hardware

Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition preorders open on Amazon for $519.99 — here’s your last shot to grab the limited-edition console at MSRP

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Major U.S. retailers, including Target, Best Buy, and GameStop, were the first to enable preorders for the Switch 2 The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition , which instantly sold out. It did not take long for scalpe…

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…

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…

Intel surpasses one million High-NA EUV wafers processed, outpaces the rest of the industry combined — company also trailblazing giant 6×12 photomasks to speed

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Moving from 6×6-inch to 6×12-inch photomasks would require substantial changes across the existing mask ecosystem, including mask blanks and deposition, etching, inspection and metrology, cleaning, pellicles, mask writer…