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March 22
- GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information
- California scientists 'FlyTrap attack' on DJI drones demonstrated — patterned umbrellas lure autonomous drones close enough to be captured or even induced to crash
- Grab the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT for $799.99 — comes bundled with 1000W PSU and free copy of Crimson Desert
- Two brothers convicted of running ghost gun factory that produced untraceable 3D printed firearms — used 3D printers to build gun frames while associates purchased other parts on eBay
- Intel released its first Pentium chip on this day 33 years ago, came packing 3.1 million transistors — fifth-gen x86 chip built on an 800nm process
- Huawei crowdfunds world’s first ‘Mesh Crystal Antenna’ Wi-Fi 7 router — stunning glowing ornament also has a ‘shark fin’ heat exhaust, but is currently a Japan market exclusive
- Blacklyte Athena Pro Review: Watch out, Secretlab?
- 'Silicon' is a new five-pound art book charting the semiconductor revolution with full-page die shots and commentary — 384 page tome is $99 to pre-order now
- City has roads named Tape Drive and Disk Drive from bygone HDD-making era — area was once home to the StorageTek empire
- Corsair’s limited-time memory sale brings 25% savings, but persistent DDR5 price hikes paint a grim outlook for buyers
March 21
- Sony will bring ML-based frame generation to PlayStation consoles — the performance-boosting feature is unlikely to arrive this year, though
- Nintendo Switch 2 overhaul could bring a removable battery — new revision aims to comply with the EU's Right to Repair regulations
- Tim Cook says Apple had its best launch week for first-time Mac customers with the MacBook Neo — entry-level device now out of stock, with orders taking two to three weeks to ship
- Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset Review
- Rogue OpenClaw AI wrote and published 'hit piece' on a Python developer who rejected its code — disgruntled bot accuses Matplotlib maintainer of discrimination and hypocrisy, later backtracks with an apology
- US Departments of Justice and Defense crush four massive botnets totaling 3,000,000 devices — botnets responsible for a combined 316,000 DDoS attacks globally
- Microsoft promises major improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates — lower RAM usage, fewer Copilot interactions, and enhanced File Explorer incoming
- Cyberpunk 2077 runs on MacBook Neo at over 30 FPS — PC gaming is possible with A18 Pro iPhone chip
- Xbox Series X transformed into a gaming PC with 3D printed components, low-profile RTX 5060, and NUC 12 Extreme
- Another major Japanese electronics firm exits the Blu-ray market — Elecom publishes notice of termination of all external drives
- Lucky shopper snags gaming PC for just $1,000 — iBuyPower prebuilt running on 9800X3D and RTX 5070 discounted by $900
March 20
- Intel suggests it was snubbed by Crimson Desert dev after reaching out "many times" about Arc GPUs – company says it provided "early hardware, drivers, and engineering resources" to studio
- New Fortnite 'Rivalry' includes chance to win RTX 5080 — top five players will be awarded GPU hardware in Chapter 7 Season 2 competition
- Crimson Desert offers no support for Intel GPUs — developer Pearl Abyss says 'please refer to the refund policy'
- AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RX 9000-series GPUs — new update delivers better Ray Regeneration, finer upscaled detail, and higher FPS
- Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin reveals 51,600 satellite space data center plans — Project Sunrise will operate in sun-synchronous orbits between 500–1,800km in altitude
- China develops new ultra-cold alloy that can reach -273°C without helium — could enable compact cooling for superconducting quantum chips, military equipment, and beyond
- The $599 MacBook Neo stunned the budget laptop market — but Windows laptops still have some advantages
- Acer Predator XB273U F5 27-inch QHD 360 Hz gaming monitor review: Utilizing G-Sync Pulsar to deliver phenomenal blur reduction
- Supermicro employees accused of smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China — perps used a hairdryer to move serial numbers between real hardware and thousands of dummy servers
- Save up to $129 on a new gaming chair or desk in the Secretlab Spring Sale — huge savings include an additional $100 discount for big bundles to upgrade your setup
- Save $130 on this Asus ROG Strix G16 gaming laptop — RTX 5060 gaming with easy upgradability for less than $1,300
- Seller gets scammed as eBay customer returns $4,000 RTX 5090 with missing GPU core and memory modules — fully working Zotac stripped of most valuable components and sent back
March 19
- Arctic's $1,400 AMD Strix Point fanless mini-PC hides under your desk — Senza AI 370 features Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 32GB RAM, and 1TB SSD
- Corsair's new 3200D mid-tower case redefines airflow and component compatibility — the case perfectly pairs with rear-connector motherboards
- Walmart flooded with RTX 40-series GPUs as 50-series remains out of reach for most gamers — retailer slashes up to $480 off last-gen GPUs to offer sensible prices
- Astro A50 X Review: For your battlestation
- Optiscaler team fixes INT8 FSR 4 ghosting on RX 6000 series GPUs — adds support for the latest Adrenalin drivers
- Save $350 on the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti laptop with an OLED display — Acer's excellent Predator Helios Neo 16S AI with 32GB of RAM is just $1,549 right now
- Tesla hiring semiconductor fabs construction manager — Elon Musk's ambitious Terafab project begins
- US trade deficit hits a record $1.2 trillion as AI hardware imports surge under the Trump administration — massive demand for chips from Asia outpaces domestic production, fueling a 60% increase in imports in 12 months
- How Nvidia's $20 billion Groq 3 LPU deal reshapes the Nvidia Vera Rubin Platform — Samsung 4nm process serves as bedrock for SRAM-based AI accelerator chip
- MSI MPG X870E Carbon Max Wifi Review: Small tweaks, same Carbon DNA
- Opera GX finally arrives on Linux by popular demand — offers gamers and developers a highly customizable browser with advanced resource management
- Researchers reach superconductivity at ambient pressure, record high temperature — milestone of -122°C reached by using pressure quenching, still 140 degrees off room temperature target
- Save $800 on this powerhouse Alienware 4K gaming PC with an RTX 5080 and 64GB DDR5 RAM — epic pre-built also includes a huge 4TB SSD and a 24-core Intel CPU for high-end performance
- Thermalright's impressive AIO cooler lets you add a panoramic screen to your PC for just $165 — bag a 20% saving on the Wonder Vision 360 and treat your CPU
- AMD and Samsung ink memory supply memorandum for EPYC and Instinct products — unprecedented deal also includes scope for foundry partnership
- Kioxia announces new Super High IOPS SSD that helps accelerate AI workloads on Nvidia GPUs — 25.6TB drive provides more GPU-accessible memory for faster data access
- 8BitDo launches $40 Nintendo 64-inspired wireless controller with 2.4 GHz connection — dedicated wireless receiver even works with the original N64
- North Korean fake IT army of 100,000 nets Kim Jong-Un a cool $500 million a year — NK-aligned workers infiltrated in IT companies worldwide, feeding the nation's revenue generation
- Intel's new feature can improve game loading times by up to 3x — Precompiled Shader Delivery comes to Arc Xe2 and Xe3 GPUs following DirectX SDK release
- Australian researchers develop quantum battery proof-of-concept which uses lasers to charge near-instantly — breakthrough could pave the way for ultra-fast wireless charging for EVs and drones in the future, say researchers
- 16TB M.2 SSD hits retail if you’re ready to drop $16,000 for the ultimate storage upgrade — price tag explodes 4X in just four months
March 18
- Testing CPU scaling in Crimson Desert — X3D wins, but not by much, and Raptor Lake shines
- Nvidia will only produce one 88-core Vera CPU model — Jensen says the company will make billions of dollars from a single SKU
- Nvidia disputes allegation it is preparing a custom version of Groq inferencing chip for China [Updated]
- AMD claims it had no knowledge of fake Ryzen 5 7430U CPUs in Chuwi laptops — Chinese vendor announces recall of products and refunds, PCB manufacturer could be culprit
- Microsoft considering suing OpenAI over Altman's recent deal with Amazon, report claims — exclusivity dispute revolves around Frontier multi-agent service
- Flash sale at Autodesk slashes up to 20% off the company's most popular products — just two days left to save
- AMD reportedly strikes back with Zen 5 refresh to counter Intel's latest Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs — 65W Ryzen supercharged with 400 MHz base clock uplift and almost double the TDP
- Endgame: What’s it Like to build the Noctua-everything PC inside the Antec Flux Pro Noctua-Edition
- Score a liquid-cooled Asus ROG 4K gaming PC with a 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT for under $1,900 right now — powerhouse rig comes equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD
- Go retro with this Commodore 64 Mini console for $69 — revamped 80s home computing with 25 games now 42% off
- Get 32GB of DDR5 RAM for an effective price of $101 thanks to this Newegg AM5 bundle — buy a 9850X3D, premium MSI X870E Max motherboard, and 32GB of V-Color RAM for $1,278.99
- SK Group chairman says memory chip shortage will last until 2030 — wafer supply trails demand by 20%
- Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes assisted targeting, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking
- Bitcoin is so resilient it could survive as much as 90% of the world's undersea cables failing simultaneously — study reveals Bitcoin could still be very vulnerable to targeted attacks, however
March 17
- Intel's new Core Ultra 200HX Plus mobile CPUs include 290HX, 270HX Plus flagships — 8% faster gaming claims fall short of 15% boost promised by desktop Arrow Lake Refresh
- Nvidia updates data center roadmap with Rosa CPU and stacked Feynman GPUs — optical NVLink, Groq LPUs with NVFP4, and NVLink also on deck
- Jensen says Nvidia has received orders from Chinese customers for H200 GPUs, licenses from US gov't — H200 manufacturing restarting
- Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash
- Nvidia launches DGX Station with its bleeding-edge GB300 Grace Blackwell Superchip — now available to order and will begin shipping in the coming months
- End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro — change means faulty or 'aesthetically unfortunate' consoles that can still power on are now accepted for trade-in
- Nintendo Switch 2 update brings Handheld Mode Boost — unlocks higher resolutions and TV-mode performance for original Switch games
- Examining Nvidia's 60 exaflop Vera Rubin POD — how seven chips underpin company's 40 rack AI factory supercomputer
- We got a first look at Nvidia's DLSS 5 and the future of neural rendering at GTC — the results can be impressive, but there's work to do
- Microsoft expects to commercialize MicroLED datacenter cables by late 2027 — expands Hollow Core Fiber deployment, promising 47% faster data transmission and approximately 33% lower latency
- Nvidia launches BlueField-4 STX storage architecture for agentic AI at GTC 2026
- Grab 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for just $111 in this epic Newegg combo with the 9850X3D — $1,020 bundle for an AMD gaming PC build includes an Asus X870E-E motherboard along with a free mouse and game
- South Korean company following ChatGPT management advice forced to backtrack by court — Krafton improperly ousted Subnautica developer bosses to dodge $250m bonus payout
- Precision Hall-Effect controls and a 45% saving on Razer's latest Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition game controller — get yours for just $54 in this limited-time sale
- Airflow enthusiast 3D-prints 15 tiny fans to fit inside a custom, domed Noctua NF-A12x25 frame — bizarre 'Fanhattan Project' cools the CPU just as well as a regular fan
- Global chip supply chain under threat as US-Iran conflict enters third week — Strait of Hormuz blockade is days away from crippling Taiwan's semiconductor industry
- Nvidia demonstrates Rubin Ultra tray, the world's first AI GPU with 1TB of HBM4E memory — new chips will slot into Kyber racks
- Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw — open source USB bridge unlocks 0.85-inch mechanical Toshiba drive from 2004
- Nvidia removes Rubin CPX accelerators from its roadmap — Groq 3 LPUs take center stage as CPX is removed
- Seagate FireCuda X1070 2TB SSD review: Entry-level hardware meets premium support
- Dell updates Alienware gaming laptops with Intel’s Arrow Lake-HX Refresh CPUs — 16-inch models receive OLED display and GPU upgrades
March 16
- Micron enters high-volume production of HBM4 for Nvidia Vera Rubin - 2.3x bandwidth improvement and 20% boost in power efficiency
- Jensen Huang expects Nvidia to sell $1 trillion of AI hardware through 2027 — AI buildout intensifies as Agentic AI takes hold
- Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Space Module — up to 25x the AI compute of H100 for orbital data centers
- Nvidia's Nemotron coalition brings eight AI labs together to build open frontier models
- Intel Xeon 6 selected as host CPU for Nvidia DGX Rubin NVL8 systems — Intel wins a contract as Nvidia enters data center processor market with Vera CPUs
- Nvidia Groq 3 LPU and Groq LPX racks join Rubin platform at GTC — SRAM-packed accelerator boosts 'every layer of the AI model on every token'
- Nvidia unveils details of new 88-core Vera CPUs positioned to compete with AMD and Intel – new Vera CPU rack features 256 liquid-cooled chips that deliver up to a 6X gain in CPU throughput
- Nvidia debuts DLSS 5 for increased visual fidelity in games — AI-infused tech transforms pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials
- Meta's new MTIA lineup joins hyperscalers' unified push for dedicated inferencing chips — companies diversify AI chips in effort to diversify from sole reliance on Nvidia
- Microsoft and Samsung scramble to fix a major C: drive lockout bug on Galaxy devices — faulty Galaxy Connect app leaves users with 'limited' recovery options following recent Windows 11 update
- Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote live blog — Vera Rubin GPUs and CPUs, DLSS 5, and the 'future of technology'
- Creative updates its Sound Blaster PCIe sound card line after 5 years — new $79.99 Audigy FX Pro 7.1 pitched as ‘clear upgrade over standard onboard audio’
- Intel's roadmaps examined — 14A, Nova Lake, Diamond Rapids & AI accelerator push
- First credible leak of an AMD Zen 6 processor pops up on Geekbench — ten-core CPU seems to have 32MB of L3 cache
- No more stick drift for under $50 — 8BitDo's Pro 3 controller with Hall-Effect TMR sticks and swappable ABXY buttons is 29% off while stocks last
- Save $290 on this all-AMD gaming PC with a 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT for 4K gaming — just $2,259 for an elite CyberPowerPC rig with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a huge 2TB SSD
- GTC 2026
- STMicro to deploy humanoid robots to its legacy fabs in Europe — over 100 humanoid robots to be used for routine and physically demanding tasks in fight for efficiency
- Chinese GPU vendor Zephyr has cancelled its single-fan RTX 4070 Ti Super due to VRAM price hikes — memory shortage is forcing a pivot to an SFF RTX 4070 Super instead
- Flabbergasted GPU repair wizard highlights dangers of liquid metal after leak kills entire RTX 5070 Ti — user-applied TIM spread to every crevice of the PCB, physically cracking and shorting out the core
- MSI plans 30% gaming product price hike as memory and GPU shortages bite — 'This year is the most severe year since the company was founded'
March 15
- Save over $100 on this feature-rich Asus AM5 motherboard with Wi-Fi 7, USB4 & DDR5-8000 support — TUF Gaming X870-Plus is on sale for just $170
- Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway
- Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' — the 2013 console finally fell to voltage glitching, allowing the loading of unsigned code at every level
- AMD's upcoming RDNA 5 GPUs might improve dual-issue execution & use shader units more efficiently — LLVM patch adds new FMA instruction to ease compiling
- ASML workers still in the dark seven weeks after 1,700 management cuts announced — cuts represent 4% of its global workforce
- 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been '100% backed up' and validated, torrents being generated
- Chinese GPU-maker Lisuan flaunts new design details for its LX 7G100 gaming card - also updates LX GPU product pages with server and workstation specs
- Apple's MacBook Neo modded to a 1 TB SSD, breaking the firm's 512 GB barrier — base 256 GB model gets modded in expert NAND swap surgery
- Elon Musk says his chipmaking 'Terafab Project' venture will launch in seven days — Musk's latest moonshot multi-billion project launches on a Saturday
- ASRock launches new Frankensteined motherboard with one DDR4 slot and two DDR5 slots — Intel board signals the RAM apocalypse is truly nigh
- Sega’s missing link Saturn 'TRIP accelerator' project was real — 1996-era plans revealed by engineer for the first time
- Microscopes can clearly see the video on the surface of a CED 'LaserDisc,' discovers Techtuber — a 12-inch vinyl-like disc that stores SD analog video
- ‘Clean-room reimplementation’ of DR-DOS hits early beta, modernizing the operating system 38 years after its debut — runs Doom, Warcraft, SimCity, and other period-appropriate titles
- 40-year-old Arcade classic shoot ‘em up Gradius gets pure ASCII PC remake — you can even save your gaming screenshots as .TXT files
March 14
- AMD's former pound-for-pound gaming champ hits its historic low again — Ryzen 7 9800X3D offers unmatched value for gamers at $429
- Shopper scores $1,000 in PC hardware for just $86 in a shocking pricing glitch — Newegg shrugs off massive loss and responds with a thumbs-up emoji
- Invisible malicious code attacks 151 GitHub repos and VS Code — Glassworm attack uses blockchain to steal tokens, credentials, and secrets
- MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk Max Wifi II Motherboard review: Sharpening the Tomahawk’s blade
- US gov't revokes controversial AI hardware export rule that would mandate investments from foreign companies — new export rules are still in the works, though
- Chocolate 3D printer startup Cocoa Press levels up with former Prusa executive
- Noctua teases upcoming PC case with brown color scheme and bundled fans — appears to be Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition with NF-A14x25 G2 fans
- Chip material prices double as Middle East conflict compounds China's existing gallium export ban — wide range of materials for chipmaking skyrocket as supply constricts
- Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months — Lightsonic tech detects underground vibrations, machine learning isolates the source
- DoJ dismantles botnet made of 360,000 infected routers and IOT devices spread across 163 countries that ran for 16 years — SocksEscort proxy network eliminated in joint operation with Europol
- CPU fraud scandal erupts as another Chinese laptop busted with a fake chip — second device sporting a disguised Ryzen 5500U uncovered after vendor threatens legal action
- Enthusiast rebuilds AA-battery-powered PC, sextuples run time to 30 minutes with 64 batteries — uses three voltage regulators in parallel to achieve stability, runs computer for over 30 minutes on 64 AA cells
- Six-month rewritable DVD endurance test crowns winner with 1,000 rewrites, shows the best discs are no longer manufactured — six month of tests find TDK is a clear leader, Verbatim and Memorex didn’t do well
- US and Gulf states race for Ukrainian interceptor drones, 3D printed model costs $1,000 apiece — Shahed-136 kamikaze drone threat spurs rush for interceptors
March 13
- Windows 11 is getting support for 1,000 Hz+ monitors soon as part of Insider builds — Microsoft has reportedly increased the refresh rate limit to 5,000 Hz
- Tech titans team up to form optical interconnect alliance to solve the AI buildout's big data bottleneck — Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom & more set sights on building PHY to break through the limitations of copper
- Nvidia claims 1 million times better path tracing performance is coming in future gaming GPUs — says current GPUs are already 10,000x faster than Pascal
- The ongoing Strait of Hormuz blockage will impact the semiconductor and AI industries with Aluminum, Helium and LNG shortages — and with no timeline for re-opening, supply chains face significant challenges
- ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to get Auto Super Resolution boost in April — Microsoft touts 30% performance boost thanks to AI-powered image upscaling
- Grab a new Elegoo 3D printer for as little as $154 in this massive Spring sale — save up to 31% on top-rated FDM and resin models before the stock runs out
- Creality Sermoon P1 3D Scanner review: 3D scanning on the go
- Iran conflict delays Meta’s 2Africa undersea cable project — cable layer declares force majeure, says it can no longer safely operate in the Persian Gulf
- China's ByteDance to access 36,000 Blackwell GPU cluster through Malaysia cloud operator — Nvidia confirms no objections, deal is in line with US export controls
- 11-month old Russian outfit claims it has developed 16-core and 32-core chips, flaunts Cyrillic-badged processors — chips appear to be sanctions-swerving rebadged Chinese Loongson processors
- Get $399 of Corsair Vengeance RAM essentially free with a Ryzen 7 9850X3D and high-end X870E motherboard — Newegg bundle saves you $436 on the core of an overclockable AM5 build
- How to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypse – newer drives will definitely cost more, and some may offer up shockingly poor performance
- 2026 PC shipment forecast slashed amid memory shortages — IDC says total PC market value to nonetheless increase to $274 billion due to ongoing price hikes
- Silicon Power US RMA policy now hedges against AI-driven RAM and SSD shortages — company says it will refund the original purchase price 'if there is a shortage of replacement products'
- China bans OpenClaw from government computers and issues security guidelines amid adoption frenzy — nation scrambles to rein in popular AI agent
- Microsoft debuts DirectStorage 1.4 at GDC 2026, with Zstandard compression and GACL — update promises developers improved compression ratios, faster loading, and more
- Zombie ZIP vulnerability lets compressed malware leisurely stroll past 95% of antivirus apps — security suites are blissfully unaware of security issue
- The FBI is looking for victimized Steam users who downloaded games with hidden malware — Investigation underway into multiple infected titles from 2024 to 2026
- RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion — 1+1 'value pack' offers desperate psychological relief as the memory shortage worsens
March 12
- AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia join hyperscalers to define optical scale-up interconnect of the future for AI clusters — Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to benefit as speeds eventually scale to 3.2 Tb/s
- RTX 5090 gets 12% gaming boost in Ubuntu 26.04, thanks to optimizations with Gnome 50 — latest popular distro update brings significant performance uplift for Nvidia's top GPU
- China firm Lisuan's homegrown 6nm G100 series GPUs announced with up to 12GB of VRAM — LX 7G106 can play Cyberpunk 2077 and other popular Steam games, arrives June 18 in China
- IBM and Lam's new partnership paves the way toward sub-1nm logic using High-NA EUV — Albany lab to pioneer dry resist process integration
- Apple’s brand new M5 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models are already discounted on Amazon — shave $50 off nearly the entire 2026 lineup
- Keychron Q16 HE 8K Review: All-ceramic, but not all good
- Iran hacking group claims attack on med-tech company Stryker — says over 200,000 devices have been wiped clean and over 50TB of data extracted
- Save $800 on this MSI desktop with RTX 5070, 2TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM — get an Intel Core Ultra 265K gaming rig for just $1,899
- Acer Swift 16 AI Review: A Premium contender with a curious twist
- Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market
- Meta reveals four new MTIA chips built for AI inference — to be released on a six-month cadence
- Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an 'upgrade' for the customer — Australian retailer refuses to replace faulty Corsair kit
March 11
- Microsoft confirms next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will be powered by custom AMD SoC and feature 'FSR Diamond' — 'Xbox Mode' is also coming to Windows 11
- How to use Precision Boost Overdrive and Curve Optimizer to improve Ryzen CPU performance
- US RAM crisis hits boiling point as AI mania wipes out all 32GB DDR5 kits under $359 — cheaper kits vanish from shelves within seconds of listing
- OpenClaw AI agent craze sweeps China as authorities seek to clamp down amid security fears — adoption surges as state-run enterprises are barred from use
- Minisforum's new flagship NAS comes with OpenClaw pre-installed — Strix Halo-powered N5 Max can run a local AI LLM
- Valve details new game verification system for upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine — 30 FPS at 1080p for Steam Frame Verified, same as Steam Deck
- Where to buy Apple's new MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro — grab the most affordable MacBook, along with the latest M5 silicon refreshes, from these top stores
- Iran threatens Nvidia, Microsoft, other tech companies with strikes over alleged attack on Tehran bank — says that economic centers and banks are now considered legitimate targets
- IBM and Lam Research team up on High NA EUV dry resist to push chip scaling past 1nm
- Framework raises RAM prices for the third time in three months, SSD costs up — company warns that it’s running out of stock on some Intel processors as well
- Phison CEO says that NAND prices hiked by around 50% overnight, highlighting severe shortage in the industry — warns 'our current concern is that both money and inventory are insufficient'
- Intel announces Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs, claims 15% higher gaming performance and multi-threaded boost — Core Ultra 7 270K and Core Ultra 5 250K come with more cores, faster memory, and a price cut
- HyperX Origins 2 65 Review: 8,000Hz and Customizable
- Asus chief says Macbook Neo's affordable pricing came as a shock to the entire PC market — compares $599 notebook to a tablet and content-consumption device
- Get 32GB of Kingston DDR5 for $261 when bundled with the new 9850X3D and an X870 motherboard — get AMD's fastest gaming chip and the core of an AM5 build for less than $1,100
- Intel's Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations
- Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing
- Crafty AI tool caught repurposing its training GPUs for unauthorized crypto mining during testing — experimental agent breached safety, controllability, and trustworthiness barriers
- Ambitious semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY 'class 100 cleanroom' in his garden shed — contains a plasma etcher, vacuum furnace, and even custom software-driven lithography machine
- Cancelled Blu-Ray recorder production leads to flood of orders for Panasonic after rivals exit market — last supplier standing apologizes for delays as firm inundated with orders
- Human brain cells set to power two new data centers, thanks to 'body-in-the-box' CL1 — Cortical Labs targets the AI energy crisis with biological computer that reportedly uses less energy than a calculator
- Rumored RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 could make hay from recycled RTX 5060 silicon — refreshed entry-level Blackwell card might finally have enough VRAM for DLSS and MFG in demanding games
- Seagate CCO says storage price hikes are ‘the new normal’ — demand enters an unprecedented ‘supercycle’ driven by AI growth
- Intel shares XeSS 3.0 SDK for game devs with 3x and 4x MFG modes — but it still hasn't followed through on its open-source promise
March 10
- How To Optimize Your PC’s Airflow Using Positive vs. Negative Pressure
- Intel Nova Lake CPU teaser lists official support for speedy DDR5-8000 RAM — B960 mini-PC’s upgraded power system signals Nova Lake’s higher power demands
- SK hynix introduces turbocharged LPDDR6, 33% faster and 20% more power efficient than LPDDR5X — 16Gb chips deliver 10.7 Gbps, uses 10nm node
- Oracle and OpenAI's Abilene expansion saga detailed: 600MW expansion gets scrapped, as larger 4.5GW agreement remains on track
- Dynamic MFG comes to RTX 50-series GPUs to push monitor refresh rates to the max — more flexible mode with 5x and 6x multipliers arrives March 31
- Nvidia reportedly building its own AI agent to compete with OpenClaw, report claims — ‘NemoClaw’ will supposedly be open source and designed for enterprise use
- In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by 'Gen-AI assisted changes,' report claims — recent 'high blast radius' incidents stir up changes for code approval
- Future Games Show Spring Showcase announced for GDC — Baldur's Gate 3 and LEGO Batman actors to host
- Apple MacBook Neo review: a budget-priced game-changer
- Laptop prices expected to soar by around 40% as AI crunch takes hold — analyst says rising mainstream models priced at $900 could hit more than $1,200 due to rising memory, storage, and CPU costs
- Get an X870 Motherboard, 32GB of RAM, a 1050W Power supply, and a Montech King 95 Pro case for only $774 — save over $220 on this 4-item combo from Newegg
- Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for $163 when bundled with AMD's new 9850X3D and an X870E-E motherboard — save $236 on the heart of your new AM5 PC
- Unpowered SSD data retention test shows promising results after six years — results show no data corruption on USB sticks, challenging conventional wisdom
- $500,000 gold RTX 5090 is now worth $830,000 thanks to rocketing commodity prices — Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 Real Gold Edition was actually a savvy investment, worth over 50% more than at inception
- RPCS3 Emulator boasts over 1500 FPS on the Minecraft title screen — platform hails performance landmark, one frame rendered every 0.00064 seconds
March 9
- Nexperia China claims to be making chips using 12-inch wafers — subsidiary deepens split with Dutch parent as it builds out 'mass production capabilities'
- America and Japan may join forces to manufacture displays in the US — New $13 billion fab proposed by Japan Display Inc. to counter Chinese dominance
- Intel Panther Lake-H high-res die shot emerges — image show 18A compute tile, Xe3 GPU tile in new X-series processors
- Anthropic sues Pentagon over 'supply chain risk' designation, citing free speech and due process violations — company refused to allow its AI to be used for autonomous attacks, mass surveillance
- Apple MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5 Max) review: Blazing-fast super cores
- EA lays off staff across Battlefield-related studios in "alignment" move as game bleeds players — billions in revenue and record sales figures not enough to save staff from the axe
- New Windows-native NVMe driver benchmarks reveal transformative performance gains, up to 64.89% — lightning-fast random reads and breakthrough CPU efficiency
- New Commerce Department AI export rules could be seismic change for CSPs and data center operators — buying American GPUs at scale means committing to building American infrastructure
- Why AMD motherboards now come with bigger BIOS chips—and why it matters to you
- Oracle hits back at Stargate data center cancellation reports — claims 4.5GW Oracle-OpenAI agreement still on track
- Sony takes aim at Steam with dynamic discounts on the PlayStation Store — new report claims over 150 games in 50+ regions are showing varying lower prices for some users
- Grab a Creality 3D printer for as little as $199 in this discount-heavy Spring sale — limited-time deals include Creality K1C down to just $399, with filament spools slashed in price by nearly 50%
- First solar-powered rugged laptop announced — features a solar panel on the back of the display and a backup battery with 5,200mAh of capacity
- Intel keeps socket LGA 1700 alive with new P-core-only CPUs — 'Bartlett Lake' is official, but targets embedded applications with up to 12 cores
- 'Borderline scam' 1.1TB HP laptop deal on Amazon draws consumer ire, laptop has 128GB SSD and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage — 'generous' $499 third-party laptop deal sounds too good to be true, because it is
- Shortages of crucial chip packaging material threatens AI accelerator supply chains — Nittobo's Fukushima plant is tripling capacity, but it'll take years before market
- Thermal Grizzly scammed out of $46,000 by Alibaba metals suppliers — company spread the risk across two copper and aluminum suppliers, only for both to send cheaper, fake materials
- 3D printer that can mine Bitcoin uses excess heat for temperature control — throttled ASICs use printing bed as a heatsink
- Save $484 on a Ryzen 7 9850X3D, 32GB of Kingston DDR5 RAM, and an Asus X870 motherboard — start your AM5 build on the right foot with this $949 bundle
- Save an incredible $620 on this Newegg combo with an RTX 5070, 64GB DDR5 RAM and a PC case — $1,299.99 deal secures you dual-channel Corsair memory and a 3500X case alongside an Nvidia GPU for 1440p gaming
- Researchers build atom-thin 2D thermometers that can be embedded directly in processors — can detect temperature changes in 100 nanoseconds, millions of times faster than the blink of an eye
- Amazon's Rufus AI shopping assistant can be easily jailbroken and tricked into answering other questions — specific prompts break the chatbot's guidelines and reach underlying AI engine
- China warns of fresh chip shortage as Nexperia dispute escalates again - Dutch headquarters allegedly locked Chinese staff out of IT systems
March 8
- Grab an excellent 60% keyboard with Bluetooth & silent Topre switches for 25% off — HHKB Professional Hybrid Type-S is down to just $219 right now
- Classic tiny LEGO computer brick design from 1979 made into full-scale working computer — Mac Mini implanted into this 10:1 scale inflated reimagining
- OpenAI's massive Stargate data center canceled as firm can't reach terms with Oracle, operator struggles with reliability issues — Meta said to be interested in snatching excess capacity
- Car powered by 500 disposable vape batteries boasts 18-mile range, 35mph top speed, USB-C charging port — early 2000s Reva G.Wiz gets a makeover
- NASA successfully deflected a small asteroid with its DART rocket, kinetic strike ejected a significant amount of debris from the asteroid — impact nudges the orbit of the small astronomical body, affecting the larger cosmic object as well
- Palmer Luckey’s retro gaming venture seeks $1 billion valuation as FPGA-based Nintendo 64 clone launch nears — ModRetro's M64 console plays original N64 cartridges, supports 4K resolution
- Chinese SSD maker YMTC lists its first commercial PCIe 5.0 SSD as worldwide shortage intensifies — Xtacking 4.0 NAND powers speeds of up to 10,500 MB/s
- US startup plans to build data centers inside ocean-based wind turbines, servers water cooled via chilly North Sea — each leg houses a data center, firm set to launch three-legged prototype in Norway’s North Sea this year
- Norwegian gov't consumer watchdog calls out ‘enshittification’ of video games, connected devices, and others — claims hardware deliberately degraded after purchase
- Jensen Huang set to receive $4 million bonus from Nvidia, 0.002% of his $164 billion net worth — a small incentive for one of the richest people on earth
- Seagate FireCuda X1070 SSD spotted at retailers — listed at $829.99 before any official announcement
- California sues websites hosting 3D printed gun files — online platforms allegedly violate multiple civil codes regarding unlawful distribution and manufacturing of firearms
- Memory bit flips cause up to 15% of Firefox crashes, asserts Mozilla engineer — figure inferred from 470,000 auto-submitted crash reports
March 7
- Linux hacked onto a PS5 to turn Sony's console into a Steam Machine — GTA V Enhanced Edition runs at 60 FPS on 1440pwith ray tracing
- Lock in the RTX 5070 for $599 before prices skyrocket even further — custom overclocked model is only $50 above MSRP
- Valve changes Steam Machine release date to this 'year,' second change as AI-fueled memory and shortage crisis deepens — official announcements went from "early 2026" to "first half of 2026" to "this year"
- Nintendo sues the US government over tariffs — Japanese videogame giant seeks 200 billion refund with interest
- AMD VP uses AI to create Radeon Linux userland driver in Python — senior AI engineer says he "didn't open the editor once"
- Engineer receives $30,000 for exposing a vulnerability affecting 7,000 robot vacuum cleaners — tinkerer just wanted to drive his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller
- Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs and freeze hiring as AI data center bets ignite financial perfect storm — cuts in cloud division to be backfilled with AI
- Scientists attempt to link 3D printed ghost guns to specific filament brands with chemical fingerprinting — major filament makers often white-label products, complicating efforts
- Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant
- Nvidia dominates gaming GPU market with 95 percent share as sales of AMD Radeon graphics plummet to a historical low of 5 percent
- Nvidia CEO Huang declares ‘I love constraints’ amid ongoing component shortage — claims lack of options forces AI clients to only choose the very best
- This shark PC case will take a $5,499 megabyte out of your pocket — Cooler Master Shark X finally migrates to U.S. waters
- Iranian drone strikes hit three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — Iran confirms it targeted Amazon cloud infrastructure
- Apple's 18-core M5 Max beats 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench due to weak benchmark scaling — GPU performance is much less impressive [Updated]
- PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose
March 6
- DDR5 RAM kits skyrocket to an astonishing $4,000 on Newegg with wild price listings on multiple G.Skill and Corsair products — various speeds and capacities all listed at the same eye-watering price
- Motherboard buying advice for the PC building apocalypse — Our benchmarks, and years of testing, show you where to save and when to spend
- Apple pulls $4,000 512GB Mac Studio upgrade option as AI RAM squeeze continues, raises 256GB upgrade price — M3 256GB upgrade now costs $2,000
- AI creates jobs, data from bank survey shows — companies with wide AI deployments and investments are more likely to be hiring than those that don't
- Sovol SV08 Max review: Monster printer
- US Commerce Department confirms harsh new AI export rules, shoots down reports over the return of Biden-era AI Diffusion rule — DoC to formalize a new approach to strategic AI accelerator export controls
- Acer's RTX 5070-powered Nitro V16 gaming laptop price cut to $1249.99 — you have 24 hours to make the most of this Best Buy limited-time deal
- Asus' excellent 4K OLED gaming monitor falls to its lowest ever price on Amazon — get a 32-inch dual-mode display for just $799
- FBI arrests crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from seized government wallets — Suspect's father was allegedly contractor for the US Marshals
- Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition review: Silent running
- Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file — vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext
- DoJ, Europol, and others bring down LeakBase cybercrime site of 142,000 member, multiple arrests made — seized website reportedly among world's largest hacker forums
March 5
- Microsoft confirms next-gen Xbox will play PC games — 'Project Helix' teased as more than just a console
- US gov't preps sweeping export controls for Nvidia, AMD AI hardware — worldwide licensing system would give Trump admin broad authority to block global sales
- TCL intros two premium dual-mode gaming monitors — 27-inch 1,040 Hz QHD Mini-LED and 32-inch 4K OLED with striped subpixel layout
- As Frank Yeary retires from Intel, the company picks an engineer to chair its board — Intel Foundry governance issues to be resolved, and looking back at the Yeary years
- China's top chip execs claim ASML alternative 'small, fragmented, and weak' — Chinese industry titans call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools
- ‘CPUs are cool again,' Intel and AMD reporting spikes in CPU demand due to agentic AI, shortages — Lisa Su says business exceeded expectations while Intel is looking at long-term agreements with potential customers
- Go beyond the review with Bench, the deepest consumer hardware benchmarking database on the internet — compare hundreds of products across a range of categories
- Labubu sues 3D printer maker Bambu Lab for items made by its users — MakerWorld design repository in hot water over IP theft by its users
- Orico IG740-Pro 1TB SSD Review: A small budget sleeper
- AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer [Updated]
- China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take 'extraordinary measures' to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs — new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance
- Spiralling memory spot prices could trigger 'industry cycle collapse,' report warns — NAND wafer costs surge 25% in a single month
- M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM plunges to lowest-ever price following M5 announcement — $300 off is a steal on Apple's highest-spec RAM configuration
- For under $1000, land the fastest gaming CPU, motherboard, and 32GB of RAM — AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, MSI MAG X870, and Corsair Vengeance RAM saves you $196 in today's Newegg combo deal
- Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims — game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive
- OpenAI building GitHub alternative after frequent platform outages and disruptions — a public OpenAI code repository would directly compete with one of its biggest investors
- Nvidia reportedly working on RTX 5050 with 9GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus, featuring 28 Gbps GDDR7 modules — RTX 5060 with cut-down GB205 GPU also planned
- Intel CEO embraces its 18A node for external customers as 18A-P gets 'inbound interest' — company cites increasing yields
- Popular budget-friendly Chinese brand exposed for shocking CPU scam in its laptops — advertised CPU secretly swapped for an outdated chip
- Europe achieves record-breaking gigabit per second data transfer between a geostationary satellite and an aircraft
March 4
- EA's Javelin anti-cheat is coming to Arm-based systems soon — new job listing for Windows-on-ARM driver anticipates Nvidia N1/N1X debut and pivotal shift in PC gaming
- Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike Review: Changing the Game…
- Get an additional $100 off Corsair Refurbished and Revival systems – code required
- Taiwan expects power demand to increase by more than 5GW by 2030, enough to power nearly 4 million homes — rise in electricity consumption driven by semiconductor manufacturing and AI data center deployments
- Trump summons tech giants to White House to pledge power payment commitments — ‘ratepayer protection plan’ will make data center operators negotiate discrete payment structure for electricity use
- Apple announces $599 MacBook Neo running A18 Pro chip — budget laptop features 16-hour battery and comes in fun colors
- Nvidia invests $4 billion into photonics firms in a bid to bolster data center interconnect supply chains — Lumentum and Coherent investment to fund U.S. R&D and manufacturing facilities, supports capacity rights and future access
- Trump administration weighs forcing China's Tencent to sell its stakes in Epic Games, Riot Games, and Supercell — meetings held over security risk ahead of China summit with Xi Jinping
- Arm's $250 million deal with Malaysia probed by anti-corruption authorities — $1.27 million seized from safehouse of prominent politician, former army chief arrested
- Amazon has slashed 45% off this 1440p Asus ROG monitor — score almost half price on this 280Hz VA display for just $210
- Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM for just $201 when you pair it with AMD's new 9850X3D, X870E motherboard — start your AM5 PC off in style for just $1,109
- Nvidia driver 595.71 reportedly limits overclocks on some GeForce GPUs, but not all — troubled driver release seems to stifle voltages on RTX 40- and 50-series cards
- Micron sampling first 256GB SOCAMM2 memory packages to customers — 2TB of RAM per CPU is now in reach of datacenter players
- Gemini API key thief racks up $82,314 in charges in just two days, victim 'facing bankruptcy' — affected devs call for basic guardrails against 'catastrophic usage anomalies'
March 3
- Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors
- Seagate begins shipping 44TB hard drives with HAMR tech to data centers — Mozaic 4+ platform expands to 10 platters
- AI memory crunch forces DRAM market into 'hourly pricing' model, report claims — small and medium-sized businesses fighting for survival
- Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU — multi-chip monster sports 12 channels of DDR5-8000, Foveros Direct 3D packaging tech
- Nvidia RTX 5070 mobile GPU looks set to get more VRAM despite global memory crisis — 8GB could be boosted to 12GB, according to new listings
- 2026 will bring sharpest PC declines in over a decade — PC shipments to fall 10.4%
- Apple's new MacBook Air gets M5 and doubles starting storage — base price increases to $1,099
- Drones attack several AWS Middle East region data centers amid Iran war, leading to outages — service health been disrupted after power cut due to fire risk
- Apple launches new MacBook Pros powered by M5 Pro, M5 Max, and 2x faster SSDs — new 'Super Cores' help deliver up to 30 percent performance boost
- Nvidia-backed trial shows AI data centers can flexibly adjust power use in near real time, with global implications for energy consumption — suggests hyperscalers can reduce consumption as necessary, ensuring grid isn’t overloaded during peak demand
- Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro SSD Review: An 8TB unobtanium monster
- South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online — stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders
- New DNA HDD can be ‘erased and overwritten repeatedly’ — University of Missouri researchers aiming for next-gen thumb-drive-sized storage
- DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips and components — one operation ran 10 million web scraping requests, hitting DDR5 RAM product pages every 6.5 seconds
- Save $650 with this Newegg GPU and RAM combo deal — get a $1,349.99 64GB Kingston DDR5-6000 RAM kit for just $700 when you bundle it with an MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti graphics card
- Pocket $219 in savings when you buy this blistering 9800X3D, motherboard, and 32GB RAM bundle — start your AM5 4K gaming rig for less than $1,000
- Microsoft adds Shader Execution Reordering (SER) in latest DirectX SDK for more efficient ray tracing — Intel Arc B-series GPUs show 90% performance uplift
March 2
- Phison is now demanding customers pre-pay with shorter timelines — NAND squeeze affecting everyone in the SSD supply chain
- Nvidia’s RTX 5070 seemingly crushes memory shortages to reign supreme as Steam’s number one GPU — but there are questions about why
- Nvidia releases new GeForce 595.71 driver to fix serious fan control bug — new update resolves issues for RTX 30, 40, and 50-series GPUs that reportedly stopped some fans from working
- Transcend 260S 2TB SSD Review: A Dependable Alternative PCIe 5.0 Contender
- Exploring the future of Artificial Intelligence — today's models, tomorrow's agents, and the big privacy problem
- ISSCC 2026: Rebellions details industry's first quad-chiplet AI solution with UCIe interconnects — claims Rebel100 AI accelerator equals the power of Nvidia H200 with lower power envelope
- Whether you're entry-level or no-limits, here are some components to keep in mind for your next build
- MSI to the max: power and performance from today’s cutting-edge motherboards
- Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market
- Starlink Mobile teases ‘5G speeds from space with 100x the data density’ — V2 satellites are being sent into orbit to power the upgrade
- Grab this awesome 4K-ready gaming PC with a 7800X3D and RX 9070 XT for under $1,750 — $150 saving on powerful all-AMD rig with 32GB of DDR RAM and a spacious 2TB SSD
- Cave-inspired 3D printed Japanese home touted as earthquake resistant — two-story house first of its kind to be granted seismic compliance certificate
- Save $190 when you bundle AMD's new 9850X3D CPU, Gigabyte X870 motherboard, and fast 1TB SN850X SSD for $839 — Newegg's new SSD bundles get you an SSD priced at $319 for just $129
- AMD details Ryzen AI 400 desktop with up to 8 cores, Radeon 860M graphics — APUs won’t be available as boxed units, only in OEM systems
March 1
- Lenovo's Legion Go Fold-able gaming handheld concept has four screen modes, also works as a small laptop — POLED display unfolds from 7.7 to 11.6 inches
- Lenovo's Framework-like Modular AI PC concept lets you put a screen just about anywhere — detachable keyboard and ports make the machine customizable
- Lenovo brings a blue ThinkPad T14 to Mobile World Congress — slew of new devices includes a Legion 7a with Strix Halo
- Gigabyte's huge 55-inch 4K 120Hz gaming monitor is now half price — grab this Android-powered display with HDMI 2.1 for just $9 per inch
- Windows 11 continues gaining traction, nears 75% market share — Windows 10 finally on the way out, some five months after Microsoft axes support
- Amiga Workbench Simulator helps you pick your ultimate retro desktop — TAWS recently updated with refinements to OS 3.2, AmiBench presets
- ‘200,000 living human neurons’ on a microchip demonstrated playing Doom — Cortical Labs CL1 video shows the gameplay and explains how the neurons learn the game
- Orico BookDrive P10Plus (512GB) review: Magnetic back and 100W passthrough charging
- Enthusiast runs desktop PC off 56 AA batteries — Intel computer lasts less than 5 minutes while playing Minesweeper
- The Nvidia GeForce3 launched 25 years ago — underappreciated at launch, its impact shaped the industry
- California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
- AMD’s K6-III ‘Sharptooth’ debuted this week in 1999 with on-die L2 cache to savage the Intel Pentium II — it also held the line against the Pentium III