China is said to have built its own EUV lithography prototype for the first time. This news is less relevant because of its immediate technical implications than because of its strategic dimension. According to a report by Reuters, a functional system exists that generates EUV light and is basically suitable for wafer exposure. Not yet a [...]
An extensive leak from an internal Apple prototype provides clues about the company’s long-term hardware and chip roadmap until at least 2027. The information is based on an early pre-release version of iOS 26, which was on a test device not intended for the public. The existence of this prototype and the authenticity of the extracted code [...]
The development of AI infrastructures is increasingly shifting from compute-intensive training to scalable inference workloads. This change is fundamentally altering the requirements for storage architectures. Traditional combinations of HBM, DRAM and conventional enterprise SSDs are reaching their technical and economic limits when it comes to [...]
A recent case of fraud in the online purchase of RAM makes it clear that even DDR5 products that are declared as new and appear to be originally sealed can be manipulated. In the case that came to light, a buyer ordered several DDR5 memory kits from a well-known manufacturer from the XPG series via the Spanish Amazon platform. The products were [...]
The latest AI-based attempt to visually reinterpret The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is attracting attention and causing controversy within the gaming community. It is based on a video created by a single content creator that uses artificial intelligence to transform original footage from the game into a photorealistic representation. The aim of this [...]
Sharkoon has significantly expanded its current portfolio and has now introduced several new products that address both the classic gaming sector and the increasingly relevant office and home office sector. The new additions show a clear strategic focus on versatile usage scenarios, where ergonomic aspects, flexible connectivity and individual [...]
The Bavarian state government is being criticized for the planned awarding of an extensive IT framework agreement to Microsoft without prior tendering. The subject of the dispute is a multi-year enterprise agreement for the use of cloud and software services in public administration, the volume of which is expected to reach almost one billion [...]
A boom with an announcement: Google’s hunger for AI is giving MediaTek a firework display of orders that is not only shaking up its own balance sheet, but also the CWoS capacities at TSMC. While the world stares at Nvidia and its H100 clones, another chip offensive is running at full speed in the background: Google is massively increasing [...]
The dramatic price increases for DRAM, both DDR5 and GDDR6/6X, will cast a long shadow over the gaming PC market in 2025. Edward “Ed” Crisler, PR Manager at Sapphire, gets to the heart of the matter in the Hardware Unboxed podcast: “The current price trends are eating through all levels of GPU manufacturing like a black hole [...]
The price development of the GeForce RTX 5070 series in Japan has changed significantly in just a few weeks and is increasingly attracting the attention of market observers and buyers. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti in particular has recently seen an unusually rapid increase in street prices. Within just one week, the lowest available offer price rose by [...]
Intel took the stage at the Barclays Global Technology Conference 2025 to dive deep into the company’s progress, challenges and strategic shifts. John Pitzer, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Planning and Investor Relations, provided a remarkably candid update on Intel’s manufacturing technologies, capacity planning and market [...]
The ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine not only has military and humanitarian consequences, but also raises legal questions about the responsibility of Western technology companies. Ukrainian civilians have filed lawsuits in the USA against several major semiconductor manufacturers because they believe that modern Western chips were [...]
AMS-IX is ending its business activities in the United States. According to the company, operations at the two US locations in Chicago and the Bay Area of California will cease on March 5, 2026. The Amsterdam-based operator is one of the world’s largest and oldest Internet Exchanges and had been active in the US since 2013. It entered the [...]
Internal documents from the South Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix indicate that the supply situation for DRAM will remain tight until at least 2028. This primarily affects classic memory products for end users, including DDR4 and DDR5 for desktop and notebook systems as well as GDDR6 and GDDR7 for graphics cards. The analysis suggests that [...]
I’m taking today’s launch of the Arctic MX-7 at 2 p.m. (article in full depth only here, of course) as an opportunity to give you a brief, deliberately neutral impression, without anticipating the actual test, as this is not intended as an advertising text, but as a clean technical classification. What I can spoil about the release [...]
With the new ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, ASUS is positioning itself clearly: this card is not a shiny status symbol for RGB fetishists or benchmark record hunters, but a sober tool for demanding gamers and creative users. The GPU is based on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell architecture and delivers what is required in today’s mid [...]
Everyone has to accept that AI is now present in many areas. Whether at work, at school or in everyday life, AI is playing an increasingly important role in the world. Of course, you can try to keep as much distance as possible and use AI only minimally. For owners of an LG TV, however, this could become more difficult. As Reddit user defjam16 [...]
Recent reports from the semiconductor industry have focused on the possible expiry of Apple’s long-term supply contracts for DRAM memory chips with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix at the end of 2025. These so-called long-term agreements generally serve to secure supply volumes and smooth out price fluctuations over several years. Based on [...]
Microsoft has released new dynamic updates for the Windows recovery environment WinRE in December 2025. The updates affect several currently supported versions of Windows 11 and are either distributed automatically via Windows Update or are available manually via the Microsoft Update Catalog. The aim of these updates is to ensure the functionality [...]
While Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC has traditionally been considered the undisputed top dog in the high-end semiconductor market, the balance of power in chip manufacturing is slowly beginning to shift. The latest report from Sedaily suggests that Samsung Foundry is in advanced talks with AMD to manufacture next-generation 2nm processors [...]
