TSMC Sees Chip Industry Revenue Hitting $1.7T This Year on AI
TSMC's latest industry outlook nearly doubles its 2024 forecast, with AI alone expected to account for over $1 trillion in semiconductor revenue.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Heathrow Departure Screens Show Windows Activation Alerts and Old OS
Passenger information displays at Heathrow have been spotted showing Windows activation watermarks, stale dates, and what looks like Windows 7 underneath.
Microsoft turns Power BI's millions into Fabric app developers
Microsoft is giving Power BI's 425,000 customers access to Fabric's app-building and database tools, vastly expanding the audience for its data analytics platform.
ASRock X870E Challenger Wifi Review: Value AM5 Board With Flagship Features
Tom's Hardware finds the $230 X870E Challenger Wifi White packs flagship-class audio, robust VRMs, and USB4 into one of the best-equipped AM5 motherboards at its price.
Modders Bring Nvidia DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to AMD Radeon GPUs
An unofficial reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering is running on AMD Radeon GPUs, with rapid performance gains but still far from practical.
UK Games Expo bans AI-made games and art from show floor
The UK's largest tabletop gaming convention now prohibits products created mostly with AI, with penalties including booth shutdowns and future bans.
Why Verification Needs a Thread, Not More Fragments
Complex systems require verification teams to connect intent, execution, and outcome across the lifecycle rather than pile up disconnected data.
KIST Delegation Forges Quantum Ties at World Congress
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology secured strategic partnerships with D-Wave, Microsoft, and AIST, supporting its planned U.S. market entry.
Microsoft admits it can't recover deleted nonprofit M365 data
A botched Microsoft 365 grant retirement permanently destroyed some nonprofits' data before retention windows closed, and Microsoft cannot say what was lost.
Pennsylvania bill would force game publishers to keep titles playable
A proposed state law would require game companies to offer offline play, a server patch, or a minimum refund before shutting down online-only games.
G.Skill Replaces $150 RAM Kit Now Worth $1,200, Fan for Life
A PC builder's warranty claim shows G.Skill honoring a replacement for a memory kit that has jumped eightfold in price, bucking a trend of companies refunding only original purchase costs.
Jev: A cheap, fast system-one model takes on LLMs for enterprise AI
TypeSafe AI's Jev offers a deterministic, low-cost alternative to generative LLMs for decision-making tasks, gaining rapid enterprise traction.
HMRC paid Capgemini £4.2B after vowing to cut outsourcing
Despite a public pledge to back British business, HMRC has paid the French supplier billions since starting to dismantle its flagship Aspire contract.
Open source thinking could rescue datacenter industry's reputation
A Register columnist argues that the datacenter industry's lack of transparency and reliance on unproven solutions is fueling backlash, and open source approaches may offer a way forward.
HMRC picks Salesforce for £2.4B taxpayer CRM overhaul
The UK tax authority has committed up to £2.4B to replace its customer-facing systems with Salesforce, part of a broader push to modernise taxpayer services.
Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands amid lawsuit
The hypervisor-based Denuvo bypass group has reportedly folded, but cracking efforts continue with a new proof-of-concept that strips Denuvo from Assassin's Creed Mirage.
OpenMoonRay Rendering Gets a Boost from Lenovo and Intel Xeon 6
A new collaboration targets cinematic rendering workloads by bringing HPC-class processing to physically based ray tracing.
IC-STAR Framework Aims for Full-Flow Silicon Design Autonomy
A new approach lets engineers oversee AI-driven execution across the entire chip development lifecycle, from digital to analog.