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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 RMA in China Becomes a Huge Issue, Full Refunds Offered To Affectees
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 witnessed a sales ban in China, but who will be responsible for the RMA requests of existing units? Well, we do have an answer now.
How an underdog Street Fighter 6 player beat the odds to win $1 million
It didn’t take long for last year’s excellent Street Fighter 6 to take the fighting game world by storm. Capcom’s critically praised fighting game didn’t just revitalize the Street Fighter series, but reignited interest in the fighting genre as a whole. Capcom then focused on growing the competitive side of Street Fighter 6 by hosting a new entry of its tournament circuit, Capcom Cup, with a first-place prize of $1 million.
Microsoft limits Xbox Game Pass subscription extensions in certain countries
Microsoft is limiting Xbox Game Pass subscription extensions in certain countries to deter players from stacking their membership at a cheaper rate.
Taiwanese chipmaking bounces back after last week's 7.4 magnitude earthquake
On Wednesday, the 3rd of April, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan. It was followed by a series of aftershocks and there were fears that many of the Taiwanese based chip makers and manufacturers would see production disruptions as a result. In the week or so since, those fears look mostly unfounded.
President Biden says he'll hand $6.6 billion to world's largest chipmaker to stick around and expand in Arizona
President Biden has signed a preliminary deal with TSMC, the world's largest chip manufacturer, to hand the Taiwanese company billions of dollars of CHIPS funding. In return, TSMC will commit to building high-performance computer chips on US soil, including a brand new third fab facility expected to use the latest lithographic technologies for the most performant processors.
Google sums up 2023's security exploits: the good news is fixes are blocking some types of zero-day attack. The bad news is Windows has seen more than most
2023 was a bumper year for zero-day exploits—50% more zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited last year compared to 2022—and the majority of them affected operating systems and products used by run-of-the-mill end users, such as Windows, Chrome and iOS. Though before the doom and gloom sinks in, Google does have some positive things to say about software security in 2023 in its yearly threat report.
Samsung predicts a bumper 2024, forecasting a 900% increase in profits for the first three months of the year
The second largest chip manufacturer in the world, Samsung, has announced its forecast for the company's first quarter results of 2024. While it's only expecting a reasonable 8% increase in sales, compared to this time last year, operating profits are expected to improve by more than 900%—from a mere half a billion dollars up to an enormous $4.9 billion.