Hardware modder builds overclocked PS3 ‘Pro’ v3 with 3D-printed cooling mod — dual Noctua fans and server heatsinks provide FPS boost in 'almost every game'
A Sony PlayStation 3 console modder has shared images and details of their ‘PS3 Pro v3’ design.…
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Atari revives 39 Activision games on cartridges that run seamlessly across five decades of hardware — Ultimate Deluxe collection that includes every title costs a wild $999.96
Atari has officially unveiled the Atari x Activision Collection, a compilation featuring 39 classic Activision games on physical cartridges.…
An individual cartridge starts at $34.
98, while the Ultimate Deluxe Set, which includes all 39 games, costs …
Atari and Activision's latest collaboration brings the nostalgia and v…
Polls reveal local utility hikes and noise drive US data center protests, not anti-AI sentiment— beliefs and political affiliation had minimal impact on AI data center views
Data centers are unpopular among U.S.citizens right now, with projects facing resistance and moratoriums across the nation.…
While we’ve seen over a hundred protests against the developments happ…
From GAA To CFET: Scaling Transistors For The AI Era
By Urmimala Roy, Xi-Wei Lin, and Ravi Todi Two years ago, we introduced why the industry was moving to gate‑all‑around (GAA) transistors and why Foundation IP co-optimized with electronic design automation (EDA) flows would be key to success to making that transition work.…
Since then, GAA has moved from early adoption into the mainstream of l…
As designs push past the 2nm node, the architectures that carried CMOS…
Each new node must deliver better power, performance, and area (PPA) w…
Streamlining 3D-IC Design: Substrate, Finalization, And Tapeout
By Keith Felton and Todd Burkholder The superior performance, functionality, and smaller form factors of 3D-ICs are propelling advances in the semiconductor industry.…
Unlike traditional 2D-ICs, 3D-ICs vertically stack multiple active dev…
This vertical integration delivers many benefits but introduces furthe…
In the first two articles in this series (published in this journal in…
Verified. Until It Isn’t: Why Datapath Verification Needs A New Playbook
By Ashish Darbari, Nicky Khodadad, and Nguyen Vu The semiconductor industry continues to debate DPV versus FPV, but the real challenge is achieving scalable, trustworthy verification for AI-era silicon.…
Modern RISC-V, Arm, x86, GPU and AI accelerators rely on increasingly …
The methodology argument has become a distraction from a much harder q…
Why datapath verification matters From the Intel FDIV incident to toda…
Nvidia custom 'NVHBM' promises 30% higher bandwidth, 15% lower power than commodity HBM4e — custom base die and PHY will be available to NVLink Fusion partners
Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program gives the company's partners the building blocks necessary to connect custom chips with the NVLink scale-up domain used to join many separate processors into a single coherent system like the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale accelerator.…
Today, Nvidia is adding a new building block to that toolkit: NVHBM, a…
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Nvidia says it's designed and validated with "leading memory vendors,"…
NVMe 2.4 Update Adds Post-Quantum Security, Power Controls
As the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) protocol moves to an annual release cycle, the latest updates reflect the growing maturity of the ecosystem and the rapid pace of innovation driving its
US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more — FBI moves forward with domain seizures
The U.S.…
Department of Justice and FBI revealed in a statement Wednesday that i…
The press release says the Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Depa…
Senate all experienced "computer intrusion activity.
Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia presents Groq 3 LPX architecture and unveils its first third-party inference benchmark — LP30-based rack already in production, company says
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Groq's former chief architect stood on stage at Hot Chips 2026 and pre…
Igor Arsovski, now Nvidia's VP of hardware, presented the Groq 3 LPX r…
Kansas town drops charges against teacher who clapped during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’
Lux Claridge, the teacher who was arrested in Emporia, Kansas, during an AI data center meeting for clapping, said that the city has dropped the charges against them.…
According to 404 Media, the Emporia assistant city attorney told Clari…
Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that they’re in the clear yet, as the…
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Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media — lets players claim digital versions of their games, with support for Play Anywhere and Cloud Gaming
Xbox has unveiled its long-rumored new disc-to-digital service, which will let players who own physical copies of games claim digital entitlements, playing them as if they own digital copies.…
In an announcement, Microsoft confirmed support will include digital b…
"Players have spent decades building their XBOX libraries.
Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia touts benefits of its DSX MaxLPS site power management approach — tech allows for more compute from fixed data center power budgets
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Save $260 on this high-end AM5 gaming combo from Newegg — just $1,345.99 buys a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 32GB Corsair DDR5 RAM, MSI X870E Carbon Wifi motherboard, along with a free 240mm AIO and AMD game bund
Newegg has come out with a new high-end AM5 bundle that pairs the venerable Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM, and a premium motherboard in MSI’s MPG X870E Carbon Wifi for only $1,345.…
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