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Rapidus on Friday announced that it had begun prototyping of test wafers with 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) transistor structures at its IIM-1 facility in Japan. The company confirmed that early test wafers are already attaining the expected electrical characteristics, which means that the company’s fab tools operate as planned and its process technology development is proceeding well. Test wafers flying over fab Prototyping is an important milestone in semiconductor production that is meant to verify that early test circuits made using a new technology behave reliably, efficiently, and meet performance targets....

Unlike wired keyboards, where connection issues are very rare,wireless keyboards frequently run into problems. Users often report ‘keyboard not connecting’ issues whether it’s the Bluetooth or RF one. you may typically fix the problem byreinserting/replacing the batteries. If that doesn’t seem to work, you mustset up your keyboard from scratch. you may also trypower cyclingyour PC and performing asystem restore. Let’s go through this detailed guide to troubleshoot when your keyboard is not connecting....

Windows 11now includes a quick and handy right-click ‘end task’ feature which is accessed via any app’s taskbar button. However, this quick-kill feature isn’t enabled by default. Thankfully, toggling this feature on (or off) takes just a few clicks through the Windows Settings app. A box-freshinstall of Windows 11will make users go through several steps before allowing them to kill a reprobate app. When faced with a crashed or unresponsive task, vanilla Windows 11 users will generally fire up the task manager by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL, then choosing Task Manager, or right-clicking an empty portion of the taskbar and selecting Task Manager....

A bug that sometimes caused boot times on AMD Zen 1 and Zen 2 systems to swell to several minutes was patched today for the Linux 6.13 kernel (viaPhoronix). While Linux can take a while to boot on old hardware (nearly five days for the ancient Intel 4004), it’s not an operating system known to be particularly slow. Even an optimization made in August thatshaved off just 0.035 seconds from the boot timewas considered to be noteworthy, as Linux is already a highly optimized OS....

Why you’re able to 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. Benchmarks and Final Analysis Benchmark Results and Final Analysis Our standard benchmarks and power tests are performed using the CPU’s stock frequencies (including any default boost/turbo) with all power-saving features enabled. We set optimized defaults in the BIOS and the memory by enabling the XMP profile....

Following theannouncementin late February,Microsoftis finally closing the chapter on Skype. Existing users have been asked to switch to Microsoft Teams, and a data migration window will remain open until January 2026. Microsoft says this decision aligns with its strategy to streamline its communication services and focus primarily on Microsoft Teams. Genesis The first public beta for Skype went live in August 2003 and enabled users to call from one PC to another, which was revolutionary at the time....

In the Nintendo Museum Direct,Super Mario Bros.andLegend of Zeldaseries creator Shigeru Miyamoto says, “In the more than 100 years since the company was founded, Nintendo has created many different forms of entertainment”—referring to the history of the company that’s been operating in Japan since September 1889, not branching into video games until the fateful release of the Color TV game in 1977. Nintendo’s first handheld series of per-game Game & Watch devices started just three years later....

The new RTX 40 Super series graphics cards have beenofficially announcedand the the RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super and the RTX 4080 Super will soon be available for purchase. That means Nvidia will be putting some iterations of the RTX 40 non-super graphics cards on the chopping block.The RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 will be discontinued, according toHardwareluxx editor Andreas Schilling, to make room for the new cards from either a performance or pricing angle....

Nvidia has informed Chinese clients that the stock of its H20 HGX GPUs for AI is limited and production will not resume, despite a recent policy shift by the Trump administration allowing exports of these processors to China, reportsThe Information. The company plans to fulfill only existing orders using current inventory, but will not produce any more H20 products. Apparently, Nvidia is preparing a B30 GPU that will rely on the company’s latest Blackwell architecture, reports theCommercial Times....

Nvidia announced here atGTC 2024that TSMC and Synopsys have now employed its cuLitho software in production to speed up computational lithography, a key workload that helps chipmakers sidestep limitations as they move to 2nm and smaller transistors produced with the latest cutting-edge chipmaking tools, like High-NA EUV. The computational horsepower required to produce today’s chips is increasing with each new node, and Nvidia touted an example of a cuLitho-powered system with 350 H100 GPUs delivering a 60X performance speedup to a workload that typically requires 40,000 CPU systems crunching away for up to 30 million or more hours of compute time....

Driven by unprecedented demand for AI GPUs, Nvidia on Wednesdaypostedits all-time-record quarterly revenue of $30.040 billion. Yet its gross margins dropped a bit as the company prepped for its Blackwell product rollout in the fourth quarter. Surprisingly, even Nvidia’s gaming revenue was up in the second quarter, which is not typical at all. Nvidia’s revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal 2025 reached $30.040 billion, up 122% year-over-year and 15% quarter-over-quarter....

Last week, YouTuber Ryan Spencer uncovered an interesting way to enableLossless ScalingFrame Generation without gaming performance overhead on his laptop and desktop: use a secondary GPU to run Lossless Scaling. As long as the secondary GPU is powerful enough, with integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics used for laptop testing and aGTX 1050 Tiused for desktop testing, you too should be able to use Lossless Scaling’s universal Frame Gen without incurring a performance overhead on your primary GPU....

An enterprising individual has shared a quick step-by-step guideshowinghow to convert an old Hard Disk Drive (HDD) into a small but useful variable speed disc sander. The project also requires just a modicum of time, a few simple tools, and a handful of extra components. If you have been a computing enthusiast for more than a few years, you might have a few unwanted ordead HDDsin your possession. You might also reckon that a disc sander is a useful tool to have, but do not feel that shelling out over $100 on a dedicated device,like this one on Amazon, is worth it....