China has lifted its ban on exports of gallium, germanium, and antimony to the United States, temporarily halting restrictions that had reshaped global materials markets over the past year. The decision, effective November 9, comes as part of a broader de-escalation package reached by Presidents Xi and Trump during recent bilateral talks, and is currently set to expire on November 27, 2026.
While the suspension covers a wide range of materials, including certain
As an unprecedented DRAM crisis unfolds, artificial intelligence is sowing chaos on another front: storage. Data centers using nearline HDDs are switching to SSDs to avoid lead times, which has led to a supply squeeze for NAND flash memory — one that's set to only worsen as the insatiable appetite for AGI continues to grow. As reported by Digitimes , Phison CEO Khein-Seng Pua confirmed that NAND prices have more than doubled in the past six months and that he expects it
Leading action-and webcam brand Insta360 has gifted real gold keycaps to its most valued employees. SCMP reports that this generosity has become something of a tradition in recent years at the Shenzhen, China-based imaging technology firm. On ‘Programmer’s Day’ last month, for example, 21 keycaps were gifted, worth up to $45,000 each.
The firm’s practice of sharing out golden gifts reportedly started around four years ago
A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb. Vimpo shows how this feat was completed and demonstrates the server working in a brief video, embedded below. Key to this achievement was the bulb’s BL602 RISC-V-powered microcontroller.
The Biwin NV7200 is the essential budget SSD with good performance and power efficiency. Its current pricing seals the deal.
Low pricing at main capacities
Good all-around performance
Very power-efficient
Very poor sustained write performance
Retread of budget hardware
Micron has disclosed another major postponement for its fabs near Clay, New York, which will pull out the facilities coming online only in late 2033, reports Syracuse, citing recently released documents from Micron. The delay, if true, marks a major struggle for a major semiconductor production cluster that was once set to start production in 2025 in the state of New York. But while the company delays its fabs near Clay, it is accelerating its Idaho
It’s time to retire that rusty old screwdriver and treat yourself to an upgrade before your next PC build or DIY project. This pre-Black Friday deal on Hoto’s original mini electric precision screwdriver is an absolute steal at the moment, thanks to Amazon, scoring you a portable driver with a rechargeable battery and all kinds of goodies, and all for a record-low price.
That’s because Amazon has dropped the price of
In the heart of Silicon Valley, two freshly built data centers designed for the world’s most power-hungry computing workloads are standing empty. Digital Realty’s four-story SJC37 facility and Stack Infrastructure’s SVY02A campus in Santa Clara, California, were both constructed to host tens of megawatts of high-density IT hardware. Instead, they’re waiting for electricity.
According to a Bloomberg report, both projects are complete but idle,
We're getting closer and closer to Black Friday, but that doesn't really matter here, as 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab is already deep into its early Black Friday sales. The Bambu Lab P1S is one of our favorite 3D printers we've reviewed, a winner of an Editor's Choice award, and an almost perfect star score. Bambu Lab has brought out the latest P2S to replace the P1S, but unfortunately for 3
TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei was joined at the firm’s annual Sports Day event by Nvidia’s Jensen Huang this weekend. However, to our surprise, Wei’s footwear managed to upstage any Jensanity. Wei's custom-made TSMC-branded sneakers were “the focus of the audience” at the event, according to an ‘exclusive’ Mirror News report (associated video in Mandarin Chinese, embedded below).