Russian-Made Baikal M1-Based Laptop Shows Up in Pre-Production By Anton Shilov published 11 August 22 Pre-Production BitBlaze Titan notebook based on Russian Baikal-M CPU demonstrated.
Desktop CPU Sales Lowest in 30 Years, AMD Gains Market Share Anyway By Paul Alcorn published 11 August 22 AMD makes big gains in desktop, mobile and server CPU markets.
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 2080 Prototype Shows Up In The Wild By Aaron Klotz published 11 August 22 Out of nowhere, a "GTX 2080" prototype has surfaced online. It gives us a clue that Nvidia was considering extending its GTX 16 series lineup into an 80 series product.
China Chipmaker YMTC Ships Xtacking 2.0 SSDs, Up to 6.2 GBps By Anton Shilov published 11 August 22 YMTC starts shipments of enterprise-grade PE310 PCIe Gen4 U.2 SSDs with Xtacking 2.0 3D NAND.
Raspberry Pi Pico DAQ PCB Turns Microcontroller into Oscilloscope By Ash Hill published 11 August 22 Alperen Akküncü has created a custom PCB that turns the Raspberry Pi Pico into a DAQ 4-channel oscilloscope tool.
Cooler Master Launches Airflow-Focused PC Cases With Aggressive Front Ends By Aaron Klotz published 11 August 22 Cooler Master reveals two new cases in its CMP lineup, featuring front mesh panels and ARGB fans.
Ethereum Testnet Success Paves Way for 'The Merge' in September By Francisco Pires published 11 August 22 On its way towards the final boss.
Revamped MemTest86 Can Highlight Bad ICs on Your DIMMs By Mark Tyson published 11 August 22 Highlighting precise DRAM chip error locations could open up repair and salvage options. Only works on Intel Alder Lake DDR5 and Z690 platforms for now.
Go Big With Dells 34-Inch S3422DWG For $389: Real Deals By Stewart Bendle published 11 August 22 Bigger is better!
AMD's Encoder Tweaks Rival Nvidia, But Intel's AV1 Reigns Supreme By Aaron Klotz published 11 August 22 AMD recently updated its AMF H.264 encoder with a new feature called Pre-Analysis, this feature boosts video quality equal to that of Nvidia's Turing and Ampere-based NVENC encoder.
Chinese Trade Groups: CHIPS Act and Science Law Hinders Innovation By Anton Shilov published 11 August 22 Chinese trade associations claim that U.S. CHIPS Act and Science law will intensify semiconductor geopolitical competition.
Michigan Man Builds Own ISP, Gets $2.6M From Government to Expand By Mark Tyson published 11 August 22 Jared Mauch’s rural FTTH service quickly expanded from 1 to 30 customers and currently has 70. But he now has $2.6m of government funding to allow provisioning for nearly 600 customers.
Intel 13th-Gen Raptor Lake Specs, Rumored Release Date, Benchmarks, and More By Paul Alcorn published 11 August 22 Here's the Intel 13th-Gen Raptor Lake release date, benchmarks, specifications, pricing, and all we know about the new chip architecture.
Arc A750 Trades Blows With RTX 3060 Across Nearly 50 Games By Zhiye Liu published 11 August 22 Intel shares new gaming benchmarks for the Arc A750 graphics card at 1080p and 1440p on various DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles.
Firm Estimates Intel's GPU Unit Losses at $3.5 Billion, Suggests Selling It Off By Anton Shilov published 10 August 22 Jon Peddie Research estimates Intel's GPU endeavors have resulting in $3.5 billion in losses and suggests Intel might want to sell it off after multiple failures.
Spider-Man Remastered Tested: How Does it Run on Your GPU? By Jarred Walton published 10 August 22 We've tested the Spider-Man Remastered PC port on a group of AMD and Nvidia GPUs to see how it runs, and have also provided an in-depth analysis of the best settings for smooth frame rates.
Gigabyte X670 Motherboards Feature Screwless and Latchless M.2, PCIe Slots By Aaron Klotz published 10 August 22 Gigabyte has revealed some new quality-of-life updates for its motherboards, featuring a latchless PCIe slot and a screwless M.2 slot.
MSI Introduces World's First ATX 3.0 PSU, Ready for 2,600W Power Spikes By Aaron Klotz published 10 August 22 Power-hungry GPUs — no problem
Consumer DRAM Prices Set to Drop 18% in Q3 — TrendForce By Anton Shilov published 10 August 22 TrendForce expects consumer DRAM prices to drop 13% – 18% in Q3, then collapse further in Q4.
Solidigm Introduces Industry-First PLC NAND for Higher Storage Densities By Francisco Pires published 10 August 22 Penta-level-cell has nothing to do with Doom, and all to do with density.
