Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages
Water needed for daily consumption is now tremendously used during every Bitcoin transaction.
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New chip crunch looming? Booming demand from Chinese chipmakers causing shortage of critical photomask element
Rising demand from Chinese chip designers is fueling a global shortage of photomasks, a critical component to chipmaking.
TSMC chairman says, ‘Not being criticized is the biggest enemy of engineers’ as company works through union problems at Arizona fab
TSMC has been struggling to adapt its business model to the cultural landscape of the U.S., but things are improving.
Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal chipmaking IP
A Chinese-linked hacker group maintained covert access to NXP for over two years, from the end of 2017 to the beginning of […]
Google tweaks Bard’s AI to understand YouTube video content — Bard watches videos and answers your questions
Google has announced that it has boosted the abilities of its Bard AI chatbot. The company has decided to expand Bard’s ability […]
Lunar Lake MX will be Intel’s first high-performance CPU to use outsourced TSMC node for x86 cores — reportedly uses N3B process
Intel’s x86 chips are now forging into new territory — leaked slides published by prominent hardware leaker @YuuKi_AnS (yet quickly removed) indicate that the […]
Samsung boss with a history of legal troubles now facing five-year prison sentence due to alleged merger misdealings
Jay Y. Lee, the executive chairman of Samsung Electronics, faces a challenging situation. Korean prosecutors have demanded that he be imprisoned for […]
Crypto Mining Rigs Hidden in Polish Court Building to Steal Electricity
A number of powerful computing devices were found secreted within the Supreme Administrative Court in Warsaw, Poland. They weren’t installed to collect […]
PCI SIG Preps CopprLink Cables for PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0, Reveals Specs
PCI SIG said this week that that it is developing cabling specifications for PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 interfaces at 32 GT/s […]
Test Processor With New Thermal Transistors Run 13 Times Cooler
Experimental thermal transistors may be a future solution to increasingly hot CPUs, GPUs, and other processors.