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Intel's 18A production starts before TSMC’s competing N2 tech — here's how the two process nodes compare

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 14:34 EDT

Intel has begun mass production of its Core Ultra 3 'Panther Lake' processors built on 18A node at Fab 52 in Arizona, marking the first large-scale deployment of this advanced process ahead of TSMC’s N2. Read more ›

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U.S. Senate passes bill that forces AI chipmakers to prioritize sales to American companies — House now set to amend or pass legislation

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 13:05 EDT

The Senate just passed the bill forcing Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US orders over exports. Read more ›

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SoftBank is seeking $5 billion loan to invest in OpenAI, plans to use Arm shares as collateral — rapid AI expansion continues, investment could top $30 billion

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 12:51 EDT

SoftBank is securing a $5 billion loan backed by Arm shares to expand its OpenAI and AI infrastructure investments, raising total Arm-collateralized debt to $18.5 billion and further highlighting its leveraged AI expansion strategy. Read more ›

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Microsoft cancels Wisconsin data center after community pushback — 244-acre Caledonia site on hold, but Redmond says it remains committed to the region

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 11:43 EDT

Microsoft is canceling its plans to build a data center near the Oak Creek Power Plant after the community rallied against its plans. Read more ›

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Back to its all-time low price, Alienware's AW3225QF4K QD-OLED gaming monitor is reduced by $350 in Dell's post-Prime Day deal

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 11:26 EDT

Save $350 off the price of Alienware's gorgeous 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor. Read more ›

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China’s new rare-earth curbs target chipmaking industry in retaliation to US restrictions — rare earth curbs reach back to older 14nm process tech and 256-layer memory

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 11:23 EDT

China has quietly extended its rare-earth export controls into the heart of the semiconductor supply chain. Read more ›

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China bans research company that helped unearth Huawei's use of TSMC tech despite U.S. bans — TechInsights added to Unreliable Entity List by state authorities

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 09:55 EDT

Beijing has banned TechInsights from doing business with Chinese companies because it has "defied China's strong objections to engage in activities such as so-called military-technical cooperation with Taiwan, made malicious remarks concerning China, and assisted foreign governments in suppressing Chinese companies." Read more ›

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Microsoft deploys world's first 'supercomputer-scale' GB300 NVL72 Azure cluster — 4,608 GB300 GPUs linked together to form a single, unified accelerator capable of 1.44 PFLOPS of inference

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 09:34 EDT

Microsoft has just added a GB300 NVL72 supercluster to Azure, deploying a total of 4,608 GB300 GPUs across 64 racks. Each rack consists of 72x GPUs interconnected via NVLink, allowing for 1.44 PFLOPS of FP4 Tensor Core performance. Each rack is then intra-connected via Quantum-X800 InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s per GPU. Read more ›

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China issues port crackdown on all Nvidia AI chip imports, says report — enforcement teams deployed to quash smuggling and investigate data center hardware, targeting H20 and RTX 6000D shipments

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 07:56 EDT

Chinese customs authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on unlicensed Nvidia chip shipments, with enforcement teams deploying at major ports to inspect hardware shipments. Read more ›

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Singapore company alleged to have helped China get $2 billion worth of Nvidia AI processors, report claims — Nvidia denies that the accused has any China ties, but a U.S. investigation is underway

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 05:37 EDT

An investigation has uncovered that a Singapore-based firm with Chinese ties bought $2 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPUs through Inspur's U.S. subsidiary to funnel them to Malaysia and Indonesia, where they were allegedly used by clients from China or resold to customers in the PRC. Read more ›

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Spacious 24TB hard drive is a mere 1 cent per GB — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB HDD is back on sale for $249

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 18:36 EDT

This Seagate BarraCuda 24TB HDD is available at Newegg for $249—one of its best prices to date and an excellent deal for anyone in need of storage. Read more ›

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Sony and AMD tease likely PlayStation 6 GPU upgrades —Radiance Cores and a new interconnect for boosting AI rendering performance

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 14:33 EDT

Sony and AMD teased several new technologies that will be making their way into Sony's next-generation console, dubbed Project Amethyst. Upgrades include new cores for rendering path tracing in real time and a new interconnect that will boost AI-rendering performance. Read more ›

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The best 1TB microSD Express card for your Switch 2 is still 28% off — save $62 on the Lexar Play Pro 1TB

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 12:43 EDT

Amazon Prime Day is over, but you can still get this awesome Lexar Play Pro 1TB microSD Express card for your Switch 2 for a whopping 28% off. Read more ›

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Grab vital 3D printer maintenance tools in these prime Day deals you can still get — up to 37% off HOTO, Creality, Wera

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 12:08 EDT

3D printers need maintenance and with these great tools you’ll be producing great prints all day long. Read more ›

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3D Printer Sales Bonanza is still ongoing after Prime Day — these are the best deals we found at all five sales

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 12:01 EDT

There are some great 3D printer deals happening right now, and we've found the best and put them all into one page for you. Read more ›

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Concerns grow after spate of social media posts showing SpaceX Starlink satellites burning in the sky — we are currently seeing a ‘couple of satellite re-entries a day,’ says respected astrophysicist

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 11:22 EDT

An astrophysicist interview underlines the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth. Read more ›

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South Korean government learns the importance of backups the hard way after catastrophic fire — 858 terabytes of data goes up in magic smoke

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 11:07 EDT

858 TB of South Korean government data goes up in smoke, with no backups Read more ›

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AMD could beat Nvidia to launching AI GPUs on the cutting-edge 2nm node — Instinct MI450 is officially the first AMD GPU to launch with TSMC's finest tech

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 10:49 EDT

AMD is set to use TSMC's leading-edge N2 fabrication process for its next-generation CDNA 5-based Instinct MI450 accelerators, but Nvidia's Rubin may have an edge over these GPUs when it comes to brute force compute performance. Read more ›

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Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture breaks cover — Panther Lake's 12 Xe Core iGPU promises 50+% better performance than Lunar Lake

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 10:11 EDT

Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture arrives on Panther Lake CPUs, and Intel has used it to build its largest, highest-performance integrated GPU yet. Read more ›

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Intel takes the wraps off Panther Lake — first 18A client processor brings the best of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake together in one package

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 09:00 EDT

Today, Intel is giving the world its first look at Panther Lake, its first family of laptop SoCs to incorporate cutting-edge 18A silicon. With Cougar Cove P-cores, Darkmont E-cores, and up to 12 Xe3 graphics cores, Panther Lake is poised to bring the efficiency of Lunar Lake and the scalability of Arrow Lake-H together in one family of chips. Read more ›

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