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Qualcomm CEO Saw An Opportunity To Save The Company As Much As $1.4 Billion In Annual Payments To ARM, Which Is Why He Proceeded With Nuvia’s Acquisition

Qualcomm CEO Saw An Opportunity To Save The Company As Much As $1.4 Billion In Annual Payments To ARM, Which Is Why He Proceeded With Nuvia’s Acquisition

The Nuvia acquisition that happened in 2021 allowed Qualcomm to go ‘toe to toe’ with Apple in making a chipset that featured completely in-house CPU designs that exude incredible performance…

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AMD’s Fastest Gaming CPU, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Gets Restocked On Amazon For $459, But Price Fluctuations Will See That Figure Go Up Quickly If You Do Not Hurry

AMD’s Fastest Gaming CPU, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Gets Restocked On Amazon For $459, But Price Fluctuations Will See That Figure Go Up Quickly If You Do Not Hurry

It appears that AMD has finally resolved the supply issue for its Ryzen 7 9800X3D because the company’s fastest gaming CPU on the planet has been re-listed on Amazon for…

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Massive Asus ROG leak reveals VRAM capacity of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070, RTX 5060 and RTX 5050

A new leak has shed light on just about every Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series laptop GPU. The GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 will come with the same amount…

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X-ray of O.MG cable: Lumafield shows why the USB-C cable developed by hackers is so difficult to detect

X-ray of O.MG cable: Lumafield shows why the USB-C cable developed by hackers is so difficult to detect

Be careful with other people's cables! Manipulated USB-C cables such as the O.MG cable are almost indistinguishable from originals. CT scans from Lumafield reveal the hidden chips that can be…

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Japanese Semiconductor Firm Rapidus To Rival TSMC With Its 2nm Process, Potentially Seeing Adoption From NVIDIA

Japanese Semiconductor Firm Rapidus To Rival TSMC With Its 2nm Process, Potentially Seeing Adoption From NVIDIA

Rapidus becomes the first Japanese firm to announce 2nm trial production and integrate ASML's EUV equipment, potentially gaining a place in NVIDIA's supply chain. Rapidus Announces 2nm Trial Production To…

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Apple set to build a server chip to service its own AI and may have sacrificed the company's fastest ever chip to achieve this; report suggests a strategic tie-in with $850bn Broadcom

Apple set to build a server chip to service its own AI and may have sacrificed the company's fastest ever chip to achieve this; report suggests a strategic tie-in with $850bn Broadcom

Apple developing "Baltra" server chip for AI, targeting 2026 productionIsraeli silicon team leading project; Mac chip canceled for focusBroadcom collaboration and TSMC’s N3P tech to enhance development Apple is reportedly…

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Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 gaming PCs listed prematurely for $7,539 and $4,399 at a retailer — Blackwell meets Arrow Lake to power upcoming Predator Orion 7000 PCs from Acer

Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 gaming PCs listed prematurely for $7,539 and $4,399 at a retailer — Blackwell meets Arrow Lake to power upcoming Predator Orion 7000 PCs from Acer

Pre-built from Acer featuring the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 have been listed before launch. Source

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US Department of Commerce finalizes $458 million grant for SK Hynix to build Indiana packaging plant — plans to lend an additional $500 million for Lafayette project

US Department of Commerce finalizes $458 million grant for SK Hynix to build Indiana packaging plant — plans to lend an additional $500 million for Lafayette project

SK Hynix gets $458 million from the U.S. government via the CHIPS Act to build an HBM packaging plant in Indiana. Source

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Nvidia and Apple: Frenemies are putting grudges aside to supercharge AI performance

Nvidia and Apple: Frenemies are putting grudges aside to supercharge AI performance

Apple and Nvidia have announced a surprise collaboration targeted at improving LLM inference performance, combining Apple's open-source ReDrafter with Nvidia's raw silicon grunt. The result? A 2.7x improvement in performance…

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AMD's 'Golden Rabbit' GPU reportedly hits 'end of life' status — Radeon RX 7900 GRE is no longer available at any retailer

AMD's 'Golden Rabbit' GPU reportedly hits 'end of life' status — Radeon RX 7900 GRE is no longer available at any retailer

Tweakers reports that several AMD add-in board partners confirmed the upper mid-range RX 7900 GRE is now declared "end-of-life" and is no longer being produced. Source

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'World's first' open-source Armv9 motherboard surfaces — Radxa Orion O6's pricing starts at $200 for the 8GB RAM model

'World's first' open-source Armv9 motherboard surfaces — Radxa Orion O6's pricing starts at $200 for the 8GB RAM model

A collaborative effort between Arm China, CIX, and Radxa has precipitated what is claimed to be the world's first open source Armv9 motherboard. - the Radxa Orion O6. Source

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The best Windows laptops we tested in 2024: Our pick lasts longer than the M4 MacBook Pro

The best Windows laptops we tested in 2024: Our pick lasts longer than the M4 MacBook Pro

The best Windows laptops run an impressive gamut, from Qualcomm-powered workhorses that refuse to die to dual-display stunners and subtle gaming stations. (Some of them, dare we say, will tempt…

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