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DigiTimes Asiareports that Chinese AI firms are implementing a multi-chip hybrid approach to improve AI capabilities. The multi-chip approach also brings several advantages. These include increasing LLM training speeds using multi-GPU parallel training, allowing more data to be processed simultaneously for better memory utilization, and reducing costs by not relying solely on expensive Nvidia chips. Chinese tech companies are bundling GPUs from different suppliers for their AI training needs to circumvent American sanctions limiting their access to advanced hardware....

Taiwanese telecommunications company Chunghwa Telecom and the Taiwan Coast Guard reported last Saturday, January 4, that the Trans-Pacific Express Cable System, which directly connects Taiwan to the U.S. East Coast, Japan, South Korea, and China, has been damaged by a Cameroon-flagged freighter named Shunxing39. However, although the ship is registered in the West African country, Taiwanese officials say that the cargo ship is owned by Jie Yang Trading Limited—a Hong Kong-registered company—and lists Guo Wenjie, a mainland Chinese citizen, as its sole director, according to aFinancial Timesreport....

A research team from Peking University has published its findings on a two-dimensional, low-power GAAFET transistor, the first of its kind in the world. Led by Professor Peng Hailin and Qiu Chenguang, the multi-disciplinary team published inNature, with some team members calling the discovery nothing short of a monumental breakthrough. The Peking team has fabricated what the paper describes as a “wafer-scale multi-layer-stacked single-crystalline 2D GAA configuration.” “It is the fastest, most efficient transistor ever,” said Peng of his team’s breakthrough....

To ensure the maximum utilization of their fabs today and in the future, Chinese chipmakers have already started cutting tape-out prices to retain existing customers and attract business from Taiwanese IC design companies, reportsIJIWEI(viaTrendForce). This trend comes as China isexpanding its mature node productiondramatically as it appears toplan to flood the market with chips to push out competitors. Chinese contract chipmakers have yet to increase their output considerably, but gaining customers will be important as it increases production throughout the coming quarters....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Whether you’re going to use it while magnetically clipped to your smartphone or plugged into your USB4-equipped PC, Corsair’s EX400U is a speedy, reasonably priced SSD that makes similarly priced 20 Gbps alternatives obsolete. Metal top gets hot during lengthy sustained writes Exterior looks a little cheap 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....

The final day of Prime Day is here and yielding a couple of absolute gems when it comes to last-ditch PC deals. If you’re on the hunt for a monstrous 96GB of DDR5 RAM, you can now grab this epicCorsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 kit (6000MHz) for the lowest-ever price we’ve seen on this model, just $199. Not only is this the cheapest ever price on Corsair’s delightful RGB RAM, which will look right at home in any build, but it’s also only $20 more than the cheapest 96GB kits on the market, all of which come with slower speeds and aren’t nearly as enticing....

If you’re looking to upgrade the storage in your desktop PC or laptop, this budget-oriented SSD from Crucial is now at its lowest-ever price. The smaller P310 M.2 2230 is one of thebest SSDs for the Steam Deckand other Windows gaming handhelds, and this larger 2280 version of the P310 is just an updated version of the same drive with a larger form factor. So, if you want an inexpensive solution for the shrinking SSD space of your game library, the Crucial P310 could be the answer....

The CEO ofGoogleDeepMind has compared the IQ levels of contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) agents to domestic cats. “We’re still not even at cat intelligence yet, as a general system,” remarked Hassabis, answering a question about DeepMind’s progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, research is progressing fast, with some huge cash and compute investments propelling it forward. Some expect it to eclipse human intelligence in the next half-decade. Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, made the artificial intelligence vs....

It certainly looks likeMicrosoftcan’t catch a break when it comes to Recall. Thursday’s announcement confirmed that the featurewon’t be available on Copilot+ PCs at launch, while outlining plans for additional testing with Windows Insiders before releasing Recall to the general public. You might think that the software giant is now going to be laser focused on improving security, but it looks like it isn’t afraid to also experiment with new features, even in a predicament as awkward as this one....

If your printer is printing blank pages, it is likely that the printer is running low on ink. Over time, as you go on printing your documents and images, the ink level on a printer gradually decreases. In some cases, it is also possible that the ink may have dried out, causing the printer to not generate the printouts as expected. But does the printer ink actually dry out? In this article, I will try to answer this question and provide several ways to prevent ink from drying up quickly....

The DRAM market is heading for a notable price drop in the first quarter of 2025, with PC, server, and GPU VRAM segments expected to see significant declines. According toTrendForce’s latest forecast, seasonal demand fluctuations combined with strategic inventory management by buyers are driving the downward trend. In the PC DRAM market, prices are projected to drop by 8–13%. This decline is primarily due to weak consumer demand and an oversupply of DDR4 memory modules....

Usually, Window’sDisk Managementutility is a great tool for managing the volumes in your drive. Still, it has some built-in limitations that can prevent you from executing your desired disk management operation. Once I uninstalled Ubuntu from mydual-boot PCand then ran the Disk Management utility in Windows, expecting to recover the Linux volume and extend it to the C drive. However, the extend volume option was greyed out. Worry not if you’ve also found yourself staring at greyed-out extend volume options....

The error “This action cannot be completed because the file is open” pops up when you’re trying to delete, more, or rename something from your hard drive. This indicates the process of the file that you’re trying to modify is running in the background and to remove the file, you must properly close the file/application. This error is quite common on Windows and until you’ve solved this problem, you will not be able to modify the desired file from your computer....