Optical disc devotees continue to find safe ports and harbors in Japan, with the release of the new FMV Note A laptop line (machine translation). This laptop range fuses modern features like a Windows Hello webcam, USB-C power, a Copilot key, and up to an AMD Ryzen 7 7000-series APU, with what most would admit is a long past-its-prime storage and media format – a Blu-ray Disc drive. FMV is Fujitsu
EU considers punitive DUV machine export ban following China's latest round of rare earth export controls — ban would impact ASML’s biggest growth market
The European Union is quietly preparing retaliatory trade measures against China, and the trigger appears to be Beijing’s threat to restrict exports of rare earth materials. But the EU’s counterstrike could hit closer to home by expanding controls on semiconductor tooling, with ASML's DUV machines under consideration for a retaliatory ban.
According to a recent report by Bloomberg , Brussels officials have begun mapping out “trade options” should diplomacy fail, amid growing frustration over asymmetric pressure tactics from Beijing. In
Trump considering China export ban on items made with or containing U.S. software — sweeping restriction to hit hard in response to Beijing’s rare earth embargo in major trade war escalation
The White House is considering banning exports to China of all items that were made with or contain U.S.-made software in response to China’s announcement of rare earth export controls . According to Reuters , this isn’t the only plan the Trump administration is considering, but if implemented, it would follow through on the president’s threat of a 100% tariff and a ban on critical software as a response to Beijing’s perceived escalation. Although
Trump administration to follow up Intel stake with investment in quantum computing, report claims — tens of millions of CHIPS Act dollars could be paid out to leading companies in exchange for equity
The U.S. government is negotiating with leading quantum-computing companies to acquire ownership stakes in return for Federal financial support, reports the Wall Street Journal . The plan would provide public funds to quantum technology startups that badly need money while granting Washington direct equity participation and expanding its role as an investor in the private sector.
Atom Computing, D-Wave Quantum, IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and Quantum Computing are among the companies that are discussing or considering entering into a deal
Google's Quantum Echo algorithm shows world's first practical application of Quantum Computing — Willow 105-qubit chip runs algorithm 13,000x faster than a supercomputer
Quantum computing doesn't show up often in the news. After all, it has gigantic potential, but the technology has been promising practical real-world uses in "just a few years" for decades now. The science world may have finally reached a tipping point for practicality, though. Google 's engineers demonstrated a world-first of running a verifiable algorithm on its Willow quantum chip — 13,000 times faster than a supercomputer.
The algorithm in question is
China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals
China has worked for years to further separate its computing progress from the United States and its tech companies. Today heralds a major development to this end, as the Global Computing Consortium has announced the "UBIOS" global standard, a new replacement for UEFI and BIOS. Fast Technology reports that the GCC's new standard is a rebuilding of BIOS firmware from the ground up, bypassing UEFI development entirely.
UBIOS, or "Unified Basic Input/Output System", is a firmware standard to
Secretlab Magnus Evo Hands-on — a trimmed-down version of its popular, premium sit-stand desk
Secretlab is one of the biggest names in premium gaming office hardware, and now the company is back with a new iteration of its popular sit-stand desk, the Magnus.
If you’re at all familiar with Secretlab’s product lineup, you might recall that back in the day, it had the fantastic 2020 Omega gaming chair and a heftier Titan that was larger and more premium. The company combined the two to create its excellent Titan Evo, one of the
Cooler Master tells customer to dismantle 12v2x6 connector to fit Asus RTX 5070 Ti — customer service offers dubious advice that might not even fix issue
The 12V-2x6/12VHPWR power connector is already one of the most unreliable connector designs ever made for PCIe cards, even in optimal conditions. There's no telling what the connector might do if it's tampered with, but that is exactly what Cooler Master customer service recommended to one of its customers, Igor's Lab reports .
The customer, who owned an Asus RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, went to Cooler Master'
ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times
Even though the value proposition was put in the backseat, Microsoft and Asus took a step in the right direction for PC handhelds with the new ROG Xbox Ally , especially with the work done to optimize Windows and create the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE). By turning off unnecessary background tasks and disabling much of the telemetry, the team was able to squeeze out more FPS without upping the power limits — all while sporting a polished, console-like UI. Turns out
Nvidia's H100 GPUs are going to space — Crusoe and Starcloud pioneer space-based solar-powered AI compute cloud data centers
The first Nvidia H100 GPUs are heading into space next month. This out-of-this-world news comes as AI factory company, Crusoe , reveals its plans to become “the first public cloud operator to run workloads in outer space.” The orbital Crusoe Cloud deployment will be powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs and AI accelerators in strategic partner Starcloud ’s AI data center satellites.