Dell increases the speed that its Luna project falls apart
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This is a good thing

Last year, Dell released Concept Luna, which is a sustainable laptop with fewer screws, using components that are easier to upgrade and recycle. Now it has improved the concept, and its latest Luna device can be fully disassembled in around 30 seconds using a push-pin tool.

ASML attacks US trade restrictions on China
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It makes no sense and only benefits US companies

Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML CEO Peter Wennink has waded into the US’s moves to get the Netherlands to adopt new rules restricting exports to China make sense.

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.