TSMC not sweating Samsung chip push
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Pegatron's Tong Zixian reckons Samsung and Intel are playing catch-up

Samsung might be bagging more US business, but Pegatron chairman Tong Zixian says Taiwan’s chip champ TSMC has nothing to worry about yet.

AMD to build two monster AI rigs for Oak Ridge
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Lux and Discovery to fly the flag

AMD has landed a deal with the US government to supply silicon for two heavy-duty supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 FE “worst GPU design ever”
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Repair specialist says Nvidia's flagship card is a modder’s nightmare

Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been labelled a disaster by repair experts after a failed attempt to add water cooling rendered the GPU completely unfixable.

AMD pulls an Intel with rebranded Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100
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“New” CPUs are so old they could be steam powered 

AMD has once again dipped into the recycling bin, rolling out the so-called Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 series, chips that are, in reality, lightly renamed versions of its old Zen 2 and Zen 3+ mobile processors.

Cybersecurity firms caught with 1990s flaws 
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Schoolboy bugs in mission-critical systems

The cybersecurity industry has found itself in the awkward position of being pwned by the same ancient flaws it has been warning everyone else about for decades.