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After locking out the U.S., China offers rare earth development assistance to Malaysia — country has estimated 16.2 million metric tons of elements worth $175 billion

Chinese President Xi Jinping offered to develop Malaysia's rare-earth processing capability, but will only work with state-owned companies.

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TSMC swats away rumors that Jensen Huang visited to pressure company into revenue-sharing plan with Trump administration

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently visited TSMC where he had dinner with executives, gave an internal speech to the workers, and checked on the progress of his Rubin Vera GPUs. What he was not there for was to deliver a message about profit sharing from President Trump, as TSMC has…

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China subsidizes AI computing for small domestic companies — 'computing power vouchers' spread across multiple Chinese cities

China is expanding its small and medium businesses' access to AI compute resources through the use of 'compute power vouchers' that subsidize the cost of training AI models.

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Making a 3D-printed custom GPU fan shroud with a DDR5 slot doesn't let you add extra VRAM, but at least it looks cool

Modder builds a completely custom 3D-printed shroud for their RTX GPU, sacrificing one cooling fan for the installation of a single DDR5 RAM slot.

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Cloudflare blocks record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack two months after the previous record-setting DDoS attack

Cloudflare said it blocked a record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack that appeared to originate from Google Cloud's infrastructure.

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ASML and SK hynix assemble industry-first 'commercial' High-NA EUV system at fab in South Korea

SK hynix is the first memory maker to assemble ASML's High-NA EUV lithography system NXE:5200B at its M16 fab in Icheon to use it for R&D of next-generation process technologies before transitioning to full High-NA-based production later this decade.

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Acer hedges its hardware bets, puts vPro and ECC memory in new high-end gaming laptop

The Acer Predator Helios 18P AI straddles the line between gaming laptop and AI workstation, with an RTX 5090 and up to 192GB of ECC memory.

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Acer's new Predator gaming monitor boasts a 720 Hz OLED panel, if you like gaming at 720p — 27-inch panel can also do native 1440p at a swift 540 Hz

Acer’s Nitro family hits the mainstream segment with IPS and VA panels, while the new Predator X27U F8 is an OLED that goes after the premium sector.

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YMTC and CXMT team up to accelerate Chinese domestic HBM production — partnership brings hybrid bonding and DRAM expertise together

YMTC is reportedly preparing an entry into DRAM fabrication and exploring a partnership with CXMT to target high-bandwidth memory.

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U.S. gov't revokes TSMC's authorization to ship tools to its fabs in China — special export license to be pulled by end of 2025

The U.S. will revoke TSMC’s special export license for its Nanjing Fab 16 by the end of 2025, potentially disrupting its 16nm and 28nm-class operations and shifting Chinese customer demand toward rivals like SMIC and HuaHong. However, SMIC vows to ensure uninterrupted operations of its Chinese fabs.

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Samsung bulks the 9100 Pro up to 8TB for $999 — heatsink costs an extra $20

Samsung has launched the 9100 Pro 8TB with an eye-watering $999.99 price tag, and the heatsink version is priced at $1,019.99.

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Amkor’s Arizona mega-plant could plug the holes in America’s chip ambitions — advanced packaging plant would reduce need to send US-produced chips to foreign shores for packaging and test

Amkor Technology has confirmed it will build a $2 billion advanced packaging and test facility on a 104-acre site in Peoria, Arizona, with construction beginning imminently.

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Planetary Minecraft-inspired demo uses a spherical planet — game has the same blocky mechanics, but converts flat earth surface into a sphere

Software developer Bowerbyte built a game that had similar mechanics to Minecraft but relied on a spherical planet instead of a flat surface.

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32GB of RAM on track to become the new majority for gamers — Steam survey indicates shift could occur before the end of the year

32GB of system RAM looks set to become the most popular configuration among Steam gamers later this year.

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Remaking a Commodore 64 Datasette from 1982 using 1993 microcassette tech — TechTuber touts 1MB per tape, a 5x improvement over the original

Recreating the Commodore 64's famous 1982 datasette using 1993 tech and 2025 know-how

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Chinese social media firms comply with strict AI labelling law, making it clear to users and bots what's real and what's not

Major Chinese social media firms have begun introducing labels for AI generated content that are both explicitly visible to users, and include a digital watermark that bots and algorithms can read when crawling through content.

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TSMC’s foundry dominance hits new heights as global revenues smash records — 14.6% QoQ jump sees growth for Samsung, but TSMC's market share climbs to 70.2%

The second quarter of 2025 was a windfall for the world’s chipmakers, with global foundry revenue climbing 14.6% to an unprecedented $41.7 billion.

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China plans to outpace Neuralink with a state-backed brain chip blitz — seven ministries, a 17-point roadmap, and clinical trials where patients play chess

China has just drawn its battle lines in a new frontier of computing, with a sweeping new policy document laying out its ambition to build an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years.

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AMD Ryzen 9000 iGPU-less CPUs listed for under $300 — unreleased Pro chips start at $350

U.S. retailers list AMD's Ryzen 7 9700F and Ryzen 5 9500F, as well as the Ryzen 9 Pro 9945, Ryzen 7 Pro 9745, and Ryzen 5 Pro 9645.

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Gaming consoles are becoming more expensive as they age for the first time in history — gamers blame tariffs for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch price increases

Gamers are frustrated by the high prices of current generation consoles which haven't seen the usual mid-generation price drops. Indeed, they're actually much higher than they were at launch as much as five years ago.

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3D printing's tool changer wars heat up as Prusa re-enters the ring

Hot on the heels of Snapmaker’s U1 launch, Bambu and Prusa chime in with new machine teasers.

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DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles

According to recent findings by Digitimes, DDR4 spot prices have stabilized after a frenzied second quarter, yet contract pricing continues to rise as supply remains tight.

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Linux gaming OS Kazeta promises ‘console gaming experience of the 1990s’ for PC users — supports almost any DRM-free game, past or present

Kazeta promises to 'bring the console gaming experience of the '90s to modern PC hardware'

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Intel files patent for 'Software Defined Supercore' — increases single-thread performance and IPC by mimicking ultra-wide execution using multiple cores

Intel's Software Defined Supercore (SDC) lets multiple CPU cores fuse into a virtual high-performance core to boost single-thread speed without building wider physical cores.

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Shuttle intros semi-ruggedized barebone Intel Arrow Lake-S mini PC — support for 65W Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs

Small form factor (SFF) PC specialist Shuttle has rolled out a semi-rugged compact PC system dubbed the XPC slim DH810.

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