The ongoing memory shortage has spiraled so out of control that even the spacious aisles of Costco are no longer safe from its RAMifications. A customer has just shared photos from their local store, where the demo units on display no longer have any memory installed in them, suggesting the store may have removed them to prevent them from being stolen. Shoplifting is
Despite AI chip boom and record high stock price, ASML to lay off employees — company to streamline IT and Technology departments, proposed cuts mostly affect leadership roles
Despite the massive AI infrastructure build-out and a bumper earnings call on Tuesday, ASML, the only company in the world that manufactures the tools that make the cutting-edge chips that are currently in high demand, announced that it plans to lay off some of its employees. According to the company’s announcement , it’s streamlining its
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D review: The world's fastest gaming processor, again
Tom's Hardware Verdict
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D claims a new title as the world’s fastest gaming processor, but it lives in the shadow of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, with a higher price, higher power consumption, and only marginal performance gains.
Pros
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Technically, the fastest gaming CPU on the market
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Runs relatively cool
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5% to 7% uplift in lightly-threaded tasks
Cons
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Around 30%
Apple and Nvidia considering Intel for 2028 chip production, report claims — non-core products may be outsourced, driven by tariffs and geopolitical concerns
Geopolitical concerns, political pressure from the U.S. government, potential tariffs imposed on semiconductors produced outside of the U.S., and capacity constraints are pushing Apple and Nvidia to consider outsourcing production and packaging of some of their processors to Intel in the U.S., reports DigiTimes . The two companies are reportedly considering outsourcing some of
Leaked images showcase Android's new Aluminum OS desktop interface — Google's nascent Windows rival spotted in screen recording of a Chromebook bug
Google has reportedly been working on folding ChromeOS into Android since 2015 , but its efforts appear to have stalled in recent years. However, we’ve just seen some evidence of the company’s work on this project through a bug report on the Chromium Issue Tracker. The company has since made the report private,
SK hynix invests $10 billion in creating a U.S.-based 'AI solutions' company — company to restructure California-based Solidigm enterprise SSD brand to bolster American investments
Memory chip giant SK Hynix is investing $10 billion in a new AI solutions company in the U.S, tentatively named AI Company. The new firm will have full access to this new investment and will be able to deploy it as it sees fit to promote the AI industry, bolster new AI startups and developments
After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds — formal plan drawn up now community is 'getting grey and old'
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has been its lead maintainer since its inception in 1991. That's a long way back now, and in the man's own words, the kernel community is "getting grey and old." Interestingly enough, though, it was only few days ago that a formal
China satellite near miss prompts Starlink to reduce altitudes — more than 4,000 satellites pulled to 300-mile orbit to increase 'space safety'
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Software reported that Starlink has reduced its altitude for a big chunk of its software constellation after one of Musk’s satellites had a near-miss with a Chinese satellite . According to the South China Morning Post , the close call was the primary reason why the company announced the move to lower the altitude
'Thermodynamic computing' could slash energy use of AI image generation by a factor of ten billion, study claims — prototypes show promise but huge task required to create hardware that can rival curr
A mind-bending new report claims that ' thermodynamic computing ' could, in theory, drastically reduce the energy consumed by AI to generate images, using just one ten-billionth of the energy of current popular tools. As reported by IEEE Spectrum , two recent studies hint at the potential of this burgeoning technology, but its proponents admit the solution is