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But the sanctions also cut HiSilicon off from the global network of factories (called “foundries” or “fabs” in the semiconductor industry) that are vital in manufacturing and testing the products. TSMC, the Taiwanese chip fab that was making chips for HiSilicon at the time, stopped supplying it in 2020. This further narrowed the options for Huawei. It could only turn to Chinese fabs, and that was a costly and time-consuming process. “Anytime you’ve designed a chip in a fab and then, for some reason, you cannot source…

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 — out this Friday on PS5 — is easily one of our most anticipated titles of the year, building upon Insomniac Games' original blockbuster tale to weave a new line for our spandex-wearing web crawlers. Yep, true to the name, this time we get to play as both Peter Parker and Miles Morales, as they team up to neutralise various new threats to New York City, which include the monstrous symbiote Venom and the beast-like Kraven the Hunter. In addition to refining web-swinging and chained flowy combat — a…

via Lucasfilm In 1999, Star Wars returned to cinemas, taking fans from grimy locations and civil war to gleaming metal and trade negotiations. While the start of the prequel trilogy has its merits and defenders today, many still do not grasp the meaning of its central dispute. Reddit is burning up with discourse about the franchise rookie’s confusion over why the Trade Federation had it out for the planet of Jar Jar Binks and the funky bunch. One user says when you consider it is all a product of Palpatine’s…

Gotham Knights — out this week on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X — sees the corrupt city in a period of decline, in the immediate aftermath of Bruce Wayne/ Batman's death. Trusted with an assortment of outdated tech at the Belfry, it is now up to his highly-trained sidekicks, the Bat-Family, to restore order around town. While WB Games Montréal was responsible for 2013's Batman: Arkham Origins, this new game is set in a completely different timeline. Drawing inspiration from DC Comics' “The New 52” storyline, the upcoming…

There are some interesting new rumors regarding when Intel’s other Arc graphics cards for desktops will finally arrive. According to sources sharing embargo guidelines with VideoCardz (opens in new tab), we will see Arc A770 Limited Edition unboxings all over the internet from Friday, September 30. Then reviewers will be given the green light to publish their works from Wednesday, October 5. However, please take these rumors with a pinch of salt, and note that the source says the dates could still possibly change.The…

The International Monetary Fund says that a Russian gas embargo could have a severe economic fallout in Europe leaving the continent in a deep recession. Russian gas cuts threaten to shutter Germany's economy and much of Europe's. (Hannibal Hanschke /…

The European Union has approved a sixth sanctions package against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, including a phased-in oil embargo, diplomats said on Thursday, with the measures set to take force on Friday.However, the package won’t include individual sanctions against Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a leading advocate of the invasion of Ukraine and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hungary, which earlier this week won a broad exemption from the oil embargo sanctions, opposed his inclusion on the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Tariffs on Russian energy imports could provide the EU with a lever to reduce Russia's financial gains from its oil and gas exports and allow it to flexibly react to Moscow's actions in Ukraine, a team of economists from the European think tank Bruegel, Harvard, and the University of Cologne propose in a letter to Science and in a working paper. Among the authors is the University of Cologne's energy…