Passively cooled AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hovers at 95 degrees without any performance drop, but there is a catch

Asus recently shared a video demonstrating its ProArt PA401 case, featuring a Ryzen 9 9950X CPU cooled passively using a Noctua NH-P1 cooler. The system managed to run without any…

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Nvidia, AMD, and Intel all invest in light-based communication networks powering next-gen chips — Ayar Labs gets $155 million in funding

Large developers of CPUs and GPUs invest hundreds of millions of dollars in developing optical interconnects. Source

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Washington state creates working group to target CHIPS Act funding, stoke semiconductor industry

(Bigstock Photo) A new public-private working group organized by the Washington Department of Commerce will begin meeting this month to help attract federal funding from the CHIPS and Science Act…

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Apple Adopting Custom-Designed Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Chip in 2025, Cutting Reliance on Broadcom

Apple is switching over to a new Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip that it designed in-house starting in 2025, reports Bloomberg. The combined Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip will replace components from…

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Ryzen AI 7 350 'Krackan Point' APU thrashes Ryzen 7 8845HS and Core Ultra 7 258V in Geekbench 6, although Apple M4 remains far ahead

AMD is expected to announce its much-hyped Strix Halo high-performance mobile chips at CES 2025, which will likely be accompanied by the Krackan Point APUs as well. A recent Geekbench…

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