ASML's First High-NA EUV Litho Scanner Arrives At Intel [UPDATED]
Update 1/5/2024: Intel Oregon announced on Thursday that it has received its shipment of ASML's first-generation Twinscan EXE:5000 High-NA EUV lithography scanner. The two companies will start assembly process...
28 by on 1/5/2024Microsoft Swaps Menu Key For Copilot AI Key on Windows Keyboards, Directs OEMs To Do The Same
Microsoft is betting big on artificial intelligence and generative AI at all levels of the company, from servers and Azure down to individual Windows PCs. And that big bet...
30 by on 1/4/2024Samsung Intros 2024 Odyssey OLED Gaming Monitors: Up to 49-Inches and 360Hz
Ahead of CES, Samsung has introduced a new lineup of Odyssey OLED monitors aimed at the gaming market. The Odyssey OLED family all carry AMD's FreeSync Premium Pro certification...
13 by on 1/4/2024Rambus Preps Updated RCD for Server-Grade DDR5-7200 Modules
Rambus has introduced its fourth-generation registering clock driver (RCD) chip for server-grade DDR5 memory modules. The updated RCD chip brings support for higher clockspeeds on DDR5 RDIMMs, allowing for...
7 by on 1/3/2024Apple to Halt Sales of Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the U.S. Due to Patent Dispute
Apple on Monday said it would pause sales of its Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the U.S. due to an ongoing patent dispute. The patents in question...
14 by on 12/19/2023Intel Reiterates: We Are Not Going to Spin Off IFS
When Intel struggled with its 10nm process technology a few years ago, some investors suggested that the company would be better-off spinning its chip production into an independent foundry...
42 by on 12/15/2023Zhaoxin Unveils KX-7000 CPUs: Eight x86 Cores at Up to 3.70 GHz
Zhaoxin, a joint venture between Via Technologies and Shanghai Municipal Government, has introduced its Kaixian KX-7000 series of x86 CPUs. Based on the company's Century Avenue microarchitecture, the processor...
19 by on 12/13/2023Adata, OWC, and Stardom Roll Out USB4 SSDs and Enclosures for Faster External Storage
When the USB4 specification emerged several years ago, it was quickly positioned as a less expensive alternative to the Thunderbolt 3 technology which ruled the market of high-performance direct-attached...
22 by on 12/13/2023Minisforum Launches AR900i: A $559 Core i9-13900HX Mini-ITX Platform
Minisforum has launched a new high-performance Mini-ITX motherboard that's based on Intel's 13th Generation Core HX mobile parts. The upsized, highly integrated AR900i platform promises to bring together the...
12 by on 12/12/2023Phison To Unveil 14.7 GB/s PCIe 5.0 SSD and Cheap USB4 Drives at CES 2024
CES 2024 is a few weeks away, so Phison shared its plans for the consumer electronics industry's biggest trade show this week. Among the headliners of the event will...
8 by on 12/8/2023TSMC Solidifies Leadership on Foundry Market as Intel Jumps into Top 10
The global foundry industry witnessed a substantial rise in demand in the third quarter of 2023, according to TrendForce. The Top 10 foundries collectively saw their revenue soar to...
7 by on 12/6/2023Intel Wins Appeal on VLSI Case, $2.18B Judgement Reversed
A U.S. appeals court on Monday overturned a 2021 patent infringement ruling against Intel that awarded patent holding company VLSI $2.18 billion over multiple patent violations. In a two-part...
1 by on 12/5/2023Amkor to Build $2 Billion Chip Packaging Fab in Arizona Primarily for Apple
Amkor, the world's second largest independent outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) service provider, has announced their intention to build a new advanced chip packaging facility in the U.S...
12 by on 12/4/2023Amazon's Trainium2 AI Accelerator Features 96 GB of HBM, Quadruples Training Performance
Amazon Web Services this week introduced Trainium2, its new accelerator for artificial intelligence (AI) workload that tangibly increases performance compared to its predecessor, enabling AWS to train foundation models...
19 by on 11/30/2023Amazon Unveils Graviton4: A 96-Core ARM CPU with 536.7 GBps Memory Bandwidth
Nowadays many cloud service providers design their own silicon, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) started to do this ahead of its rivals and by now its Annapurna Labs subsidiary...
35 by on 11/29/2023Asus Intros GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Video Card With Integrated M.2 SSD Slot
Asus this week formally introduced its ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC Edition 8 GB graphics card, an unusual video card that also offers an M.2 SSD...
29 by on 11/24/2023G.Skill and V-Color Unveil Factory Overclocked ECC RDIMMs for Ryzen Threadripper 7000 [UPDATED]
UPDATE 11/24: Demu, our reader with sharp eyes, notified us that Gigabyte had published a list of overclockable RDIMMs with ECC and AMD EXPO profiles supported by its TRX50...
7 by on 11/23/2023AMD's 96-Core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX Hits 6.0 GHz on All Cores with LN2
AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX is a unique workstation-grade processor that not only offers unbeatable performance in programs that can take advantage of all of its 96-core might...
11 by on 11/21/2023Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar & Gold Hard Drives, 28TB SMR Drives Ramping
Western Digital is announcing today that it has begun volume shipments of its 24 TB hard drives based on conventional magnetic recording (CMR) to its full customer base. In...
22 by on 11/16/2023Corsair Releases MP700 Pro SSDs: Up 12.4 GB/s With Three Cooling Options
Corsair has introduced its MP700 Pro-series solid-state drives with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface that offer sequential read speed of up to 12.4 GB/s. The new high-end drive family...
15 by on 11/15/2023