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AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

As DDR5 memory prices skyrocket, demand for AMD's two-generation-old Ryzen 7 5800X3D has increased, causing second-hand prices to climb as high as $800 on eBay.

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Mini-ITX motherboard launches with four full-sized RAM slots in the middle of a RAM shortage — support for up to 256GB of glorious DDR5 on a tiny PCB

Maxsun launches the MS-PC Farm B860I, a mini-ITX motherboard with four DDR5 memory slots for Intel processors.

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Unreal Engine 5.7 brings significant improvements over the notoriously demanding 5.4 version, tester claims — benchmark shows up to 25% GPU performance increase, 35% CPU boost

Epic is making strides with Unreal Engine 5's development trajectory, fixing performance issues that've bogged down many new releases. The latest version, UE 5.7, reportedly not only improves CPU and GPU-bound performance but ups the visual fidelity, without any real downsides.

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TSMC brings its most advanced chipmaking node to the US yet, to begin equipment installation for 3mn months ahead of schedule — Arizona fab slated for production in 2027

Fab 21 phase 2 shell is complete, fab is on track for equipment move in in mid-2026 and for volume production in 2027.

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AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally, study claims — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

A study finds that AI has surpassed Bitcoin and the bottled water industry in its use of resources, with other experts saying that the estimate is actually conservative.

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant.

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Honda to temporarily shut down factories in China and Japan because of chip shortage — disruption caused by fallout from on-going conflict within Nexperia

Honda announced the suspension of operations in five automotive manufacturing plants, citing the lack of legacy chips from Nexperia as the reason behind the move.

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42-year old QuickShot II joystick gets an era-appropriate revival — iconic joystick is the perfect companion for an 80s retro setup

The iconic QuickShot II from the Commodore 64 era is getting a modern revival, mixing together an era-appropriate design with contemporary features.

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Samsung eyed up for huge 8nm chip order from Intel — the Z990 chipset for Nova Lake CPUs could be Intel's 8nm debut

According to a Hankyung report, Samsung Foundry has secured a substantial order from Intel to produce Intel's chipsets on Samsung Foundry's 8nm process node.

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China may have reverse engineered EUV lithography tool in covert lab, report claims — employees given fake IDs to avoid secret project being detected, prototypes expected in 2028

China has reportedly built and begun testing a secret EUV lithography prototype using ASML-style laser-produced plasma technology. Yet, despite generating 13.5-nm light, the system remains unable to make chips and appears to be years away from achieving a complete, production-ready EUV manufacturing capability.

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New Texas Instruments fab will pump out tens of millions of chips per day — first 300mm fab starts production after $60 billion investment

Texas Instruments has started producing 300mm wafers at its new Sherman, Texas mega-site, with the SM1 fab capable of outputting tens of millions of chips per day.

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'$100 Steam Machine' uses a cut-down PS5 APU with Bazzite — DIY console offers 60 FPS at 1080p with 16GB of GDDR6

A YouTuber built "$100 Steam Machine" using an ASRock mining blade featuring a B-grade AMD SoC from the base PlayStation 5 with disabled cores. The neutered PS5 chip can run games at 1080p and 60 FPS.

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Micron outlines grim outlook for DRAM supply in first earnings call since killing Crucial memory and SSD brand — CEO says it can only meet half to two-thirds of demand

Micron posted record revenues in its first earnings call since killing the consumer Crucial brand, though it admits that supply shortages will persist.

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Evidence of Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU continues to mount, as BMG-G31 chip gets another official confirmation

The XPU Manager tool is for monitoring Intel's datacenter GPUs, meaning it's very likely these parts are coming soon.

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Sales of chip production equipment to reach $156 billion by 2027 — China, Taiwan, and Korea lead intense demand

Driven by demand for AI and HPC accelerators, sales of chip production equipment are projected to increase through 2027. Asian countries are expected to lead the pack, according to SEMI.

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AMD's rumored Ryzen 7 9850X3D spotted at Swiss and U.S. retailers — listings reveal preliminary price of ~$550-600, significantly higher than 9800X3D's $449 MSRP

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D has been spotted at two retailers with slightly different prices, suggesting it would cost between $550 to $600, which is quickly coming up with CES 2026 right around the corner. These early listings are likely inaccurate and should be taken with a huge grain of salt,…

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Rapidus explores panel-level packaging on glass substrates for next-generation processors — aggressive plan would help it leapfrog rivals

Rapidus plans to outline its early-stage work on panel-level packaging using 600 × 600 mm glass substrates at SEMICON Japan, highlighting an aggressive plan to leapfrog rivals by combining glass-core substrates and PLP for future AI and HPC chiplet packages.

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Engineer turns E-ink tablet into computer monitor in Linux — perfect secondary reading screen to reduce eye strain over the network

A software engineer and E-ink enthusiast recently set up a remote E-ink secondary display, upcycling an old E-ink tablet and setting up an awesome Linux DIY project for all those with the need to read on bespoke screen hardware.

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Intel details progress on fabbing 2D transistors a few atoms thick in standard high volume fab production environment — chipmaker outlines 300-mm fab compatible with integration of 2D transistor contacts and gate stacks

Intel and imec demonstrate the first 300-mm, fab-compatible integration of contacts and gate stacks for 2D transistors, marking a critical step in turning long-studied 2D materials from lab experiments into a realistic future option for high-volume logic manufacturing.

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Intel installs industry's first commercial High-NA EUV lithography tool — ASML Twinscan EXE:5200B sets the stage for 14A

Intel has installed and qualified ASML's TWINSCAN EXE:5200B, the first High-NA EUV lithography tool designed for commercial production, reiterating Intel's plans to use High-NA EUV patterning for 14A process technology and onwards.

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Anycubic’s ‘Dual’ Resin Printer, Photon P1 is out — Supports double the color, double the material

The P1 is the latest addition to Anycubic's Photon lineup.

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Bernie Sanders calls for halt on AI data center construction — wants to ensure that the technology benefits ‘all of us, not just the 1%’

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to delay AI data center projects to slow down progress, to ensure that AI will benefit the largest number of people and not just the richest few.

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Nearly 7,000 of the world’s 8,808 data centers are built in the wrong climate, analysis find — vast majority located outside optimal temperature range for cooling, 600 in locations considered too hot

Nearly 7,000 of the world’s operational data centers are located in climates that fall outside the temperature range recommended for efficient operation, according to a new analysis.

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Enthusiast modder stuffs an entire gaming PC inside a gutted Commodore PET 2001 — replaced the screen with an iPad Retina LCD, but the original keyboard still works

A Redditor found a "pre-gutted" Commodore PET 2001 that they repurposed as a fully-fledged gaming PC, while keeping the Commodore's keyboard intact and functional. The internals are relatively modest, but they can still play most modern games on the retrofitted screen, which is a Retina LCD from an iPad.

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New calculator helps evaluate the economics of datacenters in space — running the numbers on orbital computing reveals a brutal reality

Orbital data centers have been proposed as a way around the power, cooling, and regulatory requirements of building on Earth, but new analysis reveals that the costs of deploying such installations would be astronomical.

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