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AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as "Generative AI Is Awesome" and is now going on a tag line of "AMD's open-source agent factory"…

NVIDIA shipped its faster DLSS 5 Neural Rendering model with NBA 2K27 on October 16, and it didn't take modders long to pull it out and test it elsewhere. Renan Maniero on X extracted the new…

A Reddit user in the r/watercooling subreddit bought an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition from Amazon and noticed that something was off. This was his second 9950X3D2 chip, and both chips were sold…

In addition to introducing the new Intel BFF driver, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" kernel subsystem is sunsetting a number of old hardware drivers due to increased noise to…

A new AMD Gainsborough APU, which has been identified as a potential candidate for the Valve Steam Deck 2 , has apparently been leaked on OpenBenchmarking . The new engineering sample shows a total…

DLSS Swapper finally supports bulk DLL swapping, with version 1.2.7.0 landing on GitHub on October 18. Brad Moore's open-source tool lets PC gamers upgrade or downgrade the DLSS, FSR, and XeSS files…

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

For several years now, one of the key defining features separating NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs from AMD's Radeon graphics cards is the software feature set that NVIDIA has developed, particularly…

It seems as though AMD is readying a new mobile APU that bears a striking resemblance to the existing Ryzen Z2 Extreme . The AMD Ryzen AI 7 HX 455 was recently leaked by Golden Pig Upgrade on Weibo ,…

Intel is preparing to add support for XeSS, accelerated by XMX cores in its graphics cards, to Valve's Proton compatibility layer. This is great news because the Valve Proton layer currently uses a…

GALAX has officially teased its GeForce RTX 5090 Hall of Fame Edition GPU, featuring unique details with Swarovski crystals. What the company originally showcased at Computex 2026 now appears to be a…

An Intel engineer opened the pull requests today for adding Intel XeSS support to Valve's Proton for Steam Play along with associated changes to VKD3D-Proton and DXVK...

Samsung is reportedly collaborating with the world's largest chip maker, TSMC, to secure a base die supply for NVIDIA's newly announced NVHBM memory standard . NVHBM integrates the controller into…

Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.

The verdict is the latest chapter in a four-year IP dispute between the two chip giants, safeguarding Qualcomm's custom processors while placing financial pressure on Arm. The post Qualcomm Wins Key…

The Motorola 68000 "m68k" CPU support continues being maintained in the mainline Linux kernel and continuing to see new hardware support for these vintage systems from the likes of Commodore Amiga,…

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

The reports of the GeForce RTX 5090's death have been greatly exaggerated, to borrow and butcher Mark Twain's infamous quote. Following rumors that the GeForce RTX 5090 may be put out to pasture in…

Stemming from a bug report one month ago with GNOME 51 over high GPU usage while the monitor is sleeping, a set of 17 patches were merged today for addressing this issue...

Following the interesting SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V SoC, SpacemiT today announced the V100 server-class RISC-V processor...

Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the modeled rack performance of AMD’s EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a new evaluation methodology developed with Fujitsu, Meta, and OpenAI

Going back to July 2025 the open-source Radeon RADV Vulkan driver has offered experimental host image copy support with the API's VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. This has been for RDNA1 and newer…

Opimizing embedded memory IP for RibbonFET and PowerVia. The post Breaking The Memory Bottleneck In AI And HPC SoCs appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

Integrating sensors, compute, and actuators into autonomous systems adds new challenges for chip design. The post Why Physical AI Is So Hard To Engineer appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

Calibre-aware, short-resilient via insertion for signoff-ready physical design. The post Shift-Left DE-Via appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

Researchers at the UC Berkeley, Samsung Electronics, and Intel published “Nanoelectromechanically Gated Gain Cell eDRAM.” Abstract Excerpt: “The memory wall and the slowdown of static random access…

The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version...

Radeon GPUs get the full DLSS experience as solo project ports all the DLSS features for RDNA2-4 GPUs.

Brazilian electronics and IT distributor Oderço claims that two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 GPUs have arrived at the airport but has since completely disappeared.

A new 3D web game where you live 'A Day in the Life of a Semiconductor Wafer Factory Worker' has gone viral in Taiwan, where it was developed.

Nvidia's latest DLSS Neural Renderer, extracted from NBA 2K27 (again), is being tested on unsupported games and shows up to a 90% performance gain over the previous NR model.

If you read that headline and you thought "wait, I thought DLSS 5 hurt your FPS", you're right. The idea here is that NBA 2K27 has been updated with the new DLSS 5 Neural Rendering that NVIDIA…

This week NVIDIA launched their high-end RTX Spark N1X platform. Bringing their powerful GB10 SoC to Windows for the first time, the company is seeking to remake the Windows laptop market with their…

Redditor showcases a new quad 8-pin power-conversion kit for the 16-pin power connector on Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards.

Nvidia states that RTX 5090 isn't discontinued, only that supply is constrained — and yet the card is effectively gone from storefronts

The trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is ready to adapt and expand its fab infrastructure for the AI wave. The post SEMICON West 2026 Displays AI-Era Chipmaking, Workforce Development appeared…

The next installment of Call of Duty is on the horizon and to celebrate this year’s edition, Modern Warfare 4, MSI is collaborating with Activision to create a special, limited edition GPU. It…

We review the Microsoft Surface Ultra to see how the NVIDIA RTX Spark powered laptop fares and try to answer who the platform is for The post Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra 128GB Review appeared…

NVIDIA continues to tune its GeForce NOW cloud game streaming service with a steady rollout of upgrades and capabilities, the latest of which sees the service gain DLSS 4.5 knobs and dials for more…

AMD’s David Wang told EE Times that while Taiwan has huge opportunities in rack-scale AI, physical AI, and AI PC markets, the sticking point may well be talent. The post Taiwan’s AI Ambitions Run…

During a panel session at iTechCon 2026, discussions explored how Taiwan can build on its strengths in semiconductors, advanced packaging, and system design to support AI development. The post AI…

Fab expansion accelerates; China advances memory and EUV; Teradyne's test deal; SEMICON West and OCP highlights; 3D SiP; TSMC and ASML signals; 300mm fab spending; optical and 3D-compute startups…

At OCP 2026, we saw an AMD Helios AI rack switch tray, the HPE Juniper QFX5252. This just looks super cool The post This is the AMD Helios HPE Juniper QFX5252 Switch Tray at OCP 2026 appeared first…

Japan’s $21B offer to GlobalFoundries would add two New York fabs and lift U.S. chip capacity 10%; see why analysts warn on state support. The post Japan Offers GlobalFoundries $21B for U.S. Fab…

Multiple interacting factors span silicon design, controller intelligence, channel quality, and the transmission medium itself. The post Beyond The Specification: What Really Determines PCIe Retimer…

Short-resilient via insertion improves reliability and performance. The post Strengthening Advanced-Node Interconnects Through Automated Via Insertion appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

Cisco and NVIDIA team up announcing a new USFP form factor for 400G SerDes lanes. Cisco also has a few new Silicon One offerings The post New USFP Pluggable Optics Form Factor for Higher Speeds from…

On 12 October, Applied Materials unveiled a multibillion-dollar research facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley . The company first announced in 2023 plans to invest US $4…

The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized a CHIPS and Science Act R&D award of up to $1 billion for Anderon, a quantum foundry IBM established earlier this year. The 16 September announcement…

Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle. Key Takeaways Explore four…

On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory…

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Supply chains in many industries are full of tangles, but for semiconductor tech, that’s putting it lightly. Many chip components are location-constrained and can easily be throttled by geopolitical…

Interconnects , the wires that string transistors together into circuits on microchips, have long been built from copper due to its high conductivity. However, as electronics continue to shrink,…

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