Following the announcement from President Donald Trump that he would seek 100% tariffs on foreign-made chips, there were serious concerns about how this would affect the wide range of industries that use them. With limited information from the White House about when these tariffs would come into effect or how they might be applied, there were early-morning stock market swings as companies and investors tried to make sense of how this might affect global chip supply in the future.
While
Doug MacDowell, a data analyst and maker, built a coffee machine PC that uses the hot and tasty beverage as its primary ‘cooling’ method. MacDowell said that his build is part of “a lineage of coffee maker computers made since 2002.” For this build, he bought a 1980s GE Coffeematic coffee maker from a thrift store, and then sourced a mid-2000s motherboard, CPU, and RAM from a recycling
The Framework desktop is small and powerful, even for 1080p gaming. But for the price, you can get a full-on gaming rig with discrete graphics.
Strong 1080p performance on integrated graphics
Fun and customizable
Small footprint fits easily on a desk
Expensive
Required to buy tiles to decorate the chassis
PSU cable not included
Not as upgradeable as traditional desktops
President Donald Trump called for Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan to resign from his role in a post on his Truth Social account.
"The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately," Trump wrote. "There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!"
Trump's post comes after Republican Sen, Tom Cotton of Arkansas has called for scrutiny of Tan's ties to China. In a letter to
In the market for a new GPU or perhaps building a new system ahead of EA's Battlefield 6 release, whatever the reason, if you want the absolute best GPU in your build, then now could be an opportunity to pick one up at a reduced price - and boy, do they need it. The MSRP for these cards, set by Nvidia ahead of the launch of the 50-series flagship, was $1999, but we soon found that that
SanDisk and SK hynix have just signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on what could become a pivotal advancement in AI memory infrastructure. Announced in a press release , this agreement aims to standardize “ High Bandwidth Flash ” (HBF), a NAND flash-based memory technology built into HBM-like packages. This marks the first serious industry push to fuse flash and DRAM-like bandwidth into a single stack, potentially transforming how AI models access and process data at scale.
Unlike traditional HBM