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SiFive hasintroducedthe SiFive Performance P870-D, a new RISC-V processor core designed for data center applications. The new P870-D not only sets the stage for RISC-V processors with up to 256 cores, but also enables building CPUs for mission-critical systems demanding the utmost reliability. SiFive’s Performance P870-D builds upon the regular P870, which is a six-wide out-of-order core with an RVA23 profile of the RISC-V instruction set architecture with vector and vector crypto processing acceleration....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The SilverStone Extreme 1200R Platinum SFX-L PSU excels in delivering 1,200 watts of power with impressive efficiency, making it an ideal choice for high-performance compact builds. However, its very high price will deter many users. Extreme power density Very high average efficiency ATX 3.1 / SFX12V 4.1 compliance Reliable protection features Great performance for its size Very high retail price Noisy under load Short cable length Limited connectors...

A Singapore court has moved the hearings for the three people accused of smuggling Nvidia chips for DeepSeek to August 22, with the prosecution saying it needed more time to review documents and wait for responses from international parties involved in the investigation. According toReuters, two Singaporean citizens — Woon Guo Jie, 41, and Alan Wei Zhaolun, 49 — alongside 51-year-old Chinese national Li Ming are charged with committing fraud. It was said that they made false representations to suppliers about the final destinations of servers and other equipment they bought in 2023 and 2024....

We’ve been visiting the booths atCES2025 and have encountered some of the first desktop PCs on the market withSnapdragon X Plusand Snapdragon X processors. Lenovo also showcases two new mini-PCs using the Arm architecture: the ThinkCentre Neo 50q QC and the IdeaCentre Mini x, equipped with Qualcomm’s first-generation Snapdragon X chips. Although compact, these mini-PCs deliver enough performance without a massive cooling solution. The ThinkCentre Neo 50q QC has a base Snapdragon X chip, but you’re able to get the Snapdragon X Plus if you need more firepower....

A laptop’s internal components can suffer from severe hardware damage due intrusion of water or similar liquids. Such water damage can cause problems like short circuits, corrosion in the internal components, display issues, and so on. It is always advisable to never place any sort of liquid near the laptop. Even if you want to have water while working, you should place it slightly far or below the level of the laptop surface....

Stack Overflow, a legendary internet forum for programmers and developers, is coming under heavy fire from its users after itannounced it was partneringwith OpenAI to scrub the site’s forum posts to train ChatGPT. Many users are removing or editing their questions and answers to prevent them from being used to train AI — decisions which have been punished with bans from the site’s moderators. Stack Overflow user Benposted on Mastodonabout his experience editing his most successful answers to attempt to avoid having his work stolen by OpenAI....

Steam updated its shopping cart page with a banner under the ‘Continue to Payment’ button that says you only get a license for the game you’re buying. According to aReddit Threadthat discussed this change, the company made this change apparently due to a new California law. AB 2426 states that a seller of digital goods cannot use “the terms buy, purchase, or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good....

The release ofValve’s Steam Deck in 2022, following the Nintendo Switch’s massive success after its launch in 2017, has created a booming, competitive gaming handheld market, spanning across consoles and the PC. Handheld PCs existed before the Steam Deck (technically,decades before the Steam Deck), but Valve’s accomplishments on the gaming front helped push the market toward its current state of regular Steam Deck alternative releases and competitive hardware. But just how competitive is that hardware, really, and how much should you be willing to spend on it here in mid-2024?...

STMicroelectronics, a French-Italian multinational tech company, is set to receive a €2B ($2.2B) grant from the Italian government to help build a €5B ($5.4B) chip production facility in Sicily. This factory will be the world’s first fully integrated silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor factory, as perNew Electronics, and is designed to create microchips for EVs. Reutersreports that the grant falls under EU’s investment efforts to build up domestic chip production infrastructure, similar tothe US’s CHIPS ActandChina’s Big Fund....

Wireless tech companyMorse Microhas achieved a new WiFi distance record of 1.8 miles (three kilometers) using the HaLow (802.11ah) standard. WhileHaLow was originally announced in 2016, its proper implementation is only just starting to pick up steam— and now, Morse Micro is pulling it off in a big way. Morse Micro’s connection speed during its testing ranged from 11 Megabits per second at 500 meters to just one Megabit per second at the maximum range of three kilometers, but this was still enough to maintain a working video call....

A man suspected of attempting to smuggle SK hynix tech secrets to China was apprehended at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport earlier this month.DigiTimesreports that the former employee subcontractor aimed to leak the firm’s proprietary high-bandwidth memory (HBM) packaging technology to entities based in China. According to the source report, authorities had been aware of the activities of suspect ‘Mr Kim’ for several months. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Industrial TechnologySecurityInvestigation Unit made the dramatic airport arrest, moments before flight boarding, and charged Kim with violating South Korea’s trade secret and unfair competition laws....

Are you in the market for a cheap yet capable processor that can handle taxing multithreaded workloads and be ideal for resource-intensive games, but doesn’t cost an arm and a leg? TheRyzen 7 5700Xfits the bill, and it’s now available at an all-time low of $130 atAmazonfor a limited time. The Ryzen 7 5700X packs eight cores and sixteen threads designed using AMD’s Zen 3 “Vermeer” microarchitecture. It offers a boost clock of 4....

The Arch Linux team hasannounced on its public mailing listthat it will be entering into a direct collaboration withValve. This is a big deal for several reasons, but let’s start with why and how it happened. If you’re familiar with Valve and Steam Deck, you may already know that the Deck uses SteamOS 3, which is built on top of Arch Linux. Thanks to the Arch Linux base and Valve’s development of the Proton compatibility layer for playing Windows games on Linux, we now have a far improved Linux gaming scene, especially on Valve’s Steam Deck and Deck OLED handhelds....