TSMC's $100B US investment only accounts for 7% of company's output — Taiwan gov't gives official blessing for project

TSMC announced its new$100 billion investmentin the United States yesterday, stoking excitement for the U.S. chipmaking industry as well as some fears for the fate of Taiwan. In the morning after the dust has settled, TSMC and Taiwan are making it clear to the press that their relationship and shared commitment to each other is still ironclad. Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-taiaddressed the pressin a conference following TSMC CEO C. C. Wei and President Trump’s joint conference, which announced TSMC’s plans to build a new advanced-node fab, advanced packaging plant, and R&D center in the United States....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 635 words · Brandon Butler

US AI Diffusion Policy may harm Nvidia's sales — most of the chipmaker's AI GPUs are affected

Under the proposed export rules of the outgoing U.S. government, American companies will be restricted from supplying AI GPUs to most countries on the planet. As the AI hardware market leader, Nvidia will suffer more than anyone, as it will have difficulty selling virtually all its GPUs to most countries worldwide. The U.S. Government announced the proposed internal final rule concerning sales of American AI chips on June 03, 2025. The regulations aim to tighten oversight of AI diffusion and prevent unauthorized use of cutting-edge technologies by adversaries like China and Russia....

July 5, 2025 · 4 min · 642 words · Daniel Matthews

Vaio touts 'tariff free' inventory for sale — Intel-powered laptops on sale while supplies last

US tariffshave caused a huge stir across every industry, and PC hardware is no exception. Today, we received an email from Vaio touting a tariff-free sale on their laptop inventory. This was confirmed in the email but isn’t clear on the website. In the email, Vaio assured us that this applies to the Vaio SX-R laptops, but we’re unsure if it applies to other laptop series. We are sure that this is only a temporary offer....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 375 words · Evan Murray

WiFi Not Turning On in Windows? How to Fix it

In the current age, not a day goes by without connecting to the internet through Wi-Fi. So, it is a serious inconvenience if you are not able to enable Wi-Fi on your system. Yes, you may use the internet through an Ethernet connection. However, it really hinders the portability of your device, especially if you use a laptop. This issue usually happens due to problems with your Wi-Fi drivers and services....

July 5, 2025 · 5 min · 854 words · Jennifer Alexander

Wine 10.0, the latest Windows compatibility layer for Linux, has a stable release

Yesterday morning,WineHQ releasedan overview of Wine 10.0, the Windows compatibility layer for Linux upon which several projects have been derived, includingValve’s Proton, which has massively expanded Windows game compatibility on Linux over time. Wine, stylized “WINE,” most literally means “Wine Is Not an Emulator,” since its purpose is to do real-time compatibility work only as needed rather than wholly emulate a fixed software (Windows) or hardware environment. Wine’s release highlights include major updates for nearly every component of Linux, but one of the most highlighted changes is the addition of support for Arm64EC....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 429 words · Chelsea Allen

Xiaomi's in-house XRing 01 SoC leaked — melds 10-core Arm Cortex CPU plus 16-core Mali G925 GPU

FollowingHuaweiandLenovo’slead in developing self-developed silicon within China, Xiaomi is working on its own XRing 01 SoC. This new chip reportedly features standard Arm Cortex cores and a 3nm-grade process node from TSMC. PerHXL, the XRing 01 carries a beefy decacore configuration, and based on now-delisted Geekbench tests of the chip, shared by leakerJukanlosreve, Xiaomi’s alternative appears to be delivering performance comparable to MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 9400 SoC. Faced with significant restrictions from the U....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 540 words · Matthew Brown

16 Ways to Fix PFN List Corrupt Error on Windows 10

Page Frame Number (PFN) list is a database that tracks the allocation of memory used by processes. This way, your system can check for available memory locations to allocate new processes. Corruption of this list disables your PC from properly running system processes, thereby causing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error. In this article, we explain the reasons for the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT BSOD error and possible solutions. How Does PFN List Get Corrupted on Windows 10 There are a few reasons possible for the PFN list to get corrupted....

July 4, 2025 · 5 min · 984 words · Collin White

2TB MSI Spatium M461 SSD is on sale for $84 — just 4 cents per GB

We don’t need to convince you of the reasons to buy an SSD. They’re a staple means of storage these days with fast performance that vastly outpaces your standard HDD — that’s not to say a quality HDD isn’t still good to go to for mass storage. However, we’ve got a pretty good deal to share today on a quality SSD made by MSI. TheMSI Spatium M461 2TB SSDis currently available on the official MSI website for $84, down from its recent average price of $99....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 393 words · Mary Haas

32 Things To Build In Minecraft Survival That Are Useful

There’s only so much that you can do with a bunch of blocks in an open space, right? Wrong! I, as an avid Minecraft player, can certainly say there is no limitation on creativity here. Whether you are building cities, skyscrapers, floating bases, ships, or a castle, the possibilities are endless. And that is exactly what we will look at in this article. Here we have created 32 lists of things you may build in your survival world when you are bored or just want to get a little creative....

July 4, 2025 · 14 min · 2824 words · Ronald Ross

5 new Intel Granite Rapids chips discovered with up to 128 cores, 500W TDP

Five new Intel server processor SKUs have been discovered using Intel’s upcoming Granite Rapids performance-oriented server architecture. X userJaykihnreleased information on these new models, which feature up to 128 cores and 504MB of cache. The models featured are the 6980P, 6979P, 6972P, 6952P, and the 6960P. The 6980P is the most powerful chip of the bunch, featuring 128 cores, a massive 500W TDP, a 2 GHz base frequency, and 504MB of cache....

July 4, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Alexandria Griffin

6 Ways to Enable a Disabled Right Click on Website

Sometimes, you may find tidbits of information on random websites that you want to save for later reference. While most websites allow you to copy the contents on their webpage, some websites can block it by disabling the right-click function on their website. However, this is at most a minor protective measure for content protection. As long as you’re not using the website’s content for illegal purposes, there are several workarounds to bypass it like using Javascript code, disabling Javascript, or using Proxy servers....

July 4, 2025 · 3 min · 547 words · Richard Boone

6 Ways to Fix “Not Registered on Network”

When you try to call using a SIM card that is not registered to its designated carrier service provider, you will get the error message “Not registered on network.” This blocks you from making any calls since the service provider cannot recognize the SIM. Usually, the service provider disables a SIM card when it is reported stolen or is not in use for a long time. But issues like a missing IMEI number and incorrect network type selection could also cause the error....

July 4, 2025 · 3 min · 536 words · Sabrina Harris

6800xt vs 3080 – Which One is Better?

Launched on October 28th and September 1st of the year 2020 respectively, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 are both high-end graphics cards that supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This support allows both these devices to allow a realistic gaming experience because of its support for hardware ray tracing, mesh shaders, variable rate shading, and some other technologies. However, the hardware and base technologies used in both graphics cards are significantly different....

July 4, 2025 · 9 min · 1828 words · Mrs. Tammy Castro DVM