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Micron has demonstrated the Crucial T700 8TB atCES2024, a concept product that will blow thebest SSDsout of the water. The Crucial T700 8TB combines four individualT7002TB SSDs in a RAID array on a standard AIC card cooled by Frore Systems' AirJet Mini cooling technology. The T700 8TB is rated for sequential read and write speeds up to 45 GB/s and 42 GB/s, respectively, with a sustained speed of 40 GB/s. We witnessed the drives delivering constant 42 GB/s with ease during Micron’s demo, which consisted of running the Iometer benchmark....

According toFocus Taiwan, an important new industry alliance was announced at SEMICON Taiwan. Over 30 Taiwanese tech industry heavyweights are in the new Silicon Photonics Industry Alliance (SiPhIA), demonstrating that this branch of semiconductor development is now getting serious attention. Leading semiconductor firms like TSMC, ASE, Foxconn, and MediaTek are among the SiPhIA collective, which sees photonics as a solution to the thorny issue of computer energy efficiency in the artificial intelligence (AI) era....

On Wednesday at around 7:58 am local time, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off of Taiwan’s east coast, with the epicenter 18km from Hualien City. The country issued Tsunami warnings while Japan and the Philippines also braced for possible flooding. According to theU.S. Geological Survey, this is the most powerful quake Taiwan has experienced since a 7.7 event that occurred in 1999. The USGS also says that a 6.5 aftershock occurred 13 minutes later....

Already got a Nintendo Switch 2? Then you’re currently one of the lucky ones, but if you’ve also managed to snag one recently or have found available stock, what about accessories for your new console? There are many official, licensed, and unofficial accessories available with a wide range of pricing. It’s also Amazon Prime Day 2025 and various other sales events this week, so now is an excellent time to hunt for deals and the best prices on Switch 2 peripherals and accessories....

CBCreports that a Canadian engineering student has built what is claimed to be the world’s smallest arcade machine. Victoria Korhonen, who studies electromechanical engineering at Fanshawe College in London, Ont., 3D-printed, assembled, and programmed a fully functional miniaturePongarcade cabinet to achieve the record. Korhonen’s arcade machine measures approximately 64mm tall, 26mm wide, and 30mm deep. It undercuts the current Guinness champ, which measures 67 x 30 x 34mm in every dimension....

Thermal Grizzly has introduced a new thermal pad product for cooling CPUs and GPUs. Known asPhaseSheet PTM, the new pad uses phase-changing technology and is electrically nonconductive. As the name implies, the new PhaseSheet PTM takes advantage of a phase-changing material that changes its physical properties depending on temperature. At room temperature, the sheet is solid (just like any ordinary thermal pad). Still, at temperatures above 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius), the thermal pad turns into a very low-viscosity liquid that behaves similarly to the thermal paste....

Ever looked at a computer mouse and wondered what it’d be like to stuff an entire computer into one? YouTuber Electo has, and posted the results over on Hackaday.com in not one but two projects. The more recent hacked-together mouse as a computer project wasshared on Hackaday on Thursday, but Electo actually performed this hardware modding on July 10, 2025. Below, we’ve embedded 12-minute video where Electo details the build process for not only the main “Mouse as a PC” build pictured above, but also two side mini PC projects that he experiments with during the process....

This week, French brand Wika, known best for selling rebadged Huawei devices in both its home country and China, is branching out to eGPUs in the form of the Wiko Hi GT Cube eGPU docking station, which leverages AMD’s only current eGPU, theRX 7600M XTbased on RDNA 3, and includes 100W laptop charging capacity alongside the AMD graphics enhancement. Combined, the power draw of the laptop charging and eGPU functionalities add up to about 240 Watts, though, of course, the main GPU component is capped at just 120 Watts of that total....

The Raspberry Pi 5’s PCIe connection is proving to be the inspiration for a plethora of Pi products and super-fast storage is leading the charge. Pineboard’s (formerly known as Pineberry Pi) latest PCIe-powered add-on is theHatDrive! Nano, a smaller footprint board for NVMe storage and other PCIe boards. The board goes on sale today for €9 (approximately $10) plus taxes. We are launching a new board today 🫡Good things come in small packages and to prove that point, today we’re launching the Pineboards HatDrive!...

Tom’s Hardware Verdict TP-Link’s Deco BE5000 makes some critical compromises to reach a $299 price point. Attractive pricing Two 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports on each node Cons Lacks 6 GHz band Setup and primary interactions with the router require the Deco app 5 GHz performance is average Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

TSMC says its newest process tech doesn’t need ASML’sHigh-NA EUVchipmaking tools that have beenchampioned by Intel, but the foundry is exploring the tech for future use. According toReuters, Zhang told attendees of the event that the A16 process technology will not need the next-generation EUV lithography tools. This implies means that TSMC has found ways to cost-efficiently use EUV double patterning and pattern shaping to increase the achievable critical dimension of a modern Low-NA litho system beyond 13nm....

TSMC may have to delay the construction of its Fab 23 phase 2 (JASM phase 2) near Kumamoto, Japan, by up to 18 months. The delay would push the start of mass production to 2029, according to a report byNikkan(via@DanNystedt). TSMC began mass production at its first Japanese fab, Fab 23 phase 1, in late December 2024. Construction of Fab 23 phase 2 was supposed to start earlier this year, but wasdelayed due to inadequate local infrastructure, with theWall Street Journalreporting traffic congestion as a contributing factor....

The U.S. government is introducing a proposal to prevent foreign entities, particularly from China, from using U.S. cloud computing for AI model training, the U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced this week, reportsReuters. The Biden administration sees it as an effort to safeguard nationalsecurityand the U.S. technological superiority. Meanwhile, Chinese entities can still access services deployed in Europe and the Middle East. “We can’t have non-state actors or China or folks who we don’t want accessing our cloud to train their models,” Raimondo toldReuters....