Huawei is prepping its Ascend 910C, another AI chip aimed at the Chinese market and designed to compete against Nvidia’s offerings, such as the existing HGX H20 and the upcoming rumored Blackwell-based B20. According to theWall Street Journal, the company has already provided samples of the new chip to its partners among Chinese telecommunications operators. Major Chinese companies, including Baidu, ByteDance, and China Mobile, have tested Huawei’s Ascend 910C. According to Huawei, the device is on par with Nvidia’s H100, but it is unclear which benchmark terms the Ascend 910C is comparable to Nvidia’s previous-generation flagship product....

Huawei is reportedly building a consortium of memory producers to build high bandwidth memory (HBM) to break free of Western sanctions. HBM is crucially important for AI and HPC processors because no matter how much compute power they have, performance is often limited by memory bandwidth. Huawei understands this perfectly, so it is now backing the development of HBM2 memory at one China-based DRAM maker, according toThe Information. The Huawei-led consortium is reportedly backed by the Chinese government and includes several other Chinese semiconductor companies, including memory maker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit, as well as specialists in advanced chip packaging....

Huawei’s next-generation Kirin chip will reportedly use a unified memory architecture (UMA), much like the Apple M-series silicon and Intel Core Ultra Series CPUs. It means that Huawei will bake in the RAM on the next-generation Kirin processors and make it available to the GPU and CPU. Weibo userFixed Focus Digital(machine translated from Chinese), who also predicted that the Kirin CPU with Taishan V130 cores could match Apple M3 performance, said, “This is a chip specially planned for AI terminal products, and the memory bandwidth is double that of previous PC chips....

I do a lot of work when I’m at home, and most of it is done on my desktop PC, which lives in my home office. However, there are many times I want to watch my kids play in the living room, where I must sit on the couch. While I’m keeping an eye on the kids, I could be working on my laptop, but unfortunately, my laptop often runs low on battery....

Electricity prices are set to jump in Taiwan, and semiconductor-making ‘super consumers’ will face some of the steepest increases, according to reports.TrendForceraises concerns that the electricity price increases, scheduled by Taipower for April, will mean companies likeTSMCandMicronwill see electricity bills rise by as much as 30%. Of course, there is also concern about how these increased costs will be passed onto customers of TSMC and Micron, and ultimately to consumers....

Launching on December 9, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the latest Indiana Jones video game—but unlike past games, it’s utilizing the latest id Tech 7 engine (also used byDoom Eternal) and being developed by Machine Games of modernWolfensteinfame. Due to shipping with ray tracing as a minimum requirement, publisher Bethesda has revealed that the system requirements across the board are fairly demanding. With ray tracing as a minimum requirement, GPUs without the feature have been left out entirely, and for “full ray tracing” or path tracing configurations, Machine Games doesn’t even bother to mention AMD GPUs....

Folks, it is official! Intel has confirmed an upcoming event centered around its Arc GPUs - likely Team Blue’s Battlemage desktop lineup - for December 3rd onX(formerly Twitter). On that note, a never-before-seen Arc B570 has been spotted in the wild at a French wholesale dealer,1foTrade,thanks to userjosefk972on X. This GPU will likely be announced alongside the extensively leakedArc B580next week. AIBs such asGunnirhave already started to confirm Battlemage’s arrival in early December, which aligns with previousrumors....

Intel isintroducing new compliance policiesfor its suppliers, now that the U.S. has imposed new 25% tariffs on aluminum and stainless steel and eliminated all exemptions – materials that are of surprising importance to the semiconductor industry. On the surface, one might associate the company with silicon and little else. In fact, Intel uses quite a lot of metals beyond its semiconductor production facilities. Intel’s integrated heat spreaders (IHS) use nickel-plated copper or aluminum for cheap SKUs, and CPU sockets and stiffening frames use stainless steel, as do brackets for various add-in-boards (accelerators, graphics cards, ethernet cards, etc....

MSI released a tiny computer without fans designed for industrial and embedded applications. The compact box measures 8.5 x 6.1 x 2.6 inches (215 x 155 x 65) —smaller than a 6th-generation iPad—and weighs just 4.96 pounds (2.25kg). The device is designed for ultra-low-power and quiet operations, offering several ports for extreme reliability and durability. In addition, the MS-C906 comes with four ethernet ports, provision for six antennas, and even a nano SIM card holder, helping ensure that you’re able to constantly communicate with it....

Intel outlined itsuse of AI tools in recent chip designs, tools that are undoubtedly being used to create some of thebest CPUsfor the coming years. Intel claims the AI tools for optimizing SoC layouts have slashed the time required by some of the firm’s semiconductor design processes from six weeks to just “minutes.“Having proved their worth in thermal sensor placement design in Meteor Lake, Intel’s AI-based tools are expanding their scope to other important areas such as high-speed I/O, efficiency, product sampling, and other chip floor plan optimizations....

Arrow Lakemight have some fuel left in the tank, as Intel’s latest IPO (Intel Performance Optimizations) tech is reportedly hitting pre-builts in China, perUNIKO’s Hardwareat X. Intel recently unveiled the IPO program in China. It is supposedly a suite of tuned settings or profiles that balance overclocking and stock settings. It is important to note that Intel has not detailed or announced an IPO for the global market. In addition, for the time being, it appears these profiles are aimed at system integrators and OEMs, not individual customers....

Amidst the ongoing news related to upcoming game consoles,Exputerreceived exclusive photographs of a white Xbox Series X without a Blu-ray drive from its sources. This white disc-less Xbox Series X aligns with therecent spotting of a new Xboxdevelopment kit and thepast leakof a disc-less Series X refresh. However, that refresh, dubbed “Brooklin,” had a different, rounded design. Below, we’ve embedded a tweet from Twitter user @Wario64 showcasing three photographs ofMicrosoft’s seemingly imminent Xbox Series X refresh....

Lian Li has a range of new products coming this year, including cases, power supply units, and AIO liquid cooling solutions with LCD displays. Currently being showcased atComputex 2025, the company has officially launched the new Lancool 4, Lancool 217 INF, O11D Mini V2, DAN Case B4, Vector V100, and Vector V200 cases, along with the HydroShift III AIO, which features a 2K panoramic LCD screen. Additionally, Lian Li is introducing four new PSU series, namely the DWS, RS, RB, and SP....