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The quintessential question when family or friends come to visit is probably, “What’s the Wi-Fi password?” And, if you’re as forgetful as me, or if you fancy long and unnecessarily complicated passwords, the answer to that question is probably an ensuing headache. However, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. you may pretty easily share Wi-Fi passwords using Bluetooth for Apple devices, and QR codes for Android devices. For Windows computers, it is as simple as pulling out the Control Panel to reveal your Wi-Fi password....

A recent teardown byTechInsightsrevealed that Huawei’sHiSilicon Kirin 9006Cprocessor used in the Qingyun L540 laptop was made using a 5nm-class process technology. However, it was made by TSMC in Taiwan and not byblacklisted SMICin mainland China, reportsBloomberg. This finding challenges the assumption that SMIC had developed its own 5nm-class production node for high-volume manufacturing (HVM). Huawei’sHiSilicon Kirin 9006Csystem-on-chip in the Qingyun L540 laptop was made by TSMC using its 5nm-class process technology and assembled around the third quarter of 2020....

GlobalFoundries andIBMhaveresolvedall their legal disputes, including the ongoing lawsuits over contract violations, trade secrets, and intellectual property issues. The two companies signed a confidential settlement agreement, opening the door for future collaboration. IBM and GlobalFoundries filed multiple lawsuits against each other. The lawsuits span from breach of contract obligations by GlobalFoundries to intellectual property usage by IBM. The conflict traces back to 2015 when IBM sold its semiconductor manufacturing business to GlobalFoundries....

Igor’s Lab has discovered a worrying trend among allNvidia Blackwell RTX 50-series graphics cards, including even faux-budget GPUs like theRTX 5060 Ti. According to a lengthyblog postthe outlet published, most if not all RTX 50-series AIB partner cards are allegedly prone to high-temperature hotspots in the power delivery area, which could potentially damage these graphics cards after extended heavy use.The problem lies in the construction of power delivery systems for the affected graphics cards....

Frontier, the world’s highest-performing supercomputer, consumes 8 M.W. and 30 M.W. of electricity, depending on the workload. However, the upcoming AI data center is estimated to consume much more. India-based Reliance is set to build a 1 GWh (one-gigawatt hour) data center for AI that will run Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs,Reutersreports. “In the future, India is going to be the country that will export AI,” said Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, according toReuters....

It seems that the software divisions at AMD and Intel are setting the stage for their next-generation GPU offerings. The internal codenames for these GPUs, Intel’s Xe4 and AMD’s GFX13, have been spotted byKeplerandx86isdeadandbackat X, as noted byVideoCardz. While this does not allude to the specifications, it shows that both teams are actively pouring resources into the development of their future graphics products. Intel officially confirmed its fourth-generation Arc GPUs would be codenamed Druid, employing the Xe4 architecture, a while back....

Asus hasreleasednew UEFI BIOS versions for its Intel 600 and 700-series motherboards that add support for 64GB DDR5 unbuffered memory modules. The new UEFI BIOS also enables systems with 256 GB of memory to be built using Intel’s Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors. To build an Intel 600/700-powered system with 256 GB of DDR5 memory using four unbuffered DIMMs, one will need to download and install the latest UEFI BIOS version for their specific Intel 600/700-series motherboard from the Asus website....

Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of embattled tech company Intel, praised the xAI team after visiting Elon Musk’s Memphis Supercluster. He posted onX(formerly Twitter) that xAI uses Intel Xeon processors for its AI head node — the dedicated server that manages the entire 100,000-GPU-strong cluster — and that it’s “incredible what’s been built in such a short amount of time!” After losing over $1.6 billion in its data center and foundry businesses, Intel is struggling....

According toBloomberg, Intel has secured up to $3.5 billion in federal grants to produce chips for the Pentagon under theSecure Enclaveprogram, which is meant to bring production of leading-edge processors for military applications to the U.S. This sum will add to the $8.5 billion in grants and $11 billion in loans that Intel was awarded under the CHIPS & Science Act earlier this year. Keep in mind that the information is not official....

On Thursday Intelposteda rather mixed financial report. On the one hand, the company’s sales increased 10% year-over-year in the fourth quarter. On the other hand, its revenue for the whole year 2023 dropped 14% from 2022. Because of higher demand for PCs, shipments of Intel’s client products increased by 33% YoY in Q4 FY2023, but at the same time sales of datacenter products declined 10% year-over-year. Mixed Quarter Results Intel’s Q4 FY2023 revenue increased to $15....

Preliminary specifications of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards have been published by@kopite7kimi, a reputable hardware leaker who tends to have access to accurate information about Nvidia’s upcoming products. If the specifications are correct, then Nvidia’s forthcoming GeForce RTX 5090 will be a monster with a 600W total graphics power rating (TGP). Many of these specs line up with previous leaks, just with a bit more detail in some areas....

If you’ve been waiting to pick up a curved gaming monitor, you might want to check out thisAmazonoffer on theLG 27GS60QC-B Ultragearcurved gaming display. The monitor usually costs around $249, but right now, it’s marked down to just $156. This is the lowest price for the monitor since it debuted. You get some good specs worth getting excited about for a gaming monitor in this price range. It’s curved, has a dense QHD resolution, and can reach a refresh rate of 180Hz....

A new app called TrackWeight has been unveiled by Canadian maker and blogger Krish Shah. Put simply, the macOS application commandeers your Apple MacBook’s Force Touch trackpad pressure sensors for weighing scale duties. The app code is nowavailable on GitHub, released under the very flexible open-source MIT License. You can turn your Mac trackpad into a weighing scale pic.twitter.com/KxbHrVfag3July 21, 2025 This might sound like one of those ideas where you wonder why it hasn’t been done before....