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US trade deficit hits a record $1.2 trillion as AI hardware imports surge under the Trump administration — massive demand for chips from Asia outpaces domestic production, fueling a 60% increase in imports in 12 months

AI-related imports across the computing and electronics sector have led to a big increase in the U.S. trade deficit, hitting a record $1.2 trillion in 2025, despite efforts from the Trump administration to reduce the gap.

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Researchers reach superconductivity at ambient pressure, record high temperature — milestone of -122°C reached by using pressure quenching, still 140 degrees off room temperature target

Researchers from the University of Houston managed to increase the critical temperature for superconductivity by about 18 K at ambient pressure, but at −122°C, they are still 140°C away from the target.

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Save $800 on this powerhouse Alienware 4K gaming PC with an RTX 5080 and 64GB DDR5 RAM — epic pre-built also includes a huge 4TB SSD and a 24-core Intel CPU for high-end performance

There's an unmissable deal on an top-end Alienware gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5080, 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 64GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a whopping 4TB SSD, all with a $800 saving that brings it down to just $3,999.99.

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Kioxia announces new Super High IOPS SSD that helps accelerate AI workloads on Nvidia GPUs — 25.6TB drive provides more GPU-accessible memory for faster data access

Kioxia has developed a new AI SSD that is designed to provide a secondary cache for Nvidia AI GPUs. The new drive comes with the manufacturer's XL-Flash that is SLC based and performs at over 10 million IOPS.

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8BitDo launches $40 Nintendo 64-inspired wireless controller with 2.4 GHz connection — dedicated wireless receiver even works with the original N64

8BitDo has released the 2.4 GHz version of its popular 8BitDo 64 controller; it ships with a Retro Receiver inside the box that can even be connected to an actual N64 console. The receiver can also be bought separately to work over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection with most 8BitDo first-party controllers, and other third-party ones, too.

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Intel's new feature can improve game loading times by up to 3x — Precompiled Shader Delivery comes to Arc Xe2 and Xe3 GPUs following DirectX SDK release

Following in Nvidia's footsteps, Intel has now officially adopted Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to make shader compilation much faster in games. Intel is calling it Precompiled Shader Distribution and it's available on a bunch of Arc GPUs right away, supported in 11 games at launch, with more likely to follow. AMD is now the only company left who hasn't officially embraced this feature.

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AMD claims it had no knowledge of fake Ryzen 5 7430U CPUs in Chuwi laptops — Chinese vendor announces recall of products and refunds, PCB manufacturer could be culprit

AMD has responded to the Chuwi scandal involving mislabeled Ryzen 5 7430U-equipped laptops. The CPU maker claims it had no knowledge of the issue, and warns that it does not condone mislabelling CPUs in any way.

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