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Arm hires Amazon's AI chip developer, ostensibly to help create its own processors — Rami Sinno returns to the company, boasts Trainium and Inferentia on resume

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British semiconductor and chip design firm Arm Holdings has hired Amazon 's director of engineering in its Amazon Web Services division to work on developing its own complete processors, according to Reuters . Rami Sinno headed the team that developed Amazon's own AI processors, Trainium and Inferentia, but will be returning to the fold with this move, having previously worked as VP of engineering at ARM between 2014 and 2019.

Arm's chip designs are

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SoftBank to buy $2 billion in Intel shares at $23 each — firm still owns majority share of Arm

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SoftBank Group late on Monday announced a plan to purchase $2 billion worth of Intel shares at $23 each, which will provide the troubled chipmaker much-needed cash. The companies inked a definitive securities purchase agreement, which sets the price of Intel stock (currently trading below its book value) at which the Japanese company will buy it. Softbank also still owns a majority share of Arm.

Intel and SoftBank frame the deal as a way to 'deepen their commitment to investing in

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Nvidia's GeForce Now gets an RTX 5080 upgrade — Ultimate subscribers now get Blackwell benefits in the cloud

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Nvidia's GeForce Now service has been streaming the PC gaming experience to a wide range of devices for over ten years. Today at Gamescom 2025, the company announced the arrival of Blackwell-powered instances on its streaming service, along with a swath of other improvements that are meant to improve latency and image quality.

The biggest upgrade coming to GFN is the deployment of new Blackwell SuperPod servers to the GeForce Now network. The company is promising an RTX 5080

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Trump administration reportedly mulling a 10% stake in Intel — CHIPS Act funding could be reworked into the purchase amount

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President Trump's administration is reportedly in talks to acquire a 10% stake in Intel, according to Bloomberg.

Intel stock dropped on the news, but we now have further insight into how this deal may work. Sources close to the matter revealed to Bloomberg that the Trump administration will turn the rewards granted to Intel as part of the CHIPS Act into the purchase amount. Intel’s current valuation is around $100 billion, and the company has been

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Nvidia teases imminent major GeForce Now announcement — confirms no new hardware coming at Gamescom 2025

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Nvidia is making a return to Gamescom this year, but the GPU manufacturing giant will be focusing on topics not involving new GPU hardware releases. Nvidia announced on its blog that it will be kicking off Gamescom 2025 with a live stream at noon PT, announcing "major" GeForce Now news, new GeForce features, and "some highly anticipated" PC games.

Nvidia went out of its way to make clear to the public that it wouldn't be announcing new graphics cards

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AMD to disclose roadmaps in mid-November — The future of Zen 6, RDNA, CDNA, and UDNA expected

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AMD has confirmed that it will host its 2025 Financial Analyst Day on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, in New York City. The company plans to unveil details of its technology and product roadmaps at the event beyond what it already disclosed at its Advancing AI event earlier this summer.

"The event will feature presentations from AMD's executive leadership team, highlighting the company's strategy and growth opportunities, innovative product and technology roadmaps and long-term

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Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived' — good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race

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The future of cybersecurity is essentially a digital version of "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots" that pits offensive- and defensive-minded AI against each other—or at least that's the impression given by an NBC report on how the industry views AI.

"In recent months, hackers of seemingly every stripe — cybercriminals, spies, researchers and corporate defenders alike — have started including AI tools into their work," the report said . "LLMs, like ChatGPT, are

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Latest Windows 11 security patch might be breaking SSDs under heavy workloads — users report disappearing drives following file transfers, including some that cannot be recovered after a reboot

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Microsoft ’s latest security update for Windows 11 is allegedly causing SSD failures during heavy file transfers. The issue was reported by X user Nekorusukii @Necoru_cat, who was updating Cyberpunk 2077 on a system running Windows 11 24H2 with the KB5063878 update installed, when the SSD the game was installed on disappeared from the operating system.

An investigation done by the user reveals that a potential bug appears during continuous

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Dell S3225QC 32-inch 4K QD-OLED Monitor Review: Compelling gaming value

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Dell S3225QC isn’t the quickest 4K OLED out there, but it delivers an audio experience like no other. With accurate and saturated color, it excels at entertainment, gaming and workday tasks alike.

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    Stunning image with tremendous contrast and saturated color

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    Accurate out of the box

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    Superb sound quality with spatial audio feature

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    Premium styling and build quality

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    Three USB-C ports

Cons

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SoftBank acquires Foxconn's Ohio facility to build Stargate AI servers — $375 million deal says Foxconn will continue to operate the plant

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Foxconn on Monday confirmed that it sold its production facility in Lordstown, Ohio, earlier this month to SoftBank, reports Nikkei . Under the terms of the deal, Foxconn will continue to operate the plant, which will be retrofitted to build AI servers and other gear to equip Stargate AI data centers.

The Lordstown, Ohio, site was originally acquired by Foxconn from Lordstown Motors in 2022 and used for electric vehicle production. The complex spans 6.2 million square feet and is

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