‘It’s rumor and speculation. There’s nothing to it’: Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan dismisses worries that the company’s new hire gave it TSMC’s 2 nm IP secrets

Last week, TSMC reportedly opened an investigation into ex-employee Lo Wen-jen, who moved from retirement to a position at Intel. Lo held a position as the vice president of corporate strategy before retiring from TSMC in July. Lo was once involved in the research into mass production of chips at the Taiwanese chipmaking giant and…

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Bloodborne sees a massive performance boost thanks to PS4 emulator update, with hunters’ dreams becoming more accessible on Steam Deck

In the ongoing struggle to play Bloodborne on PC, PlayStation 4 emulator ShadPS4 is cleaving a path in the right direction as its most recent update (version 0.12.6) significantly boosts its performance and is more accessible for those with weaker hardware. Granted, setting up the emulation in the first place is not a simple task…

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Resurrected racer The Crew Unlimited swerves to avoid yet another death, as its curators issue ‘one of the most important updates we’ve ever released’

Open world online racer The Crew was recently resurrected by a team of enthusiast developers after its original developer Ubisoft wrote it off last year. But it turns out The Crew Unlimited was on course to return to the scrapyard relatively soon, had its new pit crew not nixed a peculiar bug that recalls the…

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Estimates peg Valve as a capitalism fusion reactor, making such ungodly money per employee that it’s no wonder Gabe Newell bought all those yachts and the whole damn yacht company

Is there a single games company that cultivates the kind of hushed, awed whispers that Valve does? As a private company, Gabe Newell’s baby doesn’t have to concern itself with putting out all the information that companies with masses of shareholders have to. And yet, it pretty much props up all of PC gaming with…

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