Originally a part of Arm Holdings that licensed its IP in China, Arm China began to develop its own IP specifically for customers in the People’s Republic a few years ago. The company does not develop its own high-performance general-purpose cores, but its neural processing unit (NPU) can become a significant building block for inexpensive processors now that its open-source driver will soon be added the Linux kernel, reportsPhoronix. This driver, which is open-source for both the kernel and user space, aims to bring Arm China’s Zhouyi AI accelerator technology into the mainstream Linux world....

Asetek— renowned for itsAIO coolerpump designs — has announced a new exclusive partnership with 3D metal printing manufacturer Fabric8Labs. The pair have announced anew cold plate designoptimized with AI, featuring Electrochemical additive manufacturing, drastically improving the cold plate’s quality, scalability, and sustainability (recyclability). Electrochemical additive manufacturing (ECAM) is a manufacturing technique that involves 3D metal printing at room temperature. The manufacturing process involves a water-based feedstock that contains dissolved metal ions, which enables ECAM 3D printers to build metal structures rapidly while improving the product’s quality....

ASML on Wednesday said that it had begun to ship its secondHigh-NA EUVlithography system toanother customer. The announcement highlights that there is a major interest for next-generation extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography among leading chipmakers. Meanwhile, it is not clear which of ASML’s customers is the second company to get an EUV tool with a 0.55 numerical aperture projection optics. “Regarding High-NA, or 0.55 NA EUV, we shipped our first system to a customer and this system is currently under installation,“saidChristophe Fouquet, chief business officer of ASML, at the company’s earnings conference call with analysts and investors....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict While expensive, the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro has the performance and features to appeal to hardcore gamers with plenty of ports and software features. Fast and consistent performance on the 6GHz band Plethora of LAN ports, including two 10G connections Wealth of software features aimed at gamers Supports smartphone tethering out of the box Cons Wi-Fi 7 clients aren’t readily available to take advantage of the faster wireless speeds...

Tom’s Hardware Verdict If you’re willing to shell out over $1,000 for a mesh router, the ZenWiFi BQ16 Pro won’t disappoint with its performance and features. Fastest Wi-Fi 7 router we’ve tested Supports robust MLO wireless backhaul or 10 Gbps wired backhaul Comprehensive wired/wireless network settings and software portfolio High price 2.5 GbE LAN ports should be included at this price 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....

If you want a computer that meets your exact needs and budget, you need to put it together yourself. When you build a gaming PC, you get total control of the parts, choosing the exact make and model of the motherboard, the case with the look you like, and even the layout of RGB (or non-RGB fans). You could save time by purchasing one of thebest pre-built gaming PCs, but you’ll give up control and spend more....

The most significant password leak in history occurred on the Fourth of July. This leak, dubbed RockYou2024 by its original poster, “ObamaCare,” on a leading hacking forum, compiles 9,948,575,739 unique passwords into plain text. This is 9.9—almost 10 billion passwords that have been leaked, so we’re looking at an attack on a truly unprecedented scale here [h/tCybernews]. …Right? Well, there are some caveats to this. Make no mistake: you should still take this seriously and change your passwords semi-frequently or use a secure password manager instead of cycling through a few different ones, depending on the service....

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) national internet censor just announced that all AI-generated content will be required to have labels that are explicitly seen or heard by its audience and embedded in metadata. TheCyberspace Administration of China (CAC)just released the transcript for the media questions and answers (akin to an FAQ) on its Measures for the Identification of Artificial Intelligence Generated and Synthetic Content [machine translated]. We saw the first signs of this policy move last September when theCAC’s draft plansemerged....

During an earnings call with investors on Wednesday,Tencent boastedof a “strong stockpile” of GPUs. Furthermore, when asked about howU.S. trade policyregarding advanced AI chips was impacting Tencent’s product development and launch plans, company President Martin Lau seemed to shrug off investor concerns. In response to a question about high-end GPUs from Kevin Fong of international investment bank UBS, Lau started by characterizing the GPU situation as dynamic. Lau backed up his point by sharing the ‘good news’ that “I think we have a pretty strong stockpile of chips that we acquired previously and that would be very useful for us in executing our AI strategy....

Some AI data centers in China are reportedly holding large stocks of China-specific 48GB Nvidia RTX 4090D GPUs, dismantling and refurbishing them, and then reselling them on the market as new cards.DigiTimes Asiareports that a few companies are resorting to letting go of excess computing capacity to generate multiple times the profit compared to renting the GPUs out, which will take them about three to five years to recoup their investment....

Chinese researchers have developed a high-density molecular storage system that uses organic molecules to store and encrypt data, reportsBlocks & Files. Information is recorded and retrieved using a specialized atomic force microscope, which manipulates molecular states to store data, according to the description atNature. While the technology can potentially enable ultra-high-density storage devices that reduce storage space requirements and power consumption (e.g., HDDs with capacities of 100TB and higher), short lifespan of atomic microscope tips remains a major obstacle....

Client PC shipments fell by 2.4% year-over-year in Q3 2024, reaching 68.8 million units, according to the latest report fromInternational Data Corp. Despite signs of economic recovery in the second quarter, IDC says that factors that previously drove a surge in shipments have slowed down sales. The industry shipped 68.8 million desktops and laptops in the third quarter, which is 2.4% less than 70.5 million in the third quarter of 2023....

Last year, we coveredCooler Master’s unconventional, sneaker-shaped series of Mini ITX form factor specialty PCs, the uber-expensiveCooler Master Sneaker X. Now listings for the Cooler Master Sneaker X with just the case, cooling, and PSU are starting to pop up online, ranging from roughly $985 USD (at Skycomp Technology, an Australian retailer) to $1,028 USD (at PC 21, a French retailer) depending on the store. The Cooler Master Sneaker X makes for a bold choice in PC cases, to say the least, even when you’re buying just the case for about a grand and not one of the prebuilt full PCs which started at $6,999 on release....