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The Nintendo Switch was a renaissance for handheld gaming, but Valve’s Steam Deck took the idea of making AAA titles playable on-the-go to the next level, with support for graphically intense games usually reserved for PCs. The only problem? It’s expensive, and still hard to get your hands on if you’re not already on…Read more... The Nintendo Switch was a renaissance for handheld gaming, but Valve’s Steam Deck took the idea of making AAA titles playable on-the-go to the next level, with support for graphically intense…

Photo: GizmodoHe might not have as recognizable a name as corporate executives from companies like Apple and Microsoft, but next month, Sony will be saying goodbye to Masayasu Ito, who led the hardware development on the PS4, the PS5, and some of the company’s other notable gaming devices.As reported by Bloomberg and announced by Sony in an incredibly brief press release shared this morning, Masayasu Ito, the Executive Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Operation and representative director of Sony Interactive…

Nvidia has struggled in recent months due to lagging sales and the ongoing chip shortage, but now U.S. export restrictions aren’t making things any easier.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)U.S. officials are on a tear with their belated bid for chipmaking dominance. After passing a $52 billion bill that aims to jumpstart American semiconductor manufacturing, officials are now restricting companies from exporting powerful GPUs to rivals like China and Russia.Nvidia said in a Securities and Exchange Commission…

Nvidia Corp. NVDA -2.42% could lose as much as $400 million in quarterly sales after the U.S. imposed new licensing requirements on shipments of some of its most advanced chips to China, the chip maker said Wednesday.Nvidia, the U.S.’s largest chip maker by market value, said in a regulatory filing that it was notified on Friday that it would be required to get a license from the U.S. government before shipping certain cutting-edge chips to China and Russia. The company…

Screenshot: AMDAMD’s new Zen 4 desktop CPU lineup is its first since supply chains have started cleared up, but now it’s releasing in the middle of massive inflation. That hasn’t stopped Lisa Su from coming forward with what, on paper, is looking to be the world’s new fastest set of gaming chips, though. At least until competition like Intel unveils its own next generation lineup.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcH_7xsYtUkTo be fair, AMD’s initial lineup for its Ryzen 7000 desktop processors has been a bit of an open…

The chip industry that was bracing for a difficult period with laptop sales slumping is adjusting to a wider and sharper slowdown even as semiconductor companies prepare to spend billions of dollars on new factories.“The market is worse than we thought it would be,” Mark Murphy, chief financial officer at memory maker Micron Technology Inc., said Tuesday. On the same day, President Biden signed an investment plan that allocates more than $50 billion to finance…

Memory-chip maker Micron Technology cut its current-quarter revenue forecast and warned of a negative free cash flow in the following quarter as demand for chips used in personal computers and smartphones continues to drop. Fourth-quarter revenue may come in at or below the low end of its prior forecast, the company said, sending its shares down about 5 percent in premarket trading. Its earlier estimate of $7.2 billion, plus or minus $400 million, missed Wall Street targets in June. Micron, which last reported negative…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Intel could really use a few bucks from the recently passed (by Congress, at least) $280 billion CHIPS and Science ACT. The U.S. chipmaker shocked investors on Thursday, revealing it lost nearly $500 million in Q2, its first quarterly loss in years. The company cited weakened demand for PC components and downturns in the broader economy as the main culprits for the declines. Spoilers of the Week: July 29thOverall, Intel’s revenues were down 22% year over year. Those results have forced…

AMD Ryzen 7000Image: AMDQuick-thinking users have spotted a strange list on AMD’s resource page (since removed) that shed light on the names of its 7000 series CPUs. As first noticed by Videocardz on Wednesday, AMD’s list contained SKUs for its upcoming 7000 series processors, including the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900x, Ryzen 7 7700X, and Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite the bounty of 7s there, the sharpest among you will notice they are missing a Ryzen 7 7800X or any sort of Ryzen 3 7000 series CPU. That’s a bit of a shame for…

Photo: Ruslan Lytvyn (Shutterstock)It’s hard to get the majority of the U.S. Senate to agree on anything, but apparently more than 60% of the upper house of Congress agree that the country could use some more computer chips, $52 billion worth of chip manufacturing, to be exact.The Senate passed the CHIPS+ bill 64 to 33 Wednesday afternoon, gathering enough bipartisan support to send it on its way to the House of Representatives where, if everything goes as planned for leading Democrats, it will find itself on President…