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April 27
- Museum criticizes Microsoft for 'mutilated' MS-DOS 4 open source release — posting on 'stupid' git blamed for the buggy blunder
- Intel issues statement about CPU crashes, blames motherboard makers — BIOSes disable thermal and power protection, causing issues
- ASML claims US ban on servicing China chipmaking tools will not hurt the company
- This 32-inch 4K curved Dell monitor is only $249 at Amazon
- Manor Lords is here and we benchmarked it — how much GPU horsepower do you need to play the indie hit?
- Homegrown Chinese CPUs are catching up to AMD and Intel — Loongson 3B6600 and 3B7000 allegedly match Intel 10th Gen CPU performance
- AMD's China-exclusive Ryzen CPUs come to the retail market — Ryzen 7 8700F listed for $420 and Ryzen 5 7500F for $296
- Huawei's next-gen CPU could rival Apple's current best — Kirin CPU with Taishan V130 cores rumored to match Apple M3 performance
- Intel needs $2 Billion for New Ireland fab — courting three venture capital firms for continued expansion
- AMD's server CPUs arrive on mainstream PC motherboards — EPYC 4004 CPUs with 3D V-Cache for AM5 platform already on sale at eBay
- Best SSDs 2024: From Budget SATA to Blazing-Fast NVMe
- Flaming bots and NERF shooters: Pi Wars brings together the best Raspberry Pi robotics teams in the world
- Huawei launches another 7nm processor built by sanctioned Chinese fab SMIC — Kirin 9010 builds on previous design
- TSMC to build massive chips twice the size of today's largest — chips will use thousands of watts of power
- Top semiconductor company leaves China due to U.S. sanctions, cut-throat competition
- China developed its very own Neuralink — Neucyber brain interface comes from a neurotechnology firm
April 26
- Intel's revenues are up year-over-year, but foundry unit loses $2.5 billion
- BenQ set to release 24.1-inch 540 Hz Full HD gaming monitor in May
- Two Chinese nationals charged in US with trying to export banned semiconductor machinery to China — one arrested in Chicago
- RTX 4090 failures from ripped pads made worse by poor packaging
- MSI RX 7000-series graphics cards mysteriously disappear — AMD commitment questioned as supply dissolves worldwide
- Over 1,000 games using generative AI content are already available on Steam — But are any of them worth playing?
- Corsair's K70 Pro Mini wireless gaming keyboard gets a massive 65% discount — now just $63
- Analysts expect 15% price hike for AI PCs — 60% of PCs will have local AI capabilities by 2027
- The Best PS5 SSDs in 2024: Speedy NVMe storage for your console
- Gigabyte, MSI are tackling Core i9 crashing issues with BIOS updates and user guides
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore Review: Premium Overclocking Option
- Huawei backs HBM memory manufacturing in China to sidestep crippling US sanctions that restrict AI development
- Microsoft releases MS-DOS 4 source code on GitHub — 36 year old code now open-source
- 'Idiot-proof' thermal paste applicator to make TIM application easier than ever — X-Apply stencils coming soon
- TSMC to go 3D with wafer-sized processors — CoW-SoW technology allows 3D stacking for the world's largest chips
April 25
- Best Flash Drives 2024: Fast, Roomy, Pocketable USB Storage
- Nintendo forces Garry's Mod to delete 20 years of content — Garry confirms Nintendo is behind Steam Workshop purge
- Asus ROG Ally gets official AMD Fluid Motion Frames support for universal Frame Gen without custom drivers
- Russian media claims server and storage supply has returned to pre-sanctions levels despite ongoing restrictions
- Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements
- Asus creates motherboard specifically for overclocking Chinese CPUs — boosts homegrown KX-7000 clocks by 25%
- Sabrent Rocket 4 2TB SSD review: A welcome update
- Nvidia CEO hand-delivers world's fastest AI system to OpenAI, again — first DGX H200 given to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman
- China's leading homegrown CPU maker announces lineup of Lenovo PCs — five other OEMs have new Zhoaxin-powered designs, too
- Raspberry Pi robot uses AI to motivate runners by shouting encouraging messages
- TSMC says it doesn't need High-NA EUV chipmaking tools for 1.6nm-class node, but Intel has championed the tech
- Grab the Montech Air 903 Max PC case for just $69 — great value for a high airflow case with four PWN fans
- TSMC readies lower-cost 4nm manufacturing tech: Up to 8.5% cheaper
- Qualcomm responds to benchmark cheating allegations — Snapdragon X Elite/Plus benchmarks claimed to be fraudulent (Updated)
- TSMCs 2nm nodes get NanoFlex, N2P loses backside power delivery
- TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery, rivals Intel's competing design
April 24
- More AMD Zen 5 CPUs spotted in Linux patch notes
- Get $400 off Asus' stunning 42-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor — 138Hz ROG Swift PG42UQ drops to $999
- US investigates China's access to RISC-V — open standard instruction set may become new site of US-China chip war
- Hands-on with Hyte's Nexus Link: Huge-screen AIO cooler takes center stage, plus simplified cables and fans that snap together with magnets, making for easier PC building
- Fallout-inspired game runs in Excel — a spreadsheet-powered wasteland escape from your daily corporate wasteland
- AMD Strix Point engineering sample underwhelms in early Geekbench 6 results
- The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2024: All recent graphics cards ranked
- AMD-powered classic Macintosh Classic-Inspired mini PC available for retail — Ayaneo's new AM01 released after a successful Indiegogo campaign
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4S memory variants announced
- TSMC's labor practices draw serious concern in Arizona — the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses
- Former EKWB Employees say company has racist, hostile work environment, withholds overtime pay
- Gigabyte confirms Ryzen 9000 branding for Zen 5 processors, preps beta BIOS updates for 500-series motherboards
- Windows 11 update brings advertisements to the start menu
- Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus – 10-cores is less than X Elite, but the same 45 TOPS from the NPU
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus: Specs, release date, benchmarks, and more
- Bambu Lab clarifies its firmware update promises for printers
- Microsoft blocks some PCs from Windows 11 24H2 — CPU must support SSE4.2 or the OS will not boot
April 23
- Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2024
- Snapdragon X Series
- Razer Viper V3 Pro Review: For those who are committed to 8K wireless polling rates
- Intel CPU-dispensing vending machine game spotted in Japan — one user got a Core i7-8700 for $3
- AI PC
- Newegg offers free membership program to boost signups — includes free shipping and special deals
- AMD rumored to use 'slow' 18Gbps GDDR6 in RDNA 4 — leaker says Team Red's next generation GPUs won't use GDDR7
- PowerColor's AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT hits its lowest-ever price of $469
- Intel and ExxonMobil working on advanced liquid cooling — laying groundwork for 2000W TDP Xeon chips
- EKWB issues public apology regarding delayed payments — promises employees and suppliers it will change its ways
- Noctua releases low-profile CPU cooler for SFF builds — NH-L12Sx77 has better clearance for RAM, VRM heatsinks
- Chinese may be evading Nvidia GPU sanctions with Dell, Gigabyte, and Supermicro servers: Report
- EDATEC's latest industrial Raspberry Pi 5 cases pack NVMe and super capacitor backed RTC
- QIDI Tech Q1 Pro Review: Turn Up the Heat
- TSMC evacuated cleanroom staff during earthquake aftershocks up to magnitude 6.3 on Tuesday
April 22
- These Raspberry Pi-powered glasses translate sign language into speech
- Buyer beware: Fake Samsung 1080 Pro 4TB SSD promising unbelievable 15.8 GB/s speeds for $43 is too good to be true
- Tiny11 gets a major update, can now be used to trim down any Windows 11 image
- Sapphire launches budget Mini ITX AM5 motherboard in China — PCIe Gen 4 lowers costs
- Power your PC with an 850W Corsair RM850x for just $89
- 2D transistors can mimic a locust's brain to avoid collision— super-efficient tech could lower the energy costs of tomorrow's AI
- No storage is safe from price hikes -- Seagate raises hard drive prices, blaming inflation and market forces
- DeepCool latest Mini-ITX case sports a carrying handle and lots of mesh
- AMD pushes forward with its Radeon stack open-sourcing plans — after being prodded by Tiny Corp
- WD Gold 24TB HDD review: The highest capacity hard drive you can buy right now
- Three suspected Chinese spies arrested in Germany — caught stealing sensitive tech secrets
- Save money on an iBUYPOWER prebuilt esports gaming PC
April 21
- Firebrand ex-Arm China CEO founds RISC-V processor startup
- Sega Toys recalls cat robots in Japan — burning smell complaints also lead to sales suspension
- Researchers create Goldene — a single atomic layer of gold with semiconductor properties
- This Asus TUF 28-inch 4K IPS gaming monitor is now only $229 at Walmart
- Global PC shipments grew 3% in Q1 2024 says Counterpoint — with AI expected to continue driving PC sales this year
- Russia prepares 128-core server platform for supercomputers: Report
- ViewSonic VA1655 portable monitor review: Average in every possible way
- AOC enters professional market with trio of U3 Graphic Pro series monitors
April 20
- EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray — many employees and suppliers were allegedly left unpaid for as long as four months
- Adding ZIP file support to Windows 30 years ago almost got the creator of Task Manager fired
- Carry-on server flexes up to 256 cores — 480TB NVMe and 4TB RAM join Ampere Altra CPU in new fly-away-kits
- RAID card delivers impressive speeds up to 56 GB/s — throughput possible with four PCIe 5.0 SSDs or eight PCIe 4.0 SSDs
- Rare GeForce GTX 2070 engineering sample has surfaced — the unreleased GPU has 128 fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 2070
- New firmware addresses Intel CPU gaming instability — Asus Intel Baseline Profile fixes crashing on Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh chips
- Nvidia Blackwell and GeForce RTX 50-Series GPUs: Rumors, specifications, release dates, pricing, and everything we know
- HyperX Alloy Rise Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review: Magnetic Customization… at a Price
April 19
- Qualcomm teases Snapdragon X with no mention of Elite — news of second chip could be coming on April 24
- Corsair's Elite 6500 ATX and Elite 2500 Micro-ATX get accent panel options — removable panels available in wood and aluminum
- Alleged Zen 5 'Strix Halo' Mobile APU has more GPU cores than RX 7600 XT or PS5 — features monster RDNA 3.5 GPU with 40 compute units
- Grab this cool retro console inspired keyboard for just $83
- After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage
- HP Enterprise sues China's Inspur for patent infringement, claims it's continuing US operations despite sanctions
- SK hynix Tube T31 Review: M.2 on a USB stick
- Best Budget 3D Printers 2024: High-Quality Output on the Cheap
- Galax launches single-slot RTX 4060 Ti — uses a very slim blower design
- Razer Blade 14 (2024) review: Small frame, full power, high price
April 18
- TSMC to charge premium for making chips outside of Taiwan, including its new US fabs, CEO says
- 'World's smallest' Wii is the size of a deck of cards, uses custom PCBs
- EK's new custom waterblocks help cool delidded AMD Ryzen AM5 CPUs
- Ubuntu outperforms Windows 11 on the Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS
- Best Gaming Monitors 2024: Budget, Curved, G-Sync and More
- Corsair's refurbished Revival series offers up some surprisingly affordable peripherals
- Leak reveals 500W fire-breathing 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 CPU
- Micron to get $6 billion from U.S. gov't to build memory fabs: Report
- Intel completes assembly of first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool — addresses cost concerns, preps for 14A process development in 2025
- The Best CPU for Gaming in 2024
- Best 3D Printers 2024: FDM, Resin and Sub-$250 Models
- Intel Core i5-14400 Review: Intel's value gaming chip falls behind AMD
- Alienware AW2725DF 360 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: OLED for hardcore players
- Best Resin 3D Printers 2024
April 17
- ASML ships its second High-NA EUV litho tool to unspecified client
- US sanctions transform China into legacy chip production juggernaut — production jumped 40% in Q1 2024
- Alleged cryptojacker arrested for money laundering, $3.5 million in cloud service fraud — ultimately mined less than $1 million in crypto
- Determined modder gets 'Halo 2' running at 720p on the original Xbox — after tweaks to the console hardware, kernel, and game
- Chinese researchers use low-cost Nvidia chip for hypersonic weapon —unrestricted Nvidia Jetson TX2i powers guidance system
- ChatGPT can craft attacks based on chip vulnerabilities — GPT-4 model tested by UIUC computer scientists
- ASRock reveals two new 27-inch 1440p IPS monitors, one with an integrated Wi-Fi antenna in the stand
- PlayStation overlay is coming to PC alongside 'Ghost of Tsushima' port
- Samsung unveils 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X mobile memory optimized for AI applications
- ASML sets density record with latest chipmaking tools — High-NA EUV equipment prints first patterns
- High-end AMD RDNA 2 supply is dwindling — RX 6950 XT, RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT virtually out of stock
- Double up on bulk storage: Save $180 when you buy two 14TB WD Red Pro NAS drives
- Fastest 3D printers benchmarked: Top printers ranked by output time
- TSMC powers parts of Taipei with backup generators — Taiwan requests help as blackouts begin
- Raspberry Pi FPV monitor shares drone flights in real time
- Dell XPS 16 (9640) and XPS 14 (9440) review: New looks and great performance combined with a few quirks
- Determined enthusiasts are building a custom 3dfx graphics card — VoodooX has 32MB RAM and DVI output
April 16
- Best Gaming PCs of 2024
- Ampere rides again as Nvidia unveils single-slot RTX A1000 and A400 for professionals — the latter featuring a massively cut-down GA107 chip
- Micro Center offers just $700 for $1,400 RTX 4090 - offer came via store's GPU trade-in program
- 'Enhanced' Nvidia A100 GPUs appear in China's second-hand market — new cards surpass sanctioned counterparts with 7,936 CUDA cores and 96GB HBM2 memory
- RISC-V: The Open Standard Architecture
- Jonsbo adds new C6-ITX case to its lineup — featuring lots of mesh and a smart carrying handle
- Researchers create 'quantum drums' to store qubits — one step closer to groundbreaking internet speed and security
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti Super drops to $749 — its lowest price ever
- Intel's AI chip tools cut some aspects of the Meteor Lake design from weeks to minutes — plans for wider use of AI in future architectures
- RTX 4070 vs RX 7900 GRE faceoff: Which mainstream graphics card is better?
- More memory price increases blamed on Taiwan earthquake, but hikes were happening months before, and major manufacturers aren't based in Taiwan
- This Raspberry Pi Etch A Sketch bot will bring out your inner artist
- Award-winning Chinese processor design company Huaxia Chip files for bankruptcy — firm’s CPU, DSP, GPU, and AI processor IPs in limbo
- AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors — Zen 4 and AI engines come to the commercial market
- Asus ROG Swift PG49WCD 49-inch gaming monitor review: The most colorful OLED yet
April 15
- Raspberry Pi brings GitHub's Octocat to life, with tentacles that wiggle
- Asus' 8K Mini LED ProArt display is the king of new ultra high-end professional monitors — 1200 nits and 4096 lighting zones
- Minisforum V3 tablet arrives — the world's first AMD Ryzen 7 8840U-powered Surface clone
- Enthusiast arms 12-slot NVMe NAS with an Nvidia RTX GPU to run local ChatGPT
- Lamptron gets caught using counterfeit AIDA64 software keys with its LCD-equipped products
- Save $250 on Asus' ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) with Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU, RTX 4070 graphics, and a 240Hz OLED screen
- Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate
- Gigabyte officially unveils premium ice-themed motherboard and GPU — XTREME Prestige Limited Edition lineup arrives
- Samsung plans big capacity jump for SSDs, preps 290-layer V-NAND this year, 430-layer for 2025
- How Coupons Work at Tom's Hardware
- ChatGPT plays Red Dead Redemption II — AI vision system was overwhelmed
- Logitech G Pro X 60 Lightspeed Review: Compact and Customizable
- iBuyPower Y60 Gaming Desktop Review: Premium Mainstream Performance
- Tuxedo's Sirius 16 Gen2 is an All-AMD Linux gaming laptop with a 165 Hz IPS panel — starts at 1699 Euros
- Ray Tracer ported to an x86 boot sector in only 483 bytes, run on Pentium Pro and faster CPUs
April 14
- Spectra Cube heralds new 75,000 TB storage library — tape solution for cloud providers is optimized for ease of use and versatility
- Enthusiast adds microtransactions to DOOM — QR codes direct to payment UI every time you pick up an item
- How to manage Linux network connections via the terminal
- Mid-level Nvidia employee retires with $62 million from stock options, while another lost it all — a story of millionaire winners and losers
- Thousands of apps ported back to Windows 95 twenty-eight years later — .NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software
- Microsoft lifts two-year-old block that prevented some users from upgrading to Windows 11 — fix finally arrives after a long wait for Rocket Lake CPUs
- Linksys Velop Micro 6 mesh router review: Wi-Fi 6 with pint-sized nodes and meager performance
April 13
- U.S. lawmakers annoyed with Huawei's latest laptop with Intel Meteor Lake CPUs
- Vendor readies AMD motherboards for Zen 5 CPUs — FireRangePi 1.1.7.0 AGESA for AM5 makes way for Ryzen 9000
- Hard drive destroyer vibrates hard drives to death in 90 seconds — DiskMantler then spits out the individual components for recycling
- This briefcase lets you walk around with 368TB of NVMe SSDs — WD Ultrastar Transporter features 128GB RAM, 1,300W power supply, and Ice Lake Xeon CPU
- Are you holding out for a curved gaming monitor? Acer Nitro 24-inch 165 Hz monitor is on sale for $81
- U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military
- Western Digital preps 4TB SD cards for 2025 — SDUC cards big enough to tackle 8K video
- How to identify which application is hogging your camera in Windows 11 and 10
- Raspberry Pi 4 brings KITT from Knight Rider to life using ChatGPT
- Jim Keller suggests Nvidia should have used Ethernet to stitch together Blackwell GPUs, saving billions
- Intel's latest CPUs run so hot that delidding has become common — EKWB introduces world's first AIO liquid cooler designed for delidded CPUs
- Creality K1C Review: C for Carbon
April 12
- Best Gaming Keyboards 2024: Full-size, TKL, Mini, and More
- First AI-generated rom-com is due this summer -- and the trailer puts Hallmark Channel to shame
- Nanotronics promises modular, shippable chip fab facilities powered by Nvidia GPUs and AI
- RTX 4090s continue to melt — GPU repair facility claims it works on 200 flagship Nvidia cards per month
- Chinese gamers can't RMA their RTX 4090s due to US sanctions — users are being very careful with how they treat their top-tier GPUs
- Nearly 90% of chips used in Russia come from China despite US sanctions: Report
- Critical EUV chipmaking tool supplier hacked, pressed to pay $10 million for ransomware unlock – Hoya dismisses hack as an ‘IT system incident’
- Nvidia blames Intel for GPU VRAM errors, tells GeForce gamers experiencing 13th or 14th Gen CPU instability to contact Intel support
- Ubuntu 24.04 Beta released after week delay due to malicious code
- This RTX 4090-powered Dell XPS desktop is on sale for just $545 more than the cost of the card
- Raspberry Pi Pico brings Gundam to life with interactive LED light show
- Inland TN470 SSD review: Efficient, fast, and inexpensive
- Apple M4 processor family tipped to deliver AI focus — three next-gen chips believed to be nearing production
- XYZA Tiny Keyboard Custom 2.0 launched — offers three customizable keys plus a dial
April 11
- Huawei builds major tool R&D center in Shanghai to develop lithography and fab equipment, report says
- Translucent orange Web3 gaming handheld mines and stores tokens while you game, will cost $500
- Ex-Windows developer calls Windows 11 Start menu performance 'comically bad,' even with a Core i9 and 128GB of RAM
- PiDock provides Raspberry Pi 400 with laptop-style housing and 1080p display
- Chinese-made Loongson 3A6000 CPU makes a debut in $387 mini PC
- Dicemaster 2000 is a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered dice roller for the visually impaired
- AMD quietly confirms worldwide launch for Ryzen 7 8700F, Ryzen 5 8400F — official specs revealed
- Minisforum releases its first portable monitor — 15.6-inch, 144 Hz, 1440p for $189
- Blacklisted Huawei unveils new Intel-powered notebooks — MateBook X Pro comes armed with latest Core Ultra inside
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 12) Review: Light in Weight, Heavy in AI
- Best AIO Coolers 2024
- Best CPU Coolers 2024: AIO and Air Coolers
- Best Portable Monitors 2024: Gaming and Laptop Productivity
- Engineer creates CPU from scratch in two weeks — begins work on GPUs
- Intel's Gaudi 3 is coming to China: But what about AMD's MI300 and Nvidia's B100/B200?
- AI may eventually consume a quarter of America's power by 2030, warns Arm CEO
- Customer RMAs Inno3D RTX 4070 Ti but allegedly receives cheaper Dell RTX 3050 in return — accuses Overclockers UK for scam
- Intel axes 13th Gen Core i5, i7, i9 K-series CPUs — lineup will be discontinued by May 24th 2024
April 10
- Foundation models: Get to know what AI is built on
- AMD Instinct MI350 with upgraded 4nm process node and HBM3E may launch later this year, according to analyst firm
- DRAM pricing and supply seems largely unaffected by Taiwan earthquake, firm claims
- Raspberry Pi 5 challenger LattePanda Mu uses Intel N100 CPU to take on industry-leading single-board computer
- SiFive selects a faster Chinese-made RISC-V CPU instead of an Intel chip for its latest development board
- Nvidia's H100 AI GPU shortages ease as lead times drop from up to four months to 8-12 weeks
- AMD's Zen 5 Ryzen 9000-series looms — latest chipset drivers add support
- Samsung's pixel-dense ViewFinity S9 5K monitor drops to $899 — get 44% off this 27-inch IPS screen with a built-in 4K webcam
- AMD motherboard partners start rolling out BIOS updates with LogoFAIL bugfix
- AMD and BlackBerry team up for robotic systems — Kria developer boards with QNX software will 'revolutionize' next-gen robotic systems
- Best Curved Gaming Monitors 2024
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Formula Review: Hybrid cooling and high-end hardware
- Google unveils Axion CPU for datacenters: claims up to 50% better performance than x86 processors
- Intel is the exclusive CPU launch partner for Star Wars Outlaws – touts 14th Gen game bundle
- Raspberry Pi showcase AI camera kit, new screen and long awaited M.2 HAT at Embedded World conference
April 9
- Samsung to receive $6.6 billion CHIPS Act subsidy, industry sources claim
- Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train
- Mutant ASUS Frankenboard surfaces with SO-DIMM memory slots — rare Maximus XIII Hero includes Kingston Fury logo
- Best Raspberry Pi Projects: April 2024
- Hyte THICC Q60 240mm AIO Review: The strongest, quietest AIO available
- Intel crams Meteor Lake laptop chips into a socket for edge computing — includes Arc graphics and NPU for AI workloads
- Western Digital confirms HDD and NAND flash shortages, warns partners of higher pricing
- Intel says Lunar Lake will have 100+ TOPS of AI performance — 45 TOPS from the NPU alone meets requirement for next-gen AI PCs
- Intel reportedly plans to launch Arc 'Battlemage' GPUs before the holidays — Second-gen Arc prepares for takeoff this fall
- Lenovo's RTX 4070 gaming PC hits a new all-time-low price of $1,299
- Acer's Predator Helios Neo 14 combines high performance and compact design
- This Raspberry Pi RP2040 wristwatch uses LEDs to tell the time
- Intel unveils new Xeon 6 branding for Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest processors — efficiency core models launch this quarter; performance-core models come soon after
- Intel details Gaudi 3 at Vision 2024 — new AI accelerator sampling to partners now, volume production in Q3
- Microsoft confident Snapdragon X Elite will defeat M3 MacBook Air laptops — prepares demos to showcase this and will put the chip into Surface laptops
- Global PC Shipments recover to pre-pandemic levels — Q1 2024 sales show 8% growth over last year
- Windows 11's 24H2 block list contains more than just customization apps — hardware ID, software, and driver blocks could keep you from getting the Microsoft's AI-focused OS update
- Creality Launches a Color 3D Printer for its 10th Birthday Party
April 8
- Memory makers reportedly stop publishing contract DRAM prices following Taiwan earthquake — further price hikes are expected
- GamerTech's Magma Glove is a heated compression glove targeted at competitive gamers
- Intel's Core i9-14900KF CPU hits a new all-time-low price
- US CHIPS and Science program puts R&D funding on hold — highlighting intense demand that far exceeded initial expectations
- Raspberry Pi RP2040 keeps track of who's winning and losing with this wireless LED scoreboard
- Seagate BarraCuda 530 SSD breaks cover with 7,400 MB/s speeds — Still PCIe 4.0, but looks like a significant upgrade over the previous 520
- TSMC gets $6.6 billion in cash and $5 billion in loans from CHIPS Act, plans third US fab
- Best Gaming Laptops 2024: Tested, benchmarked and reviewed
- Alienware m18 R2 review: Big battlestation with clicky keys
April 7
- Acer's overclocked RX 7800 XT cards arrive — Shadow Knight in China, Nitro in the US
- Battery-powered AIO workstation forged from Framework laptop and 3D printed components — the Flying Lotus takes off
- Floppy disk-reliant San Francisco train control system spurs concerns of 'catastrophic failure' — and it won't be replaced for at least another decade
- Best Buy Geek Squad agents raise specter of mass layoffs in unofficial community forums — some may have been displaced by AI
- Alienware 34-inch curved OLED gaming monitor now just $749 at Best Buy
- Chinese gov't pushes Huawei's HarmonyOS hard, sets adoption targets to beat Windows, Android, and iOS
- Microsoft's Copilot image tool generates ugly Jewish stereotypes, anti-Semitic tropes
- DeSalvo Systems Galactic Case for Raspberry Pi 5 Review: Out of this world
- Razer Blade 18 comes with an eye watering $4,799 price tag — comes armed with i9-14900HX and RTX 4090
- Microsoft stifles third-party interface customization apps in Windows 11 Version 24H2
- Micronics' SLS 3D printer aims to take SLS mainstream — boasts a desktop form factor and a relatively low $2,999 price
April 6
- AIO workstation has 128 CPU cores and 28,416 GPU cores crammed into surprisingly small form factor
- New thermal paste smells like flowers from heaven
- Modder made an IRC client that runs entirely inside the motherboard's BIOS chip
- NASA is confident it can recover the Voyager 1 but it'll require some time
- MSI rolls out a new high-end Nvidia gaming GPU in China — GeForce RTX 4090D 24G Ventus 3X comes as a more affordable option
- Raspberry Pi powers a five-foot magic mirror that doubles as a retro gaming console
- AMD may have a new platform for upcoming Ryzen CPUs — AM5+ socket and Granite Ridge CPUs listed in a microcode extraction tool
- Laptop BIOS password reset technique uses contorted paperclips stuffed into a parallel port
- Steam download causes M2 MacBook Pro SSD to became so full that data couldn't be deleted — user had to wipe SSD to make system functional again
- Arctic Liquid Freezer III AIO Review: To put it bluntly, the Liquid Freezer III is unimpressive
- AMD announces open-sourcing of its GPU software stack and documentation, including MES
- Samsung to double investment in Texas fab, spend $44 billion to build leading-edge chips: Report
April 5
- Kioxia aims to mass produce 1000-layer 3D NAND by 2031 — quadruple the current number of layers
- Intel confirms new round of layoffs in its Sales and Marketing Group
- AMD claims LLMs run up to 79% faster on Ryzen 8040 CPUs compared to Intel’s newest Core Ultra chips
- AMD's latest China-exclusive CPUs benchmarked — Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F aren't much slower than costlier models
- Intel Core Ultra 5 234V laptop CPU leaks online — Lunar Lake processor with Xe2-LPG iGPU destined for next-gen systems
- AMD RDNA 4-based Navi 48 GPU added to ROCm platform — lays the groundwork, though specifications are unknown
- XeSS 1.3 improves performance by up to 28% with refined image quality — adds Ultra Quality Plus and Native AA modes
- This Raspberry Pi Pico 3D printed digital dice throws luck to the digital wind
- Frame your components with Thermaltake's Core P3 Open PC case for only $99
- Fourteen LLMs fight it out in Street Fighter III — AI showdown finds out which models make the best street fighters.
- Elgato Facecam MK.2 Review: Uncompressed 1080p/60fps video, HDR, and a lot of plastic
- Seagate demonstrates 3D magnetic recording for 120+ TB HDDs — dual-layer media stacks data bits to boost capacity
- The US wants ASML to stop servicing its advanced chipmaking tools in China: Report
April 4
- Nvidia Game Ready Driver adds ReBAR support to 'Horizon Forbidden West' and game support for recent additions to 'Modern Warfare 3'
- I went hands-on with two different Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips as the company claims it will beat Intel's Core Ultra
- Microsoft is working on a RAM limit slider for its Edge Browser, to prioritize memory-intensive applications, PC games
- China-based Maxio creates full line of PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers — capable of up to 14.8 GB/s
- Gigabyte puts a golden CPU socket on upcoming Intel motherboard — Z790 Aorus Xtreme X Ice sports misty design and colossal M.2 heatsink
- Splave uses ASRock's new Z790I Lightning WiFi motherboard to set multiple overclocking world records
- Rescued retro desk PC becomes the latest device to run Doom — AMD Duron-based system unsurprisingly lets you shotgun blast imps without major issues
- New RISC-V microprocessor can run CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads simultaneously
- SK hynix confirms it will bring next-gen HBM manufacturing to the US — $3.87 billion memory fab to be built in Indiana
- 'Intel Air' employee flight shuttle resumes regular operations to Oregon, other fab sites – Another sign that Intel is on the upswing?
- Pick up this CyberPower gaming PC for just $999 — includes Nvidia RTX 4060 8GB, Intel Core i5-14400F, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM
- Taiwan earthquake causes estimated $62 million in damage and disruptions for TSMC - EUV equipment reported to be safe and sound: Report
- Elegoo Neptune 4 Max Review: Bigger, Buggy and a Bit Faster
- How to manage applications on your Raspberry Pi with Pi-Apps
- Raspberry Pi BMO TV plays constant loop of Adventure Time episodes
April 3
- MSI admits faulty heatsink design for cracked Z790 chipsets, begins replacing faulty units
- Samsung puts 3D DRAM on the roadmap, stacked DRAM to follow
- Programmer builds homemade GPU, shows it off with 3D graphics and physics engine made from scratch
- Chinese chipmaker gains traction replacing American processors - Longsoon ships 10,000 chips into schools
- Razer's Nommo V2 X PC speakers dropped to just $89 — Perfect for a minimalist gaming setup
- MSI revives its Duke series GPUs — RTX 4060 arrives to bring back the budget-oriented lineup
- TSMC resumes chip production following biggest earthquake in 25 years — incurred no damage to its critical tools
- Sabrent Rocket 5 2TB SSD review: Rocketing to new heights
- Nvidia's new 'Streamline' SDK and DLSS 3.7.0 feel one step closer to DirectSR
- Ubuntu 24.04 Beta delayed due to malicious code in xz-utils, other Linux distros are also affected
- Asus teases Mjolnir power station, other ROG accessories that give us Marvel vibes
- 'Clarified' US sanctions do not impact Nvidia RTX 4090D 'Dragon' or H20 GPUs [Updated]
- Intel's 18A-based CPUs won't ramp to high volume production until 2026
- Asus's new ROG Keris II Ace gaming mouse is an ultralight DeathAdder V3 Pro competitor
- Asus adds AMD Ryzen Zen 5 Granite Ridge CPU support for its X670E motherboards
- Intel foundry unit loses $7 billion in 2023, company outsources 30% of its production to TSMC, others
- Developer hacks Denuvo DRM after six months of detective work and 2,000 hooks, allows running Hogwarts Legacy on other PCs
- Best microSD Cards for Raspberry Pi 2024
- The Best Raspberry Pi Cases 2024
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2W uses 6mm screen in ultra-tiny Steam Deck build
- Best Raspberry Pi Pico Accessories and Add-Ons 2024
- Best Raspberry Pi HATs 2024: Expansion Boards for Every Project
- Best Stemma QT, Grove Add-Ons for Raspberry Pi and Arduino 2024
- Best RP2040 Boards 2024
- AMD RX 7000-series gaming GPUs still mostly MIA in Steam stats — continued gains for Nvidia's RTX 40-series
- Best Raspberry Pi Accessories of 2024
- Taiwan hit with 7.4 earthquake, TSMC evacuates some fabs, begins inspections (Updated)
- Best Soldering Irons and Stations 2024
- Full draft of PCIe Gen 7 spec is now available — on track for full release in 2025
- US urges South Korea to join the China sanctions regime, adjust export controls to prevent the country from getting chipmaking tools
April 2
- Sabrent releases single-sided Rocket 4 1TB and 2TB SSDs for the first time — DRAM-less and aimed at laptops and consoles
- Dell QHD IPS gaming monitor drops to $199
- Gigabyte shows off white Aorus Xtreme Ice RTX 4080 Super — limited run with 'very tight' availability expected
- MSI Z790 motherboards reportedly failing with cracked PCH chipset — a manufacturing error may have affected a few hundred units (Updated)
- Windows Copilot key is secretly from the IBM era — but you can remap it with the right tools
- China aims to break chokehold of US chipmaking sanctions — Naura Technology to develop lithography tools for the first time
- How to upgrade your Steam Deck's SSD for more storage and better performance
- Scythe Mugen 6 and Mugen 6 Black Edition Review: Quiet cooling at a reasonable price
- Snapdragon X Elite beats AMD and Intel flagship mobile CPUs in Geekbench 6 – Qualcomm's new laptop chip leads in single- and multi-core tests
- World's first hybrid CXL device combines flash memory and DRAM — storage tiering comes to remote memory over PCIe
- Micron is building a new packaging and testing plant in China despite sales ban — largest American chipmaker expands abroad
April 1
- The best SSD for the Steam Deck in 2024: Fast NVMe drives for gaming on the go
- AMD lists three new Ryzen Zen 3+ processors — without integrated graphics
- Client SSD pricing to increase by up to 15% in Q2 2024, say industry analysts
- 6 Common Cura Errors and How to Fix Them
- Make AI servers in Mexico, US tech firms tell Taiwanese manufacturers
- US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission
- Adata SD810 External SSD review: 20Gbps speed on a budget, but not for pros