Mark Tyson

Mark Tyson

News Editor

Mark's enthusiasm for computers dampened at an early age by the rubber-keyed Sinclair Spectrum 48K and feelings of Commodore 64 envy. However, in the mid-80s, hope in a digital future was rekindled by the purchase of an Atari 520 STe. Since that time Mark has used a multitude of computers for fun and professional endeavors. He often owned both Macs and PCs but went cold on the former after OS9 was killed off, and warmed to the latter with the introduction of Windows XP. Early work years were spent in artwork and reprographics but in the late noughties, Mark started to blog about computers, Taiwanese food culture, and guitar design. This activity led to a full-time position writing about breaking PC tech news for HEXUS, for the best part of a decade. When HEXUS was abruptly closed, Mark helped with the foundation of Club386, before finding a new home at Tom's Hardware. When not wearing through the keycap legends on his PC keyboards, Mark can be found wandering the computer malls of Taiwan's neon-lit conurbations and enjoying local and international cuisine.

Articles by: Mark Tyson

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U.S. ratchets up sanctions to curtail China's AI and military tech — no more HBM memory for China

By Mark Tyson published

U.S. sanctions designed to restrict China's ability to import technologies to advance of its AI and military capabilities have been strengthened for the third time.

NorthWestRepair working on a damaged RTX 4090

Graphics card repairer laments 'catastrophic failure' of customer's RTX 4090 volt mod and thermal paste overdose

By Mark Tyson published

A GeForce RTX 4090 was in a very sorry state due to a volt mod that went wrong - see it get repaired.

ASML lego gifts

ASML made a $230 Lego kit version of its $380 million semiconductor tool — world's first High-NA EUV machine immortalized in small form for your mantle

By Mark Tyson published

ASML has added the TWINSCAN EXE:5000 Lego set to its growing portfolio of gifts.

Arctic S12038-8K case fans

Arctic’s new 8,000 RPM case fans blow a pile of boxes off a table from about 10 feet away — Arctic S12038-8K screams like an air raid siren

By Mark Tyson published

Japanese PC enthusiasts have demoed Arctic’s new 8,000 RPM case fans running at max speeds.

Researchers jailbreak AI robots to potentially cause havoc

Researchers jailbreak AI robots to run over pedestrians, place bombs for maximum damage, and covertly spy

By Mark Tyson published

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that a range of AI-enhanced robotics systems are dangerously vulnerable to jailbreaks and hacks.

CYBERDAY 2024 Information Security Industry Day

Taiwan gets slammed with 15,000 cyber attacks per second — Minister notes figure is 4X more than average

By Mark Tyson published

A government minister asserted that Taiwan experiences four times more cyber attacks than the average country - around 15,000 a second.

Intel Core i9-13900K drops under $400 to all-time-low

Intel Core i9-13900K drops to all-time-low under $400 in Black Friday deal

By Mark Tyson published

Intel’s Core i9-13900K desktop processor has hit its lowest price ever on Amazon for Black Friday. It is now just $399.

VDURA and Phison event at SC24

'The Mountain' deadlifts a record-breaking 283PB of storage at SC24 — picks up 996 pounds (452kg) of Phison 128TB SSDs

By Mark Tyson published

'The Mountain' from Game of Thrones, AKA Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, has succeeded in deadlifting a record-breaking 282.624 PB of SSDs.

Raspberry Pi 5 accelerates LLMs using an eGPU

Raspberry Pi 5 successfully accelerates LLMs using an eGPU and Vulkan

By Mark Tyson published

A Raspberry Pi 5 hooked up to an AMD Radeon-powered eGPU has been demonstrated using the graphics hardware to accelerate a Large Language Model (LLM).

Tokyo Electron semiconductor tools

China warns Japan over ramping semiconductor sanctions – threatens to block essential manufacturing materials

By Mark Tyson published

Senior Chinese officials have repeatedly warned Japan about ramping semiconductor sanctions hand-in-hand with the U.S.

severed submarine internet cable

Suspected undersea cable sabotage had ‘little-to-no observable impact’ on internet service and quality — Cloudflare says suspected sabotage incident mitigated with redundant design

By Mark Tyson published

Cloudflare reckons that the recent suspected undersea internet cable sabotage in the Baltic Sea has had 'little-to-no observable impact.'

MadEDoctor Pi 5 RAM upgrade

Raspberry Pi 5 RAM-doubling upgrade demoed — going from 4GB to 8GB with the wave of a soldering iron

By Mark Tyson published

An electronics upgrade and repair wizard has demonstrated how to boost the Raspberry Pi 5’s RAM quota

Kenton Varda and Jade Wang’s lanparty.house

Ludicrous LAN Party House detailed — 22 hideaway gaming stations with RTX 4070 GPUs, a monstrous 20-server control room, and extensive networking setup

By Mark Tyson published

A high-tech Austin home is stuffed with 22 muscular modern gaming PCs, and oodles of servers and supporting tech for LAN party gaming style fun.

The Next-SBC

AMD Phoenix CPU brings palm-sized SBC to life for up to $329 — NexT-SBC packs 32GB LPDDR5-6400 and triple M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD slots

By Mark Tyson published

A powerful new SBC that puts an AMD Phoenix chip in your hand is on its way to crowdfunding.

SilverStone FLP01 beige desktop PC case

Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail — SilverStone's sleeper PC with modern internals ships in Q1 2025

By Mark Tyson published

Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case that it previously showed off as an April Fools’ joke is heading to retail.

The groovy PS5 Pro heatsink structure

Console repairer discovers groovy PS5 Pro heatsink structure — machined grooves thought to help prevent solder paste from leaking from the socket

By Mark Tyson published

Popular console repair YouTube channel TronicsFix has discovered that the PS5 Pro heatsink isn’t glossy-smooth – it features a rectangular spiral surface detail.

Zotac triple spinner graphics card

World's second-largest GPU maker flees China on cusp of RTX 5090 launch to avoid US sanctions — Zotac, Inno3D, and Manli's GPU maker bails amid looming US GPU export controls

By Mark Tyson published

According to reports, the Hong Kong-based PC partner will relocate the company and headquarters to Singapore while shifting its production facilities to Indonesia.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 enemy

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 could be banned in Russia, and players could face criminal charges — Russian government will evaluate whether the game contains anti-Russian sentiments or terrorism justification

By Mark Tyson published

According to RBC-Ukraine News, the Russian government is considering banning Stalker 2.

Pi eGPU support is improving rapidly

Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run Doom Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4

By Mark Tyson published

A leading Raspberry Pi torchbearer has demonstrated games like Doom Eternal, Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4, running at 4K on the humble $50 SBC.

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) spotted

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 spotted at exhibition ahead of official launch

By Mark Tyson published

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) has been spotted in the wild. This unannounced space-optimized version of the Pi 5 is apparently on show at the Electronica 2024 show in Munich.

An old iMac G4 is revitalized with an M4 injection

Apple M4 revitalizes decades-old iMac G4 — out with the PowerPC chip, in with the new Apple Silicon

By Mark Tyson published

A retro tech enthusiast has revitalized a classic Apple iMac G4 ‘lampshade’ computer with a state-of-the-art M4 injection.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle bundle

Nvidia offers Indiana Jones gaming bundle to super sales of aging RTX 40 series — RTX 4070 and higher GPUs eligible for the promotion

By Mark Tyson published

Claim Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with a new RTX 4070 or better PC system or GPU.

LG and Tenstorrent expand collaboration

LG working with Jim Keller on new ‘Affectionate Intelligence’ processor

By Mark Tyson published

Tenstorrent contract expands to creating AI SoCs for smart homes, video processing, and more.

ScatterBencher LN2 cools the Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi 5 overclocked to 3.6 GHz by ScatterBencher — but exotic cooling didn’t help push clocks any faster than air

By Mark Tyson published

Expert overclocker Pieter-Jan Plaisier, AKA Scatterbencher, has again turned his focus to the humble Raspberry Pi, seeing what he can do with LN2.

PIZZAWRMR

Pizza Hut's new pizza warmer uses the PlayStation 5's heat to keep your pizza hot — you can 3D print the new PIZZAWARMR for free

By Mark Tyson published

Pizza Hut has melded the disparate worlds of bready cheesy foodstuffs and console gaming with the new PIZZAWRMR.

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