Russia’s Mikron is earning a bit of cash on the side by selling picture-framed test wafers as souvenirs with 12 designs to choose from, priced around $170.
Microsoft is bringing Advanced Shader Delivery to Windows 11 PCs at large, after introducing the tech on Xbox ROG Ally handhelds last year. The company says you can expect up to 95% faster load times in Forza Horizon 6, for instance, going from 90 seconds to just 4 seconds on initial launch thanks to precompiled shaders.
The U.S. FTC is looking into Arm Holdings to see if it’s abusing its market position as a dominant chip designer to gives its new chip manufacturing business an advantage over competitors who build semiconductors based on Arm designs.
China’s National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen takes a page from Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer and Fujitsu’s A64FX processor, build LineShine supercomputer based entirely on Armv9-based LineShine LX2 CPUs.