Hacker News
- Trump nominee favors 'destroying TSMC' fabs if China invades Taiwan https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/trump-nominee-favors-destroying-tsmc-fabs-if-china-invades-taiwan-strategy-would-deprive-china-of-a-key-motivation-to-attack-but-devastate-world-economy 1 comment
Linking pages
- Chinese AI company says breakthroughs enabled creating a leading-edge AI model with 11X less compute — DeepSeek's optimizations could highlight limits of US sanctions | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-ai-company-says-breakthroughs-enabled-creating-a-leading-edge-ai-model-with-11x-less-compute-deepseeks-optimizations-highlight-limits-of-us-sanctions 65 comments
- South Korea greenlights the world's largest semiconductor hub — half the size of Beverly Hills to house six fabs, three power plans, and fab suppliers | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/south-korea-greenlights-the-worlds-largest-semiconductor-hub-half-the-size-of-beverly-hills-to-house-six-fabs-three-power-plans-and-fab-suppliers 20 comments
- Blackwell GPU reportedly takes 3X to 4X longer to test than Hopper — more complex designs lead to skyrocketing test requirements | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/blackwell-gpu-reportedly-takes-3x-to-4x-longer-to-test-than-hopper 8 comments
Linked pages
- ASML CEO says China is 10 to 15 years behind in chipmaking capabilities | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/asml-ceo-says-china-is-10-to-15-years-behind-in-chipmaking-capabilities 214 comments
- Taiwan Will Defend TSMC From US Bombing in the Event of a China War | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/news/taiwan-will-defend-tsmc-from-us-bombing-in-the-event-of-a-china-war 133 comments
- Vendors push Intel's promised performance-boosting firmware for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs — 0x114 beta BIOS updates coupled with the new CSME version 1854v2.2 | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/vendors-push-intels-promised-performance-boosting-firmware-for-intel-arrow-lake-cpus-0x114-beta-bios-updates-coupled-with-the-new-csme-version-1854v2-2 22 comments
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 allegedly sport 16GB and 12GB of GDDR7 memory, respectively — Up to 8960 CUDA cores, 256-bit memory bus, and 300W TDP | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-rtx-5070-ti-and-rtx-5070-allegedly-sport-16gb-and-12gb-of-gddr7-memory-respectively-up-to-8960-cuda-cores-256-bit-memory-bus-and-300w-tdp 20 comments
- Nvidia's next-gen B300 GPUs have 1,400W TDP, deliver 50% more AI horsepower: Report | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-next-gen-b300-gpus-have-1-400w-tdp-deliver-50-percent-more-ai-horsepower-report 10 comments
- Elon Musk's xAI raises $6 billion to build even more powerful AI supercomputers — Nvidia, AMD contribute to funding round | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-raises-usd6-billion-to-build-even-more-powerful-ai-supercomputers-nvidia-amd-contribute-to-funding-round 0 comments