March 2024

Recall of CableMods’ 12VHPWR Adapters Estimates Failure Rate of 1.07%

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A recall on 12VHPWR angled adapters from CableMod has reached its next stage this week, with the publication of a warning document from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Referencing the original recall for CableMods’ V1.0 and V1.1 adapters, which kicked off back in December, the CPSC notice marks the first involvement of government regulators. And with that…

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Global Semiconductor Sales Hit $526.8 Billion in 2023

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The global semiconductor industry saw its sales dropped around $47 billion to nearly $527 billion in 2023, according to estimations by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). This was a sharp downturn from the record 2022, but good news is that sales picked up significantly in the second half of the year, showing signs of a…

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Report: NVIDIA Forms Custom Chip Unit for Cloud Computing and More

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With its highly successful A100 and H100 processors for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications, NVIDIA dominates AI datacenter deployments these days. But among large cloud service providers as well as emerging devices like software defined vehicles (SDVs) there is a global trend towards custom silicon. And, according to a report from Reuters,…

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16-pin connectors could be mandatory for all Nvidia RTX 5000 graphics cards – here’s why that’d be bad news for some GPUs

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Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards could get a bit pricier at the budget end of the market – well, indeed it’ll be across the board for Blackwell GPUs, but affordable cards will see the greatest impact – if a new power connector rumor is right.This comes from Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), a regular source of…

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The Enermax LiqMaxFlo 360mm AIO Cooler Review: A Bit Bigger, A Bit Better

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For established PC peripheral vendors, the biggest challenge in participating in the highly commoditized market is setting themselves apart from their numerous competitors. As designs for coolers and other peripherals have converged over the years into a handful of basic, highly-optimized designs, developing novel hardware for what is essentially a “solved” physics problem becomes harder…

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Heavy Rotation Mix is the personalized Apple Music feature I’ve been waiting for

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Apple Music is again heading in the right direction with a new personalized feature. As of today, the music streaming service added a new AI playlist: Heavy Rotation Mix, which makes me believe Apple Music is finally taking serious users’ feedback.This Apple Music feature comes a week after the service announced it was bringing monthly…

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ASML to Ship Multiple High-NA Tools in 2025, Expands Production Capacities

3 minutes of reading / Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix, Tech / By

ASML began to ship its first High-NA lithography tool to Intel late last year ,and the machine will be fully assembled in Oregon in the coming months. Shipping only a single extreme ultraviolet (EUV) system with a 0.55 numerical aperture lens may not seem like too impressive, but the company aims to ship a much…

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GlobalFoundries: Clients Are Migrating to Sub-10nm Faster Than Expected

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When GlobalFoundries abandoned development of its 7 nm-class process technology in 2018 and refocused on specialty process technologies, it ceased pathfinding, research, and development of all technologies related to bleeding-edge sub-10nm nodes. At the time, this was the correct (and arguably only) move for the company, which was bleeding money and trailing behind both TSMC…

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GlobalFoundries to Receive $1.5 Billion In Funding from U.S. CHIPS Act

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The United States Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundires announced on Monday that the US will be awarding GlobalFoundries with $1.5 billion in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The latest domestic chip fab to receive money under the act, GlobalFoundries’s funding will be spent to upgrade company’s New York and Vermont fabs as well…

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