Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) chairman and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) senior vice president and co-COO Cliff Hou said during a question-and-answer session that TSMC has enough rare-earth supply from its sources that it is not concerned about the short-term direct impact of any rare-earth export controls from China. Digitimes reports that TSIA has been monitoring the situation and that it does not expect any significant impact within the next couple of years.
Gigabyte P650G 650W power supply review
Tom's Hardware Verdict
The Gigabyte P650G 650W represents honest value engineering in the mainstream power supply segment. While it successfully achieves 80 Plus Gold certification and maintains good electrical performance, this unit reveals its budget-oriented nature through basic component selection, non-modular design, and thermal limitations under extreme conditions, all for a tad too high price tag.
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TSMC says China's rare-earth export restrictions will have limited short-term impact on company — concern lies in transitioning away from China supply
Full-size Amiga A1200 retro gaming system comes armed with modern HDMI port, 25 classic games — pre-orders and launch date announced
Retro Games Ltd has lifted the curtain on the upcoming A1200 remake, and pre-orders will be open from November 10. Units will be launching from June 2026. We still don't know the price, but we have more details on the hotly anticipated retro computer.
THEA1200 - Announcement (EN) - YouTube
Intel hamstrung by supply shortages across its business, including production capacity — says it will prioritize data center CPUs over consumer chips, warns of price hikes
Demand for Intel's processors for client and data center applications was on the rise in the third quarter of 2025, but the company could not fully capitalize on it as it faced numerous supply shortages across its business, which included shortages of its own production capacity and an industry-wide shortage of substrates, which will persist into 2026. The company is prioritizing the supply of data center CPUs, but going forward, it also plans to adjust the pricing of
AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan — new R&D center could accelerate company's co-packaged optics roadmap
According to a new report, AMD has made the decision to establish two new R&D centers in Taiwan, focusing on silicon photonics, heterogeneous integration, and AI-related technologies, reports the Liberty Times . Both heterogeneous integration of system-in-packages (SiPs) and silicon photonics with co-packaged optics (CPO) are crucial technologies for current and next-generation AI and HPC components, as performance scaling via traditional methods is too slow to meet market requirements.
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Intrepid modder builds Frame Warp demo from Nvidia Reflex 2 binaries — tech remains mysteriously shelved despite greatly reducing latency
Nvidia's Reflex 2 latency reduction tech, introduced alongside its Blackwell architecture , was meant to introduce spatial reprojection - aka "Frame Warp" - to fast-paced games in order to lessen perceived input lag. It also has promise alongside Blackwell's Multi Frame Generation when it's enabled. MFG comes with a substantial input latency penalty when it's running, and Frame Warp could help mitigate it.
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Intel's pivotal 18A process is making steady progress, but still lags behind — yields only set to reach industry standard levels in 2027
Intel's management revealed during the company's Q3 2025 earnings call that while its 18A fabrication process is progressing predictably, with usable yields, enabling the company to begin ramping production of the Core Ultra 300-series processors, codenamed Panther Lake. However, the ramp-up of 18A processors will be slow due to relatively low yields, and Intel will not expand available 18A capacity at a rapid pace
AWS outage post-mortem fingers DNS as the culprit that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days — automation systems race and crash
The recent Amazon Web Services outage that took out a significant portion of the internet, games, and even smart home devices for days, was extensively covered in the news. Cloud services' distributed architecture should protect customers from failures like this one, so what went wrong? Amazon published a detailed technical post-mortem of the failure, and as the famous haiku poem goes: "It's not DNS. / There's no way it's DNS. / It was
Intel posts return to growth and profitability in Q3 2025, but significant challenges remain — achieves $13.7 billion revenue with $4.1 billion operating profit
Intel on Thursday reported its better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter of 2025, marking its return to growth and profitability despite ongoing challenges. The company earned $13.7 billion, up both sequentially and year-over-year, and even posted $4.1 billion operating profit. However, the profit was not a result of a sudden turnaround of Intel's business, but was mainly driven by large one-time and non-
Virtualized Windows 11 test shows Apple's M5 destroying Intel and AMD's best in single-core benchmark — Chinese enthusiast pits Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Core i9 14900KS against Apple's latest SoC
Apple's processors are notorious for their high performance when running in their native environments: macOS and iOS. However, an experiment conducted by NPacific, a Chinese enthusiast (via HXL ), shows that Apple's latest M5 processor can destroy high-end CPUs from AMD and Intel while running Windows 11 in virtualization mode. There is a catch, though: So far, the enthusiast has only benchmarked the M5 processor in CPU-Z, a synthetic benchmark.
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