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The Hot Take: US domestic job market appears to be expanding in tech.
The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: With GPUs and CPUs getting smaller and hotter need better transmission of heat.
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I'm thinking more Ai slashing.
The Grey Box Shifter Dell is still swinging the axe through FY26, chopping 11,000 roles and shrinking its workforce by 27 per cent from FY23 to FY26. This latest trim was flagged in US Securities and Exchange Commission filings, with Reuters first clocking the move and the paperwork doing the grim confirmation. In its 10-K filed on 16 March 2026, Dell said its FY26 headcount was 97,000 employees. That is down 10 per cent from 108,000 a year earlier, which is a tidy slide for a company that sells itself on stability and long-term…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Interesting place to put an Ai Data-Center, giving it's probably hardened against military attacks.
10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup Softbank's SB Energy is redeveloping Department of Energy (DoE) land in Ohio for a massive datacenter campus, adding extra generation facilities and power infrastructure alongside it.…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I'm wondering if Intel is holding out on the 290K to drop after AMD's price drops in response to these chips. They're getting good response from what I've been seeing.
Intel has shared official benchmarks of its Core Ultra 7 270K Plus & Core Ultra 5 250K Plus in gaming, apps, and more, against AMD Ryzen CPUs. Core Ultra 200S Plus Are Now The Fastest Gaming CPUs From Intel, Surpassing the Core i9-14900K. For performance comparisons, Intel is pitting the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus against the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus against the Ryzen 5 9600X. Both of these CPUs are valid comparisons based on their prices. The company also compares the performance against existing Core Ultra 200S "Non Plus"…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Did they set the goal AFTER stating 32GB ram is more than enough for windows 11? I'm sorry loving my 64GB and would double it if I didn't have to sell a kidney.
A recent X post by Mikhail Parakhin, who was the former boss of Windows and Bing, revealed that years ago, Microsoft engineers had an internal “20/20 project” that had a goal of reducing Windows’s idle RAM usage and installation size. Parakhin, who had several titles at Microsoft, was replying to a post by the present Windows President, Pavan Davuluri, about Microsoft’s commitment to Windows quality, which, if you haven’t heard already, is the company’s attempt at fixing Windows 11 from the ground up. Mikhail Parakhin talking about 20/20…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: This "Ai shortage" is getting nuts.
The PC hardware market is facing increasing pressure in 2026, and new data from Amazon US highlights the impact on processor sales. During the first quarter of the year, CPU sales on the platform declined by 47% compared to the same period in 2025.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I was just starting to look at them again. :(
Is OnePlus going to SETTLE in select countries?
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Is this why they left the consumer market? Going to a different market other than Ai to make more money with?
Micron has outlined a significant increase in memory requirements for future autonomous vehicles, with the company stating that Level 4 (L4) self-driving systems could demand more than 300GB of RAM per vehicle.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Seems like ASRock keeps leaking everyones up and coming products. But this wasn't a surprise with Intel hitting back with their own on chip memory stack.
ASRock has inadvertently confirmed the existence of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor, following the premature publication of a press release on its official website.
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