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Five suppliers to major chipmakers Intel and TSMC have postponed or scaled back their construction projects in Arizona, reportsNikkei. Rising construction costs and labor shortages seem to be the primary reasons for the delay. These setbacks come despite the suppliers' initial plans to build facilities following Intel’s and TSMC’s plans to build new semiconductor production facilities in the state. Numerous companies have acquired land and outlined plans to build facilities in Casa Grande, a town southeast of Phoenix....

Intel is set to receiveup to $3 billionin direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for theSecure Enclaveprogram from the U.S. government, which is $500 million less than therumored number published earlier. This initiative aims to bolster the trusted production of advanced chips on Intel’s 18A process technology for U.S. government use in intelligence and military applications. The Secure Enclave program builds on Intel’s previous collaborations with the Department of Defense (DoD), including the RAMP-C and SHIP projects....

Hardware leaker@jaykihn0has shared the alleged specifications for Intel’s forthcoming Core 200 processors. These are based on previous Raptor Lake/Alder Lake silicon and should not be confused with the chipmaker’s recently announcedCore Ultra 200V(codenamed Lunar Lake) orCore Ultra 200S(codenamed Arrow Lake) processors. The Core 200-series lineup is reportedly comprised of seven SKUs. Five H-series parts adhere to a 45W TDP, and two more power-efficient U-series parts carry a 15W TDP. The Core 270H appears to be the flagship of the Core 200 series....

Overclocker and tech YouTuber Roman ‘Der8auer’ Hartung hasdemonstratedhow direct die cooling can enable a 6 GHz overclock on all eight P-cores of an Intel Core i9-14900KS, without thermal throttling. Der8auer used a custom liquid cooling loop that relied on a delidded 14900KS, a CPU water block making direct contact with the CPU die, and liquid metal to get the processor so cool that even nearly 400 watts of power consumption wasn’t an issue....

Intel has announced a brand-new tool that seeks to onboard AI newbies into a generative AI workflow powered by Intel GPU power in Intel Core Ultra processors or Arc dedicated graphics.AI Playgroundis expected to release sometime this summer as a free download. AI Playground markets itself as an easy-to-use starter tool for those who haven’t yet played around with generative AI. No command line prompts or scripts needed here, just an all-in-one program that does the heavy lifting for you....

It took the German government some time to secure €10 billion in funding forIntel’s Fab 29 near Magdeburg. However, now that the company has decided to postpone the project launch to 2029 – 2030, that funding will likely go back to the federal budget, reportsHardwareLuxx. Intel’s project near Magdeburg was to receive substantial government backing of €10 billion from the Climate and Transformation Fund, with an initial tranche of €3.96 billion allocated for 2024....

Intel’s next-generation 20A (2nm-class) and 18A (1.8nm-class) manufacturing technologies are crucial for Intel’s success and profitability in the mid-term future. Both fabrication processes will be production-ready this year, but it will be quite some time before they will account for a sizeable share of Intel’s wafer shipments. In fact, Intel said 18A-based CPUs will only ramp to high volume in 2026. “We will be ramping the first products Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest — the first client product and the first server product [based on 18A] — in 2025,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at the company’s webinar....

Performance throttling due to overheatingis one of the major factors that limits the performance of solid-state drives (SSD) in general but impacting external SSDs in particular. Few of them can sustain speeds beyond 1.5 GB/s. While fans mitigate the problem, they are not particularly reliable, so instead of equipping its new Pro Mini external SSD with a fan, Iodyne equipped it with two of Frore’sAirJet Mini Slim solid-state active cooling devicesthat combine performance and reliability....

Nvidia CEOJensen Huangrecently took to the stage to claim thatNvidia’s GPUsare “so good that even when the competitor’s chips are free, it’s not cheap enough.” Huang further explained that Nvidia GPU pricing isn’t really significant in terms of an AI data center’s total cost of ownership (TCO). The impressive scale of Nvidia’s achievements in powering thebooming AI industryis hard to deny; the company recently became the world’sthird most valuablecompany thanks largely to its AI-accelerating GPUs, but Jensen’s comments are sure to be controversial as he dismisses a whole constellation of competitors, such as AMD, Intel and a range of competitors with ASICs and other types of custom AI silicon....

CPU-Z benchmark results for the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop chip have leaked on X (formerly Twitter). The results show a single-core score of 850.6 points and a multi-core score of 10,907.1 points, as shared by popular Chinese hardware leakerECSM_Official. The single-core number puts the upcoming 245K in between the 14600K/KF’s 852 points and 13980HX’s 842, with the Arrow Lake chip hitting 99.8% of the performance of the Raptor Lake Refresh chip....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Lenovo LOQ 15 comes in at a low price point, but has too many compromises. Competitive gaming performance Reasonably priced Excellent 15.6-inch IPS display Short battery life Slow SSD, although real-world usage may vary Poor productivity performance Why you may trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test....

Apple’s newest iPad Pro 13 may be cutting consumers short, with 12GB onboard RAM being artificially limited to 8GB. MacRumors forum userlayerstackposted their detective work, seeking to independently verify the listed RAM capacities of Apple’s newest iPad Pro lineup. Apple’s newest M4 iPad Pro 13 releases with two models, a 256GB/512GB storage model with a 9-core CPU and 8GB of RAM or a 1TB/2TB storage variant with the flagship 10-core CPU and 16GB of RAM....

Manor Lords Overview Manor Lordsjust entered open early access after seven years of development by indie studio Slavic Magic. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s the most wishlisted game on Steam, with over three million people expressing interest. That means we’re also interested — interested in seeing how it runs on all thebest graphics cards, that is.The game was built using Unreal Engine, with most of the latest upscaling technologies included....