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6 days ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Jon Martindale
Credit: TSMC TSMC made clear this week that it has big plans for Fab 21, its Arizona chip manufacturing campus. In an earnings call, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei dismissed reports that the company was considering a joint venture with Intel and laid out the chipmaker’s plans for its burgeoning US presence.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick
Credit: Galax/VideoCardz Nvidia board partner Galax has announced that its record-breaking Hall of Fame RTX 5090D graphics card will get a public release. Although it's likely to be a Chinese-only launch, the RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC Edition GPU will be available to general enthusiasts, not just Galax partner overclockers. No word on pricing or release date yet, but we do have a swanky promo image.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale
Credit: TSMC TSMC’s CEO, C.C. Wei, denied reports that the company was in talks with Intel about a joint venture. He addressed the issue yesterday during the company's earnings call, during which it announced that it had a net revenue of $25.53 billion in the first quarter of 2025.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri
Credit: Michael Justin Allen Sexton Nvidia's new RTX 5060 Ti has followed suit with its other 50-series siblings and sold out almost immediately. A look at major retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Nvidia itself, and Adorama show the cards completely out of stock. Even the 8GB versions of the card have sold out. We found a few still available at Walmart, and one popped back in stock for a second at Newegg, but they may well be gone by the time this story goes live.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Jon Martindale
Credit: AMD It wasn’t all that long ago that AMD released its 5th Gen Epyc processors for data centers, but it’s already making progress on its next generation. AMD announced that it has taped out its 6th Gen Epyc CPU, which means it’s ready to be manufactured. Unsurprisingly, TSMC, which has worked with AMD on previous Epyc versions and has been on a winning streak of late, is the foundry in charge of making that happen.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Jon Martindale
Credit: G.Skill While we mortals generally rely on passive cooling for our PC’s memory modules, serious overclockers are playing with the truly exciting cooling tools—namely, liquid nitrogen. With the big dog of chip cooling materials on hand, professional overclockers (yep, that’s a real thing) can get speeds we can only dream about. The competition to find the upper limits of various DDR5 modules has been fierce.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick
Nvidia has announced plans to produce supercomputer and AI chips in Texas, in an investment said to be worth as much as $500 billion. This comes alongside continued market turbulence from the Trump tariffs, which are said to be an attempt to bring manufacturing back to America.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Jon Martindale
Credit: Blue Origin A half-dozen celebrities became astronauts today after a Blue Origin rocket carried them just beyond the edge of space. The flight, which featured an all-women crew, delivers a healthy (and needed) dose of positive publicity for Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Lauren Sánchez, a journalist who is engaged to Jeff Bezos, is one of the women who made the trip to space this morning. “It is the highest high,” singer Katy Perry said to CNN upon landing.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Devesh Beri |Josh Gulick
New synthetic benchmark results for the RTX 5060 Ti have leaked, pegging the card at around 20% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti. That's better than some of the earlier Geekbench results, which had the 5060 Ti at just 14% faster, but it is only for the 16GB version. No word yet on how the 8GB model will perform, but at best, its longevity will be severely reduced. The RX 5060 Ti is one of the most important GPU launches of the year.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Devesh Beri |Josh Gulick
Another day another RTX 50-series graphics card with melted power cables, but this time it's not the high-end, high-power-draw RTX 5090, or even its more modest sibling, the RTX 5080. It's the RTX 5070. This latest issue appears to be at least partially user error, but the continued problems with Nvidia's 12V-2x6 power connector on a range of cards suggest that a redesign might be in order. Nvidia first faced problems with melting power cables on the 2022 flagship, the RTX 4090.
