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US closes loophole that allowed Chinese-owned subsidiaries located outside China to buy AI chips — report claims that hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips have been acquired through BIS blind spot
The BIS just issued a clarification that Chinese-owned subsidiaries are included in U.S. export controls, even if they're based outside of China. However, one source said that some companies have been using this loophole to acquire AI chips that estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands.
Negative time experiment clears peer review as photons appear to leave an atom cloud before entering — groundbreaking quantum 'negative time' proven after 1 million test runs
A University of Toronto experiment showing that photons can spend a negative amount of time inside a cloud of atoms has been published in Physical Review Letters.
Acer’s PM131QT portable monitor is a 12.3-inch touchscreen with magnetic mounting, a built-in kickstand, and 5-point touch – 1920 x 720 IPS screen has pogo pins for a keyboard, and is designed for secondary and “in-vehicle” use
Are you looking for a compact monitor for multiple uses around the home and on the go? Acer’s new PM131QT might be just what you’re looking for.
Resourceful runner 'can race my own ghost' using homemade Meta Ray-Ban Display app — also adds bonus coins, mini leaderboard, and more
Video demonstrates brand-new gamified running app for the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.
Computex 2026 Live: Every update and announcement from day one in Taipei
Every update live from Taipei as Computex continues in Taiwan.
Intel warns it has 'a healthy dose of paranoia' over Nvidia entrance into PC market — company says RTX Spark is 'great for the market' while touting the virtues of x86
Intel reacts to Nvidia’s RTX Spark announcement, and says that it’s treating the green giant’s entrance into consumer SoCs with “a healthy dose of skepticism."
AMD promises 13% uplift with new EXPO ‘Ultra Low Latency’ overclocking on DDR5 DIMMs — automatic memory overclocking delivers 4% improvement over standard EXPO, says AMD
AMD’s upcoming EXPO ‘Ultra Low Latency’ automatic memory overclocking promises a 13% improvement over standard DDR5 speeds, as well as a 4% jump compared to standard EXPO.
We went hands-on with Qualcomm's new '$300 and up' ARM laptop platform with mystery eight-core CPU — active-cooled Snapdragon C laptop surfaces in Acer Aspire Go 15
We've learned a few new details of the Snapdragon C platform at Computex 2026 by opening up a few Windows utilities on a demo unit.
DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction update arrives in August for better ray tracing visuals — broader training data set and second-gen transformer architecture combine for improved image quality
At Computex 2026, Nvidia announced DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, an updated version of its neural RT denoiser with a second-gen transformer architecture and a broader training data set for better output image quality.
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra weilds Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip with 128GB of RAM, 20 Arm CPU cores, and a Blackwell GPU — 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra display rounds out the powerful package
Powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip, the Surface Laptop Ultra features 20 Arm CPU cores, 6,144 CUDA cores, and up to 128GB of unified memory
Nvidia lays out RTX Spark roadmap for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 — three generations outlined, Rubin with LPDDR6 memory, followed by Rosa Feynman
Along with its first-generation RTX Spark platform for desktop and laptop PCs, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the company's commitment to future generations of those platforms on its future roadmaps.
Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 – new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory
At Computex 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the RTX Spark Superchip, a new Arm laptop and desktop platform that powers agentic AI on Windows with a 20-core Arm CPU, powerful 6144-CUDA-core Blackwell GPU, and up to 128 GB of local memory.
Intel details long-awaited Crescent Island AI GPU at Computex, boasts up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X to combat memory shortages — company shares more details of its Xe3P inference accelerator at Computex
Intel revealed more details of its next-gen Data Center GPU, code-named Crescent Island, at Computex 2026. This inference-optimized chip will feature up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory for efficient handling of massive AI contexts.
Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth
Intel has officially confirmed its next-gen Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs are coming in 2027, featuring 50% higher core counts and twice the memory bandwidth of Xeon 6 in a bid to compete against AMD’s upcoming EPYC Venice CPUs.
Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache — new Xeon 6990E+ is 30% faster per thread than 192-core AMD Epyc 9965, says Intel
Intel is putting its 18A node into the data center with new Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, which pack up to 288 E-cores for dense compute.
AMD’s formerly China-exclusive Radeon RX 9070 GRE goes global for $549 on June 2 — RDNA 4 GPU will bridge the gap between RX 9060 XT and RX 9070
AMD has officially launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE for $549, an RDNA 4 graphics card that was previously exclusive to the Chinese market.
Watch Nvidia's Computex 2026 keynote here — Jensen Huang takes the stage for Computex and GTC Taipei at 8pm PT / 11pm ET on May 31
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage at Computex 2026 and GTC Taipei. Here's how to watch the keynote address, where we could hear more about the rumored N1X.
AMD brings back Ryzen 7 5800X3D, launches Ryzen 7 7700X3D to combat rising component prices — eight-core X3D CPUs arrive under $350 for AM4 or AM5, DDR4 or DDR5
AMD is rereleasing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and introducing the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, both eight-core chips with 3DV-Cache targeting midrange gamers who’ve been under the thumb of rising component prices.
AMD confirms AM5 support through 2029 — Zen 4 and 5 platform will likely see two more generations, at least
AMD confirmed it will support its current AM5 socket through 2029, extending the timeline by two years and likely lining up at least two more generations on the socket.