US extends tariff exemption on GPUs and PCBs for another nine months
GPUs thankfully avoid a 25% price hike
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MSI is waiting until next year to announce its 7900 XTX and 7900 XT GPUs
Recap: AMD launched the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT last Tuesday and all their regular board partners participated, bar one. MSI was conspicuously absent and has almost entirely ignored the new generation, prompting fans to ask when the company plans on releasing its custom designs for the GPUs.
The US Government will blacklist YMTC and 30 other Chinese companies
China is losing access to critical US-made technology
Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion of Tesla shares this week
Musk previously said he was done selling, twice
Eight "influencers" charged with securities fraud in $114 million pump-and-dump scam
Each suspect faces a maximum of 300 years if convicted on all 12 counts
China bans export of its Loongson CPUs to Russia
Not for reasons related to Ukraine
Liquid cooling makes high density storage more reliable, study shows
Fully submersing hard drives cools better and puts less strain on the drive's moving parts
Authorities arrest Sam Bankman-Fried on FTX fraud and money laundering
What just happened? Investors taken to the cleaners by Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX exchange will probably be pleased to hear that the man who admittedly made a lot of "mistakes" that cost them their money is in police custody today on fraud and money laundering charges. He was arrested last night in his Bahamian headquarters at the request of US officials.
China export ban for chipmaking machines extends to Netherlands and Japan
Why it matters: After USA-based manufacturers, Dutch and Japanese companies are now preparing a harsher ban on technology exports to China. The Asian country won't have access to any of the machinery needed to make high-performance microchips.
Elon Musk is no longer the world's wealthiest person
What just happened? Elon Musk is often referred to as the richest person in the world, but not everyone agrees that he currently holds the title. According to Forbes, the Twitter boss has been overtaken on the rich list by Bernard Arnault, who is now number one with a $187.5 billion fortune.
Waning demand and falling shipments force PC manufacturers to cut prices
Excess inventory can be good for consumers
Binance CEO reportedly accused Sam Bankman-Fried of trying to "depeg" stablecoin Tether
Desperate trades during the FTX collapse threatened to cause a "meltdown" of the entire crypto industry
Xbox boss Phil Spencer claims Sony plans to grow by "making Xbox smaller"
"Sony is leading the dialogue around why the deal shouldn't go through"
What just happened? Microsoft isn't holding back in its war of wars with Sony over the former's attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer says its rival is the "one major opposer to the deal," and it all comes down to Sony wanting to protect its dominance in consoles by making Xbox "smaller."
Launching TechnicalSides Jobs: Figure out your next career move
TechnicalSides and Jobbio's Amply network join forces on a new job board
Rethinking auto manufacturing: Poised for disruption?
Automakers have already tried every manufacturing model, and yet...
Chinese newspaper claims the US "tricked" TSMC into building Arizona fabs, is stealing tech from "our Taiwan"
The US is compared to a bull in a China shop
Cloud customers spend too much for resources they never use
Why it matters: Cloud is always sold as a solution to spare money over on-premise hardware and traditional software applications. A recent report says otherwise, showing how cloud platforms can waste money if customers don't know how to manage resources efficiently, which they usually don't.
FTC sues Microsoft in attempt to block Activision acquisition
Microsoft intends to fight it
Disney+ rolls out ad-supported tier to better compete with Netflix
New pricing goes into effect today
Samsung confirms it wants GDDR7 RAM to reach 36Gbps with PAM-3 signaling
An efficient middle ground between GDDR6's NRZ and GDDR6X's PAM-4
Police nab Sonic creator Yuki Nada on another insider trading charge
Two separate trades involving at least two people under the same employer certainly looks suspect
TSMC will pour $40 billion into two Arizona chip fabs
Forward-looking: Taiwanese giant TSMC has officially confirmed it will build an additional fab for chip manufacturing in the US. The Arizona site will grow, the investment will skyrocket and the number of newly-created jobs will make politicians very, very happy.
Cryptominers unable to repay millions in loans are handing over their mining rigs instead
Rigs that have lost 85% of their value since last November
