TSMC's insane backlog is finally sending big clients to Samsung. With the Taiwanese chipmaker's advanced production lines completely swamped, companies like Meta, Qualcomm, and AMD are reportedly exploring Samsung Foundry as a viable alternative for future chips. This shift is driven less by pure preference and more by necessity, as fabless firms desperate to get products to market can't afford to wait in TSMC's long queue, especially with rising prices on leading-edge nodes like two-nanometer.
The Korean foundry is positioned to capitalize on this spillover from its rival's constrained capacity. Meta is allegedly looking at Samsung for its custom AI accelerator chips, potentially using the SF2 process. Qualcomm and AMD are also named...
That Trump-branded phone is just a marked-up Chinese handset facing more delays. Trump Mobile, a virtual network operator, has again postponed the launch of its T1 smartphone, missing its latest late 2025 deadline after initially planning an August release and still collecting hundred-dollar pre-order deposits. The five-hundred-dollar device, rebranded as "brought to life in the United States" after backlash over false "made-in-America" claims, is essentially a repackaged T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G, a Chinese-made phone that originally sold for roughly half the price.
The company offers a monthly service plan for about forty seven dollars, bundling unlimited talk and data with perks like roadside assistance and telehealth. Industry...
A ridiculously overclocked RTX 5090 got saved by a smart cable. A user on an overclocking forum reported that his heavily modified MSI RTX 5090 Ventus, pushed to draw over 1300 watts with a shunt mod and liquid cooling, was shut down by an ASRock 12V-2x6 connector cable before the GPU connector could melt. The forty-dollar cable features a temperature sensor that cuts power from compatible ASRock Taichi and Phantom Gaming power supplies when its detected temperature exceeds 105 degrees Celsius, leaving the system unable to restart until the cable cools.
The individual performed around twenty intensive benchmarks before the safety feature triggered, with visible discoloration on the GPU's power connector indicating severe heat exposure...
TSMC's 2nm node has been sold out for over a year despite a price hike. The chipmaking giant, facing massive AI-driven demand, has its entire 2026 capacity for the two-nanometer process fully booked, pushing it to build three extra facilities in Taiwan at a projected cost of 28.6 billion dollars. Key clients like Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, and MediaTek are all in line for these advanced wafers, with company revenue from the 2nm technology projected to exceed total sales from both its 3nm and 5nm nodes by the third quarter of 2026.
The explosive growth in artificial intelligence has created a scenario where TSMC essentially holds a monopoly on this cutting-edge production. To meet orders, the company plans up to ten total 2nm plants...
Chinese x86 chipmaker Zhaoxin wants its next CPU to punch at AMD's Zen 4 level. The company confirmed development of its KX-8000 series consumer processors, targeting high-performance desktops and embedded systems with clocks reaching 4 GHz, exclusive DDR5 memory support, and PCIe 5.0 connectivity. This planned follow-up to the KX-7000 chips represents a major performance claim, as the current eight-core model only competes with older AMD Zen 3 and Intel 10th Gen hardware.
Officials from the domestic Chinese manufacturer stated the goal is to match Zen 4 performance while leading in power efficiency, a big jump from their existing position. The prior generation KX-7000, built on a 7nm process, maxed out at 3.7 GHz and supported both...
AMD's new laptop chip is basically a light refresh with a slightly better score. Benchmarks for the upcoming Ryzen AI 5 430, part of the Gorgon Point refresh series, show single and multi-threaded performance gains of around eight to nine percent over its predecessor, the Ryzen AI 5 330. The processor, spotted in a PassMark database entry, does not increase core counts but likely achieves this through higher clock speeds, while featuring a more capable Radeon 840M integrated graphics unit with four compute units.
This performance uplift comes from comparing the new chip against the most sampled benchmark entry for the older model. The newer APU posted scores of 3877 points in single-core and 13958 points in multi-core testing. The...
That ridiculous $1300 MSI motherboard actually hit DDR5-9100. The limited edition MEG X870E GODLIKE X, with only a thousand units made, paired with AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor to achieve a memory overclock of 8900 megatransfers per second, passing a stringent stability test. A user on a Chinese video site also tested the board with a Ryzen 7 9700X, booting a 32-gigabyte kit at 9100 MT/s and completing a burn-in test at 9000 speeds, validating MSI's extreme speed claims.
The testing showed impressive results at lower frequencies too, with a 6600 MT/s profile using dramatically tighter timings for reduced latency, a configuration that also proved completely stable. This matters because DDR5-6400 is considered the performance sweet...
NVIDIA just quietly listed five new Blackwell GPU models. The company added PCI IDs for one GB110, three GB112, and one GB120 chip, hinting at updates beyond the current consumer GeForce RTX 50 series based on the GB200 family. These newly spotted identifiers likely point to further data center products, possibly tuned versions for DGX, HGX, or MGX systems, rather than graphics cards for gamers.
The GB110 chip aligns with the planned Blackwell Ultra lineup for data centers, while the GB112 and GB120 designs appear to be fresh additions. This suggests Nvidia is refining its server-grade offerings as production ramps up, even with its next-generation Rubin architecture on the horizon for future announcements. The consumer-facing...
Samsung just cracked 360Hz on an ultrawide QD-OLED panel. The display giant announced mass production of a new 34-inch screen with a Vertical Stripe pixel layout, supplying it to partners like ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte for monitors launching this year. This V Stripe structure arranges the red, green, and blue sub-pixels in vertical lines instead of triangles, aiming to sharpen text clarity for work tasks while delivering a 21:9 aspect ratio, 1300 nit peak brightness, and that blistering 360Hz refresh rate for immersive gaming.
The company admitted that hitting this spec on an ultrawide screen was a serious technical hurdle, citing issues like organic material lifespan, heat buildup, and brightness loss. They leveraged the inherent...
