Asus confirms viaWeibothat the company will showcase its next-generation notebooks using AMD’sRyzen AI 300processors on July 17. Originally scheduled for July 8, the event will provide an exclusive to showcase these laptops throughout its range. While the reasons for the delay have not been mentioned, it is likely because AMD has allegedly delayed the Ryzen AI 300 launch to July 28, a day before the Ryzen 9000 processors. Retail giants like Best Buy also moved their availability dates accordingly....

Real-time strategy and branching evolution are the elements Spore offers to make you“play God.”The 2008 game was quite unique on debut, and there was nothing else like it. Spore’s innovation turned it into a cult following experience. Its tools allow you to use your imagination to customize beings and civilizations. You create a being and guide it from a cell to the “Space Age.” In general,games like Sporeshould feature a mix or a twist or Maxis’ complex simulator:...

All models ofRaspberry Piare incredibly useful gadgets that are also really fun to play with. No one seems to understand that better thanInfinitionwho’s put together a really cool project calledBjorn. This clever creation works as a useful network tool for penetration (pen) testing and the like but it also doubles as a fun experience thanks to its game-like user interface. Bjorn is a full-fledged network assessment system but it’s also the name of the little Viking character that appears on the display....

The firstwrongful death lawsuit(PDF) from the Titan submersible implosion in 2023 is underway, and attorneys have pointed out several factors that could have played a role in the tragic accident. Among these contributing factors is the inexpensive Logitech F710 game controller used as the submersible’s only means of navigating the craft. The estate of Paul-Henri Louis Emile Nargeolet recently filed the lawsuit against OceanGate, Inc., and others. Other defendants include the estate of deceased OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush....

TheWorld Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)announced that China-based organizations filed the most patents related to generative AI over the past decade, outpacing the U.S., Republic of Korea, Japan, and India combined—the four other top generative AI patent-holding nations. China filed 38,210 generative AI patents from 2014 to 2023, while the U.S. is a far second with 6,276 patents. Other countries in the top 7 of generative AI patent applications include the Republic of Korea (South Korea) at 4,155, Japan at 3,409, India at 1,350, the U....

The need forhigh bandwidth memory(HBM) for AI chips is quickly accelerating, and two Chinese chipmakers are making substantial progress toward helping fulfill that need.CXMThas already developed sample HBM chips and Wuhan Xinxin is building a factory to begin its production of the memory modules. China is trying to reduce its reliance on foreign suppliers, mainly because of tensions with the United States. The U.S. hasplaced heavy restrictions on exportsof advanced chipsets to Chinese firms, making technological advances by those companies difficult....

Moore Threads, a Chinese GPU developer that is also focusing on AI, is progressing toward a potential IPO after restructuring as a joint-stock entity and increasing its capital base to ¥330 million ($45.6 million), reports theSouth China Morning Post. Despite being on the U.S. Entity List, the company has garnered substantial private and government funding to advance China’s AI and GPU capabilities. In preparation for a public listing, Moore Threads shifted from a limited-liability company to a joint-stock status in late October, raising its capital from $3....

Some of the biggest chip makers across the globe say they do not expect any disruption from thetemporary closures of the quartz minescritical for semiconductor manufacturing due to Hurricane Helene. TSMC, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, and SK Hynix have all released statements to this effect, according to theSouth China Morning Post, especially as high purity quartz from themines near Spruce Pine, North Carolina is crucial for the production of the crucibles needed to create silicon wafers....

The August 1982 release of the Commodore 64 is historic, as Commodore’s hit personal computer managed to be one of the best-selling PCs of all time — and, it turns out, this historic era of Commodore 64 computing has produced hardware that can do AI image generation — with caveats, of course. Developer and hobbyist Nick Bild has successfullybuilt and documented a Generative AI toolfor Commodore 64 that can be used to create 8x8 sprites that are then displayed at 64x64 resolution....

Dropping a whopping $550 in price at Best Buy, the 2023 version of theAsus ROG Zephyrus G14 is on sale for $1,049. Originally priced at $1,599, this is a big saving on what is a potent little 14-inch gaming laptop. Stacking some powerful components in the moonlight-white chassis, the Zephyrus G14 uses an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS 8-core processor, Nvidia RTX 4060 laptop graphics card, and 16GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 memory....

Intel’s next-gen desktop chips arerumored to launch this October, and a couple of hardware leakers have revealed the alleged specs of 12 of the 14 SKUs. Twitter/X user @harukaze5719 was the first to post a table of Intel’s Arrow Lake-S processors, but@jaykihn0soon replied with their own more detailed data set. These chips are the successors to the troubled Intel 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors, and, interestingly, will drop the long-established hyperthreading technology....

DRAM revenue is expected to hit $90.7 billion in 2024, a 75% increase compared to 2023. This trend will continue into 2025, when DRAM revenue is projected to increase by 51% to $136.5 billion. This massive boom in revenue is being generated by several factors. One is average DRAM prices, which increased by 53% in 2024 and could rise another 35% in 2025. HBM memory demand is another huge factor in increasing DRAM revenue....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict For under $4, these coolers perform remarkably well, we just wish that port access was a little easier. That said, some forward planning will work around that issue. Easy to install Keeps the Pi cool Doesn’t interfere with Wi-Fi Very cheap Camera / Display / PCIe port access is awkward Big logo Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....