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Samsung’s largest labor union is beginning its three-day strike in South Korea. The union is now 36,570 members strong, making up a quarter of Samsung Electronics' workforce, according to reports fromThe Korea Herald. It is demanding one more day of annual leave, a change to the company’s draconic bonus structure, and better pay overall. This marks the first labor strike in Samsung Electronics' history after multiple rounds of negotiations stretching back to January....

SureCore announced its new SRAM modules forquantum computingSoCs that can function at cryogenic temperatures as low as 4 Kelvin (-269°C). The innovation comes as a major breakthrough for cooling and downsizing quantum computer data centers.SureCore CEO Paul Wells said, “Data centres have a heat problem and we can potentially provide a solution.” Wells elaborated, “As part of an InnovateUK funded project, we have worked closely with our partner Semiwise who have developed cryogenic transistor SPICE models....

Whether you were an ’80s kid growing up or just love the retro aesthetics of those early days of home console gaming, there’s just something about 8BidDo’s retro mechanical keyboard that brings the nostalgia flooding back. Maybe it’s the included giant button accessory reminiscent of the old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller or the color scheme of the keyboard, but whatever it is, it makes me want one. Woot comes under the Amazon umbrella, so you can use your Prime membership here, too for free shipping....

Wrapping your head around abnormal mathematical concepts like negative numbers can be tricky. But thanks to maker and developer Russell Eveleigh, understanding these somewhat strange numbers is easier than ever thanks to hisZero Pairsproject. ThisRaspberry Pi-powered creation serves as a visual aid to help understand negative numbers using a concept known as zero pairs. The idea behind zero pairs is to provide a mental apparatus for the seemingly contradictory way negative numbers behave in equations by introducing positive and negative values that cancel each other out....

Wu Cheng-wen, the chairman of Taiwan’s National Science Council, said in an interview withBloombergthat TSMC plans to build more fabs in Europe in addition to its facility near Dresden, Germany. While the Dresden fab built by ESMC, a joint venture between TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP, will focus primarily on chips for Germany’s automotive industry, other fabs are said to focus on the AI sector, which implies on fairly advanced process technologies....

TSMC on Thursdayreportedits strongest quarter ever, posting a revenue of $30 billion for the second quarter of 2025, citing strong demand for AI processors. The foundry expects demand for AI applications to grow in the coming years, so it is plotting a rather unprecedented expansion plan that involves building 15 new fabs over the course of the next several years. $30.07 billion in Q2: Best quarter ever For the second quarter of 2025, TSMC posted $30....

TSMC’s plans for the next couple of years remain largely unchanged as the company is ready to mass produce chips on its N2 (2nm-class) manufacturing technology starting in late 2025 and A16 (1.6nm-class) fabrication process in late 2026, the company announced at its Open Innovation Platform (OIP) 2024 conference here in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “The roadmap you see here is pretty much the same, actually it is the same technology roadmap that I think you saw during the [technology] symposium six months ago,” said Dan Kochpatcharin, Head of Design Infrastructure Management at TSMC....

The U.S. government is considering more severe restrictions on China’s access to advanced chip making tools, which even some US allies reportedly call ‘draconian.’ Key proposals include applying the Foreign Direct Product (FDP) rule, pressuring allies to limit service and repair of equipment in China, and broadening the unverified list requiring licenses for certain technologies. These measures aim to hinder advancements of China’s semiconductor industry. One key proposal is application ofthe FDP rule, which would allow the U....

Ukrainian telecoms company, Kyivstar, is set to offer customers direct-to-cell satellite connectivity using SpaceX’s Starlink constellation as soon as this year, in what will be a first for Europe, as perReuters. The technology uses the Starlink satellites like cellphone towers to relay basic text messages within Ukraine and will make it possible to continue communicating even if traditional cellphone towers are damaged or service is interrupted as part of the ongoing conflict....

AMD, Broadcom, Cisco,Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, andMicrosofthavejoined forcesto develop Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), a new industry standard to enable high-speed, low-latency interconnection for datacenter grade AI and HPC accelerators. UALink will allow for interconnecting up to 1,024 accelerators within one pod, which would be a major achievement. The UALink technology will essentially compete against Nvidia’s NVLink, so the green company is not participating in its development. The UALink initiative is designed to create an open standard for AI accelerators to communicate more efficiently....

X (formerly Twitter) userAndrei Davidjust installed and ran an AI model based on Andrej Karpathy’s llama2.c on a nearly 20-year-old Xbox 360 console. Despite its age, David used a bootloader to load the model onto the old console and run a ‘Sleep Joe said’ prompt. According to the post, EXO Lab’s successful attempt torun Llama on a Windows 98 PCinspired David to experiment. Although the AI LLM that the Xbox 360 used is based on the same one in EXO Lab’s Windows 98 Pentium II PC, David said that he had to optimize the code for the console’s PowerPC architecture and unique (at the time) memory management features....

HXL on X (Twitter) reports that MSI has officially released new UEFI firmware updates for its AM5 motherboards featuring “next-gen” CPU support. These updates reportedly support AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9000 CPUs, which will come with the Zen 5 CPU architecture. Asus was the first motherboard manufacturer to adoptAGESA 1.1.7.0, with MSI being the latest board maker to utilize the new firmware update. AGESA 1.1.7.0 reportedly supports AMDGranite RidgeCPUs and Fire Range, believed to be AMD’s next-generation Ryzen APUs based on Zen 5....

The safe motherboard temperature is anywhere from20°C to 80°C. However, this completely depends on yourcooling setup, themotherboard’s build quality,ambient temperature, andairflow/ventilation. Unlike CPUs and GPUs, there’sno one standard valuewhen measuring motherboard temperature. Thescattered sensorsacross the PCB are the ones that detect how hot it is (in different locations). In this guide, I will share my test results to help you get an idea of the safe temperature limits. Also, I will provide handy tips on how to check the motherboard temperature and ways to prevent/solve overheating issues....