PC cooling giantArcticassured its customers with LGA1700 processors that their existing Arctic coolers are fully compatible with the upcoming LGA1851 socket forCore Ultra 200(codenamed Arrow Lake) processors. These Arrow Lake chips areexpected to arrive in late Octoberand slot into the new LGA1851 socket. Arctic said on its blog, “According to current information, the mechanical dimensions remain unchanged.” The company added, “Arctic has assured customers since last year that all coolers purchased from October 23 onwards will support the new socket....

PC components and accessories maker ASRock has introduced a new AMD socket AM5 motherboard. So far, it seems ordinary, but there are a couple of things that make the ASRock X600TM-ITX stand out from the crowd: It is claimed to be the first AM5 Thin Mini ITX motherboard on the market, and TM-ITX boards have great appeal to those wanting to build sleek mini PC systems. With its cute 6.7-inch square (or 17 x 17cm if you are metric) dimensions and low-height surface-mount components, ASRock’s X600TM-ITX can fit in spaces that would seriously impede a regular Mini ITX motherboard....

ASRock just unveiled its new motherboard lineup atComputex 2025, showing off the latest versions of its flagship Taichi OCF and Taichi Creator AM5. It also has several mid-range and entry-level models on display, ensuring that it has a solution for everyone, no matter what their needs and budget are. What’s interesting, though, is that there weren’t any new Intel motherboards at ASRock’s booth. This was unlike last year, when the company launched motherboards for both Team Blue and Team Red....

Bambu Lab recently announced a firmwaresecurityupdate for its printers that would introduce an official “authorization control” system for critical printer operations. The update is presented as a way to mitigate the “risk ofremote hacksorprinter exposureissues that have happened in the past, and also lower the risk ofabnormal traffic or attacks.” The new firmware will not allow Bambu Lab printers to interface with popular 3rd party software or hardware upgrades such as Orca Slicer or BigTreeTech’s Panda Touch screen....

Cerebras got Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B large language model to run at 969 tokens per second, 75 times faster thanAmazonWeb Services' fastest AI service with GPUs could muster. The LLM was run on Cerebras’s cloud AI service Cerebras Inference, which uses the chip company’sthird-generation Wafer Scale Enginesrather than GPUs from Nvidia or AMD. Cerebras has always claimed its Inference service is the fastest for generating tokens, the individual parts that make up a response from an LLM....

If there’s one thing I’m always seem to be running out of, it’s available USB ports, and primarily, ports with the correct power requirements for speedily charging my gadgets. How many times have you plugged something via USB to your laptop, and it’s taken an eternity to charge, but you could have done it faster with a mains charger, but you only have a single port? I have large battery packs that can fast-charge over USB Type-C with 100W throughput and be filled up in next to no time, and then enable me to take my laptop and devices on the move and have ample power for the day....

With the release of its latest models earlier in the week, OpenAI seems to have inadvertently tuned ChatGPT to become a potent geo-guesser. The newly availableo3 and o4-miniare so good at this ‘reverse location search’ task that showing off this newfound functionality has become a viral social media trend, notesTechCrunch. However, this apparent geographic needle-in-a-haystack hunting improvement raises privacy concerns. And pro geo-guessers on social media platforms might be a little worried too....

YMTC, a Chinese 3D NAND maker, is not only ramping up production of flash memory at a rapid pace, but does so using silicon wafers produced in China, according to chief executive and chairman of Sumco, a major raw wafer manufacturer. This, among other tactics, allows the Yangtze Memory Technology Co. (YMTC) to increase the output of 3D NAND despite major sanctions imposed by the U.S. government against the company. It also indicates that China is strengthening its chip supply chain to boost the production of its own homegrown blank wafers, which are then used to create various types of semiconductors....

About six months ago China launched the third instalment of its Big Fund. An investment to make the country’s semiconductor industry self-sufficient.The so-called Big Fund IIIis primarily meant tosupport developers and makers of chip production equipmentas Chinese chipmakers have lost access to advanced wafer fabrication tools from market leaders like ASML and Applied Materials. Now, it is time to spend the massive capital of ¥344 billion ($47 billion), reportsNikkei. The third phase of the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (or the Big Fund III) began operations on July 01, 2025....

Former Google employee Linwei Ding has been arrested andchargedwith stealingGoogle’s TPUandGPUsecrets. The 38-year-old Chinese national was employed by Google as a software engineer from May 2019 until January 2024. However, in his brief spell at the U.S. tech giant, Ding is thought to have stolen more than 500 confidential files containing information aboutGoogle’s AItechnology. The indictment alleges four counts of trade secrets theft, covering areas such as TPU development, GPU deployments and specs, software design for machine learning, and more....

Chinese-linked hackers have intensified cyber-espionage efforts against Taiwan’s semiconductor industry and financial analysts, conducting coordinated attacks between March and June 2025, with some operations still ongoing.Reuters reportsthat cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has attributed the activity to at least three previously undocumented China-aligned groups—UNK_FistBump, UNK_DropPitch, and UNK_SparkyCarp—while a fourth group, UNK_ColtCentury (also tracked as TAG-100 or Storm-2077), attempted to build trust with its targets before deploying a remote access trojan (RAT) known as Spark....

Among the many PC hardware manufacturers showing off their latest and greatest atCES2024, Corsair is proudly flaunting a pair of new PC cases, new case fans, and even their upcoming second-ever CPU air cooler. First, we have the Corsair 2500X. This is a micro ATX, dual chamber PC case with compatibility for reverse-connection motherboards (likeProject ZeroorBTF) and swappable panels. This means if you would prefer it with a mesh front panel for increased airflow, that option is available....

One of the fastest consumer SSDs we’ve tested to date, the Crucial T700, has dropped in price to its lowest-ever price since its release. With a massive 4TB of capacity and blazing-fast speeds, it’s a great piece of tech if you must have the best kit in your rig. The T700 uses a PCIe Gen 5 connection to edge out older Gen 4 and Gen 3 SSDs, making it our current speed champion at the time of review....