Report: TSMC's Lead Time for 7nm Chips Is Still 6 Months or More

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It doesn't seem like 7nm chips are going to be in ready supply in the first half of 2020. DigiTimes today reported that TSMC customers are dealing with six-month-plus lead times for chips made with the semiconductor manufacturer's 7nm process.

Those chips have been in short supply for a while now--DigiTimes reported in September 2019 that lead times for TSMC's 7nm chips tripled from two months to six because of


Hit 144Hz With This Dell Gaming Monitor That's $60 After Rebate

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The Dell S2419HGF gaming monitor debuted in 2018 for $320, but now you can get it for an amazing $60 after rebate at B&H . The $150 rebate comes in the form of a digital Visa prepaid card. So you will have to shell out a significant amount of cash to get this deal. But as a 24-inch gaming monitor that can overclock

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Intel Reclaims Status as World’s Largest Semiconductor Vendor

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Semiconductor revenue declined by almost 12% in 2019, according to Garner’s analysis of the 2019 global semiconductor market, driven by the downturn in the memory market. This led Intel to reclaim the top spot as the world’s largest semiconductor vendor after losing the position for two years to Samsung.

Intel dethroning Samsung as the biggest semiconductor supplier was already predicted early last year , due to price cuts in DRAM and flash chips, which primarily impacted Samsung

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MSI's Custom Radeon RX 5600 XT Graphics Cards Boast up to 1,620 MHz Boost Clock

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MSI has announced four new AMD graphics cards based on AMD's recently announced Radeon RX 5600 XT . The graphics cards, which are available as normal and overclocked models, hail from MSI's Gaming and Mech product lines.

The Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming and Mech debut with MSI's Innovative Power Allocation technology that basically makes sure the graphics cards draw their power from the power supply rather

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Microsoft's New Chromium-Based Edge Browser Is Now Available for Windows and macOS

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Microsoft today made its new Edge browser , which is based on the same technology as Google Chrome, available for Windows and macOS.

This new version of Edge also boasts additional security options, an Internet Explorer mode used to access legacy websites and other new features. Its availability for macOS makes it the first Microsoft browser to grace an Apple platform since 2003.

The new Edge is available now for Windows 10 , 8.1, 8 and 7 . as well as macOS


Philips 27-Inch 4K Monitor Goes on Sale for All-Time Low $214

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Philips' 276E8VJSB 27-inch 4K monitor is down to just $214.16 on Amazon . We've seen this sell for as much as $360 last year, which makes this one of the best tech deals around. It features an unusual but classy design utilizing slim borders along three sides and a sleek bent foot.

At this price, we can't expect a stand that

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Sapphire Reveals Custom Radeon RX 5600 XT Graphics Card

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Sapphire has taken the wraps of its Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT. The gaming graphics card arrives with the brand's distinctive Dual-X cooling system and other proprietary features.

The Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT measures 254 x 135 x 46.5mm and adheres to a 2.3-slot form factor. The Dual-X cooler cools the graphics card's GPU, memory

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Feds Keep Pushing TSMC to Make Chips in the US

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According to a Nikkei Asian Review report today, the U.S. government continues to pressure TSMC to make some of its chips, including those used in Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, in the U.S. in fears of interference from the Chinese government.

This isn't the first time we've heard claims that the U.S. government is pressuring TSMC some of its chip production, as Bloomberg reported the same thing in November. At


Linux Founder Linus Torvalds Draws Ire for Criticizing Oracle ZFS

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Linux creator Linus Torvalds has drawn ire for advising people not to use the ZFS file system until Oracle, which inherited the technology when it acquired Sun Microsystems in 2009, changes the licensing used to cover the project's codebase.

Torvalds made his remarks on the Real World Technologies forum on January 6. Phoronix was the first to report on the comment, and Ars Technica followed up on Tuesday to criticize Torvalds's argument, saying in the article's subhed that "


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AMD Epyc 7742 CPUs Tapped for European Weather-Predicting Supercomputer

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After recently pulling off a big win in the Archer 2 Supercomputer installed in Edinburgh, AMD this week announced another big supercomputer contract,. This time it's to build the weather-predicting BullSequana XH2000 with Atos. The supercomputer will be installed for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) research center and 24/7 operational weather service in Bologna, Italy.

Atos has multiple XH2000 supercomputers already, but the one in

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