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Reddit userjerubedotook to the r/hardware subreddit to share a story on an Intel RMA nightmare. The individual said the company claimed that the twoCore i9-14900Kprocessors suffering from theinstability issuesplaguing 13th- and 14th-generation Intel chips were fraudulent. The company reportedly said in its response, “Intel reserves the rights to retain the product and/or destroy such product as appropriate.” Before all this drama, jerubedo contacted Intel’s customer service regarding the processors, and the company agreed that they were indeed faulty....

Intel announced China-specific versions of its Gaudi 3 AI accelerators along with the regular versions this week. By contrast, nothing is clear about AMD’sInstinct MI300-seriesproducts for China orNvidia Blackwell-based offerings for the People’s Republic. Will they ever be released? Analysts fromTrendForcehave no idea. Intel is prepping two Gaudi 3 products that are neutered to meet U.S. export control rules for China. One product is the Gaudi 3 HL-328 OAM module, and another is the Gaudi 3 HL-388 PCIe card....

Rapidus Corporation, which is building a chip fab in Northern Japan, said it will use robots and artificial intelligence to create a fully automated line for producing 2-nm chips for advanced AI applications.Nikkei Asiareports that prototyping of its 2-nm chips should begin next year, but mass production will not begin until 2027 at the earliest. The automation will supposedly speed up production times, allowing the company to deliver chips at just a third of the time compared to its rivals....

A Japanese company is showing off a new USB thumb drive that integrates a fully functioning camera. April Tokyo’s3-in-1 USB memory & art cameradelivers portable storage, still photography, and video camera functionality in a form not much bulkier than a mainstream storage-only device. If you are interested in this product, it is live on Japan’s largest crowdfunding portal, Makuake, for the next 24 hours (at the time of writing). Before further analysis of ‘why?...

After theBlackwell RTX 50-series announcementlast night, there’s been some confusion. In a live Q&A session today we Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, we were able to ask for clarification on DLSS 4 and some of the other neural rendering techniques that Nvidia demoed. With AI being a key element of the Blackwell architecture, it’s important to better understand how it’s being used and what that means for various use cases.One of the big performance “multipliers” with DLSS 4 is multi frame generation....

Nvidia’s latest Game Ready Driver release has been highlighted in its latestblog postas adding support for 32 new G-Sync Compatible (VRR) displays, mostly OLED TVs, and various tiers of DLSS implementations in this month’s upcoming DLC, new game, and remastered releases. Three new “Optimal Playable Settings” profiles have also been added forDragon Ball: Sparking! Zero,NBA 2K5, and theSilent Hill 2remaster, though I recommend that most enthusiasts manually adjust their settings for the best experience....

When it comes to performance in gamingbenchmarks, AMD’s Ryzen 9000-series does not exactly impress, due to the mediocre improvements observed over predecessors. Nevertheless, enthusiasts have kept alight higher hopes for the 3D V-Cache enabled Ryzen 9000X3D-series processors, expecting them to deliver a worthwhile performance uplift in games. Based on leaked images from an MSI presentation (viaHardwareLuxx), though, their hopes may be dashed. The leaked benchmarks of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9000X3D series indicate rather muted performance gains over the previous Ryzen 7000X3D and non-3D Ryzen 9000 models....

The next big wave of Ryzen AI 300-basedmini PCsfrom Beelink, Aoostar, and Minisforum are set to hit the market in the next few weeks. Yesterday, a leaked graphic revealed the design of the Minisforum EliteMini AI370 ahead of its official reveal. We also received an email from Minisforum giving the full specifications of the upcoming EliteMini AI370. The core specs of the EliteMini AI370’s CPU, RAM, and storage are all in line with what we expect from this category....

When it comes to microelectronics projects, sometimes it’s much more fun to make something because you can rather than because you should. Driven out of pure enthusiasm, maker and developer Lucas with Lucas-Dynamics decided to push the boundaries of autoclicking by creating what he dubs theworld’s fastestautoclicker. The clicks per second are being measured using a third-party web app called CPStest.org. With this tool, you can rapidly click inside of a square and receive an estimate of your average click speed....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 12) offers a sleek new design, great keyboard, and strong local AI performance, but you’ll have to pay a hefty premium and settle for so-so battery life. Great keyboard with pointing stick Extremely thin and light Plenty of ports, using USB Type-A Mediocre battery life OLED screen is not that vibrant 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....

There have beendesign derivations in the recent past, but most of Lenovo’s ThinkPads hew pretty close to theirIBM-era heritage: A boxy black rectangle with familiar rounded-bottom “smile”-shaped keys, and that oh-so-distinctive red rubber TrackPoint. But with its new ThinkPad X9, Lenovo is going in a different direction – and after a different kind of customer. But fret-not, loyal TrackPoint users: your trusty pointing stick will remain on other existing ThinkPad models....

The Logitech G915 TKL is a low-profile mechanical keyboard that launched back in 2020, but it’s still a good and capable option for those looking to build out a high-end gaming system. We lovedthe keyboard when we reviewed itback then, and many still love it today, despite the launch of newer models. One of its few downsides, though, was its $230 price tag. If you’ve been waiting since 2020 and still haven’t gotten one, it may finally be your time....

The roadmap for Intel’s future releases of its Panther Lake and Nova Lake chips have been discovered inDelldocuments that appear to have been inadvertently posted to a public download server.VideoCardzdiscovered the Dell XPS roadmap detailing the laptop manufacturer’s production strategy for its XPS lineup from 2023 to 2027. The documents highlight key information about XPS internal hardware changes, including the implementations of future Intel CPU platforms such as Nova Lake and future RTX mobile GPUs....