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June 30
- Samsung's 990 EVO 2TB SSD is now only $129 — one of its lowest prices to date
- Bitcoin Mt. Gox creditors will soon benefit from $9 billion payback — their BTC is over 10,000% more valuable than when it went missing
- TSMC's overseas expansion will only contribute 10% of the foundry's production capacity: Report
- Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler
- FreeDOS open-source text-based OS turns 30, still in active development and primarily used for retro gaming
- Sony cuts 250 jobs at optical media plant — recordable disc production to be phased out, says report
- SK hynix plans $74.6 billion investment to strengthen its memory chip business — hopes for AI business boost
- Akasa Gecko SSD Heatsink Review: A blower cooler for an SSD
- Microsoft's Copilot+ PC exclusive features are a bad joke, even for AI fans
June 29
- Overseas Ryzen 9000 CPU preorders shed light on potential MSRPs — Ryzen 9 9950X for $707, Ryzen 5 9600X for $332
- Hard drive, SSD puncher puts four holes through your drives — Puncher P30 destroys physical media with 12 tons of pressure
- Intel Arc Battlemage GPU surfaces — BMG-G31 silicon reportedly wields 32 Xe2 Cores
- Alibaba Cloud ditches Nvidia's interconnect in favor of Ethernet — tech giant uses own High Performance Network to connect 15,000 GPUs inside data center
- Laptop mod lets you type in Morse code by slamming the lid shut at the correct rhythm — No parties involved take responsibility for damage to the screen, hinge, or sanity
- Best Buy listings show Ryzen AI 300 laptops coming on July 28 — retailer moves availability date back by two weeks
- AI becomes leading server workload as shipments of other servers drop
- ASRock B760M Pro RS Review: Affordable, and ample M.2
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops suffer compatibility issues with many games — even Intel's integrated Arc Graphics is up to 3x faster
- Samsung reportedly plans to join UALink Alliance — high-speed interconnect could power its next-gen chips
June 28
- MSI's Titan 18 Pro Ryzen Edition ships with monster specs — Ryzen 9 7945HX3D returns alongside RTX 4090
- AMD's new consumer CPUs reportedly suffer a slight delay — Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point launch seemingly pushed to July 28
- Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider increases use of cryptocurrency mining facilities — CoreWeave expands contract as miners pivot to AI
- AMD's superb value Ryzen 7 5700X3D drops to all-time low of $192
- Intel prepping at least five new Battlemage GPU models — new PCI IDs added to Linux 6.11 kernel
- TP-Link Archer GE800 Wi-Fi 7 gaming router promises scorching performance, 10 Gbps ports, and thankfully eschews arachnid-style antennas
- Steam gets built-in game recording, instant replay, and clip editing — available in beta on Steam Deck or Steam Overlay
- $10,000 AI-generated, 3D-printed liquid nitrogen container tested — supercools CPUs up to 3 times faster than standard pots
- SK hynix jumps on the AI bandwagon with its first PCIe 5.0 SSD
- The coolest stuff at Rapid + TCT 2024, the world's largest 3D printing event — Our first look at new 3D printers, filaments, and more
- Chinese memory maker gets $2.4 billion to build HBM for AI processors — Shanghai packaging facility to open in 2026
- Thunderbird packs up to 6,144 CPU cores into a single AI accelerator and scales up to 360,000 cores — InspireSemi's RISC-V 'supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip' touts higher performance than Nvidia GPUs
- Sam Altman-backed AI processor venture hires ex-Apple engineer to lead hardware development
- Lian Li Hydroshift LCD 360S Review: An innovative approach to tubing
- AMD Anti-Lag 2 sees production launch with latest drivers — FSR 3.1 also arrives for more games
June 27
- Hori announces official Valve-licensed Steam Controller — launches on Halloween in four colors
- Asus revises its Dual Radeon RX 6600 for the third time — smaller footprint, better cooling, same performance
- Japan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bands
- Lenovo adopts Chinese Loongson CPUs for cloud servers — 16-core Loongson 3C5000 chips necessary to rebuff US sanctions
- Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened
- Open Sora can create AI-generated videos on an RTX 3090 GPU, but memory capacity limits it to 4-second 240p clips
- Microsoft and Amazon announce Xbox app support for select Fire Sticks — Xbox Cloud Gaming comes to the masses
- Kirigami computer has high-density memory and doesn't need electricity — researchers demo new mechanical computing design
- New smartphone SIM card has faster embedded CPU core — single RISC-V core claimed to help deliver 10x storage, 10x faster transfers, improved security
- Alienware bundle knocks $700 off the price of Aurora R16 PC and our favorite 34-inch Alienware OLED monitor
- 'Believe it' You can use a Raspberry Pi to detect Naruto hand seals with the power of AI
- Blacklisted Huawei intros first consumer SSDs — KitStore Xtreme 200 lineup stretches up to 4TB
- Boot loop delays Microsoft's forced Windows 11 Version 23H2's rollout — controversial update hits a roadblock
- Consumer DRAM, VRAM pricing to rise as much as 8% in the coming quarter, TrendForce predicts
- Intel Core Ultra 7 258V mobile processor matches top Ryzen 'Phoenix' chips in BAPCO performance charts
- SSD shredder destroys hundreds of SSDs and flash drives per hour, also eats smartphones — Verity Systems' MediaGone Media Shredder retails for $12,600
- Chinese chipmaker samples 128 core server CPU with chiplets — Infinity Fabric-like interconnect in Loongson's 3E6000 combines four chips into one
- Micron is the last memory maker to join the EUV party — company aims for EUV DRAM mass production in 2025
- The death of Windows 10 ignites PC market rebound — market projected to be up 5% this year, 8% in 2025
- Frore unveils waterproof AirJet Mini Sport solid-state active cooling device — fanless cooling solution can now be used underwater
- Intel launches optical compute interconnect chiplet: Adding 4 Tbps optical connectivity to CPUs or GPUs
- Intel's EMIB packaging tech is now supported by industry-standard design and test tools
June 26
- South Korean telecom company attacks customers with malware — over 600,000 torrent users report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs
- These Raspberry Pi arcade cabinets are designed for easy portability, making them ideal to take to conventions.
- AMD to present Neural Texture Block Compression — rivals Nvidia's texture compression research
- Windows 1.0 goes back to the future with the help of Raspberry Pi – PicoVision and emulation let you GUI like it's 1985
- Nvidia Omniverse used by researchers to analyze and improve stacked chip designs in 3D
- Leaked Lunar Lake's Ultra 7 chip debuts in Geekbench database — impressive performance from low-power chips
- DEC PDP-10 owned by Microsoft co-founder coming to auction — $30k reserve on mainframe model behind firm's first commercial software
- Back down to its lowest-ever price, snag AMD's Ryzen 9 7900X3D for just $329
- AMD's new Zen 5 chip up to 55% faster than Intel's Core i9-13900K in leaked benchmark — AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X purportedly shines in AVX workloads
- AI researchers run AI chatbots at a lightbulb-esque 13 watts with no performance loss — stripping matrix multiplication from LLMs yields massive gains
- Raspberry Pi 5 patch boosts performance up to 18% via NUMA emulation — Geekbench tests reveal gains in both single and multi-threaded performance
- CPU vs GPU: We tested 16 hardware combinations to show which upgrade will boost your gaming performance the most
- Olimex Neo6502pc delivers Apple II emulation with modern peripherals — W65C02 and RP2040 co-processor in one $32 SBC
- Analysts say average laptop RAM quota will reach 11.8GB in 2024 — up 12% year-on-year
- Sohu AI chip claimed to run models 20x faster and cheaper than Nvidia H100 GPUs
- AMD MI300X performance compared with Nvidia H100 — low-level benchmarks testing cache, latency, inference, and more show strong results for a single GPU
- Taiwanese research firm says TSMC will maintain foundry lead until at least 2032 — US expected to account for 28% of leading edge manufacturing
June 25
- Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super using AD102 GPU appears — a fresh variant surfaces with a harvested RTX 4090 die
- Raspberry Pi Connect expanded to provide SSH access, support for older models
- AMD MI300X posts fastest ever Geekbench 6 OpenCL score — 19% faster than RTX 4090, and only eight times as expensive
- Crucial's hyper-fast 4TB T700 PCIe Gen 5 SSD drops to its lowest-ever price of 9 cents per GB
- Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon X Elite in PassMark: Fails to Beat Apple's M3
- AMD talks 1.2 million GPU AI supercomputer to compete with Nvidia — 30X more GPUs than world's fastest supercomputer
- Windows adds custom widgets called Companions to the Start Menu – here's how to make and use your own
- Organ-on-chip market for drug testing expected to see tenfold growth to $1.3 billion by 2032
- NZXT H7 Flow (2024) Review: Playing it safe
- Microsoft now forces automatic OneDrive backups — feature enabled during clean Windows installs, users surprised with desktop icons and files
- Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL Review: Low profile, affordable price
- Raspberry Pi Pico PCB uses all 26 pins in custom capacitive touch sensor
- Intel Core Ultra 200V specs leak points to nine Lunar Lake SKUs and a single Ultra 9 variant
- How to Fix CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED Errors in Windows
- How to Fix the KMODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED BSOD
June 24
- These DIY-friendly motherboards will help make your next computer build effortless
- This custom Raspberry Pi PC is battery-powered, has a built-in handle, and glows with RGB LEDs
- AMD's upcoming Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 beats the company's current best mobile chip – Strix Point ES Geekbench results show big improvements
- Save $300 off this RTX 4070-powered HP Omen Transcend 14 laptop with OLED display
- Intel’s Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake to launch this fall: Rumored launch dates revealed
- Pocket Z project hopes to rekindle pocket PC form factor — with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W inside
- Intel could be prepping 24-core Arrow Lake-H processors for notebooks
- LG Tandem OLED display hits mass production — Dell XPS 13 is the super vibrant display's first design win
- Surface Copilot+ PCs the most repairable ever — iFixit praises Microsoft's change in philosophy
June 23
- PC designed to be air cooled at the center of a massive fan — centrifugal force says no
- Nvidia to sell its advanced AI processors to Middle East countries amid tough US export rules
- Mechanical keyboard with see-through chassis, LED matrix, TFT display, scroll wheel, and panic lever becomes instant Kickstarter success
- AMD's Strix Halo being tested with 128GB RAM — shipping records reveal more about extreme 120W APU
- The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU is now only $246 at Amazon
- Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Super WindForce Max OC minimizes cable protrusion with hidden power connector
- Researchers hope to quash AI hallucination bugs that stem from words with more than one meaning
- Microsoft Defender flags text file containing ‘This content is no longer available.’ as a severe threat
- Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week
- Nvidia who? Green team branding flies under the public radar — triple trillion dollar firm fails to enter the top 100 Interbrand survey
- HighPoint Rocket 1608A add-in card review: More drives, more power
June 22
- Firmware flaw affects numerous generations of Intel CPUs — UEFI code execution vulnerability found for Intel CPUs from 14th Gen Raptor Lake to 6th Gen Skylake CPUs, and TPM will not save you
- Seagate opens an eBay store to sell refurbished hard drives — 22TB drives for $311
- This Raspberry Pi rover bot is named Floyd and is super sassy, thanks to Chat GPT
- Nvidia's next-gen DLSS may leverage AI — tech will be able to generate in-game textures, characters, and objects from scratch
- Asus TUF 24-inch 165 Hz IPS gaming monitor is only $99 at Newegg
- Microsoft shelves its underwater data center — Project Natick had fewer server failures compared to servers on land
- Qualcomm makes its AI models available to app developers
- U.S. bans Kaspersky and hands out sanctions to execs — 100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect
- Smuggler busted with 596 Intel Xeon CPUs valued at $1.5 million — trafficker faces seven-year jailtime and over $256K fine
- Early Zen 5 CPU benchmarks support AMD's IPC claims — Ryzen AI 9 365 shows 15% improvement over the previous gen
- U.S. to curb investments in China's AI and semiconductor sectors
- VKD3D Proton update improves OpenVR and Nvidia Reflex performance
- Keychron Q1 HE Review: The wireless HE keyboard you've been waiting for
- Snapdragon X Elite laptops last 15+ hours on our battery test, but Intel systems not that far behind
June 21
- Several AI companies said to be ignoring robots dot txt exclusion, scraping content without permission: report
- AI titans Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly had a standoff over Microsoft's use of B200 AI GPUs in its own server rooms
- Gigabyte launches AI TOP GPUs — AMD reference-like designs in fancy boxes
- Biwin demos 14.5 GB/s SSD with Maxio controller — still racing to release the first non-Phison PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD
- DisplayPort vs. HDMI: Which Is Better For Gaming?
- Now that EVGA has quit Nvidia, extreme overclocker Kingpin hints at GPU partnership with PNY
- Get $100 off Alienware's AW3225QF curved gaming monitor — 4K QD-OLED visuals with a blistering 240 Hz refresh rate
- Raspberry Pi used to count bees — Brazilian researchers use a Pi Zero 2 W and some AI to help keep hives healthy
- Fire at Micron's Taichung, Taiwan facility reportedly caused by high-pressure gas leak — no injuries reported, fab operating normally
- AMD's Ryzen 8000G lineup gets a price drop — high-end integrated graphics get cheaper ahead of 9000-series release
- Retro Pocket 386 Win 95 laptop arrives for less than $200 — comes with 40MHz 386 SX processor, 8 MB RAM, and replaceable graphics
- Western Digital My Passport (6TB) review: spacious and stocky
- Intelbroker claims they hacked Apple in the same week as AMD
- Save 10% on Elgato's Stream Deck+ Studio Controller and up your streaming game
June 20
- Microsoft kills Win + C shortcut to promote dedicated Copilot key, drive PC sales
- Modder builds a totally fanless 'retro-futuristic' mini PC — attached to a USB4-powered bank of SSDs
- Gone, but not forgotten: Recall feature disappears from latest Windows Insider builds
- Intel Battlemage display drivers coming soon for Linux — functional drivers to focus on power efficiency first
- TSMC explores using 510x515 mm rectangular silicon wafers — tripling the usable area of current 300mm diameter tech
- This Raspberry Pi Pico project will sort your candies by color
- Minisforum DEG1 eGPU dock launched at $99 — open-air device supports up to RTX 4090 and OCuLink connections
- SkatterBencher is working on a telemetry tool for the Raspberry Pi
- Supercomputer designer shrinks the Cray C90 to wristwatch size … sort of
- Copilot+ PCs are getting better at gaming, says Microsoft — Prism optimizations and anti-cheat software compatibility celebrated
- Valkyrie Vind SL125 Review: Anime aesthetic meets underwhelming performance
- AMD provides update on data breach — says it won't 'have a material impact' on business
- TSMC N3 production and packaging prices to increase by up to 20%, say reports
June 19
- NAND and DRAM prices dropping in spot market, continuing downward trend
- New Samsung SSDs are allegedly right around the corner — 990 Evo Plus and 9100 Pro trademarks have surfaced
- Geekom introduces AX8 Mini PC with 13th Gen Intel and AMD Ryzen 8000 CPU support
- Intel 3 '3nm-class' process technology is in high-volume production: Intel
- Want a baby Macintosh Quadra 700? You can build one using Raspberry Pi
- AMD enhances multi-GPU support in latest ROCm update: up to four RX or Pro GPUs supported, official support added for Pro W7900 Dual Slot
- Jonsbo introduces T6 ITX walnut handled case in metal and wood — available in black or silver
- Intel offers new guidance on 13th and 14th Gen CPU instability — but no definitive fix yet
- This 2023 Razer Blade 15 gaming laptop comes with a whopping $1,000 discount — All-time low price
- Micron to expand production of HBM3E memory across the world to increase HBM market share: Report
- Fractal Design Mood fabric covered tower ITX case launched — comes in black or gray to match your living room
- Framework embraces RISC-V processor trend with new laptop mainboard — partners with DeepComputing for StarFive JH7110 SoC board
- Rode Streamer X Review: Stream Dream?
- AMD working with law enforcement after reports of massive data breach — hack may have uncovered future product details
June 18
- Nvidia is now the world's most valuable company by market cap, ahead of Apple, Microsoft, and Google
- TikTok mistakenly refunds Bambu Lab A1 3D printer buyers — newer, non-faulty models flagged along with those that pose a safety risk
- Gigabyte AI TOP 100E SSD features incredible 219,000 TBW endurance rating — 183X more than the venerable Samsung 990 Pro
- Patent hoarder sues Micron for up to $480 million for infringement — South Korean firm Mimir IP acquired the patents from SK hynix in May
- AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 9000 release dates and prices seemingly leak — retailers peg July 15 and 31 for laptops and desktop CPUs
- 4TB Crucial P3 Plus SSD is down to 5 cents per GB, for a limited time only
- Samsung GPU investment plan given green light — digital twins and lithography purposes likely, consumer GPU improbable
- Copilot+ PC launch live blog: Testing the new Snapdragon Laptops
- Microsoft Copilot+ PCs available now — here are all the Snapdragon Elite X laptops you can buy today
- Carbon fiber hewn structural batteries heralded as 'massless' solution for lighter devices
- TSMC suspends CoWoS fab construction because of archeological findings
- Samsung Texas fab delayed for 2nm upgrade to face-off with TSMC and Intel, according to Korean media
- Nuphy Halo75 V2 Review: An Affordable Enthusiast Mechanical Keyboard
- Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.3.0 library adds support for Battlemage GPUs, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake CPUs — Xe2 graphics edge closer
- What is CAMM2? Meet the faster, smaller, upgradeable new memory standard
June 17
- ASRock PG27QFT2A 180 Hz gaming monitor review: Serious performance and value
- World's smallest, cheapest network switch developed by US high school robotics team — Murex Robotics makes the hardware fully open-source
- Revolutionary Samsung tech that enables stacking HBM memory on CPU or GPU arrives this year — SAINT-D HBM scheduled for 2024 rollout, says report
- $7 MicroMac project recreates a Macintosh 128k on the Raspberry Pi Pico
- IBM and AIST collaborate on 10,000-qubit quantum computer — 75x more qubits than rivals
- Melted Minitel terminal rescued from fire, listed for $500 — seller says it's a piece of art
- Major Chinese semiconductor company goes bankrupt — 23 others recently withdrew IPO applications
- Kioxia ends production cutting strategy — 3D NAND prices could stabilize or decline
- Zephyr launches 'world's first' Nvidia RTX 4070 ITX form factor card — dual-slot and just 172mm long
- Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits a blazing 128 GT/s
June 16
- $2.4 million Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center with full liquid cooling immersion system, no bedrooms
- Windows 11 bug eats CPU resources — Microsoft identifies Cross Device Service as cause, no fix ready yet
- DNA data preserved in amber-like polymer by MIT scientists — Jurassic Park inspires new long-term 'T-REX' preservation method
- DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — 'Countering CCP Drones Act' would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate
- How to use SSH on Android with JuiceSSH
- AMD’s Ryzen AI 300-series APUs could offer graphics performance on a par with low-end discrete GPUs
- Sunfounder Pironman 5 Review: Some Avenging Assembly required
- Jensen Huang tells Caltech grads to pursue 'zero-billion-dollar markets' — hopes to inspire the next big tech leaders
- Logitech G Pro X 2 Lightspeed Review: Gamers only
- Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues
June 15
- Cooler Master bundles free 27-inch 240 Hz gaming monitor with 850W fanless power supply — X Silent Edge Platinum 850 goes up for preorder at $399
- AMD RDNA 3 and Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs: Everything we know
- Scientists used a retired supercomputer to prep for NASA’s Roman mission — Argonne Theta supercomputer created nearly four million simulated images
- Asetek halts revenue guidance as large customers cancel orders
- Despite controversy, Recall adds new ‘Screenray’ feature, which analyzes current desktop contents
- Ryzen 9 7950X3D gaming CPU drops to $491, only $5 more expensive than the regular Ryzen 9 7950X
- Asus launches budget-friendly overclocking motherboard — Z790-AYW WIFI W debuts with DDR5-8000+ support
- Asus introduces compact Nvidia GPUs for SFF PCs — Prime lineup includes RTX 4060 Ti, RTX 4070, and RTX 4070 Super
- Fixing Windows Update or Upgrade into Black Screen
- XFX's new GPUs with swappable fans go up for sale — RX 7900 XTX start at $999 and RX 7800 XT at $549
- What is an AI PC and do you actually need one?
- Celebrate Father's Day with a new iBUYPOWER gaming PC
- Clevetura CLVX 1 Wireless Keyboard Review: Touch on Keys
- Intel slapped with class action lawsuit over foundry revenues — litigants allege securities fraud
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4S Review: An Industrial Legacy
- 55-year-old bug found in 'Lunar Landing,' the most popular video game from the 70's
- Even supercomputers can't figure out if you're good enough to beat Mario levels, researchers find
- Woman busted smuggling 350 Nintendo Switch game cards in her bra — Chinese customs officials intercept smuggler at checkpoint
- Intel denies reports that it identified a root cause for Core i9 crashing issues — investigation continues
June 14
- EVGA's classified AMD motherboard has been declassified — EVGA X670E Classified prototype motherboard fetches over $1,300
- Lofree Edge Review: Thin, light, and more expensive than Apple’s Magic Keyboard
- Samsung's ultrawide 49-inch OLED Odyssey G9 monitor is back down to its all-time lowest price
- Framework disses other PC makers about overuse of AI branding
- A single modern AI GPU consumes up to 3.7 MWh of power per year — GPUs sold last year alone consumed more power than 1.3 million homes
- AMD confirms Ryzen AI 300 PCs won't feature Copilot+ features at launch — will arrive via Windows Update later this year
- AMD patents configurable multi-chiplet GPU — illustration shows three dies
- Lexar SL500 and Professional SL600 Review: More 20 Gbps options
- Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned
- PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 standards hit a roadblock — compliance slowdown could lead to broader delays
- XFX's new GPU will have swappable fans — Phoenix Nirvana series going global with its interchangeable fan design
- China only produces 1% of critical litho chipmaking tools, exposing it to harsh US sanctions — investment in domestic toolmakers looks to reverse the trend
- Russian chipmaker unveils Raspberry Pi competitor — despite US sanction woes, Elbrus packs its homegrown chip into the smallest form factor yet
- GPU-boosting GDDR7 memory coming this year — SK hynix retracts comments, launching in Q4
- Microsoft recalls Recall: Controversial AI feature won't be in Copilot+ Windows build at launch
June 13
- Snapdragon X Elite in the wild is allegedly slower than iPhone 12 — first benchmarks of Samsung Book4 Edge disappoint
- Raspberry Pi powers creepy one-eyed, head-swiveling stuffed koala assistant with ChatGPT
- Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard simulation
- Microsoft dev shares story behind iconic Windows screensavers — 3D Pipes, 3D Maze, and more
- Snag Adata's superfast 4TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade SSD for only 5 cents per GB
- Sanctions-defying chip design tools that work on China chipmakers' Huawei and Phytium processors introduced by China-based firm
- Intel fires back at AMD's AI benchmarks, shares results claiming current-gen Xeon chips are faster at AI than AMD's next-gen 128-core EPYC Turin
- Samsung's new roadmap unveils its 2nm process nodes and outlines backside power delivery plans
- US sanctions PC cooling and power supply maker DeepCool for selling products to Russia, fueling its war efforts in Ukraine
- Intel Core i5-14400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Faceoff: AMD Delivers a Value Beatdown
- Basemark Breaking Limit benchmark tests ray traced gaming performance across diverse platforms — Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android
- PC Factory Worker amusement center opens in Japan — kids learn PC DIY with 'real CPU, memory, graphics card'
- Disgruntled ex-employee costs company over $600,000 after he deletes all 180 of its test servers — found server deletion scripts on Google
- WD unveils world's highest-capacity flash memory chip — 2Tb 3D QLC flash chips open the door to bigger and cheaper SSDs
- Experts Exchange takes a stand against AI-creep by blocking companies from scraping content and data from its community
- The world’s first RISC-V laptop gets a big upgrade — DeepComputing doubled the core count, increased clocks to 2 GHz, and added AI capabilities
- Off means off: Splave Edition PSU has no residual power, discharges as soon as you flick the switch
- Rampant speculation of blacklisted Huawei becoming China’s largest beef importer stems from an odd payment method for telecom equipment
- AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor during her time at IBM
June 12
- ASRock doubles memory on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT — budget gaming GPU has 8GB GDDR6 for $169
- China's chip exports are booming but may be nearing overcapacity, stoking fears of chip glut — SMIC revenues rise as profits fall
- Elegoo's Neptune 4 Pro is now only $284
- Japanese researchers testing particle accelerator for chipmaking — researchers claim EUV-like lithography capabilities
- The US is spending more money on chip manufacturing construction this year than the previous 28 years combined
- Tiny X-Ray vision chip can peer through nearby objects, like cardboard boxes and even walls — researchers say it is small enough to fit into a smartphone
- Realtek's new SSD controller hits 14 GB/s and 2.5M IOPS — roadmap also reveals its mainstream PCIe Gen5 and Gen4 controllers
- Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account
- Windows security hole allows attackers to install malware via Wi-Fi — new patch plugs gaping vulnerability
- AMD updates 3D V-Cache optimizer driver ahead of Ryzen 9000X3D launch
- MediaTek reportedly preps Arm processors for Windows laptops — will arrive as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires
- Startup claims it can boost any processor's performance by 100X — Flow Computing introduces its 'CPU 2.0' architecture
- Gigabyte Aorus FO32U2P 240 Hz 4K OLED gaming monitor review: High style, high performance
- The coolest case mods of Computex 2024
- Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman one day after criticizing Apple for using ChatGPT
- Amazon Web Services introduces record 896-core instance — prices range from $150 to $400 per hour
- Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days
June 11
- White House seeks to restrict China’s access to GAA chip technology and the high bandwidth memory that's critical for AI accelerators
- You can use a full-sized GPU with ASRock's new Mini PC — DeskMate X600 only for China, priced at roughly $193 USD
- Inside Micro Center's new North Carolina superstore
- Unexpected Intel military chip contract drained $3 billion from CHIPS Act, Senate mulls auction to restore funds
- Nvidia will increase shader counts but not ROPS on RTX 50-series GPUs — except on the lowest tier GB207, according to leak
- Netgear's latest Wi-Fi 7 routers cost less and pack fewer features — but don't call them cheap
- AMD RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT graphics cards get a new game bundle — get Company of Heroes 3 and Lies of P for 'free' with your new GPU
- Single-line Intel Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%
- Musk says he'll ban all Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at the OS level — claims it would represent a massive security risk
- AMD's Ryzen 9000 won't beat the previous-gen X3D models in gaming, but they'll be close — improved 3D V-Cache coming, too
- AMD's 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor drops to its lowest-ever price — currently cheaper than the 7800X3D
- UpHere C5C and D6Sec Air Coolers Review: Decent performance for less than $20
- Nvidia shipped 3.76M data center GPUs in 2023 — dominates business with 98% revenue share
- Intel Israel factory expansion cancellation rumors unfounded according to official statements
- Raspberry Pi IPO set to raise $689 million
June 10
- MSI's M.2 add-in card looks like a GPU, sports two hot-swap PCIe Gen 5 SSD slots
- Apple Intelligence: Siri gets an LLM brain transplant, ChatGPT integration, and Genmojis
- Early sample of AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X is only 12% quicker than Ryzen 5 7600X in CPU-Z benchmark
- Multiple ChatGPT instances work together to find and exploit security flaws — teams of LLMs tested by UIUC beat single bots and dedicated software
- AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips
- This graphics card makes it easy to have more than four displays — sub-$100 DisplayLink adapter uses a PCIe x1 slot
- Apple announces visionOS 2 supporting Dual 4K resolution with Mac Virtual Display, Vision Pro sales go global June 28
- Newegg offers up a GTX 1080 Ti for $1.63, if you ignore the $400 shipping — strange GPU 'bargain' sparks many questions
- Lenovo's RTX 4060-Powered Legion Slim 5 gaming laptop is down to its lowest-ever price of $849
- Linux Snapdragon X Elite laptop Shown at Computex — Tuxedo OEM hopes to ship by the end of the year
- Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks show doubled cache bandwidth improvements — leaked AIDA64 benchmarks point to much faster L1 and L2 cache
- Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools
- Microsoft announces three new Xbox console options and hints at its Xbox handheld plans
June 9
- The Samsung Odyssey G50A 27-inch QHD IPS monitor is now just $255 at Amazon
- World's first chip-based 3D printer is smaller than a coin — benefits from having no moving parts
- HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware
- Office 2007 infosec researcher recalls panic after major bug announcement turned out to be a false positive
- This PSU has enough juice to power four RTX 4090s — the HELA 2500R comes with four 12V-2x6 connectors and requires a special wall plug
- Titan Army P27A2R 180 Hz gaming monitor review: No frills value and performance
- Playdate $400K consoles theft misery ends with mysterious return of consignment — investigations 'closing in' on the perps
- This AIO cooler is designed to cool two CPUs at once — SilverStone’s new XE360-Dual
June 8
- M3 MacBook Air 16GB 13-inch laptop is on sale for $1,149
- GeForce RTX 50 series laptop GPUs reportedly leaked — mobile Blackwell with GDDR7 en route for 2025
- PowerColor's new tech uses the NPU to reduce gaming power usage — vendor-provided benchmarks show up to 22.4% lower power consumption
- Intel Arc GPUs shown in all flavors — BTF design with hidden connectors, blower-type coolers, and liquid-cooled GPUs
- Microsoft backtracks on new Recall feature — enhancing Recall's security and making it an opt-in decision
- Anycubic Kobra 3 Review: The First Multicolor Clone
- How to work with layers and filters in GIMP
June 7
- Asus RT-AX57 Go Wi-Fi 6 router review: Pocket-sized router for travel
- Jensen signs PNY RTX 4070 Super blower card at Computex — proves Nvidia doesn't hate blower-style coolers
- Gigabyte shows off Aorus Xtreme and Xtreme Ice motherboards, GPUs at Computex
- Maker recreates classic Winamp MP3 player in real life with the Linamp, Llamas not included
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 approaches Ryzen 7945HX3D Geekbench performance while chilling in Silent Mode
- Lian Li releases 'wireless' ARGB Strimer v3 lighting — also announces affordable PC cases at Computex
- This powerful MSI Aegis R2 (RTX 4070 Super, Core i7-14700KF) is on sale for under $1,600 — great value for a prebuilt gaming PC
- How to manage Windows Updates with WinGet (Microsoft.AppInstaller)
- Silicon Motion's PCIe 5.0 SSD controller is finally coming in Q4 — low-power SSDs will leverage SM2508
- AI-focused MSI desktop has a 1080p touch screen built into the front of its chassis
- Geometric Future's Model 0 Flamingo is a PC case that folds around your Mini-ITX motherboard
June 6
- Hygon 8-core Chinese CPU matches Zen 2 multi-threaded performance in Geekbench
- NZXT's impressive H7 Flow mid-tower high-airflow PC case now only $84
- Adata shows off hybrid air/water cooling tower at Computex — new PSUs and PCIe 5.0 SSDs also on deck
- ASRock Z890 Taichi Aqua comes with ten USB Type-C ports, two being Thunderbolt ports
- Acemagic's X1 is a dual-screen laptop you might actually want to use
- Best of Computex 2024: Hardware Evolution Meets the AI Revolution
- Noctua NH-D15 G2 update has quieter fans, more heatpipes, new offset design
- Computex 2024 Day Three Wrap-Up: Cheap PCIe 5.0 SSDs, Samsung’s AI monitors, cases galore, and more
- Teamgroup shows off SSD cooling including a 120mm radiator — seems a bit overkill for 12W M.2 SSDs
- Corsair launches its largest case ever — Obsidian 9000D can fit two motherboards, 11 drives, and a wind tunnel's worth of fans
- Fractal announces its first chair and headset, also shows off some cases
- Nvidia's grasp of desktop GPU market balloons to 88% — AMD has just 12%, Intel negligible, says JPR
- ASRock unveils a slew of Arrow Lake-compatible motherboards, including a new Taichi variant with CAMM2 memory
- SK hynix and HLDS revive the optical-era Super Multi brand for mainstream flash products – new PS5 Slim cooler and higher-capacity external SSDs also shown
- Fractal Design Raspberry Pi North case teased — but Fractal indicates it will remain a Computex curiosity
- Noctua creates a monstrous cooler for Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip
- Intel's Gaudi 3 will cost half the price of Nvidia's H100
- Noctua shows off pumpless AIO liquid cooler prototype that uses evaporative cooling
- Teamgroup's T-Force Dark AirFlow D5 memory cooler looks like a GPU cooler
- Patriot preps affordable 14 GB/s PCIe Gen5 SSD — Maxiotek controller and YMTC 3D NAND
June 5
- Cougar's newest PC case includes an RGB turntable for your action figures — new and refreshed cases at Computex
- Samsung refreshes Odyssey, Smart Monitor, and ViewFinity monitors with AI technology
- Thermaltake unveils two mid-tower cases supporting motherboards with backside power delivery
- be quiet! announces highly configurable PC cases and illuminated fans that bring light into the darkness
- This overpowered RTX 4090 card has a built-in water block, a screen and a modular AIO
- Upgrade to an Acer Nitro 27-inch gaming monitor with a 170 Hz refresh rate for only $149
- Maxsun's new mini-ITX motherboard puts the GPU slot on its backside
- DIY mini PC kit boasts direct PCIe connection to eGPU with faster speeds than Thunderbolt 4
- Computex 2024 Day Two Wrap-Up: Intel Xeon 6, CAMM2 memory, and wild cases from InWin and Phanteks
- Cooler Master showcases a massive 57-inch super ultrawide dual-4K Mini LED gaming monitor
- Ducky One X keyboard first to use Cherry's innovative induction switches
- Amazon Project PI uses AI to detect damaged goods before shipping — unlikely to help with PC parts issues, though
- AOC Agon Pro AG456UCZD 45-inch ultra-wide OLED gaming monitor review: Extreme curve and speedy performance
- ASRock's 32-inch, 480 Hz OLED monitor is a feast for the eyes and your router
- InWin flexes its glass-bending skills with new Signature case — Infinite and F3 revealed at Computex 2024
- Intel launching new AI starter app for dummies — AI Playground will leverage Intel Arc GPUs
- ASRock shows off new AMD Ryzen 9000 motherboards
- Adata demonstrates XPG Nia handheld with upgradable RAM and SSD at Computex – claims to be the first to support LPCAMM2
- A curious use case for CAMM2 memory modules on desktops: Liquid cooling
- Phanteks Evolv X2 is the perfect showcase PC chassis — floating motherboard tray and recessed fans a delight
- SureCore announces low power cryogenic memory technology for quantum computing — operates at temperatures as low as 4 Kelvin
- Kingston unveils new CAMM2 RAM modules at Computex — bold new RAM form factor comes to PC on MSI and Asus boards
- Intel CEO says China must make its own chips if sanctions become too restrictive, points to EUV as key cutoff point
June 4
- Intel Launches 144-core 'Sierra Forrest' Xeon 6 CPUs, Granite Rapids Follows in Q3
- 2800W Super Flower PSU boasts four 12V-2x6 power connectors — good for quad GPU setups used for AI training, not gaming
- Seasonic's latest big and silent 1,600W PSU gets a quieter 120mm Noctua fan upgrade
- Nvidia unveils 4K 120FPS AV1 capture and commits to implementing multi-monitor RTX HDR support — new game ready driver adds Pax Dei and Elden Ring Shadow
- Computex 2024 Day One Wrap-Up: Intel Lunar Lake gets official, handheld gaming consoles rule, and Arm seeks PC domination
- MSI launches AI+ laptops for gamers and creators, boasting 100 to 542 TOPS
- DeepCool introduces new coolers, power supplies, fans and PC cases — with Pixel silicone bits offering decorative options
- Cooler Master shows off programmable, mini arcade machine that sits on your desk
- Nvidia CEO says Samsung HBM3e not yet ready for AI accelerator certification — Jensen Huang suggests more engineering work is required
- Asus brings the lightning with hammer-shaped Mjolnir UPS, innovative Thor PSUs
- Zotac's Zone handheld gaming PC has adjustable triggers, eye-popping AMOLED display
- AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor now only $339
- New TSMC chairman CC Wei brands OpenAI's Sam Altman 'too aggressive for me to believe'
- Hyte shows off new coolers, lighting, internal USB header, promises RGB and fan control of anything plugged into motherboard headers
- Team Group shows off new PCIe 5.0 SSDs for AI, SSD coolers, and a Portable SSD with a Bluetooth tag at Computex 2024
- Raspberry Pi AI Kit Review: Brainiac
- MSI's Claw 8 AI+ is first Lunar Lake handheld gaming console, comes in Fallout-themed version
- Intel unwraps Lunar Lake architecture: Up to 68% IPC gain for E-cores, 14% IPC gain for P-Cores
- Qualcomm CEO says Arm taking 50% of the Windows PC market in five years is realistic — some OEMs expect Snapdragon chips to be 60% of their sales within three years
- Cooler Master's MasterHUB takes a modular approach to control panels — the Stream Deck competitor will launch this summer
June 3
- Arm Holdings CEO expects Arm chips to capture 50% or more of PC market space by 2029
- Audio Makes All The Difference When It Comes To Heightening Game Play
- Asetek debuts revolutionary AI-optimized ECAM cold plate — constructed using high-resolution 3D metal printing in collaboration with Fabric8Labs
- VLC to support Nvidia's RTX Video HDR 'soon' — will join VSR on VLC for AI upscaling
- Watch Intel's Computex 2024 keynote live stream here at 11 pm ET, 8 pm PT or 3 am UTC
- Elon Musk wants to purchase 300,000 Blackwell B200 Nvidia AI GPUs — Hardware upgrades to improve X's Grok AI bot
- Computex 2024 Day Zero Wrap-Up: AI is everywhere, Ryzen 9000, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Qualcomm Snapdragon X for desktops
- Save $300 on Asus' 2024 ROG Zephyrus G14 with OLED display and RTX 4060
- Gigabyte goes all-in on AI with AI TOP-branded workstation motherboards, AMD and Intel GPUs, SSDs, and PSUs — plus Gigabyte software for local AI training
- Intel launches Green PC grading standard in China — partner OEMs prepare Bronze, Silver, and Gold-rated systems
- Nvidia app beta offers warranty-safe GPU tuning and improved stream recording
- Frore Airjet SSD cooling demo — actively cooled drive offers double the sustained performance
- Door slammed on last remaining easy Windows 11 local account setup workaround
- Asus's Azoth Extreme keyboard has a switch that changes its typing feel
- Asus puts color e-paper screen on a Zephyrus G14 lid: Dali concept brings a new level of customization to gaming laptops
- Asus' Zenbook S and TUF A14 combine next-gen AMD and Intel CPUs with premium aesthetics
- Qualcomm: Snapdragon coming to "all PC form factors," including desktops.
- AMD announces MI325X AI accelerator, reveals MI350 and MI400 plans at Computex
- Watch Qualcomm's Computex 2024 keynote live stream at 1:30 am ET / 10:30 pm PT / 5:30 am UTC
- AMD announces 3nm EPYC Turin with 192 cores and 384 threads — 5.4X faster than Intel Xeon in AI work, launches second half of 2024
- AMD debuts Radeon Pro GPU for AI workloads — Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot brings 6,144 shaders and 48GB ECC GDDR6 for $3,499
- AMD unwraps Ryzen AI 300 series ‘Strix Point’ processors — 50 TOPS of AI performance, Zen 5c density cores come to Ryzen 9 for the first time
- AMD announces Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors launch in July — 16% IPC improvement for four new Ryzen 9, 7, and 5 'Granite Ridge' processors
June 2
- Watch AMD's Computex 2024 keynote live stream here at 9:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm PT / 1:30 am UTC
- STMicroelectronics receives $2.2B to build the world’s first silicon carbide factory
- Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage
- Scientists demo robotic 'third thumb' — get a gaming advantage with an extra appendage
- Samsung Electronics union to strike for the first time on June 7, raising chip supply concerns
- Nvidia Rubin revealed as Blackwell successor, powerful Vera CPU coming too
- Windows Copilot will add GPU support in a future release — Nvidia details the advantages of high performance GPUs for AI workloads and more
- Nvidia announces 'SFF-ready' graphics card and case guidelines — cram an enthusiast class GPU into your mini-ITX system
- Nvidia announces Project G-Assist, an AI assistant for gaming with GeForce GPUs
- Watch three-person tank crew battle in World of Tanks — driver, spotter, and gunner all use custom physical controls
- Steam gamers hurry to upgrade to 32GB RAM, and Linux breaks above 2% user share milestone, in latest survey
- Hands-on with the overhauled and improved ROG Ally X: More and faster RAM 1TB SSD, 80Wh battery
- Watch Nvidia's Computex 2024 Keynote live stream here at 7 am ET / 4 am PT / 11 am UTC (June 2nd)
June 1
- 3D call me maybe: Acer’s new SpatialLabs camera live streams impressive 3D video in 8K, but few can view it
- IT distributor lists Intel's refreshed Xeon CPUs — Xeon W3500 Sapphire Rapids Refresh chips power new Lenovo workstations
- 10-year-old Nvidia GPU is still receiving love from vendors — Asus debuts GeForce GT 710 EVO with 2GB GDDR5 memory
- $5 million worth of stolen tools recovered thanks to Apple's AirTag — 12 secret storage facilities had around 15,000 construction tools
- Upgrade your gaming keyboard to the Asus ROG Strix Scope II for just $69
- RTX 4080 Super vs RX 7900 XTX GPU faceoff: Battle for the high-end