ARM not sending new chips to Alibaba
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Neoverse V will not get a licence behind the bamboo curtain

ARM won't sell its latest Neoverse V series chips to Chinese tech giant Alibaba after concluding that the US and UK would not approve licenses to export them.

Chinese Longsoon chips not going to Russia
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China needs them all itself

The Chinese government has banned exports of Loongson CPUs based on the LoongArch microarchitecture to Russia ironically for the same reasons that the US is not giving it access to its chips.

Intel makes new motherboards compete with old ones
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B760 chipset up ten per cent but with little advantage

The price of Chipzilla’s upcoming B760 chipset motherboards will be ten per cent higher over Intel's previous generation B660 platform when they hit the shops next year.

Boffins come up with camera the size of a salt grain
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Just don’t dowse them with vinegar

Boffins at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt.

Core i9-13900KS Raptor Lake turns Chipzilla into market leader
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Core i9-13900KS faster than the existing flagship

Early benchmarks have revealed that the  much anticipated Core i9-13900KS is faster than the Core i9-13900K, the existing flagship Raptor Lake chip.