The fallout from the scuffle between the Dutch government and Chinese business interests over the ownership of Dutch chip firm, Nexperia, is starting to impact supply chains elsewhere in the world. A major supplier for automakers like Volkswagen and BMW has announced it's slowing production in Germany due to shortages of semiconductors from Nexperia, as per Bloomberg . Perhaps in an effort to reduce this impact, Nexperia has also announced it will be cutting wafer supplies to its Chinese facilities, according to Reuters

Josef Prusa, who was recently awarded the Czech Medal of Merit for contributions to the nation’s economy , announced his company’s newest 3D printer, the CORE One L , at an exclusive media event in Prague. The new Core XY printer is a departure from his original i3 model and boasts a 300 x 300 x 330 mm³ build volume. Prusa said he wanted a larger format printer that could still fit on your desk and

Yesterday, AMD released a new driver update for its GPUs that sent the community into a frenzy because of one major change: it put RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs under "maintenance" mode, removing them from the priority list that receives monthly game optimization updates. This came as a shock to many, considering RDNA 2, or RX 6000 series, is less than 4 years old and was hugely popular against the RTX 3000 series at that time. Without

Mini PC maker Minisforum just announced a price hike for its product lineup, except for barebone models and items that do not come with DDR5 memory and SSD storage. The company made this announcement on X , suggesting that the change is brought about by increasing memory costs due to the massive demand AI hyperscale projects have put on the global memory supply, causing a worldwide NAND shortage that could last a decade . The price increase will take effect on Tuesday, November 4, just as its Halloween

A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. Veteran Windows Insider and code sleuth Xeno is behind this feat of Windows system file configuration and pruning. However, those interested in this OS release are warned to file this achievement under “fun proof of concept rather than something usable,” as work will need to be done for it to support most Windows software packages. Intriguingly, Xeno hints they might actually follow through on this.

Bolt Graphics' Zeus GPUs have slowly but surely been generating hype ever since the startup first announced its RISC-V GPUs in March . With its 2026 hardware launch steadily approaching, Bolt made a surprise appearance at the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 this week to talk about the software stack enabling its over-the-top hardware performance claims of being 13 times faster than Nvidia's RTX 5090.

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Colorful isn't a brand that shows up in headlines as much as Asus or Gigabyte, but the Chinese manufacturer's wares live up to their name and sometimes bring out-of-left-field features. Case in point: new motherboard BIOS updates with two settings for extra-tight memory latency timings that claim a +15% FPS boost in Battlefield 6, along with a +6 to 7% speed in the AIDA64 memory speed benchmarks . Oh, and

AMD's latest Ryzen AI Max APUs might be designed primarily to crunch through heavy AI workloads, but they are also quite capable gaming beasts. Integrated graphics enthusiast RandomGaminginHD on YouTube benchmarked a Minisforum MS-S1 Max mini-pc boasting AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Max 395+ APU, and was astonished at the APU's performance in games. The chip's integrated Radeon 8060S iGPU was able to provide butter-smooth 1080