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Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can’t break America’s monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chip

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Pacific Quartz has supplied Lam Research and Tokyo Electron with ultra-high-purity quartz consumables, such as LPCVD diffusion tubes, wafer boats, quartz ingots, quartz plates, and high-purity quartz tubes, since 2019–20…

Intel-backed auto-overclocking tool Hypertune optimizes individual systems, not test profiles — tool claims FPS improvement of up to 60% on Intel-based systems

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In a press release, Hypertune founder Austin Copeland wrote that the team was “not trying to build a tool for overclockers,” suggesting it’s aimed toward users who may not know about specific settings (i.e., the Balanced…

OpenAI’s rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate

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Anton Shilov Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from m…