The supply shortage of silicon chips has reached an all-time high, and fabs like TSMC simply don't have enough production facilities to keep up with the incessant demand from the server, PC, and automotive markets. Per a report from CNBC , President Joe Biden plans to review several critically important industries severely hampered by high demand -- including the semiconductor industry.

More specifically, Biden wants the U.S. to be competitive with China and lessen its dependency on Chinese production facilities

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In a bid to support development of its scientific, economic, and allegedly military-bound projects, China has been building leading-edge supercomputers for about two decades. Initially, China used hardware developed in the U.S., but as tensions between the country and its main economic rival intensified, China had to build its own high-performance computing (HPC) hardware. As the era of exascale supercomputer looms, Chinese scientists propose various architectures for such systems.

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Russia's MCST Elbrus microprocessors made a splash last year, but it takes a lot mot than a microprocessor to develop a completely self-sufficient computing platform. Among other things such nationally-oriented platforms need is a proprietary SSD controller, and apparently server maker Kraftway has developed one and demonstrated it at a conference this week. The chip will enable building encrypted SSDs featuring a proprietary encryption technology.

The Kraftway K1942BK018 is an Arm Cortex-R5

Makers in the Game Boy modding community know how handy it is to have micro SD cartridges around, but they aren't always easy to find. Many popular options are no longer in production, leaving modders to turn to custom solutions. That includes Reddit user LyneByLyne who decided to design his own using a Raspberry Pi Pico .

LyneByLyne's ultimate plan is to create a Pico-based cartridge PCB with micro SD support and a custom GUI for game selection.

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Nvidia today announced its new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) line of GPUs to "address the specific needs of Ethereum mining" and, hopefully, improve the availability of the best graphics cards in the GeForce product line in the process. The company also limited the mining performance of the soon-to-be-launched RTX 3060 cards to roughly 50% of the normal performance. It sounds like a good move, but there's a lot going on.

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In a tweet from Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton , we see trays of RP2040 'Pi Silicon' chips destined for board partners to build their own models of RP2040 boards. Each of these trays holds 1200 chips, but these latest chips are a little different to those that have come before.

Lian Li might be enjoying the fullest success of its existing case lineup, but the company isn't sitting idly by. Today, Lian Li is unveiling four new cases in its 2021 Expo , which is set to kick off in a couple hours. Meanwhile, we've got a few pictures and details about the cases they're about to show off, so we're bringing those to you early. So without further ado, let's dig in:

All-new O1