Chinese Nuclear Lab Uses Intel, Nvidia Chips Despite Ban By Anton Shilov published 30 January 23 China's Academy of Engineering Physics used Xeon Gold and GeForce RTX for nuclear research.
Intel Discontinues Optane SSD DC P4800X Drives By Anton Shilov published 30 January 23 Intel says it will cease selling Optane SSD DC P4800X SSDs by October.
Incoming AMD A620 Chipset Looks to Fulfill $125 Motherboard Pledge By Brandon Hill published 30 January 23 The A620 chipset slots in below the B650, and could be limited to PCIe 4.0 support.
WD Launches Dual-Actuator 20TB HDDs With SATA SSD-Like Throughput By Anton Shilov published 30 January 23 Western Digital's Ultrastar DC HD760 HDD roughly doubles performance while using less power than two separate drives.
Apple 14-Inch MacBook Pro M2 Teardown Reveals Big Changes Due to Substrate Pricing By Mark Tyson published 30 January 23 Apple's bean counters have forced some big design changes, influencing the SoC and cooling, as well as NAND flash configurations in the company's latest laptops.
Grab an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X CPU for Only $177: Real Deals By Stewart Bendle published 30 January 23 The 5700X is an eight-core 16-thread processor and has a 4.6 GHz boost clock — this could be a massive upgrade on an older 3000-series processor, especially at this low price.
Rumored RTX 4090 Ti Specs Posted: Nearly Full AD102 By Anton Shilov published 30 January 23 Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4090 Ti will reportedly use AD102 GPU, bring 18,176 CUDA cores.
Best Graphics Card Deals: Cheap Nvidia and AMD GPUs By Avram Piltch last updated 30 January 23 You can save money on Radeon, RTX, and GTX cards.
Russian-Made Elbrus CPU's Gaming Benchmarks Posted By Zhiye Liu published 30 January 23 YouTube channel Elbrus PC Play evaluates the Russian Elbrus-8SV processor's gaming capabilities.
AMD GPU Appears to Leave Room for Future 3D V-Cache By Aaron Klotz published 29 January 23 3D V-Cache GPUs could be AMD's next silver bullet
U.S. Sanctions Against China Could Hurt Own Domestic Industry: SIA By Anton Shilov published 29 January 23 As U.S.-based wafer fab equipment makers have to reduce headcount due to China business concerns, SIA addresses the U.S. government.
Powerful New Raijintek Morpheus GPU Cooler Can't Tame RTX 4090 After All By Mark Tyson published 28 January 23 Raijintek Morpheus 8069 GPU Cooler is a sizable passive GPU cooler that can be boosted by twin 120mm fans if the installation requires it. However, the RTX 4090 must have been too hot to handle.
'The Beast' Emerges: Titan RTX Ada Quad-Slot 800W Cooler Reportedly Leaked By Zhiye Liu published 28 January 23 Hardware leaked shares photographs of a mysterious quad-slot cooler that may be for the GeForce RTX 4090 or Titan RTX Ada.
Life-Size LEGO Intel Arc Graphics Card Project Revealed By Mark Tyson published 28 January 23 Making a life-sized Intel Arc A750 with LEGO is a tricky task that uses nearly 600 bricks and has eaten up about six months of an Intel exec’s time, and it’s only 80% finished.
Nvidia RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 GPUs Could Launch Sooner Than Expected By Aaron Klotz published 28 January 23 ECC filings for a desktop RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 have been revealed, suggesting these GPUs are already in development.
Intel Sunsets Network Switch Biz, Kills RISC-V Pathfinder Program (Updated) By Paul Alcorn published 28 January 23 Intel announced that it would end further development of its network switch business. Meanwhile, the company also ended its RISC-V Pathfinder program without any notice or announcement.
DirectStorage Causes 10% Performance Hit On RTX 4090 In Forspoken (Updated) By Zhiye Liu last updated 28 January 23 German news outlet PC Games Hardware measures the performance penalty from Direct Storage with a GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.
AMD Polaris GPUs Stumble Over Forspoken’s DX12 Feature Requirements By Mark Tyson published 27 January 23 It may be time to retire your AMD Polaris GPU as the first AAA titles emerge which simply won’t run due to DX12 feature level issues. On the other hand Forspoken is getting a very mixed reception.
Intel Foundry Services to Produce 3nm Chips for Major Datacenter Customer By Anton Shilov published 27 January 23 Intel's IFS lands order from another major cloud, datacenter and edge solutions provider.
Corsair Video Teases MP700 PCIe 5.0 SSD, Then Disappears By Mark Tyson published 27 January 23 Corsair's teaser video shows conclusively that its upcoming MP700 Gen5 NVMe 2.0 SSD is based on the Phison E26 reference design. Should be launched soon.