Report: Lenovo Blames USB-C Issues on Thunderbolt Firmware By Nathaniel Mott Lenovo told Notebookcheck that USB-C issues affecting some of its ThinkPad notebooks were caused by problems with Thunderbolt firmware.
Report: Huawei Finds a New Friend in The Pentagon By Nathaniel Mott The Pentagon and the U.S. Department of the Treasury reportedly intervened to convince the Commerce Department to rethink further restrictions on Huawei's business.
High-Performance Deal: AMD Ryzen 3800X Now $339 on Amazon By Matt Safford For $339, plus a great game bundle, this 8-core, 16-thread CPU is tough to pass up.
Intel's Annual Report Indicates Second-Gen 3D XPoint Might be Delayed Until 2021 By Arne Verheyde Annual Report also discusses shortages and Habana.
PNY Reveals Passively-Cooled Quadro RTX 8000, RTX 6000 GPUs By Zhiye Liu New design with almost the same performance as the original.
Intel Joins CHIPS Alliance to Foster Chiplet Ecosystem By Arne Verheyde Intel has joined the CHIPS Alliance to faster a chiplet ecosystem around its AIB protocol for connecting chiplets.
AMDeepfakes? AMD Confirms 6-Pipe Wraith Prism Coolers Are Counterfeit By Zhiye Liu For a knockoff, the six-heat pipe Wraith Prism sure looks real.
Best Tech Deals January 2020: CPUs, SSDs, More By Avram Piltch Score the best deals on everything from CPUs to laptops.
Kaspersky: Fake Flash Updates Are Macs' Biggest Malware Threat By Lucian Armasu A Kaspersky report said that Shlayer, malware pretending to be a Flash update on streaming sites, is the most common malware on Apple macOS.
EVGA's RTX 2060 KO Arriving in Both TU104 and TU106 Variants By Zhiye Liu Some of EVGA's GeForce RTX 2060 KO Gaming graphics cards will use TU106 silicon while others will use TU104.
Broadcom's Making $15 Billion Off New Deals With Apple By Lucian Armasu Broadcom said in its SEC filing that it has entered two new agreements with Apple to provide the iPhone maker with wireless components through 2023.
Crucial's 2TB SATA SSD Is on Sale for $200 By Niels Broekhuijsen Crucial's 2TB MX500 SATA SSD is on sale for its lowest price ever. Consider this: at launch, the 1TB unit was selling for $260.
AI Startup Croq Debuts in the Cloud By Arne Verheyde AI startup Groq becomes the second startup to deliver its AI inference chip to the cloud. Its tensor streaming processor has 1000 TOPS.
Intel Realigns Data Platforms Group, Creates New ‘Executive Office’ By Arne Verheyde It's not a reorganization, Intel says.
Intel Posts Another Record Quarter and Year, Shortages to Recede in Second Half By Paul Alcorn Intel sets yet another a quarterly and yearly revenue record as it works to ease ongoing shortages.
Alpaca Hot Dox Complete Kit Review: Easy DIY Mechanical Keyboard By Nate Rand The Hot Dox is easy to build, but fully leveraging the open-source software will take more work.
SteelSeries Rival 3 Gaming Mouse Review: Entry-Level Without (Much) Compromise By Nathaniel Mott Editor's Choice If you're willing to overlook a less-than-stellar cable, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better entry-level gaming mouse than the SteelSeries Rival 3.
Orange Pi 4B Review: Raspberry Pi Competitor Has Built-in A.I. By Gareth Halfacree Equipped with on-board storage, a neural processing unit (NPU), and a PCI Express slot, does the Orange Pi 4B offer a real alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4 range?
Asus ROG Strix X299-E Gaming II Review: Adding Polish for 10th Gen Core By Jacob Terkelsen Back in 2018, the X299 ROG Strix was almost good enough for a recommendation. Now with 10th Gen support, does the latest rendition rise to the occasion?
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Review: Look out, RTX 2060 By Joe Shields Editor's Choice With 1660 Ti-like pricing and better-than-2060 performance in our overclocked model, AMD’s new RX 5600 XT is the new sub-$300 card to beat.
Best SSDs 2020: From Budget SATA to Blazing-Fast NVMe By Sean Webster Based on our extensive lab tests, we recommend the best SSDs for every need and budget.
The Best External Hard Drives and Portable SSDs of 2020 By Matt Safford, Sean Webster These external drives offer the best balance of performance, features and price.
Best VR Headsets for PC and Gaming 2020 By Scharon Harding We tested the best VR headsets for PC and gaming that you can buy in 2020. From cheap to premium, here are our favorites HMDs.
Report: Huawei Finds a New Friend in The Pentagon By Nathaniel Mott The Pentagon and the U.S. Department of the Treasury reportedly intervened to convince the Commerce Department to rethink further restrictions on Huawei's business.
Intel's Annual Report Indicates Second-Gen 3D XPoint Might be Delayed Until 2021 By Arne Verheyde Annual Report also discusses shortages and Habana.
Tested: Nvidia’s Variable Rate Supersampling Doesn’t Deliver on its Promises (Yet) By Kevin Carbotte We tested Nvidia’s new VR-focused Variable Rate Supersampling on two games and weren’t impressed with the results--at least for now.
GPU Performance Hierarchy 2020: Video Cards Ranked By The Editors of Tom's Hardware Is RX Vega 56 quicker than RTX 2060? How about GTX 1650 vs RX 570? We've tested all the current chips from Nvidia and AMD so you can see how each stacks up.
Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2020 By The Editors of Tom's Hardware Here are the best gaming graphics cards for the money. These graphics cards offer the best performance at their price and resolution, from 1080p to 4K.
Report: Lenovo Blames USB-C Issues on Thunderbolt Firmware By Nathaniel Mott Lenovo told Notebookcheck that USB-C issues affecting some of its ThinkPad notebooks were caused by problems with Thunderbolt firmware.
Best Gaming Laptops of 2020 By Andrew E. Freedman Here are our favorite gaming laptops for every need, based on our testing and reviews.
Orange Pi 4B Review: Raspberry Pi Competitor Has Built-in A.I. By Gareth Halfacree Equipped with on-board storage, a neural processing unit (NPU), and a PCI Express slot, does the Orange Pi 4B offer a real alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4 range?
Endless OS, a Kid-Friendly Linux, Is Coming to Raspberry Pi By Avram Piltch The operating system also comes with the Hack learning software for children.
Raspberry Pi-Powered Reachy Robot Can Grab Almost Anything, Including Your Heart By Avram Piltch Up for pre-order now, the open-source robot can pick up and move objects and even display emotions.
High-Performance Deal: AMD Ryzen 3800X Now $339 on Amazon By Matt Safford For $339, plus a great game bundle, this 8-core, 16-thread CPU is tough to pass up.
Best Tech Deals January 2020: CPUs, SSDs, More By Avram Piltch Score the best deals on everything from CPUs to laptops.
Crucial's 2TB SATA SSD Is on Sale for $200 By Niels Broekhuijsen Crucial's 2TB MX500 SATA SSD is on sale for its lowest price ever. Consider this: at launch, the 1TB unit was selling for $260.
