ASML, a Dutch company renowned as the only one that can produce the latest photolithography machines for fabricating cutting-edge chip designs, is under fire for selling chip fabrication hardware to a Chinese defence firm with ties to the ruling party, as reported by Nos . Although ASML claims that the technology it sold to Chinese chip manufacturers was old and not able to "produce state-of-the-art chips," analysts have still raised concerns over its dealings with a

Marvell has confirmed plans to acquire Celestial AI in a deal worth up to $5.5 billion, a figure that immediately places it among the most aggressive acquisitions any mid-tier silicon vendor has made in the current AI cycle, and marks a decisive shift in how the company intends to compete against Nvidia, AMD, and Intel in the rest of the decade.

Celestial AI spent much of the last four years building a photonic interconnect platform intended to deliver high-bandwidth communication among

Chinese memory and SSD manufacturer Asgard has announced via the company's Weixin account the introduction of two high-capacity memory kits. While these kits may not rank among the best RAM , they are notably among the most costly available. The 256GB (4 x 64GB) version sells for up to 20% more than a GeForce RTX 5090 , one of the best graphics cards on the market.

Staying true to its Norse mythology-themed products

While us mere mortals are stuck facing the aftermath of the AI boom with soaring DDR5 prices and dwindling inventories , a chance hunter on Reddit has bagged possibly the best deal we've seen in a while. A fully-fledged, high-end custom gaming PC with all the bells and whistles — including, most importantly, 64 GB of DDR5 RAM — that would cost at least $2,500 to build right now. Our lucky

The U.S. Department of Commerce is about to let Nvidia import its H200 AI GPUs into China, Semafor reports, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. If true, Nvidia would be able to ship much more capable GPUs to China, enhancing its positions and ensuring dominance of its CUDA software stack. The only question is whether China lets these AI accelerators in, as it previously blocked imports of the weaker H20.

The authorization reportedly only covers Nvidia

The UK government has unveiled the first details of Atlantic Bastion , a new undersea warfare programme designed to detect and counter Russian submarine activity across the North Atlantic. Announced during a visit to HM Naval Base Portsmouth, the initiative brings together Royal Navy vessels, RAF patrol aircraft, and a growing fleet of autonomous surface and subsurface craft, all tied into an AI-enabled acoustic surveillance network that will begin at-sea deployment next year.

The Ministry of Defence says Atlantic Bastion is a response

Another benchmark listing has cropped up for the leaked Arc B370 integrated graphics chip housed in Intel's upcoming Panther Lake Core Ultra 5 338H. The iGPU was tested in Furmark 2 and shared by resident leaker momomo_us on X, featuring a score just below that of Intel's outgoing A380 desktop graphics card and Intel's outgoing Arc 140V and 140T iGPUs found in its Lunar Lake mobile CPUs.

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OpenAI and Anthropic have released a pair of new reports on how the use of their AI products helps to grow enterprise productivity. The reports serve as the AI industry's latest response to a wave of recent academic studies amid a sea of public discontent pushing back on the AI data center boom, as the big AI firms seek to stow doubts in the value of enterprise AI spending.

OpenAI's report released today, "The State of Enterprise AI" , hinges on two major

AMD launched the B650 chipset back in 2022 as a budget alternative to the X670 motherboards for AM5. Like B450 and B550 before it, for many people it served as the more sensible entry point into the platform. With the release of Ryzen 9000 family, AMD succeeded B650 with B850 and rumors of the former soon being discontinued started