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TSMC wants more for less with 2nm node
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Job's Mob and chums face 50 per cent higher costs for next-gen wafers

Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC is cranking up its 2nm node production, and by 2026 it plans to be pumping out 60,000 wafers a month from four fabs running at full tilt.

Intel's Core Ultra 120 is just Alder Lake in drag
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Chipzilla's Rebadged chips cost triple what AMD offers

Intel's latest Core Ultra 120 and 120F are just a reheated Alder Lake design, flogged at a price that borders on fantasy.

Intel retires 20-year CPU ID as Nova Lake breaks cover
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Ancient Family 6 gets binned 

Intel is finally ditching its ancient Family 6 CPU designation after more than two decades of clinging to it like a legacy BIOS.

Nvidia's H20 chips hit red tape gridlock in US-China shuffle
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Licensing logjam stalls AI GPU shipments despite lifted ban

Nvidia might have dodged a US ban on its H20 AI chips for China, but it’s entangled in a licensing quagmire so deep it’s putting the brakes on exports.

Hackers sneak Raspberry Pi into bank to fake out Linux systems
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UNC2891’s ATM heist fails but exposes cyber-physical blind spot

A hacker outfit identified as UNC2891 tried pulling off a bank heist by slipping a 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi into a bank’s ATM network and using a tricked-out Linux rootkit to stay hidden.