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Valve unveils a new Steam Machine, a cube-shaped gaming PC with SteamOS, a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and 16GB of RAM, expected in early 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
7 days ago AMD

In a letter, the SIA urges the USPTO to drop a plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on government-assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model (www.tomshardware.com)
10 days ago

During an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in” (www.tomshardware.com)
17 days ago Microsoft Interview

Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (www.tomshardware.com)
22 days ago Nvidia

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (www.tomshardware.com)
25 days ago Microsoft AI

Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-11

Intel says 18A-based Panther Lake chips can deliver 50% more performance at similar power to Lunar Lake chips, details RibbonFET efficiency gains, and more (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-10 Intel

SiPearl unveils Athena1, Europe's first high-performance CPU with up to 80 cores designed for civilian and military use, slated for commercial launch in H2 2027 (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-6 Europe

The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-5 AI

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips for PCs, offering up to 18 cores, and says the latter is the first Arm chip to hit 5GHz (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-25

Nvidia and Intel announce a partnership to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel stock at $23.28 per share; INTC jumps 20%+ (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-18 Intel Nvidia

Apple unveils the A19 chip, with a 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU, the A19 Pro, with a 6-core CPU and 6-core GPU, the N1 networking chip, and the C1X modem (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-10 Apple

SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-3

TrendForce: global foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B in Q2, with TSMC securing a 70% market share, followed by Samsung with 7% and SMIC with 5% (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-2 Samsung

GFW Report: on August 20, China's Great Firewall blocked all TCP port 443 traffic, used for HTTPS, for 74 minutes, an unusual move; the cause may be accidental (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-8-21 China

AMD and Stability AI launch the industry's first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model optimized for AMD's XDNA 2 NPUs, designed to run locally on Ryzen laptops (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-7-22 AI AMD

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-7-21 China Nvidia

GlobalFoundries agrees to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP, with the deal expected to close in H2 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-7-9

A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources indicate Nvidia is mulling 6,000W to 9,000W TDP for its next-gen GPUs, up from ~1,200W now (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-6-18 Nvidia

AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-6-13 AI AMD

Sen. Tom Cotton introduces a bill to mandate AI chip makers to include geo-tracking tech to comply with export rules, taking effect six months from its passing (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-5-12 AI

Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-4-20 Trump China AI Ban Nvidia

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: great value and performance, and GDDR7 offers more bandwidth, but the GPU's pricing and availability remain uncertain (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-4-16 Nvidia

AMD announces its first 2nm silicon fabricated on TSMC's N2 process, set to debut on its 6th-gen EPYC “Venice” chip, which is expected to launch in 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-4-15 AMD

China exempts products from AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, and others that are made by Taiwanese companies like TSMC from the 125% tariff on US products (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-4-12 China Taiwan Intel Nvidia AMD

Intel unveils a new slogan, “That's the power of Intel Inside”, building on its Intel Inside campaign in 1991; its current marketing focuses on the Core series (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-4-3 Intel

TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-3-25 Taiwan

Intel reorganizes Intel Foundry leadership as EVP Ann Kelleher, former GM of Technology Development and now strategic adviser, plans to retire later this year (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-3-22 Intel

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-3-18

Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-3-12 Apple

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