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May 10
- Intel stealthily pulls the plug on Deep Link less than 5 years after launch
- Gigabyte incorporates 64MB BIOS chip on X870 motherboard to integrate the WiFi driver
- AMD RX 9060 XT GPU retailer listings start at $450
- AMD 6th Gen EPYC 9006 Venice CPUs reportedly offer up to 96 Zen 6 or 256 Zen 6c cores
- A new TikTok challenge has kids attempting to short-circuit school-issued Chromebooks
- Gigabyte's pressurized thermal pads lower SSD temperatures in M.2 slots by up to 12C
- Apple reportedly readies Baltra processors for AI servers
May 9
- Seagate on track for 100TB HDDs by 2030 — claims current top drive will triple in capacity in 5 years
- China's premier chipmaker SMIC faces chip yield woes as equipment maintenance and validation efforts stall
- Noctua NH-D15 G2 gains offset mounting bars for Arrow Lake CPUs to optimize cooling performance
- RISC-V makes its way into DeepComputing's $349 AI PC
- Lenovo's in-house Arm chip could rival Qualcomm and MediaTek, spotted in Yoga Pad Pro 2-in-1 convertible
- Nvidia readies cut-down HGX H20 GPU for China to comply with export control rules
- LegoGPT creates Lego designs using AI and text inputs — tool now available for free to the public
- Huawei's Kirin X90 may be the company's 'Apple Silicon' moment — Matebook Pro 2025 features in-house hardware and software
- Nvidia's RTX 5060 will launch without reviews since chipmaker opts not to supply press drivers to reviewers
- Nvidia RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit passcode in just 3 hours — password cracking benchmarks show tremendous performance
May 8
- Chinese chipmaker readies 128-core, 512-thread CPU with AVX-512 and 16-channel DDR5-5600 support
- Cadence releases new AI supercomputer — uses Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 GPUs to improve simulation run time
- Former SK hynix employee transferred advanced chip packaging technologies to Huawei
- Startup trains AI models with gaming GPU setup under $100K
- RTX 5060 reviews are reportedly in jeopardy — Nvidia allegedly withholding pre-release drivers from reviewers
- HarmonyOS replacing Windows on Huawei laptops — delivers connectivity across the ecosystem
- Nvidia celebrates dumping of Biden-era AI chip export rules — simpler new policy promised
- Baidu developing AI-driven animal to human translator – Dr Doolittle plans revealed in patent application
- Alienware's new Aurora laptops are for gamers who crave some design subtlety
- Intel teases Arc Battlemage professional GPUs for Computex — Variants with 24GB of VRAM alleged
- Musk’s Colossus is fully operational with 200,000 GPUs backed by Tesla batteries — Phase 2 to consume 300 MW, enough to power 300,000 homes
- Nvidia reportedly halts RTX 5090D deliveries in China — undelivered orders canceled, GPU ban speculated
- After projecting losses of $1.5 billion, AMD CEO Lisa Su calls for a balance between export controls and national security
- Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%, limiting peak speeds to 12GB/s instead of 14GB/s
- Intel’s XeSS 2 expands support to 10 new games, XeSS surpasses 200-game milestone
- ASML accelerates 50-football-fields-size mega expansion plans in the Netherlands
- Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region
- Lenovo's new Legion 9i gaming laptop sports an 18-inch dual-mode 3D display and flagship specs
May 7
- Windows 10 support is ending — but End of 10 wants you to switch to Linux
- 3D X-DRAM aims for 10x capacity of today's memory — NEO Semiconductor's memory has up to 512 Gb per module
- Nintendo Switch 2's SoC die shot reveals 8x A78C cores, 1,536 Ampere shaders, and Samsung's 8N process
- Clippy resurrected as AI assistant — project turns infamous Microsoft mascot into LLM interface
- Raptor Lake instability saga continues as Intel releases 0x12F update to fix Vmin instability
- Tariffs could increase tech prices by up to 70% and reduce GDP by $69 billion according to CTA report
- Reviews show AMD's RX 9070 GRE trails the RTX 5070 in raster — ray tracing is on par, and it's $50 cheaper
- Asus ROG Ally 2 leaks with AMD Z2 Extreme CPU and 64GB RAM — black variant features a dedicated Xbox button
- Ampere sneaks out a 192-core CPU with 12-channel DDR5 memory
- AMD posts highest Q1 result ever — Strong CPU sales, but GPUs and gaming trail behind
- AI taught to analyze Windows crash dumps, released to open source — 'like going from hunting with a stone spear to using a guided missile'
May 6
- Microsoft will soon allow AI to change your Windows 11 settings
- New FPGA-powered 'laptop' is retro-inspired — OneChipBook-12 dev kit with a built-in display and mechanical keyboard
- Intel officially cuts Core Ultra 7 200-series desktop CPU prices by up to 25%
- Nvidia and MediaTek may unveil jointly developed 'N1' Arm chips for Windows PCs at Computex
- To combat counterfeit thermal paste, Arctic updates scratch-off QR code authentication
- Intel's Core Ultra 7 265K drops to $300 across various retailers
- 'World's First' encrypted 26TB hard disk debuts with diskAshur DT3 and DT2 models
- RTX 5060 launches May 19 on desktops and laptops, priced from $299 and $1,099, respectively
- My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes
- Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets NVMe SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard
- Nvidia to drop CUDA support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with the next major Toolkit release
- Microsoft announces colorful new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X Plus
- Asetek’s key watercooling patent expires today as the company explores strategic options for cooling business
- Nvidia GPU tracking tech proposed by US lawmakers in smuggling crackdown
- Radeon RX 9060 XT listed by retailer in Brazil — 16GB triple fan model from Gigabyte detailed without pricing
- Nvidia warns U.S. AI hardware export rules could backfire, empowering Huawei to define global standards
May 5
- Arrow Lake die shot shows off the details of Intel's chiplet-based design
- $899 Dual-screen NBook Fly laptop gets 'upgraded' to a 2020-era Comet Lake Xeon CPU
- Windows 11 24H2 update is now automatically downloading on some PCs
- Microsoft finally retires Skype after 22 years of service
- Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell appears online with an eye-watering price tag of over $11,000
- 10% surge in Taiwanese currency vs US dollar could hurt PC and components pricing
May 4
- Nvidia pitches Star Wars vs. Star Trek fans in May The Fourth RTX 5090 competition
- GPUs with 8GB of VRAM in 2025 are 'like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight' reckons Grok AI
- Amazon lists the unannounced WD Black SN8100 with 14.9 GB/s reads for $225 (1TB)
- Brain interface used to edit YouTube video — paralyzed Neuralink patient also uses AI to narrate with his own voice
- More compact Arm variants of Microsoft Surface Pro and Laptop lines leaked
May 3
- Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB loses up to 10% performance when using PCIe 4.0
- Storage device boiled in salt water, then grilled in an oven as proof of durability — Cerabyte's glass storage media claimed to be ultra-rugged
- Dynatron coolers support up to 660W for Intel Diamond Rapids and AMD Venice CPUs
- Minecraft runs on 8MB of VRAM using a 20-year-old GPU
- Intel Arc Xe3 Celestial GPU enters pre-validation stage
May 2
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang scores his first base salary increase since 2015
- Energy use in a Kuwaiti city fell by over 50% after authorities cracked down on crypto mining
- Apple expects to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. factories this year
- Gaming desktop with a mobile CPU — Asus tries a different approach with the TUF Gaming T500
- Microsoft has no plans to fix Windows RDP bug that lets you log in with old passwords
- Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell 96GB graphics card benchmarked, specs allegedly confirmed
- Rockstar's hotly anticipated GTA VI delayed — dev confirms release now set for May 2026
- Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs make a small splash in the Steam Survey — AMD RX 9000 GPUs remain absent from the list
- Intel hedges its bet for High-NA EUV with the 14A process node — an alternate Low-NA technique has identical yield and design rules
- Microsoft makes passkeys the default authentication method for all new accounts
- Nvidia's CEO says China is not far behind the U.S. in AI capabilities
May 1
- Russia's Baikal has produced 85,000 of its CPUs since 2012, aims for more
- Intel IPO delivers better gaming performance than 200S Boost in user benchmarks
- Despite Nvidia claims, Chinese smugglers have used live lobsters and fake baby bumps to traffic electronics
- Boox debuts 23.5-inch color E ink monitor with 1800p resolution and $1,900 price tag
- Developer gets Linux running inside Microsoft Excel, 'mostly for fun'
- Tiny cooling fan-on-a-chip designed for phones to be deployed in AI data centers
- Wyze gets $255K tariff bill for $167K worth of floodlights
- Microsoft hikes prices of Xbox consoles, controllers, headsets, and games worldwide - cites market conditions and price of development
- 8BitDo backs down after blaming tariffs for suspension of China warehouse shipments to the U.S.
- UK company allegedly paid $4m in bribes to secure Microsoft data center construction contract
- Buffalo celebrates 50yr anniversary with a limited edition 'skeleton' transparent hard disk
- Tipster claims AMD's RX 9060 XT 8GB is planned to launch at Computex — Dismisses cancellation rumors
- TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang opens up on process technology development & evolving demands: Interview