TSMC Joins Applied Materials at $5B Silicon Valley Hub to Crack the 3D Transistor Wall Slowing Down Advanced AI Chips

in a $5 billion EPIC Center to advance semiconductor technologies for AI-driven innovation and efficiency.

Press Release: Building on more than 30 years of collaboration, Applied Materials, Inc., today announced an innovation partnership with TSMC to accelerate the development and commercialization of semiconductor technologies required for the next era of AI. Working together at Applied’s EPIC Center in Silicon Valley, the companies will co-innovate to advance materials engineering, equipment innovation, and process integration technologies designed to deliver energy-efficient performance from


Sipeed Crams 32GB LPDDR5 and a 60 TOPS NPU Into a Compact RISC-V Board That Hits 15 Tokens/s on Qwen-3.5 35B AI LLMs

Sipeed has unveiled its new RISC-V powered SBC platform, the K3 series, which can run up to Qwen3.5 35B AI LLMs and start at $299.

Chinese manufacturer, , has partnered with to launch its brand new K3 series SBCs or Single-Board Computers (such as the Raspberry Pi). These PCs are normally aimed at AI, Edge, and Networking applications. Sipeed has leveraged SPACEMIT's Key Stone K3 AI CPUs, which are based on the


German GPU Prices Finally Retreat From RAMpocalypse Peak, Sliding To 112% Of September Levels After February’s 120% Spike

After the initial surge, the GPU prices are dropping gradually, at least in Germany. They are now at just 9% higher than in September 2025.

The GPU market has begun to stabilize, and while it's not the same in every region, a few places are seeing gradual price drops over the last few weeks. A phenomenon that was hard to imagine is finally occurring in some regions. The latest stats show that the GPU selling prices have dropped noticeably in Germany , which peaked to 1


Noctua Drops The All-Black NF-A12x25 G2 Chromax At $34.90, Ending The Brown-Beige Compromise For Enthusiast Builds

A new color variant of one of the best PC fans ever made is now available for purchase, as Noctua announces its official launch.

The original Noctua NF-A12x25 was a huge success as it was deemed as one of the best, if not the best, PC fans ever made. Based on the same design, Noctua launched the NF-A12x25 G2 last year, but it was only available in the classic brown-beige color combination. However, Noctua


ROUND8 Doubles Down on Story and Generative AI as Lies of P Sequel Anchors NEOWIZ’s Six-Game Future

The quarterly financial week for developers and publishers continues with NEOWIZ posting revenue of KRW 101.4 billion (around $74 million ) in Q1 2026, up 13.9% year-on-year but down 4.6% quarter on quarter, with no new releases during the quarter.

Operating profit came in at KRW 7.0 billion ( $5.1 million ), down 32% YoY, while net profit surged to KRW 15.5 billion

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PlayStation 6 May Ditch 32GB RAM Dream for 24GB Reality as Sony Scrambles to Keep Console Under Price Ceiling

During last week's earnings call for its Q4 FY25 and full-year 2025 financial report , Sony's executives admitted they haven't decided on the launch timing for the PlayStation 6 due to ongoing memory shortages , and thus very high prices that could drive the system's launch price past what many consider reasonable for a gaming console. According to known AMD leaker KeplerL2 , the only reasonable cutbacks Sony could make without gutting the system heavily to keep its price as low as


Resident Evil Requiem Already Looks Stunning on PC, but Mod Pushes RT and Path Tracing Even Further With 11 Options

Resident Evil Requiem is among the best-looking survival horror games of the current console generation, but if you are on PC and have the performance headroom to spare, you can push the game's visuals to a level past what CAPCOM intended with the Graphics Enhancement mod now available for free on

"Resident Evil Requiem ships with a maximum in-game RT setting of High. This mod breaks that ceiling — pushing raster quality further, improving RT visuals across the board, and squeezing out a little extra quality from path


Cooler Master MWE Gold V4 Pre-Orders Begin In China, Featuring Native Support For GPU Shield

Power supplies for a special protective cable will start shipping soon as Cooler Master begins taking pre-orders.

Not just ASRock and ASUS, Cooler Master has also prepared a special 16-pin power cable for RTX GPUs that aims to tackle connector burning. While first introduced at CES this year, the GPU Shield requires compatible power supplies to operate. Cooler Master did announce the MWE Gold V4 series for the GPU Shield, but it hasn't been out yet. However, it appears that the power supply units


The Memory Shortage Has Created A Butterfly Effect In The Smartphone Market, As Reduced Demand Has Cut Down OLED Shipments By 12% In Q1

As smartphone demand starts to wane due to the memory crisis , companies have been forced to adjust their shipment requirements for a multitude of components, including OLED panels. As a result, this problem has branched out to the entire industry, as display manufacturers are feeling every bit of pressure due to the DRAM shortage. According to the latest statistics, OLED shipments for the first quarter of 2026 fell by 12 percent, but since there’s no reason to halt smartphone production completely, Korean firms continue to


Sony Doubles Down on AI in PlayStation Studios, but Insists Human Creators Won’t Be Replaced

A few days ago, alongside its quarterly financial report, Sony revealed that it has already embraced AI tools to empower the game development of its own first party studios. More information about this strategy is now available , delivered by Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki and PlayStation President and CEO Hideaki Nishino .

Sony's overarching principle is that human creativity must remain central . CEO Hiroki Totoki set the tone plainly: "AI is a powerful tool, but it is not a replacement for artists or creators. It is an amplifier of human

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