Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air

Russia’s Mikron is earning a bit of cash on the side by selling picture-framed test wafers as souvenirs with 12 designs to choose from, priced around $170.
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Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later

Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester’s invention evolved from MIT’s Project Whirlwind.

US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals

The U.S. FTC is looking into Arm Holdings to see if it’s abusing its market position as a dominant chip designer to gives its new chip manufacturing business an advantage over competitors who build semiconductors based on …

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China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops ‘LineShine’ supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores

China’s National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen takes a page from Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer and Fujitsu’s A64FX processor, build LineShine supercomputer based entirely on Armv9-based LineShine LX2 CPUs.
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OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents

The bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests, all generated by roughly 100 Codex instances.

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Taiwan declares itself ‘sovereign and independent’ after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independence

The statement came hours after President Donald Trump told Fox News he opposes Taiwan pursuing formal independence.

Jensen Huang slams ‘stupid’ analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to other countries

The Nvidia chief said that you cannot compare AI GPUs to nuclear weapons.

Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200ms

Sparky is an opinionated googly-eyed AI in a suitcase powered by an Nvidia Jetson Orin NS Super 16GB.

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Trump calls $14 billion Taiwan arms deal a ‘negotiating chip’ with China after Xi said Taiwan issue could lead to ‘clashes and even conflicts’ — Trump says ‘Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit’

Trump’s remarks came at the close of a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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Texas county passes data center ban for rural areas for a year, move comes in wake of AI data centers moving to remote areas to skirt regulations — state senator says counties cannot legally impose these bans

Hill County passed a one-year ban on data center projects, as the country authorities study the effects their effects on the community. Still, the County Attorney warned that they could get sued if they pass this moratoriu…

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