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Trump gave global chipmaking leader TSMC an offer it could not refuse: 'All I did is say if you don't build your plant here you're gonna pay a big tax... 25, maybe 50, maybe 75, maybe 100%'
By Jacob Fox published
News More stick than carrot.

AMD is reportedly plotting an NPU-enabled 'Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme' chip for handhelds and we still can't figure out what it'll do for us aside from drain more the battery juice
By Jeremy Laird published
News If you really must have Copilot+ in your hands...

So, it's the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive
By Jeremy Laird published
News That and the lasers firing at tiny flying droplets of tin...

The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a 'preliminary' deal is said to have been done
By Jeremy Laird published
News The involvement of AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom remains unclear...

Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
By Jeremy Laird last updated
News This surely isn't just a case of a few crumbs...

AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
News But AMD's statement doesn't quite square with Reddit reports...

Intel promises its next-gen Pather Lake laptop CPU will have the 'efficiency of Lunar Lake and the performance of Arrow Lake' and is on track for 2026
By Jeremy Laird published
News Production later this year and availability in 2026 makes Panther Lake about a year late.

AMD reportedly plots late 2025 launch for desktop version of the nifty little Strix Point APU we like so much in laptops and handhelds
By Jeremy Laird published
news This would make for a super little desktop mini PC.
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