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Microsoft and Nvidia launch AI partnership to speed up nuclear power plant permitting and construction — simulation tools and generative models could hasten historically lengthy processes

Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers. The partnership combines generative AI, digital twin simulation, and Nvidia's Omniverse platform to streamline the nuclear lifecycle from permitting through operations.

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AYANEO's upcoming Next 2 handheld gaming console shelved due to rising component prices — company stops preorders for the $1,999 Strix Halo device

Ayaneo has suspended sales of its next-gen premium gaming handheld as the procurement costs for storage have slipped out of control. When it was first announced, prices were already high, but following the CNY break, vendor quotes had shot up many times, making it unfeasible to build the device. It's…

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Nintendo reportedly plans to cut Switch 2 production by 33% after a lackluster holiday season — gaming giant slashes 2 million units from planned output

Nintendo is reportedly reducing the production of the Switch 2 by 33%, cutting output by 2 million units, due to lackluster sales during the holiday season of 2025.

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SK hynix places record $8 billion order for ASML EUV lithography machines — should pay for up to 30 EUV machines over two years, serving HBM and advanced DRAM production

SK hynix disclosed in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it will purchase 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) worth of EUV lithography equipment from ASML.

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Huawei unveils new Atlas 350 AI accelerator with 1.56 PFLOPS of FP4 compute and up to 112GB of HBM — claims 2.8x more performance than Nvidia's H20

The Atlas 350 is using the Ascend 950PR chip, but it looks like a cut-down version with less compute. Translation overhead aside, previous reports and announcements have already revealed the full specs of this silicon, such as 128 GB of HBM and up to 2 PFLOPS of FP4 compute, but…

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US senators want to suspend Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and its intermediaries — bipartisan letter to Commerce Dept says that Huang’s claims of no chip diversion ‘were contradicted by reporting available’

U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that he should suspend all active export licenses to China for Nvidia AI chips, saying that Nvidia's most advanced AI GPUs are being diverted into the country despite Jensen Huang's assurances.

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Microsoft-backed start-up raises $40 million for helium atom beam lithography that could print chips at atomic resolution — 0.1nm beam is 135 times narrower than ASML's EUV light

Lace Lithography raised $40 million in Series A funding on Monday to develop a chipmaking tool that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to pattern silicon wafers.

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Autonomous mobile drone swarm killer created in trilateral US defense company collab — the new Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) is a high-power microwave platform

A trio of US defense, autonomy, and directed energy industry leaders have created the Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) to address the threat of drone swarms.

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China laptop vendor eats humble pie, apology says ‘production error’ was behind chip mix-up — full refunds offered to those affected by the fake Ryzen 5 7430U ‘scam’

Budget portable PCs specialist Chuwi has released an official apology to customers who received devices that didn’t match up to expected specifications.

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AWS Bahrain suffers major disruption due to the ongoing US-Iran conflict — drone activity blamed for service interruption

Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Bahrain site has been disrupted due to the ongoing conflict. It's been said that drone activity is causing the service interruption, and that the company is requesting its clients to migrate their workloads to other regions.

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FCC bans import of new consumer routers not made in the US over security threat — agency says foreign-made devices pose ‘unacceptable risk’ to US persons

The FCC says that it will no longer certify foreign-made routers, effectively making them illegal to sell in the U.S., unless the manufacturer can secure a "Conditional Approval" from the Department of War or the Department of Homeland Security.

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Trump administration targets $4 trillion Pax Silica investment fund for semiconductors — the US will start with a $250 million investment for global consortium

The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.

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Microsoft says, for once, Windows update isn't to blame for Galaxy Book4 laptops losing access to C: drive — the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit, and it's been taken down from Microsoft Store

Microsoft and Samsung investigated a widely reported issue with Galaxy Book 4 devices and said the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit. These laptops were losing access to the C: drive and, initially, people thought it had something to do with Windows Update. Microsoft has posted recovery steps for those…

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Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads — 1,200 W/m-K "Vapor-Pad" from Xerendipity designed to replace traditional TIM in a CPU

A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.

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Price of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 racks skyrockets to as much as $8.8 million apiece, but server makers' margins will be tight — Nvidia is moving closer to shipping entire full-scale systems

While quotes for NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system will increase to $5 million – $7 million, margins of ODMs will likely decline.

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Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however

Microsoft has blocked the registry trick that allowed Windows 11 users to enable a native NVMe driver on their PCs. However, third-party tools can still help with a workaround.

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Nvidia CEO says he's 'empathetic' to DLSS 5 concerns — Jensen Huang doubles down on defense while decrying 'AI slop'

In a new podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang struck a more conciliatory tone concerning DLSS 5, saying he's 'empathetic" to concerns about the feature producing "AI slop."

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LG produces the world's first mass-production LCD laptop display capable of 1 Hz to save power — OLED version arriving in 2027

LG introduces the world's first mass-produced LCD laptop display that can wind down to 1 Hz to save power, similar to high-end smartphone LTPO displays.

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YouTuber upgrades 14-year-old ThinkPad laptop with a $25 DIY IPS display — simple panel swap breathes new life into 2012-era machine with 'visually noticeable' results

A YouTuber has given a 2012-era Lenovo ThinkPad X230 a "visually noticeable upgrade" by swapping out its TN panel for an IPS replacement that cost just $25.

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Imagination Tech working on mainstream PC gaming with ‘ambitious graphics card and SoC design companies’ — shows off progress with DirectX 11 workloads

The UK’s Imagination Technologies is teasing its roadmap to 'bring high‑performance, scalable, PowerVR graphics to desktop, workstation, and cloud environments.'

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Crimson Desert devs apologize for ‘confusion’ over Intel GPU FAQ — backtracks over prior dismissive language regarding Arc graphics support

The Crimson Desert devs have apologized for prior dismissive language regarding Intel GPUs and confirmed that a support update is on the way.

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Concerns raised over Shahed kamikaze drone listings on Alibaba — they featured AI guidance to lock onto ‘people, building, vehicles, ships, etc’

Chinese eTail giant Alibaba has removed listings and suspended the accounts of sellers that were found to be advertising 'cruise missiles' and 'suicide attack drones.'

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Valve adds early Steam Machine support in SteamOS 3.8 — latest update brings performance gains, better controller support, and desktop improvements

SteamOS 3.8.0 preview introduces early Steam Machine support while delivering performance upgrades, improved VRR, and broader handheld compatibility

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Intel's long-rumored Core Ultra 3 205 CPU finally appears for sale at French retailer — priced at $182, early listing confirms previously-known specs for the chip

The Core Ultra 3 205 is an 8-core chip with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, part of the Arrow Lake family, branded as the Core Ultra 200S series. It never officially launched despite being listed at several OEMs as a "tray" chip and even being mentioned in Intel's…

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive — compares not using AI to using paper and pencil for designing chips

The Nvidia chief said that he will be alarmed if his engineers did not use AI tokens amounting to about half their annual salary, saying that AI tools will 10x their productivity.

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