AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report
Premium Microsoft and Uber are both considering refining their AI strategies as costs mount.
IBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding
Premium Headquartered in Albany, New York, Anderon will operate a 300mm quantum wafer fab and offer its manufacturing services to competing quantum hardware vendors.
Imec builds world's first High-NA EUV-fabricated quantum dot qubit device
Premium Imec may have revealed quantum computing’s clearest path to industrial-scale manufacturing
Analyst says Nvidia poised to capture two-thirds of the x86 server CPU market from Intel and AMD with expected $20 billion in revenue
Premium Having become the main supplier of AI accelerators, Nvidia is now on track to outsell AMD and Intel with Vera CPUs and become a leading supplier of processors.
Reviews
Asus ROG Crosshair 2006 motherboard review: 20 years of ROG
Dark Hero goes retro: Crosshair 2006 combines throwback styling with modern underpinnings
Arctic Freezer 36-S Review: Small size, effective performance, low price
We tested Arctic’s entry-level Freezer 36-S with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and it did better than you might expect for a single-tower air cooler.
Super Flower Leadex 2800W ATX 3.1 power supply review: Top-notch build quality, exceptional efficiency
Delivers extraordinary efficiency and an internal design that leaves nothing on the table
Graphics Cards
Nvidia is finally ditching its Control Panel after 20 years
Nvidia has finally retired its 20-year-old control panel for GeForce GPUs. From now on, new GeForce drivers will only include the Nvidia App.
Features
AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development
Premium Automated analysis and design, powered by AI, could help the chip design process… with caveats.
PC Components
Cooler Master is bringing active cooling to DDR5 RAM, promising up to 15-degree temperature drops
Of course, there's some RGB involved, too.
Desktops and PC Building
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software
You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!
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TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs
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Linux prepares to axe legacy x32 hybrid mode — hybrid 32-bit/64-bit mode faces complete removal by 2027 due to low adoption
Linux developers are discussing removing x32 ABI from the Linux kernel; a hybrid x32/64-bit mode that was never widely adopted by software developers.
Ambernic's retro gaming handhelds are quietly losing RAM capacity and being downgraded to older LPDDR3 memory
Anbernic silently ships some retro gaming handhelds with less memory than initially advertised, without notifying customers.
Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones
DJI has published the results of an independent security assessment by U.S. cybersecurity firm OnDefend.
IBM ThinkPad T43 enthusiast installs 'almost' every version of Windows on the single-core laptop without using virtual machine
An IBM ThinkPad user boasts that they can install '(almost) all versions of Windows from NT 4 to 10 22H2' with driver support, without resorting to virtual machine (VM) technology.
