AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are more expensive, but worth it — costs ‘more than 5% but less than 20%’ higher than Taiwan-sourced alternative
AMD expects to receive TSMC-made chips by late 2025.
Someone cooled AMD’s $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with a BMW M4 radiator and some fans from a Toyota Highlander — 1,200 liters per minute pump still can’t match liquid nitrogen, though
Geekerwan tested an AMD Threadripper Pro 9995WX CPU cooled by a BMW M4 radiator and pump.
President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn’t even know what it was — ‘What the hell is Nvidia? I’ve never heard of it before’
President Trump has admitted he threatened to break up Nvidia, despite not knowing who Jensen Huang was and having never heard of the company before.
Hyte rolls back MSRPs on its cases for the first time since tariff announcements — some products return to pre-tariff pricing
Hyte is lowering the prices for the Y40, Y60, and Y70 cases to pre-tariff levels, while the Y70 Touch Infinite gets $40 off its old price.
Next-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — “Ultra High Reliability” initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss in challenging conditions
Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) aims to improve wireless reliability by 25% in throughput, latency, and packet loss under difficult conditions.
Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon’s AI coding assistant with a simple pull request — told ‘Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources’
A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon’s coding assistant to delete files on a user’s device.
Trump announces ‘AI Action Plan’ for the United States government — policy roadmap seeks to accelerate adoption of AI tools and spur infrastructure buildout in the race for global dominance
This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy.
NVIDIA Confirms CUDA Support Is Coming To RISC-V And It’s A Huge Deal
Old-timers might recall the initials “RISC” as a once-upon-a-time processor instruction set for servers from Sun Microsystems and other companies of a bygone era. As it happens though, the concept is alive and well, revived and revitalized in 2014 by Berkeley University. It has remained relatively obscure until recently, but an entire ecosystem
GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon
GPU-Z, a popular utility for graphics card information, indicates support for an unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 A, apparently the fifth version of the original GeForce RTX 3050.
Target Scores Nintendo Switch 2 Stock, Mario Kart World Bundle, Let’s Go!
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been selling like gangbusters, with retailers often being cleaned out of stock in a few hours. For anyone still looking to pick up Nintendo’s latest handheld, Target has just gotten a restock. It’s perfect timing, as Donkey Kong Bananza has surprised many as one of the must-play games of this year.
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