Edging ever closer to the official start of Amazon's Prime Big Deals Day sales, the early deals have been popping out of the woodwork ahead of time for some of the best early Prime Day deals we've seen in a long time. Today, PC component manufacturer MSI has an in-store deal that pairs one of its top-end motherboards with the absolute best X3D chip that AMD has to offer for the makings of one beast of a computer system.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly took a quiet trip to Taiwan this week to hold meetings with representatives of TSMC and Foxconn and discuss collaborating on chip design and manufacturing, as well as AI server infrastructure development, according to Digitimes . These kinds of partnerships will be crucial if OpenAI is to meet its commitments as part of major initiatives like Stargate, to build hundreds of billions of dollars worth of data centers and "AI factories," over the next few years.
Although not announced
Qualcomm, along with its subsidiary Nuvia, have finally won the legal battle against Arm Holdings, which had accused the chip-maker of violating license agreements tied to its chip designs. A U.S. District Court judge in Delaware ruled that neither Qualcomm nor its subsidiary breached any of Arm’s architecture license agreement (ALA), dismissing the lone remaining claim in the case and also rejecting Arm's request for a new trial.
The latest ruling follows Qualcomm’s trial victory
Despite facing numerous setbacks , plans for Intel's upcoming Ohio fabrication plant are still alive and kicking, as reiterated by the company in a response to U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno. Bloomberg reports that the lawmaker wrote to Intel last week, demanding updates on the delayed chipmaking facility that was initially supposed to launch this year, but was pushed back to at least 2030 earlier this year. Intel has now responded to Moreno, but didn't address the full body
Taiwanese Vice Premier Cheng Li-chun said on Wednesday, October 1, that his government will not agree to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s proposal to move 50% of chip production bound for the U.S. to American shores.
Sec. Lutnick mentioned the proposal during a recent interview, according to Bloomberg, saying that the U.S. has raised this proposal to reduce its reliance on overseas supply chains. Taiwan was quick to reject
Popular drone maker DJI has issued a fervent rejection of a recent U.S. District Court ruling, which upheld the Department of Defence's (recently rebranded to the Department of War) designation of the outfit as a "Chinese Military Company." DJI says that it is not tied to the military, is not subject to government control, and says that court findings support this notion.
Last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Meta is set to acquire RISC-V chip startup Rivos, in an effort to shore up Meta's own internal chip development teams and move past reliance on Nvidia GPU hardware. According to Bloomberg , the deal has not yet been made public, but has been confirmed by sources.
Rivos is a "stealth" chip startup, focused on designing GPUs and AI accelerators on the RISC-V open standard . The company's IP includes SoCs and PCIe accelerators.
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released its latest large language model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, with first-day optimizations for Huawei’s Ascend hardware and CANN software stack. The launch marks a shift in priorities to ensure leading-edge models run on domestic accelerators rather than relying on Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem .
DeepSeek announced the model on September 29, posting code and checkpoints to Hugging Face alongside a technical report. The company describes V3.
AMD is quietly working on a new version of Fluid Motion Frames, just a year after AFMF 2 was released. Two Guru3D forum posters discovered developer notes in the upcoming AMD Adrenalin 25.20 driver branch that mention AFMF 3 support. The latest AMD beta driver out today is 25.9.2, so we could see this new driver very soon.
The discovery was made from a "Windows Preview Edition" of the driver that came out on the 2
The Metropolitan Police announced Monday the seizure of some $7.3 billion in bitcoin following the conviction of Zhimin Qian, the "Bitcoin Queen," who defrauded over 128,000 victims through a large-scale fraud operation.
"The seizure results from an inquiry which was launched in 2018 on the back of intelligence received about the transfer of criminal assets," the Met said in a statement about Qian's conviction, "where the