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Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the site
Every partner lease guarantee Nvidia has disclosed adds up to $3.5 billion.
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AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory
Local model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations.
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Data Centers
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Chinese memory maker CXMT posts blistering 466% leap in Shanghai IPO — bulk of spending to be focused on DRAM production, no HBM in sight
Nearly 70% of the named spending goes to wafer lines and DRAM processes.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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California's largest AI data center project suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water, 0.03% of Imperial Valley’s supply — plaintiffs claim project equivalent to 160-acre farm amidst concern about jobs and reallocation of farmland
Sues the Imperial Irrigation District to get it.
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Tech Industry
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70,000 — DIY medical equipment costs less than 7% of a full-sized MRI machine’s $1.1 million starting price
Can 'DLSS for MRI machines' save more lives?
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DRAM
DRAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Physicists turn particles in chaotic orbits into liquid computers — but this fluid hardware still trails memristor rivals
A fluid array of micro‑oscillators can tackle forecasting and stealth anomaly detection with surprising finesse.
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CPUs
CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Chinese CXMT DRAM doesn't look like the budget savior many were expecting — new modules enter the market, but prices still track the big three
There is demand, there is supply. The latter remains limited.
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GPUs
GPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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PC Gaming
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AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second
Now they have a total 32GB VRAM system on a budget, for local LLM inference.
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Minecraft system requirements raised for the first time in 17 years — Microsoft now recommends 16GB of RAM and a 2020s or newer CPU to run the Java Edition
The game is about to hit legal age, so it needs big-boy PC specs, too.
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Zeiss expands German site that caps ASML's EUV scanner output — first new building opens four years after Oberkochen site groundbreaking
ASML's 2025 annual report stated that its lithography tool output is limited by Carl Zeiss SMT's capacity.
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3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the ‘world’s first microprocessor' — CADC’s MP944 chip controls the fighter’s swing-wing system, among other things
Open source resources include code, documentation, and testbenches for all six original CADC chips.
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Tech Industry
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