While we wait to see if Intel’s all-important 18A Panther Lake chips make a dent, the company is temporarily back in black, thanks to $5.7B of the money Trump used to shake down Intel for a stake, $5.2B from selling Altera, and $2B from Softbank. Foundry is still losing money.
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That was fast! I slapped down my $29 the day we wrote about Hallmark’s new ornament and it’s already here. Watch when I press the power button — and see how it compares to my Sega Genesis one Hallmark released in 2022! There’s an NES, SNES and OG Xbox too.
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If you thought it was just a CES concept that Asus would kill with fire, I’m sorry to bring bad news: the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI has arrived for $900 at Best Buy. It’ll be at Newegg tomorrow. It’s “just” a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 device, so AI is the “draw” here.
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