Stories tagged hardware & chips.
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Five watches on a $300 budget, and almost all of them from Casio and Timex. Here's why these two brands give the best bang for your buck, with alternative picks in every slot, from the AE-1200WH and Duro to the AQ-230A, MTP-1302D and Timex Expedition Scout 40.
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The ongoing AI-driven hardware crisis means the ROG Zephyrus G16 has breached the Rs. 4 lakh barrier in India. And without major upgrades, Asus' new line of gaming laptops becomes harder to recommend, especially when last year's models, which come with the same RTX 50 series GPUs, are available at…
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Claude Opus 5.5 veröffentlicht + Österreich setzt NIS2 um + EU diskutiert Haftung für KI-Schäden + High-End-Chips von Qualcomm + Sicherheitsupdate für WordPress
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The Dutch digital payments processor has hired Niclas Neglen as its new chief financial officer, but he won’t join until next year.
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Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud business unit, is set to launch data centres in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, speeding up an overseas push as it seeks to win enterprise customers through its “full stack AI capabilities” spanning chips, cloud…
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Durabook’s latest rugged mobile workstation features three integrated 14-inch displays and weighs nearly 10 kg. The Z14I-DX3 combines Meteor Lake processors with optional Nvidia RTX Ada graphics and a chassis designed for demanding field environments.
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Timex has introduced its first Waterbury Heritage with a day-date function. Available in blue and black dial variants, the new 39mm models bring a polished, understated look to the brand’s latest mechanical offerings.
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Silent Hill: Townfall reviews during early access hint at a rocky release date reception. Stuttering interrupts the otherwise engaging narrative and haunting visuals. Frame rate drops in Konami’s Unreal Engine 5 title plague both the Steam and PS5 versions.
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Acer CEO Jason Chen disputes memory makers’ warnings of a RAM shortage lasting until 2030, arguing that suppliers are exaggerating constraints to protect AI-driven profit margins. He expects PC prices to rise through late 2026, stabilize in early 2027, and decline after midyear as new production…
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As confirmed by the website "Expand Mac mini," NAND storage in the new Mac mini models with the M6 and M5 Pro chips is soldered to the logic board, whereas the previous models with the M4 and M4 Pro chips have removable storage that can be upgraded. In other words, the new Mac mini does not support…
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A dispute over Pokémon Trading Cards at a Target in Lisbon, Connecticut, escalated into a fight that left a four-year-old girl with an injured elbow. Video and an eyewitness account reportedly link the altercation to shoppers clearing out a major restock, though police records and Target have not…
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Apple's upgraded Mac Minis and Mac Studios which can cost nearly $20,000 and handle AI tasks locally will go head-to-head against new desktop machines that Nvidia and PC makers are rolling out, expected to be the focus of a Microsoft Windows event in San Francisco next month.
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Sonic Team veteran Takashi Iizuka says Sega nearly retired Sonic the Hedgehog before Paramount’s hit 2020 film revived the franchise and fueled major growth in licensing revenue. Despite Sonic’s renewed popularity and a fourth movie planned for 2027, Sega has yet to announce a new mainline game.
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NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training, expert-led sessions and advanced tools to accelerate their work in AI and high-performance computing. At the event, NVIDIA and its…
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Anker has started selling the new 100W Laptop Charger Pro (Valorant Limited Edition) in the US. Featuring a themed design with Valorant agents, the new USB-C charger also promises to extend battery lifespan by 40% through device-specific charging and 80% charging limit.
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Vivo has revealed key specifications of the Vivo V80 ahead of its launch in India. Compared with its predecessor, the Vivo V80 offers a larger battery and a higher-refresh-rate display.
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At AICC2026, Inspur Information launched the MetaBrain SD200 Ultra supernode with 128 tightly coupled domestic AI chips, 8 TB of unified accelerator memory and a claimed sub-5.85 ms/token latency running 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3.
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
At Apsara 2026, Alibaba's T-Head introduced the Zhenwu V900 training and inference accelerator with about three times M890 performance, 216 GB of memory and 1,200 GB/s chip-to-chip bandwidth, targeting mass production in the first quarter of 2027.
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At the 2026 Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui, the stars of the show are two new SoCs: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. In addition, to deep dive briefings, we here at Hot Hardware were not only lucky enough to check out the new hardware on the show floor, but…
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The Alibaba Group pitched its new Zhenwu V900 AI chip as China’s most powerful, reported Reuters
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The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...
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Citizen Europe has launched four radio-controlled Eco-Drive chronographs at €695 each. The AT8390-55E, AT8391-52H, AT8396-59L and AT8398-53X pack the H804 caliber into an 89 g Super Titanium case, with sapphire, world time and a perpetual calendar.
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Hideo Kojima predicts Physint, now backed by Xbox after Sony withdrew funding, could become his best-selling game when it launches sometime after 2030. Kojima said he was shocked but immediately returned to work, with the project’s plot, design, and storyboards complete and 3D character modeling…
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High-definition Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire footage posted by the official Japanese Pokémon account has renewed speculation that Nintendo is preparing Switch ports of the 2004 games. While recent retro releases and earlier rumours give weight to the speculation, Nintendo is yet to make any official…
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
Partnering with a Singaporean firm, it plans to be the first Indian company to enter the high-growth vertical at a time when chip designing and packaging units in India are expanding fast, and an explosion in chip equipment demand has exacerbated supply bottlenecks, Manjunath Jyothinagara told ET.
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South Korean startup Soulart has launched the Soulart Station, a markerless full-body motion tracker for VR, VTubing, and motion capture. The device uses a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor and an onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to capture 3D point cloud data and process motion tracking on the…
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Rebellions’ ATOM-Max chips move from pilot to production in SK Telecom’s consumer services In sum – what we know: South Korean AI-chip company Rebellions says its neural processing unit infrastructure is now…
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U.S. machine vision company Cognex Corp. said today that it intends to buy RealSense Inc., the robotics and computer vision startup that was spun out of Intel Corp. 14 months earlier in a deal valued at around $600 million. Nasdaq-listed Cognex will pay around $500 million in cash for the startup…
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Despite Digital Deluxe pre-orders costing the same on all platforms, Control Resonant early access is PlayStation-only. The PS5 exclusive opportunity started on September 22nd, two days before its release date. Remedy Entertainment has also announced pre-load and unlock times.
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Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek argues that game-development teams numbering in the thousands often create inefficiency through indecision and backtracking rather than delivering better results. He says GTA VI may be a rare exception, as its vast scope and high production standards could justify…