If you can’t use the camera on your Toshiba laptop, it means your computer can’t access this device. In such cases, if you try opening the built-in camera app, it will show something like—“We can’t find your camera, 0xA00F4244 ”. While it can happen due to software or hardware causes but software errors are more common. Improper camera settings, corrupt drivers, and conflicts due to malware or other applications are all likely scenarios....

Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that Taiwan should pay the United States for defense, at least in part due to the fact that Taiwan is dominant in chipmaking.“I think, Taiwan should pay us for defense,” TrumptoldBloomberg Businessweekin an interview. “You know, we’re no different than an insurance company. Taiwan doesn’t give us anything.” He said that Taiwan is “immensely wealthy” because “they took all of our chip business” and that “we should have never let it happen....

TSMC announced its leading-edge 1.6nm-class process technology today, a new A16 manufacturing process that will be the company’s first Angstrom-class production node and promises to outperform its predecessor, N2P, by a significant margin. The technology’s most important innovation will be its backside power delivery network (BSPDN). Just like TSMC’s 2nm-class nodes (N2, N2P, and N2X), the company’s 1.6nm-class fabrication process will rely on gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors, but unlike the current and next-generation nodes, this one uses backside power delivery dubbed Super Power Rail....

Moore’s Law once stated that the economics of the semiconductor market is based solely on transistor density with little regard for power. However, as applications evolved, chip producers have focused on power, performance, and area (PPA) improvements to continue the steady march of progress. In an interview, Dr. Kevin Zhang, head of TSMC’s process technologies, told Ian Cutress on theTechTechPotatoYouTube channel (transcript here) that he is not concerned with Moore’s Law as long as the overall progress continues....

Demand for chips is not exactly at record highs these days, but despite the industry slump, the average selling price (ASP) of a TSMC 300-mm wafer increased to $6,611 in the fourth quarter, an increase of 22% in a single year, as noticed by analystDan Nystedt, who attributes this increase to the ramp of TSMC’s N3 (3nm-class) process technology. Bernstein Research’s Stacy Rasgon also points out that most semiconductor industry growth now comes from increased pricing, and not an increase in the number of processors shipped....

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has added Sitonholy, a leading Chinese solutions provider that sells hardware in general and Intel and Nvidia processors in particular, into itsEntity List, reports theSouth China Morning Post. American companies dealing with distributors must get an export license from the U.S. government. While this certainly hits Sitonholy, it is also a significant blow for American companies, including Intel and Nvidia....

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into Nvidia, prompted by allegations of the company potentially exploiting its dominant position in the AI processor market, according to a report byThe Information. The probe focuses on whether Nvidia’s business practices unfairly limit competition by forcing its customers to buy products in bundles or using strongarm tactics to cease business with its rivals. The U.S. DoJ is reportedly examining whether Nvidia hadthreatened to punish customers who buy their AI processors from its rivalslike AMD and Intel or smaller startups by delaying their long awaited orders....

Although the U.S. government has imposed strict restrictions on Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), the former can still access leading-edge process technologies, and the latter can obtain advanced production tools. Michael McCaul (R, TX), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is calling on the U.S. Commerce Department to investigate SMIC’s potential production of chips for Huawei and its violation of the U.S. export controls, reportsReuters. McCaul urged the Bureau of Industry andSecurity(BIS) within the Commerce Department to visit SMIC’s fabs....

you may’t log in to your account if its User profile doesn’t load. In such cases, you’ll see an error message: “The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded”. The usual causes include improper configuration of registry or user profile permissions. You need to change or replace such settings to resolve this issue. Why Am I Unable to Load User Profile Here are the reasons for your User Profile failing to load:...

AMD isrumoredto be working on a successor to its Dragon Range (Ryzen 7045HX) processor lineup, codenamed Fire Range. Wu Haijun, chairman of Hasee, a Chinese PC manufacturer, has reportedly confirmed that these upcoming CPUs will be branded per AMD’s old naming scheme and further asserted the development of an X3D variant on mobile, namely the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D (viaGolden Pig Upgrade Pack). In addition, the discussion also touched on Intel’s Arrow Lake-HX processors, but the sentiment was not strictly positive....

With the advent of exceptional display units, there is an increasing necessity for better video interfaces and display controllers. Due to this growing requirement fordisplay quality, the older and relatively low signal-quality VGA interface is now on the verge of extinction. It has now been almost completely replaced by the superior HDMI interface. Nevertheless, there are still devices and display unit that consists of the VGA. And it still has its significance in a few areas....

Edit 10-07-2025 3:15am PT:Intel provided further clarification of performance targets, which we added below. We tested the new Asus Zenbook S14 with theLunar LakeCore Ultra 9 288V processor, and surprisingly, we found that the Core Ultra 9 is slower than the Ultra 7 model in multi-threaded workloads, a condition that Intel says Asus will soon address with a BIOS fix. Our findings are interesting because Intel originally shipped the Asus Zenbook S14 to reviewers for its Lunar Lake launch, but the US press received the model with the lower-tier Core Ultra 7 258V processor, not the flagship Core Ultra 9 288V processor....

Even though its been around for over 50 years, RAID is still very popular, particularly in enterprise environments. Overall, it’s quite an achievement for any technology to be relevant for this long. If we focus on RAID’s status in the present day, some RAID levels are certainly more relevant than others. RAID 5 specifically has been one of the most popular RAID versions for the last two decades. As disk sizes have increased exponentially, it does beg the question, though; is RAID 5 still reliable?...