President Donald Trump just announced a 100% tariff on foreign-made semiconductors in a bid to force companies to build their chips within the United States or order them from local fabs. According to the Associated Press , Trump made this announcement at the Oval Office after Apple’s Tim Cook promised an additional $100 billion in investments to avoid chip tariffs for iPhones.
“We’ll be putting a tariff of approximately 100% on chips and
You've already got a computer — now what? Yes, your brand-new laptop does technically have a keyboard, a mouse (or, well, trackpad
TSMC employees accused of stealing the foundry's trade secrets related to its upcoming 2nm-class fabrication process allegedly shared their findings with Japan-based foundry startup Rapidus, according to Money.UDN.com . The perpetrators reportedly shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' with the Japanese company, though their exact relationship with Rapidus is unknown and it is unclear whether the chipmaker asked for the said assets.
TSMC and the Intellectual Property Branch of the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office (THIP)
Hardware sleuth Benchleaks has discovered the first benchmark for Nivida's RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell Laptop GPU. The graphics card was spotted alongside the Core Ultra 9 285HX inside the new Dell Pro Max 18 Plus mobile workstation.
Announced back in March, the RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell Laptop GPU is at the forefront of Nvidia's Blackwell-based professional graphics cards for mobile devices. Based on what we believe is the GB203 silicon,
In its constant battle with cheaters, publisher Activision will require PC players of the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to enable Windows Secure Boot and to utilize a system with Trusted Platform Module 2.0 technology.
Activision is going to begin testing these features in Season 5 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone , though Activision's Ricochet anti-cheat team "won't be enforcing against or requiring" either just yet. It's
Ebuyer, the U.K.’s second-biggest PC retailer, is reportedly ending its operations. Reports have circulated that its staff were unexpectedly sent home early, and Overclock3D has also confirmed that Urban Logistics Acquisitions 6 Limited, the organization from which Ebuyer leases its premises, filed a Winding Up Petition against it on August 1. This is an application to the courts to have a company that is unable to pay its debts closed and compulsorily liquidated. This
MicroSD Express cards are incredibly expensive right now, which has incentivized DIYers to look for alternative methods to improve the Switch 2's storage capacity. Better Gaming on YouTube, tested one such alternative, an open-source MicroSD Express adapter tailor-made for the Switch 2 that supports full-blown M.2 NVMe 2230 SSDs. However, initial testing proved to be unsuccessful.
We have already reported on the open-source adapter Better Gaming is using.
Apple is set to invest an additional $100 billion into U.S. manufacturing in a bid to avoid punishing tariffs on iPhones, according to Bloomberg . This would raise the company's total U.S. commitment to $600 billion, with the announcement expected to be made by Apple CEO Tim Cook and U.S. President Donald Trump.
The plan features a new initiative aimed at relocating more of Apple’s production network to the United States.
The appointment of Lip‑Bu Tan as Intel’s CEO has prompted U.S. Senator Tom Cotton to scrutinize his past business ties to Chinese tech firms—and whether those connections threaten Intel’s role in American defense-linked supply chains. As reported on by Reuters , in a letter to board chair Frank Yeary, Cotton questioned whether the board vetted Tan’s involvement in companies with ties to the Chinese military and if he sufficiently divested from them prior to leading Intel.