100,000 wafer starts per month in one or two years, says Nikkei.

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Nvidia still hasn’t sold a single H200 to China nearly three months after getting the green light from the White House — U.S. Commerce official says department hasn’t approved any sales during a House hearing

U.S. Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary for export enforcement David Peters said that his agency has not approved a single H200 export license since President Donald Trump allowed Nvidia to sell them to China.

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Trump administration to use Pentagon AI to set mineral reference prices — gallium and germanium among first four targets

The Trump administration wants to use DARPA's Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN), an AI tool launched in 2023, to calculate what supplies of strategically important rare earths should cost once labor, processing, and other inputs are factored in and the effects of alleged Chinese market manipulation are removed.

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Modder pushes rare 20GB RTX 3080 Ti past 550W with risky power shunts and liquid metal cooling — project reveals full performance potential of the unreleased GPU sample

A Reddit user, after acquiring an engineering sample of an unreleased 20GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, has modded it to bypass its power limits and take it to its maximum performance to make it behave "much more like the 3080 Ti class GPU it should have been," according to…

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