Polar Semiconductor, a Minnesota-based manufacturer of sensor and power semiconductors, is the first company to be awarded under the CHIPS program, ahead of several other prospective recipients like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC. According to theU.S. Department of Commerce, the company will receive up to $123 million in direct funding, although the funds will be released in tranches according to completed milestones. The CHIPS Act fund will upgrade and expand Polar’s existing fab in Bloomington, Minnesota....

Raijintek, a company specializing in PC cases, cooling, and peripherals, has debuted the MGA-68 aluminum keyboard with hall-effect switches. The MGA-68 boasts a 65% (69 keys) layout using the ISO format and comes in Black and Silver options. Although official pricing remains unannounced, preliminary listings suggest it will cost around $160. The MGA-68’s body is CNC-crafted from aluminum, which offers a unique sound signature and increases weight. Raijintek has outfitted this keyboard with south-facing LEDs and magnetic/hall-effect switches from Heijin, which have a rated lifespan of 50 million keystrokes....

SomeRaspberry Piprojects really excel when it comes to precision, and that’s exactly what this project created by maker and developer Robert Elder is shooting for. Using our favorite SBC, he’s working on aprecision movement stagethat can create precise and consistently slow rotations. This project idea stems from a specific need that Elder developed while working on videos for his channel RobertElderSoftware. Sometimes, it’s useful to highlight microchips on a macroscale, and this precision movement stage allows Elder to capture some really dynamic up-close shots of hardware....

TheRaspberry Piis an excellent choice for all sorts of auto-based projects. We’ve seen a variety of creations including Raspberry Piautomotive interface boardsand even a cool home assistant Pi thatautomatically warms your carfor you. However, Guy Dupont has stepped it up a notch with what he calls theBumpin' Sticker. This project will have you “Rockin' Down the Highway” in your “Little Red Corvette”, “White Mustang” or any other “Fast Car”. This project was inspired by trendy bumper stickers that say something along the lines of “Keep honking!...

Researchers at the U.S Department of Energy’sPrinceton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)are developing the next generation of chips that will be smaller, thinner, and more efficient. The research team, led by Shoaib Khalid, is investigating the use of transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) to replace silicon in processors. In an interview with Tom’s Hardware, Shoaib said, “The chips are getting smaller and smaller, such that their limit is almost reached in terms of functionality and size....

RTX 4090availability has gone from bad to worse in the German market.3DCenterreports that RTX 4090 retail volume is reportedly diminished. Several local retailers are almost out of one of thebest graphics cards. Meanwhile, any remaining retailers with decent RTX 4080 inventory to spare have seemingly increased pricing to compensate for the low volume. At the time of writing, Mindfactory.de and Alternate have only one RTX 4090 listing available. Mindfactory has a PNY RTX 4090 Verto for €1,998....

The NvidiaGeForce RTX 5090, announced earlier this year and coming January 30, is poised to be one of thebest graphics cards. However, hardware sleuthHXLhas unearthed what appears to be an early prototype. Still, given the rumored specifications, it could very well become a GeForce RTX 5090 Ti or RTX Titan Blackwell.TheChiphell forum userclaims the graphics card is a GeForce RTX 5090 engineering card manufactured from July 15 to 21, 2024. Apparently, it’s a prototype Nvidia’s AIC partners used to design their custom offerings in the early days....

Samsung has denied amedia report claiming that its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) products failed Nvidia’s quality testsdue to issues such as excessive heat and power consumption. Samsung stated that it is smoothly conducting tests for HBM supply with various global partners and emphasized ongoing cooperation to ensure quality and reliability, reportsBusiness Korea. “[We are] smoothly conducting tests for HBM supply with various global partners,” Samsung said in a statement published by Business Korea....

A red light blinking on your Samsung TV can indicate a hardware or software issue that is preventing the TV from streaming. You may encounter the problem after the TV boots up or between the streaming session. Or, the red light may start blinking when your TV shuts down randomly. While there are many possible causes behind the problem, many users reported the issue after a power outage. It can also show up when you directly pull the power cord from the wall outlet without turning it off using a remote....

If your Samsung TV keeps turning on and off by itself, it could be a connection or hardware issue. Most of the time, the problem surfaces due to an uneven power supply to the main board of your TV. Besides this, a misconfigured power settings and outdated TV firmware can also be responsible. In this article we will first discuss several software fixes to sort out the problem. By the end, we will try resolving any hardware issues and demonstrate on how you can replace a faulty power supply unit on your Samsung TV....

Samsung Foundry has delayed mass production of chips at its Taylor, Texas, fab from thesecond half of 2024to sometime in 2026 due to insufficient yields, reportsBusiness Korea. The publication claims that yields with SF3 (3nm-class) process technologies, which rely on gate-all-around (GAA) transistors, are considerably lower than those of arch-rival TSMC. Samsung is reportedly trying to find a cure. Samsung Foundry reportedly went as far as withdrawing personnel from the Taylor fab to cut costs, which could be part of the company’s broader plan, reported byReuters,to reduce its workforce in general....

Expanding storage on your PC doesn’t mean you have to go broke in the process. There are a few notable deals out there offering quality gaming and productivity boosting SSDs at a discounted rate. Today, we have come across an example of such an offer on theSandisk 1TB Extreme SSD. This M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 drive usually goes for around $99, but right now it’s available for just $59. It’s important to note that this is for an internal M....

Aside from the scanner, there are a few other components on your system that allow you to scan a document. One of those functions isWindows Image Acquisition. If this service fails to run, the scanner will scan the document but the PC may not get the scanned document. But, this could not be the reason why your Scanner is not working. There could be incompatible Operating System, system failure and much more....