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Catastrophic GTA VI leak is a full working build — notorious hacker CyberLeek taunts Rockstar Games by spraying the word ‘leek’ onto a wall in-game with bullets

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Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He\u2019s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he\u2019s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electron…

Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip

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In monolithic chips, PCIe PHYs sit at the perimeter of the die, right next to the package I/O connections, helping keep traces to the substrate short so attenuation and reflections remain manageable. A 2.5D package prese…

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Bolstering this are Premium Roadmaps , which cover a vast swathe of topics, all the way from the newest enterprise GPUs to roadmaps for Co-Packaged Optics technologies, and TSMC’s own fab expansion plans, to give you a w…