Taiwanese companies, led by TSMC, are the world’s foremost manufacturers of logic chips. Taiwan’s semiconductor industry will maintain that lead until at least 2032, according to Yang Ruei-Lin, Director of the Industry, Science and Technology International Strategy Center at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), reportsTechNews.tw. The Semiconductor Industry Association has madesimilar predictions.Back in 2022, Taiwan produced 69% of the world’s logic semiconductors using cutting-edge process nodes, mostly for foreign fabless chip designers....

Though you can run aRaspberry Pieffectively without one, many want a case that can protect the single-board computer while offering an attractive design, built-in cooling or even special features. Originally the Raspberry Pi was not supposed to be contained within a case, Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder Pete Lomas wanted curious users to interact with the hardware by providing easy access to the GPIO (General Purpose Input, Output). Many users want a neat little box, an appliance, under the television or housed in the their home data center and this means that over the years the amount of Raspberry Pi cases available is almost as numerous as decimal places in the number Pi....

According to Nvidia, the RTX 4010 doesn’t exist, yet one YouTuber could buy one and use it mostly without issue. The video byBudget-Builds Officialshows off the graphics card that purports to be an RTX 4010. How the YouTuber obtained the card is strange; Budget-Builds Official found the GPU on an online marketplace called the Shenzen Bitland Nvidia RTX 4010. If that wasn’t dubious enough, the seller told Budget-Builds Official that the card came with no warranty and was intended for OEMs rather than end-users....

If we ever had to name one thing that we got to see at every singleComputexover the last 10 years or more, we would certainly mention immersion liquid-cooled PCs. While these systems were built by different companies and by different people, they all have one thing in common: they have never made it to the market. In fact, they were never meant to. However, it looks likeThermaltakeand Enermax are serious about changing that....

Building a PC is a great experience. We sit there with a spreadsheet and multiple browser tabs, pouring over thebest CPUs,thebest GPUs,PC cases,RAM dealsand many more components. The package arrives, and we are excitedly tearing into the boxes, putting the parts on the table and we are ready to build! We reach down into the toolkit and dig out that rusty old screwdriver that we used to open a paint can back in 2014....

When you buy a flash drive, you certainly want capacity, performance, and resiliency in that order. However, there isa flash drivethat offers exactly opposite features: an 8KB (yes, eight kilobytes, 8192 symbols) capacity, but that capacity can last for 200 years—just in case one needs to preserve it this way. It is priced at €29.95 with taxes and has a blue LED, which is essential, so I tell you. The Blaustahl USB storage device by Machdyne features 8KB of FRAM and is designed for long-term text storage, potentially lasting over 200 years....

Unlike its industry peers, Toshiba has a rather convoluted way of introducing new hard drives: the company first unveils them globally and only then launches them to the American and European markets. However, with24TB versions of N300 and N300 Pro HDDs, things became even more complicated, as the company says that it has no plans to launch 24TB drives to Europe due to a lack of demand. “We are currently observing a manageable demand for NAS hard drives with 24TB storage capacity on the European market,” a statement by Toshiba published byComputerBasereads....

While working on the macOS command line, you can sometimes encounter an “Operation not permitted” error message. This then makes it difficult for you to navigate through the terminal and issue commands to your system. Usually, a macOS security feature known as Full Disk Access is responsible for this error popping up on your screen. Disabling Full Disk Access can restrict you from accessing files in certain locations and directories. So when the terminal tries to access the particular file/folder, the system doesn’t permit it to run the command(s)....

Despite Qualcomm’s ambitions and high hopes to control over50%of the Windows market in the next five years, recent statistics show that its first-gen X Elite offerings are failing to gain consumer traction.TechRadarreports that of all PCs sold in Q3 24, Qualcomm’s chips powered 720,000 units - capturing just 0.8% of the entire market. In other words, one out of every 125 devices sold in the last quarter featured an X Elite processor, which pales in contrast to Intel, AMD, and even Apple on the Arm front....

Every day, I scan through retailers and keep an eye on stock levels and pricing for the most popular PC components. I’ve started to notice that the stock levels of the 50-series graphics cards from Nvidia are trickling in more regularly. But the better supply has not resulted in better pricing for said cards. The markup from AIB’s especially, is well above the MSRP price set by Nvidia, making this deal almost respectable in the current climate....

Earlier this year, the U.S. government revoked export licenses thatallowed Inteland Qualcommto ship some of their processors to blacklisted China-based Huawei. Apparently, these were not exceptions. In all, the U.S. has granted $335 billion in exceptions for blacklisted Chinese firms over the last five years, but it is now cracking down on exports further. The U.S. government has revoked eight licenses this year that previously permitted certain companies to ship goods to Huawei, reportsReuters....

The era of cheap 3D printing appears to be coming to a screeching halt in the US. A perfect storm of newly imposed tariffs is quickly driving costs upward astariffs on Chinese-made goods, which include popular 3D printers from Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, and Anycubic, have hit a record high of 145%.Bambu Lab’s newest printer, theH2D, was launched on March 25 with a starting price tag of $1,899 for the two-color, non-laser unit....

Enabling password protection on your Windows computer is an effective way to enhance security and prevent unauthorized access to the system. However, it can be quite intimidating to see the “Password is incorrect” message even while trying to access your own system. In most cases, this message usually pops up due to a simple human error rather than a technical one. So, checking for typos and re-entering them correctly will often fix the issue....