The MAG Infinite Z aims to support standard hardware without being huge on the table and brings impressive gaming performance for enthusiasts at the same time. MSI Debuts Compact Gaming Desktop Called MAG Infinite Z 8B, Powered By Ryzen 7 9700X and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Popular hardware vendor MSI has released its latest gaming desktop called MAG Infinite Z 8B, which brings powerful computing and gaming prowess inside a compact tower. The MAG Infinite Z brings a small form-factor chassis that takes less space on the desk, but delivers big when it comes to gaming and general productivity tasks. [โฆ]
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The Wildcat Lake chips are proving themselves to be worthy for ultra low-power and lightweight laptops. Wildcat Lake 5-Core Chip Goes Head to Head With 6-Core Apple A18 Chip In PassMark Apple MacBook Neo might be one of the most special releases from the company, powered by an entry-level chip that does everyday productivity tasks efficiently. The CPU bridges the gap between iPhone-tier mobile silicon and traditional Mac laptops, offering an affordable and "fanless" computing experience. Intel Wildcat Lake, on the other hand, brings a similar objective, offering powerful 5 and 6-core entry-level chips that bring the Cougar Cove and [โฆ]
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The newest Arrow Lake-HX chip was just benchmarked in PassMark, revealing the true prowess of chip. Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus PassMark Numbers Render Core Ultra 9 275HX Useless Despite Having Fewer Cores and Threads While the Intel Arrow Lake Refresh desktop CPUs have already arrived in the mainstream market, the laptop variants are yet to be seen in wider availability in notebooks. Similar to the desktop platform, Intel also launched two chips in the Core Ultra 200HX Plus series, namely Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus. These chips offer a similar upgrade to [โฆ]
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ACE, the upcoming set of x86 Extensions defined by both AMD & Intel, has seen the latest spec release, focusing on AI acceleration. AMD & Intel Focus on AI Acceleration Through Next-Gen x86 Architectures That Are ACE Compliant Last year,ย Intel and AMD partnered to strengthen the x86 ecosystem through their "x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group" initiative. The plan was to offer a standardized set of features across architectures to make x86 accessible, scalable, and compatible with future requirements. Four key features were announced: FRED, AVX10, ChkTag, and ACE. Now, the latest ACE "AI Compute Extensions" specifications have been published by AMD [โฆ]
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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has repeatedly pressed ASML's management with concerns that the firm's advanced chip manufacturing machines have made it to China. The machines, which rely on extreme ultraviolet light to print circuits on a semiconductor wafer, have been targeted by the US government for being sold to China. However, according to Bloomberg, Secretary Lutnick has raised the issue in several meetings, leading to concerns that China might have made inroads into gaining the ability to make advanced chips. ASML Denies Any EUV Machines Have Made Their Way Into China ASML's EUV machines first caught the US government's [โฆ]
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Intel has hired Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of its Foundry's Advanced Packaging & Back-End Technology, bringing years of experience from SK Hynix, where he served as President and CEO. Intel Foundry Gets SK Hynix's Ex-CEO, Seok-Hee Lee, Bringing Years of Experience In The Advanced Packaging & Back-End Technology Segment Press Release: Intel Corporation today announced the appointment of Seok-Hee Lee as executive vice president of Intel Foundry, reporting directly to CEO Lip-Bu Tan. In this role, Lee will lead all advanced packaging, system integration, back-end technology development, and back-end manufacturing, strengthening Intelโs ability to deliver differentiated, system-level innovation for customers. [โฆ]
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Chip manufacturing giant Intel has partnered up with Taiwan's second-largest contract chip manufacturer, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), for advanced manufacturing process technology, suggests a report from FundaAI. Intel, under its CEO Lip-Bu Tan, is seeking to compete with Taiwan's TSMC in the contract chip manufacturing industry. According to the details, UMC is seeking to team up with Intel to gain a foothold in advanced chip manufacturing without having to expend significant amounts of capital for the machinery. Intel & Taiwan's Second Largest Chip Manufacturer Team Up For 12nm & 3nm Nodes - Report While most of the focus when it [โฆ]
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ASML CEO, Christophe Fouquet, believes that the demand from Elon Musk's Terafab project will be similar to fabrication plants capable of manufacturing millions of wafers per month. The executive spoke to Bloomberg, and his discussion ranged from data centers in space to the current stage of the semiconductor industry in the context of major demand from the AI buildout and Europe's position in the AI race. ASML CEO Says Europe Is Quite Behind In The AI Race The Terafab project was announced by Musk earlier this year as part of his efforts to procure chips for Tesla's edge computing and [โฆ]
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More Fake GPUs are circulating online marketplaces, which use plastic chips to imitate NVIDIA RTX GPUs and scrap memory dies. You Need To Be Extra Cautious of Graphics Cards Being Sold Online As NVIDIA RTX Graphics Cards Have Been Spotted With Glued Plastic GPUs Over the years, we have seen several instances of fake graphics cards appearing online. Most of these graphics cards are sold through online marketplaces, & the region most affected by such products is the Asia Pacific. Previously, we have seen graphics cards with missing components and different GPUs, but this time, scammers have gone an extra [โฆ]
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The Family Bucket Collector's edition is priced at a whopping $16,578 for all the ROG 20th Anniversary products. ASUS to Host Flash Sale Offline Through Lottery System in Shanghai; The Family Bucket Collector Edition to Cost Over $16,000 The recently announced and showcased products from the ROG 20th anniversary stack are going to be sold through a flash sale in Shanghai from June 20 to July 19. This will take place at the Xingye Taikoo Hui Nan Garden in Jing'an District, where the items will be sold through a lottery system. ASUS has revealed the price for each product, as [โฆ]
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GMKtec is finally lifting the curtains off its EVO-X3 Workstation PC, which houses the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 GB memory. EVO-X3 Is Going To Be A Powerful Workstation PC For Local AI As GMKtec Crams 128 GB Memory & Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 In A PS4-Sized Chassis Last year, we tested the newly launched GMKtec EVO-X2 Mini PC. The system features the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, and is a strong competitor to the NVIDIA DGX Spark, featuring a much lower price point. The company is now launching a follow-up to this PC, the EVO-X3. The GMKtec [โฆ]
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Without the TSME support, the Ryzen-based systems will be prone to cold boot attacks, but AMD didn't consider informing users before removing it. AMD Removes TSME Support from Ryzen Chips as It Reserves It Only for the "PRO" Family TSME, or Transparent Memory Secure Encryption, is a hardware security feature that encrypts everything stored in the system RAM using a key generated by the processor during boot. Unlike AMD's SME (Secure Memory Encryption, the TSME feature works automatically once enabled in the BIOS and doesn't rely on the operating system. For 'privacy-conscious Linux hobbyist' Ben Kilpatrick, this came as a [โฆ]
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AMD has unlocked upto 215% higher performance on its Threadripper CPUs in Handbrake through fixes. Handbrake Was Limited To 64-Cores, AMD Managed To Fix That & Brought Up To 215% Higher Performance With its Threadripper CPUs AMD worked with HandBrake to fix the missing performance on its Threadripper CPUs, bringing a 181% increase in transcoding performance on its Threadripper PRO and 215% boost on its Ryzen Threadripper CPU lineup. According to AMD, Video transcoding applications such as Handbrake benefit massively from higher core counts, but that wasn't exactly the case with its Threadripper lineup, where the CPU performance didn't scale; [โฆ]
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MSI explains why its newest gaming handheld is so expensive and what to expect in the coming years. MSI Says it Tried Everything to Get Memory and Storage At Lower Cost, but It Will Still be a Difficult Year for Gamers MSI recently confirmed that the Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld will cost $1,699, as per the official website, while major retailers such as Newegg and Best Buy confirmed a $1,599 price tag. This is already twice as expensive as the Lunar Lake-based Claw 8 handheld, but we all know that the latest handheld has received a massive upgrade in [โฆ]
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Intel's deal with Apple is now confirmed by the US President himself, with Chipzilla all set to build and design chips on American soil. Intel Will Design & Build Chips For Apple As US Moves Chip Making Back To American Soil Well, if it needed confirmation, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has now confirmed that Apple has agreed to work with Intel. In this deal, Apple will leverage Intel tech to design and build its next-generation chips. The statement from Trump comes as part of the historic turnaround that Intel has achieved under the current US [โฆ]
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The HDMI Forum has officially introduced HDMI 2.2 with up to 96 Gbps of bandwidth, but consumers will have to wait till next year before the compatible products launch in the market. First HDMI 2.2 Devices With Full 96 Gbps Bandwidth May Not Arrive Until 2027 The HDMI Forum unveiled its next-generation HDMI 2.2 interface at CES 2026, which promised a significant increase in bandwidth and support for future ultra-high-resolution displays. However, as per the latest reports, products capable of utilizing the new 96 Gbps interface will not arrive before 2027 (including RDNA 5, which is expected to support the [โฆ]
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SK Hynix has commenced sampling of its next-gen HBM4E memory, offering up to 16 Gbps speeds and 48 GB capacities. SK Hynix Races Samsung In Sampling First HBM4E DRAM Modules For Next-Gen AI Solutions The acceleration in AI has pushed DRAM manufacturers to dial up their development plans. As such, SK Hynix is racing its rival Samsung to deliver the first HBM4E memory solutions to partners who will be using it to power their next-generation datacenters. The HBM4E memory will play a crucial role for next-gen datacenters as it will power some heavy-weight chips, NVIDIA Rubin Ultra, and AMD Instinct [โฆ]
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That memory chips are scarce at the moment is hardly news that raises eyebrows these days. Even so, there appears to be a bit of desperation in the air that was not an elemental presence as recently as just a few weeks back. As a case in point, consider the latest tidbit: Google might procure memory chips from China's CXMT, upending the monopolistic dynamics in the memory sphere, and potentially opening a floodgate of similar deals. Google might tap China's upstart memory player, CXMT, as a hedge against the so-called Big 3: Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron According to the [โฆ]
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The era of Vera Rubin is upon us, as not only NVIDIA's but the world's fastest AI platform is now being delivered to top cloud providers. Coreweave & Oracle Receive The World's First NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Systems For Validation, Bringing A Mammoth Leap To Agentic AI NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is in volume production, but the top AI cloud providers are already getting their hands on the first systems to test and validate. NVIDIA also sent out its first Vera CPUs to major AI firms last month. Oracle and Coreweave are among the first cloud providers to bring up NVIDIA's [โฆ]
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Intel CEO, Lip-Bu Tan was about to retire from the semiconductor industry, but was asked to do one more thing: save Intel. Lip-Bu Tan was on the Intel Candidate List Back in 2021, But Made The Final Decision To Become CEO After Being Convninced By His Wife & Friends Ever since Lip-Bu Tan joined Intel as CEO, we have seen some radical changes in the structuring of the company. Lip-Bu has turned Intel around. Most of the groundwork was laid by Intel's former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who set the company's Foundry plans and current product line, but Lip-Bu is creating [โฆ]
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By now, everyone and their grandmother is familiar with ASML, the sole provider of EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) capable lithography machines in the world. As hyperscalers continue to aggressively build out compute, we constantly discover new bottlenecks at almost every level of Jensen's five-layer AI cake, down to an insulating film supplied by, of all things, an MSG manufacturer. Yet for all the novel bottlenecks that crop up, there remains a perennial, critical constraint to AI build-out: the capacity of leading fabs to produce wafers on bleeding-edge process nodes. In other words, this bottleneck is EUV capacity, as all sub-7 nm [โฆ]
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SanDisk has introduced its new Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSDs for Sony PS5 consoles, offering up to 8 TB capacities, but they come at a massive price tag. Paying For SanDisk's New 8 TB SSD Feels Like Buying Three Sony PS5 Pro Consoles Today, SanDisk introduced its new SSD lineup, which is officially licensed for the Sony PS5 series consoles. These are the Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSDs, and come in up to 8 TB capacities. These SSDs are PCIe Gen 4.0 compliant and feature up to 7200 MB/s Read and 6600 MB/s Write speeds with 1.2 Million [โฆ]
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Korean memory manufacturer Samsung is gearing up to produce its next-generation 1d DRAM, suggests a report from the Korean media. 1d manufacturing technology is the latest in the industry, and it is equivalent to Micron's 1-delta node. As of now, Samsung is discussing equipment plans for the next-generation RAM with its manufacturing partners as part of its preparation to begin mass production as early as late 2027. Samsung Evaluating Internal Capabilities for 1d DRAM Production, Says Report Industry sources quoted by ZDNet Korea outline that Samsung is developing equipment with its partners to kick off the next generation DRAM production. [โฆ]
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New benchmarks of Valve's Steam Machine show performance comparable to a 6-core AMD Ryzen CPU from 2020, but could be decent if priced right. Valve Said That Steam Machine Would Offer Equal or Better Performance Than 70% of PCs, But Its CPU Is Only Comparable to 2020's 6-Core Ryzen Two new benchmarks of the Steam Machine by Valve have appeared online. These benchmarks give us a taste of what to expect in terms of CPU performance from the upcoming system, which aims to be a mainstream gaming option powered by the SteamOS. The idea of Steam Machines goes back to [โฆ]
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