Elon Musk Calls IBM’s 0.7-nanometer Chip Naming Misleading, Says Atoms Should Decide Process Node Labels

Billionaire Elon Musk believes IBM's branding for its latest chip manufacturing technology announcement is misleading. IBM announced its 0.7-nanometer manufacturing technology yesterday and claimed it to be the most advanced in the world. But Musk believes that the nomenclature does not describe the feature size of the transistors manufactured with the technology. The billionaire, who is spearheading his Terafab project, which aims to produce up to a terawatt of computing capacity in a year, believes that the number of atoms should dictate nomenclature instead.

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A graph titled 'IBM’s logic technology roadmap' shows advancements in logic transistor density from 2010 to 2040, highlighting milestones like 1nm and 1Å, and phases labeled 'FinFET R&D', 'Nanosheet R&D', and 'Nanostack R&D'.

Right Now Is An Excellent Time To Grab One Of Intel’s Core Ultra Desktop Processors, With Amazon Prime Day 2026 Slashing Prices By Up To 26%

The Intel Core Ultra lineup of desktops might not have been able to garner a decent reputation thanks to what transpired with the company’s 14th-generation family of CPUs, but they are every bit as powerful and can help you bulldoze through the most demanding of tasks with ease. Now, these processors weren’t as value-oriented as before, but thanks to Amazon’s Prime Day 2026 sale, you can grab them at an attractive 26 percent off.

The processors are only


Darksiders Genesis and Ruined King Makers Airship Syndicate Reveals Kickstarter for new Isometric Action Game, DUST: Origins

Airship Syndicate is a studio that you'll likely recognize for Darksiders Genesis , or its most recent outing, the co-op action RPG Wayfinder , but whatever you recognize the name from, the studio has officially revealed its next title. DUST: Origins is a new isometric action game that Airship Syndicate is developing, and the studio is about to launch a Kickstarter for it.

The Kickstarter officially begins on July 28, 2026, so there's still some time before it kicks off (pun

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Apple’s Growing List Of Compromises: The Touch-Enabled ‘MacBook Ultra’ To Stick With M5 Pro And M5 Max Chips, The Base iPhone 18 To Sport A 9GB RAM

Tis' the season of product recalibration at Apple, with its labyrinthine supply chain now leaking the kind of atypical product specifications that would have attracted a serious flak at any other time.

Such is the upheaval currently permeating through the entire global consumer electronics industry, however, that Apple's growing litany of compromises now barely raises any eyebrows.

We reported recently that Apple has significantly revamped its silicon-related plans , settling on the launch of the M5 Ultra and the base M6 later this year, and then jumping


“The Cheaper the Better,” Says Valve About its Steam Machine Pricing, but Don’t Expect a Price Decrease “Any Time Soon”

Valve revealed its price for the Steam Machine at the top of this week, and it was higher than players would've liked. The $1,049 price tag was also higher than what Valve would've liked too, as we've learned from subsequent interviews that it was supposed to be priced closer to $718 . But if the component crisis that painted Valve (and every other platform manufacturer) into a price-raising corner were to end tomorrow, would Valve lower the Steam

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Sword Sage: Awakening Brings Chinese Mythology, Intense Action and Sci-Fi Together in New Story Trailer

Publisher 4Divinity , who you may recognize as the publishers of JDM: Japanese Drift Master has something very different coming to its portfolio with Sword Sage: Awakening . A third-person action RPG where you step into the shoes of San Niang , and an adventure wrapped in Chinese myth and folklore.

The studio debuted a new gameplay and story trailer today, which shows off a bit of the kind of action players can expect. It's a game that, to some, will look like another Soulslike, while others

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Intel Nova Lake Dual-Tile CPUs Reportedly Feature Up To 474W PL2 Power Limit

Intel's Nova Lake flagship may temporarily consume up to 474W under heavy boost workloads.

More leaks are surfacing regarding Intel's upcoming Nova Lake lineup . As of today, we expect Intel's top-of-the-line Nova Lake S desktop lineup to feature up to a 52-core configuration, which is a massive jump over the current 24-core/24-thread configuration from Intel Arrow Lake S series. Intel did offer up to 32 threads in the


Apple’s A20 Pro With Newer Packaging On iPhone 18 Pro Logic Board Allegedly Leaked, Showing Bigger NPU But No Change To Package Size Compared To A19 Pro

A first look at the iPhone 18 Pro’s logic board shows that the A20 Pro has adopted the new WMCM (Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module) packaging, with Apple gradually shifting away from the PoP (Package-on-Package) technology used for the A19 Pro. We also see that Apple has once more relied on its chip design prowess to limit the size of the SoC while also making changes to the Neural Engine.

Maintaining the same physical size as the A19

A20 Pro packaging and logic board leaked

EA’s Laura Miele Champions AI as Creativity Accelerant, Echoing Epic’s Tim Sweeney Even as ‘Slop’ Fears Linger

Electronic Arts executive Laura Miele , a 30-plus-year veteran at the American publisher, was recently featured on The Game Business Show and talked about various topics, including, of course, how the publisher is using AI in its development process.

Back in late 2024, EA CEO Andrew Wilson was one of the very first major gaming executives to openly state that generative AI would soon be at the " very core of business ", allowing greater efficiency, expansion, and transformation. Now that it

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The Nintendo Switch 2 Helped Drive US Video Game Spending Growth in May 2026, while PlayStation and Xbox had their Worst May in Over Two Decades

Circana senior director and veteran video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella has just shared the latest monthly sales numbers for the video game industry in the US for the month of May 2026 . Usually, the big topic from these reports comes down to which games are at the top of the charts, and while that's still significant here, the bigger topic is what happened with hardware sales. While the Nintendo Switch 2 continued to sell and helped drive spending growth in the US video game industry for May 20

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