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Chinese storage makers, long known for packaging chips into modules, have been moving up the value chain into wafer-level operations, with the latest firm to make the jump investing 4.5 billion yuan (US$672 million) in an advanced packaging project. The sum, which Shanghai-listed Biwin Storage…
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Deal | Metal Eden combines fast-paced shooter action with enormous freedom of movement and is 80% off on Steam until September 29, bringing the price down to $3.99. This marks the first time the game has dropped below the $4 mark.
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Nvidia's Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents into open-source robotics development through reusable skills and agent-ready documentation. The release includes tools for robot setup, manipulation and model customisation, along with new capabilities for FoundationStereo and FoundationPose. Nvidia has also…
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US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has positioned its latest high-end smartphone SoCs as being designed for the agentic AI age.
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Deal | Kingsgrave is a top-down RPG with clear Zelda inspiration and is currently cheaper than ever on Steam. An 85% discount brings the price down to $1.49 until September 27.
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Meta has announced Petal, a new subsea cable that will carry a petabit of raw bandwidth across the 4,300 miles between the USA and France.
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India moves five chip packaging plants into production as $13.5 billion ISM 2.0 expands manufacturing, design, and engineering capabilities. The post SEMICON India 2026: India Starts Packaging Chips as Ecosystem Takes Shape appeared first on EE Times.
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My money is still on RDNA 5 launching by the end of next year.
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Get a great deal on 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM. Just $439 after promo code SSF73844 yields one of the lowest priced 32GB kits available today
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EA Sports FC 27 launches globally on September 25 across consoles and PC. Explore The Grounds open world, Career Mode overhauls, and full FC 27 Lite details surrounding the launch.
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The newly-independent Undead Labs has unfortunately had to part ways with a “significant” number of its developers following their split from Xbox. The post Undead Labs announces “significant” lay-offs following its independence from Xbox first appeared on KitGuru.
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But it's a far cry from an orbital data center.
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In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)...
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Deal | Humble Bundle has released a new game bundle called The Almighty God Games Bundle. The bundle contains a total of 7 games worth about $113 at regular Steam prices, and it costs $12.
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Airbus engineers have employed Valve's Steam Deck handheld as a fancy remote control for the firm's new ExoMars
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Another day, another RPCS3 win. This time around, the RPCS3 team has announced that a new Sony PlayStation 3 game is now fully playable on the PS3 emulator. RPCS3 keeps improving, and the team promises that more updates are in the works.
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In a surprise announcement, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel are set to come to Nintendo Switch 2 next week. The post Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor / War duology comes to Nintendo Switch 2 next week first appeared on KitGuru.
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The US and China are moving toward different models for governing increasingly capable artificial intelligence, even as the US proposes a limited safety mechanism with China ahead of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping's September 24 summit in Washington. AI is expected to be…
Hindustan Times — Technology
Motorola has unveiled the Signature 27 with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor, a 200MP periscope camera and seven years of OS updates.
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Lenovo has launched the X11A tablet in China with a 10.95-inch 1,920 x 1,200 display and a MediaTek MT8768 processor. The Android 15 tablet is available with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, along with a 6,000mAh battery and 13MP rear camera.
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OnePlus 16 will be powered by the new octa-core Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset from Qualcomm, which is built on a 2nm process, the company has announced. The chipset features three efficiency cores, three performance cores, and two prime cores, delivering a peak clock speed of 5.0GHz. The…
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OnePlus is expected to launch the OnePlus 16 in China sometime in October. Ahead of that, the flagship has now made an official trip to AnTuTu, showing off its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and other key details.
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There's more to these chips than confusing names.
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MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max is a 3nm “All Big Core” octa-core Armv9 CPU with an 11-core Immortalis-G925 MC11 GPU, and MediaTek’s 890 NPU delivering up to 55 TOPS for an “upcoming premium, ultra-portable Googlebook device” with all-day battery life. Googlebook is Google’s new premium laptop…
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The Chinese chip designer is preparing to list as computing chip sales become a larger part of its business.
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The Anker Desktop USB-C Hub (Valorant Limited Edition) is now available to buy in the US. The Valorant-themed dock offers 10 ports, a smart display, and support for dual 2K monitors at 240Hz or a single 4K monitor at 144Hz, alongside 80W laptop charging.
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Oppo has launched the Watch S2 in China at CNY 1,599 (approximately $238), pairing a 1.46-inch AMOLED screen that peaks at 3,000 nits with an 8.9mm stainless steel case, a FatMax workout mode that calculates a personal fat-burning heart rate, ECG and temperature sensors, and battery life of up to…
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Despite being one of the most recognisable names in gaming, SEGA at one point wanted to outright cancel Sonic the Hedgehog as a franchise. The post Series Producer reveals SEGA wanted to outright kill the Sonic franchise at one point first appeared on KitGuru.
Hindustan Times — Technology
Snapdragon, Intel and AMD laptops can look similar on paper, but their strengths differ. Here’s what to consider before choosing your next laptop.
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Microsoft cuts 268 Xbox jobs, hands the next Halo game to Activision, merges Playground with Turn 10, and proposes closure of Ninja Theory amid wider studio reset.