Articles from 2026
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Uzbekistan’s Chip Talks with Malaysia’s DNeX Could Bring Cheaper Windows PCs—Eventually
Uzbekistan’s government has initiated formal discussions with Malaysian technology group Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) to develop a domestic semiconductor ecosystem, a move that could eventually...
AI Data Center Gold Rush to Push Chip Sales Past $1.5 Trillion, Straining Supplies for PCs and Servers
The global semiconductor market is on track to hit $1.5 trillion in 2026, nearly doubling its 2025 revenue, as AI data centers consume a growing share of advanced chips, memory, and packaging...
Nvidia's 10x AI Chip Growth Forecast Will Reshape What Your Windows PC Does Next
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted on July 27 that the semiconductor industry must expand tenfold over the next decade to power a future with 100 billion AI agents and billions of robots—a claim...
Ottawa's AI Plan Ignores the Chips Powering It. Here's What That Means for Canadian Tech
Canada laid out its national AI strategy on June 4, 2026, with six pillars covering everything from sovereign compute to workforce development. But the country's semiconductor council says a critical...
South Korea's Chip Lobby Just Hired a Trade Negotiator — Here's Why It Matters for Your Next PC
On July 28, the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) voted to appoint Park Kun-soo as its new standing vice chairman. Park takes office on August 1, serving a three-year term through July...
Intel’s Core i9 Fix Demands BIOS 0x12F—Here’s How to Stop the Damage
Owners of Intel’s 13th- and 14th-generation Core i9 desktop processors face a deadline that’s not on any calendar: update the motherboard BIOS to microcode 0x12F or risk permanent, irreversible...
Intel's Panther Lake Goes Rugged: Five New CPUs Built for Factory Floors and Freezers
Intel has quietly listed five new Core Ultra Series 3 processors—code-named Panther Lake—engineered specifically for embedded and industrial systems that must endure extreme temperatures,...
Shelly 3.0 Rewrites Arch Package Manager in Zig, Sheds .NET for Native Performance
The alternative Arch Linux package manager Shelly has been fully rewritten in Zig, replacing its C# and .NET foundation with ahead-of-time compiled native code in the newly released version 3.0. The...
SideQuest Relaunches AltspaceVR This Fall with Robot Avatars and a Return to Its 2016 Roots
SideQuest, the alternative app library for Quest headsets, is bringing Microsoft's long-shuttered social VR platform AltspaceVR back from the dead. The company announced on July 29, 2026, that it has...
AMD EPYC-Powered AI Spots Wafer Flaws Without GPUs: A Blueprint for Edge Inference
A system running entirely on AMD EPYC server CPUs now guards semiconductor production lines at Samsung facilities, catching wafer defects before they ruin entire batches — and it does so without a...
Microsoft's Private Cloud Partner Badge: What US Signal's Win Means for Windows Shops
US Signal on July 30 earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud, a credential that marks the Grand Rapids–based infrastructure provider as a certified expert in building...
Move this folder before uninstalling Steam, or lose every game you've installed
Uninstalling Steam isn’t a routine Windows uninstall. Hit the remove button and you might kiss your entire game library goodbye — hundreds of gigabytes of downloads, gone. That’s the reality...