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AMD’s Navi 48 graphics processing unit, based on the RDNA 4 architecture that the company brieflydemonstratedyesterday, is significantly smaller than its predecessors from the RDNA 3 generation. The small die size may be proof that the company does not intend to position its RDNA 4 GPUs to compete with Nvidia in the high-end market segment.The die size of AMD’s Navi 48 GPU, produced on TSMC’s 4nm-class process technology, is around 390 mm², according to the calculations of bloggerDavid Huang....

Asus has announced its first-ever ROG Apex motherboard for AMD CPUs. TheROG Crosshair X870E Apexis Asus' all-new extreme overclocking-focused motherboard, aimed at CPU overclocking and extreme DDR5 memory overclocking. Overclocker Safedisk has already achieved eight world records with the Apex by overclocking two G.Skill DDR5 memory sticks to over DDR5-10000. The new board has an E-ATX form factor and supports all AM5 Ryzen-based CPUs: the Ryzen 7000 series, Ryzen 8000 series (APUs), andRyzen 9000series....

What if your gaming battlestation looked like it could literally be taken into battle?Cluvensdares to answer this burning question with its newest Gatling Battlestation zero-gravity chair, available now for preorder at $4,199. With support for up to three monitors and an impressive array of tank treads, the Gatling seeks to be a beast both in terms of aesthetics and productivity. Cluvens has made a name for itself in the zero-gravity chair market — a market it fully owns unless you countCooler Master’s Orb X— with products like itsScorpion chair, seen on many a YouTube tech review channel....

Isn’t it fun to explore the vast lands of Tevyat in Genshin Impact? Or to ride around the roads of GTA V? These open-world games offer us gamers a map that does not need to load as you get to the next area. Neither does it make you stick to a single path to finish the story. The idea of exploration and freedom lies deep in the core of open-world games....

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China’s largest contract chipmaker, this weekannouncedits financial results for the first quarter of 2023. Despitecrushing US sanctions, SMIC is now the world’s second-largest pure-play foundry after TSMC. The company managed to outsell GlobalFoundries and UMC, two of the other pure-play foundries, which it used to trail for years. However, it still lags behind IDMs like Intel and Samsung. With $1.75 billion revenue for the first quarter, SMIC is ahead of the two other leading pure-play foundries, UMC (which earned$1....

A group of researchers from China and Singapore recently published a paper detailing the challenge of getting an AI to playRed Dead Redemption II(RDR2). They also assessed and commented on the AI’s game-playing performance. In the paperTowards General Computer Control: A Multimodal Agent for Red Dead Redemption II as a Case Study(PDF) we learn about the concept of General Computer Control (GCC) for AIs, as well as a six-module agent framework dubbed CRADLE, used to interface between GPT-4V and RDR2....

Intel’s Core Ultra 5 230F has finally made its public debut, and the midrange CPU has been confirmed as exclusive to China by the publicationMyDrivers. When the CPU first leaked out last year, it was rumored to be exclusive to China, which MyDrivers has confirmed in an article showcasing the 230F and its packaging. On the surface, it’s almost identical to otherCore Ultra 200S(Arrow Lake) chips except for havinga different heatspreaderlike other budget Arrow Lake CPUs....

Last month, a team ofGooglesecurityresearchers released a tool that can modify microcode of AMD’s processors based on the Zen microarchitecture, theZentool. While this is a security vulnerability, for some, this is an opportunity; Members of the ChineseJiachen Projectare running a contest with an aim todevelop a microcode for AMD’s modern Zen-based CPU to make them execute RISC-V programs natively. The ultimate goal could be building an ultimate RISC-V CPU using already available silicon....

Researchers from Peking University and an AI company in Shenzhen called Rabbitpre have teamed up to start a project called Open-Sora. Their goal is to create a version ofOpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora, with the help of the open-source community, that is easier to use and more scalable, reportsSouth China Morning Post. OpenAI’s Sora has created a lot of noise in the AI world since it came out, and this project is China’s latest move in the AI race....

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have created a “breakthrough” solid-statedeep ultraviolet(DUV) laser emitting coherent 193-nm light used for semiconductor photolithography in a lab, reports the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). If the light source technology can be scaled, this device could be used to build lithography tools that make chips using advanced process technologies. However, perspectives on scaling solid-state lasers are unknown. Before we discuss how the CAS method works, let’s recap the de facto industry-standard method of creating light with a 193-nm wavelength used by ASML, Canon, and Nikon for their DUV litho machines....

Yesterday on X,Cooler Masteropted to show off its latest CryoFuze 5 thermal paste series by using all six available colors to plant a landscape on an existing 13th Gen Intel CPU andGigabyte Z790 Aorus Mastermotherboard. There was some controversy around a machine error translation that made people think the product was named “Cooler Master CryoFuze 5 AI thermal paste” when, in fact, the original text was saying the nano-diamond thermal paste should be good enough for high-power CPUs with onboard NPUs....

Kovan Yang, an extreme overclocker, has just achieved the world record for fastest RAM with the Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 CUDIMM and an MSI MEG Z890 Unify-X motherboard running an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF processor. According to a post on X (formerly Twitter) byKingston, the record achieved transfer speeds for DDR5-12,108. The HWBot website reports that user Kovan Yang achieved this with 24GBs of the just-launched Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5-8400 CUDIMMs....

A broken RTX 5090 recently landed on the desk ofNorthwest Repairs, run by “Tony” who also serves as the face of their chaotic YouTube channel. NorthWest specializes in semiconductor work, particularly GPUs that need to be brought back from the dead. So, when a PNY RTX 5090 came in with a cracked PCB and no signs of life, Tony got to work and took us along the crazy roller-coaster ride that ensued with repairing this 5090....