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Lisuan's G100 series has reportedly begun shipping out to customers in first batch of deliveries — China's first homegrown 6nm GPUs are no longer a show-floor exclusive

China's first 6nm-class discrete GPUs, the G100 series from Lisuan, has apparently started to ship out to customers, months after their initial announcement. These GPUs, if as performant as claimed, hold the potential to fuel China's self-reliance ambitions in producing homegrown alternatives to Nvidia and AMD.

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TSMC begins quietly volume production of 2nm-class chips — first GAA transistor for TSMC claims up to 15% improvement at ISO power

TSMC has quietly begun volume production of its 2nm-class N2 process in Q4 2025 as planned, marking the company’s first GAA nanosheet node that will be ramping production at two new fabs to meet strong demand from various customers.

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TSMC's average wafer prices increased by over 15% each year since 2019, report suggests — gross profit margins increase by 3.3x in 2025 alone, facing no real challengers

EUV lithography era in chipmaking began in 2019 and there are no signs that this is going to stop as process technologies are getting more complex. However, there are fundamental reasons why TSMC's quotes are rising quicker than its costs and its customers are not leaving for other foundries.

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Nvidia gives Intel a lifeline with $5 billion common stock deal — September deal gets FTC approval for more than 217.4 million Intel shares at $23.28 per share

Intel has officially sold over 217 million of its common stock to Nvidia in a historic equity investment worth $5 billion. The stake was originally announced in September, after the U.S. government had invested its own $8.9 billion into Intel. Following FTC approvals in early December, the sale has now been completed.

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Former Samsung engineer accused of giving 10nm DRAM data to China's CXMT, handwritten notes detailed over 600 process steps — gas flow ratios, photoresist settings and more critical stages detailed

A former Samsung Engineer accused of offering the secrets behind the company's 10nm DRAM data to China's ChangXin Memory Technologies has been accused of making hundreds of handwritten notes on detailed process steps.

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Thermaltake's new AIO cooler requires paid OpenAI subscription to generate custom backgrounds for $0.04 per prompt — "AI Forge" feature taps into OpenAI's platform and JiMeng

AI has run havoc through the entire industry and as we suffer the drying inventories of RAM and storage, we might as well see what it's all going to, right? Well, some of it is being used to generate custom backgrounds for Thermaltake's "AI Forge" feature present on its latest MagFloe AIOs and screens, which uses Dall-E and/or JiMeng.

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