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Apple to shell out $1 billion on a manufacturing plant in Indonesia (techcrunch.com)
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Negotiating with one of the largest companies in the world doesn’t sound easy, but that’s precisely what Indonesia has been doing for the past few weeks with iPhone maker Apple. The backstory here is that after the country required smartphones which are sold domestically to be made of at least 40% locally manufactured parts, Indonesia banned iPhone 16 sales. In November 2024, authorities even confiscated and destroyed recent iPhone models, as shown in the picture above.

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USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG pen testing cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller (www.tomshardware.com)
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A small package with a huge malicious potential.

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AWS building ExaFLOPS-class supercomputer for AI with hundreds of thousands homegrown Trainium2 processors — AWS forges a path without Nvidia GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
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130 FP8 ExaFLOPS?

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TSMC's N2 process has a major advantage over Intel's 18A: SRAM density (www.tomshardware.com)
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SRAM is hard to scale.

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China's largest chip industry associations say it's unsafe to buy US chips — warnings come in the wake of new US sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
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Calls to replace American technology with domestic technology.

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Discrete GPU sales dip while Nvidia continues to dominate — iGPUs increase while discrete GPUs decline (www.tomshardware.com)
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73.6 million iGPUs and dGPUs shipped during the quarter

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RTX 4060 Ti transformed into a 65W GPU with a passive mod — a downclocked GPU and VRAM reduces power consumption from 160W to 65W (www.tomshardware.com)
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Delivers a very worthwhile performance uplift vs. commercial fanless RTX 3050 cards.

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China limits US export of chipmaking materials following sanctions (www.theverge.com)
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It might get harder for the US to get certain materials.

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[Video] Gamers Nexus | Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated (youtu.be)
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - NZXT's PREDATORY PROGRAM
06:15 - H1 Fires, Context, & History
09:08 - Motivated by Greed
11:02 - Bait & Switch
17:18 - Why Names Matter
19:43 - Fraudulent Marketing & Influencer Clowns
24:09 - NZXT's Lies
27:26 - NZXT's Victims
29:49 - Predatory Pricing
32:00 - $15,000 for a 5600X
32:46 - ILLEGAL LOANS
34:43 - CRIMINAL LOANS
36:40 - Aggressive Terms (ft. Lawyer Interview)
37:10 - Lawyer: Punishing Consumers
39:15 - Lawyer: Excessive Billing
43:46 - Lawyer: Major Privacy Concerns
46:32 - MAGIC THE GATHERING LAWYER TANGENT
47:15 - Lawyer: NZXT Protecting Itself vs. Aggression
49:35 - Lawyer: DEATH Waiver
54:19 - Lawyer: No Guarantee on Specs Listed
56:25 - Lawyer: Consumer Rights
58:11 - CONCLUSION

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Gigabyte's new app for enabling its X3D Turbo Mode in Windows is, for some unfathomable reason, called Aorus AI Snatch (www.pcgamer.com)
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Stop sniggering at the back, okay?

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MSI's new Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+ bring Intel Lunar Lake performance to handhelds (www.tomshardware.com)
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A Core Ultra 7 258V, with Arc 140V graphics, in your hands.

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TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers (www.tomshardware.com)
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The higher, the better.

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U.S. ratchets up sanctions to curtail China's AI and military tech — no more HBM memory for China (www.tomshardware.com)
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Third turn of the screw adds 140 Chinese groups to the entity list.

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In a bid to compete with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and Samsung invest $700 million in AI chip startup Tenstorrent (www.tomshardware.com)
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Tenstorrent has plans to manufacture its new AI chips through TSMC and Samsung.

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Intel's B570/B580 Battlemage and AMD Navi 44 RDNA 4 GPUs reportedly keep pace with the RTX 4060 Ti — AMD and Intel vie to capture the budget GPU market (www.tomshardware.com)
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No word on the exact performance numbers though.

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MSI's two new Lunar Lake-powered gaming handhelds go up for preorders at Amazon — Claw 8 AI+ sells for $899, while Claw 7 AI+ costs $799 (www.tomshardware.com)
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MSI Claw 8 AI+ will have options between a Core Ultra 7 258V and a Core Ultra 7 256V CPU with 16GB and 32GB LPDDR5X.

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Taiwan ready to discuss 2nm transfer to U.S. following Trump's comments (www.tomshardware.com)
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But TSMC may have different plans.

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Huawei's homegrown AI chip examined — Chinese fab SMIC-produced Ascend 910B is massively different from the TSMC-produced Ascend 910 (www.tomshardware.com)
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It is bigger and has more cores.

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New U.S. restrictions will hit Chinese chipmaking tool companies — sanctions aim to slow development of domestic chipmaking tools to replace ASML, others (www.tomshardware.com)
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Less severe than expected?

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Chinese companies poach staff from ASML and Zeiss with three times higher pay — employees needed to design and build chipmaking tools amid sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
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Huawei reportedly tries to hire personnel from ASML and Zeiss at 3X salaries.

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China debuts ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ chip to deliver networking solutions for AI — aims to compete with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium for next-generation interconnection technologies (www.tomshardware.com)
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This is China's answer to the Ultra Ethernet Consortium.

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Valve seemingly preps Steam Controller 2 and VR controller — "Ibex" and "Roy" controller renders spotted in SteamVR data mine (www.tomshardware.com)
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The new Steam Controller design closely mirrors the layout of Steam Deck's inputs and likely has full parity with Deck Steam Input profiles.

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Despite restrictions, Russia allegedly finds new way to produce sanctioned 48-core Baikal-S processors: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
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A new way, or a new manufacturer?

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TSMC 'Super Carrier' CoWoS interposer gets bigger, enabling massive AI chips to reach 9-reticle sizes with 12 HBM4 stacks (www.tomshardware.com)
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Bigger, better, faster, stronger.

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Chinese x86 eight-core Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU lags behind AMD and Intel (www.tomshardware.com)
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More power hungry too.

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