Earlier this year TSMC claimed the 40nm yield rates had improved from 30% to 60%, but good times don’t last long – a recent post at Digitimes suggests that the company is having another problem with the technology, with the yield rate dropping to 40%.

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China’s National University of Defense Technology has lately unveiled the “Milky Way One” supercomputer, which is capable of one quadrillion calculations per second at its peak speed, which means China has become the world’s second nation after the United States can develop a petaflop supercomputer.

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Arctic Cooling has just revealed the Arctic RC PRO, its newest RAM cooler which is compatible with both DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules.

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AMD did make quite a splash by launching the first ever DirectX 11-ready Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs, and the Radeon HD 5870 has also helped the company to retrieve the performance crown of single-GPU graphics card by beating NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285. Apparently, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 is something which deserves even higher expectations.

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