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'World's smallest' Wii is the size of a deck of cards, uses custom PCBs
By Christopher Harper published
A Nintendo Wii is successfully converted into the size of a deck of playing cards, and how to do it yourself is shared on GitHub.
EK's new custom waterblocks help cool delidded AMD Ryzen AM5 CPUs
By Anton Shilov published
EKWB launches waterblock for custom cooling system for delidded AM5 CPUs, including X3D CPUs.
Ubuntu outperforms Windows 11 on the Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS
By Aaron Klotz published
Phoronix tested two versions of Ubuntu Linux against Windows 11 on the latest Ryzen-powered Framework 16 laptop and discovered that Ubuntu is better performing OS most of the time.
RAM Benchmark Hierarchy: DDR5, DDR4 for AMD, Intel CPUs
By Zhiye Liu last updated
Our RAM benchmark hierarchy ranks DDR5 and DDR4 memory kits of all frequencies and capacities for any budget.
Leak reveals 500W fire-breathing 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 CPU
By Aaron Klotz published
Intel is upping core counts, but also increasing TDP
Micron to get $6 billion from U.S. gov't to build memory fabs: Report
By Anton Shilov published
U.S. government to support Micron's EUV DRAM fab, other fab projects in the U.S. with $6 billion according to Bloomberg.
Intel completes assembly of first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool — addresses cost concerns, preps for 1.4nm process development in 2025
By Paul Alcorn published
Intel Foundry announced it had completed the assembly of the industry's first commercial High Numerical Aperture (High-NA) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) machine in its D1X fab in Oregon.
ASML ships its second High-NA EUV litho tool to unspecified client
By Anton Shilov published
ASML begins to ship its High-NA EUV lithography system to the second customer
US sanctions transform China into legacy chip production juggernaut
By Aaron Klotz published
China's legacy chip production has skyrocketed since U.S. export sanctions took effect. In Q1 2024, China's legacy chip production was three times what it was in Q1 2019.
Alleged cryptojacker arrested for money laundering, $3.5 million in cloud service fraud
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
'CP3O' allegedly exploited cloud computing providers by creating two companies where multiple accounts were created under respective names, and exploited benefits without paying the bills.
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