Much earlier than expected

The semiconductor industry is poised to grow in the coming years.

Amazon's most powerful CPU to date.

Siemens and GlobalFoundries have announced a strategic partnership focused on AI-driven automation of semiconductor production. The agreements are laid out in a memorandum of understanding and focus on chip factories, software, and digital production processes.

Samsung is reportedly scaling down its HBM production, shifting focus of DRAM production to DDR5 modules because there's FAR more profits to be made.

New industry analysis argues the AI era is reshaping every part of the chip market at once.

Two heads are better than one?

re:invent: The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years

It is great to see legendary old hardware that is still able to work in the latest PC systems.

A Reddit user says a Best Buy order for an ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 5080 ended with a box of rocks instead of a $1,200 graphics card. The buyer placed the order on 25 November and received it on 28 November. According to his post, the card shipped with shipping labels stuck directly to the retail GPU box, no outer brown carton, and a seal that already looked tampered with.

Every single computer, including DIY boards like the Raspberry Pi, will cost more, and it's only going to get worse.

U.S. chipmaker set to expand Hiroshima site with heavy support from Tokyo.

The company claims to have doubled rendering performance and had demos running at ICCAD 2025.

The beloved Cherry MX switches will stay safe with the company, though.

It's allegedly 1.5 times the speed of Nvidia's A100 GPU from 2020.

Near memory computing could do wonders.

How do they work?

Maker David Johnson-Davies has designed a compact board for anyone looking to turn a USB Power Delivery (PD)-capable power supply into a user-selectable fixed voltage for their breadboard projects and more: the USB-C Power Delivery Dongle.

"This is a small board that will deliver one of six fixed voltages from a USB-C power adapter that supports [USB] Power Delivery," Johnson-Davies explains of the gadget. "It's compact enough that you can put it in line with a USB-C cable, encapsulated in a small case or heatshrink tubing, and you can select the voltage by soldering a wire link or fitting a jumper in one of six positions. A green LED indicates when the output is active."

The punched card computer era finally shuttered in 1984, when IBM discontinued card manufacturing, but some people miss it.